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Topic: 2000 Astronauts: 'Bugz' gag-photo mystery
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 12-20-2009 12:12 PM
   
 Can anyone solve this minor mystery? The above photo of the 2004 astronaut selection was posted on collectSPACE some time ago. Did that include an explanation why all the ascans in the first row have the nametag 'Kevin Ford'? Also, the bottom photo is the one that I had in my collection and that apparently is the original. It is identical, except that Eric Boe isn't wearing sunglasses. And he is sitting next to Kevin Ford. So apparently Boe had his sunglasses digitally added in the top photo. But why was he the only one not wearing them in the original photo? |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 12-20-2009 12:40 PM
Eric the half-a-bee, perhaps? |
Steve Procter
Member Posts: 1031
From: Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 12-20-2009 12:42 PM
Francis, DON'T go there!!! Before you know it we will have resurrected the Python thread!  |
Mike Z
Member Posts: 451
From: Ellicott City, Maryland
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted 12-20-2009 09:29 PM
Why does Nicole Stott's right pants leg appear to be pulled up? |
lunarrv15
Member Posts: 1355
From: Cincinnati, Ohio, Hamilton
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 12-21-2009 09:49 AM
They all appear to have sunglasses digitally added. The shades are missing the arms to the glasses.Behnken glasses are round shape and appears the real object. Possible who ever was doing the digital skipped over Boe, then realized their error. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-21-2009 10:10 AM
quote:
Originally posted by lunarrv15:
They all appear to have sunglasses digitally added. The shades are missing the arms to the glasses.
I believe most (if not all) of the glasses are real; they are roll-up sunglasses (they grip the face when unfurled by the material's desire to roll up on itself, as seen in this product image). |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 12-22-2009 04:19 AM
The sunglasses are real. A member of the 'Bugz' explained that the portrait studio is in the same building as the medical clinic, so one of the ascans went next door to the ophthalmology clinic and borrowed a bunch of the disposable sun glasses that are used after eye dilation. |
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