December 13, 2010

Urban Dictionary: PHOBAR

Hah!

PHOBAR: -adjective, Acronym for ‘PHOtoshopped* Beyond All Recognition.’ A play on the the more popular acronym FUBAR: ‘F’d Up Beyond All Recognition,’ PHOBAR** refers to an image, usually a photo of a person, that has been retouched and airbrushed with digital image manipulation software on a computer so significantly, that the person in the photo is barely recognizable.

[Via Greg Geisler]

*Sorry as always, Adobe Legal.
**Not to be confused with a Vietnamese eatery, or CATOBAR, about which I was reading this morning

(rt) Entirely random interestingness

• “New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It.” (file under Why I couldn’t write for TechCrunch)
• Dressing as Photoshop for Halloween. (Beachball hat, though? Say it ain’t so!)
• Two-wheeled:
  • How rad is this armadillo-esque solar moped concept?
  • Also wild: A crocheted steel wireframe motorcycle sculpture. [Via Chris Davis]
  • How come this can’t be the way the Segway company president died?
• ‘The Wire’ as a Monopoly game? That’s no 40-degree day.