Not that he wanted to be, being from the land of HopeandChange and all. He was hoping he wouldn’t be found out, but finally agreed to an interview with the LA Times.
When cryptic posters portraying President Obama as the Joker from “Batman” began popping up around Los Angeles and other cities, the question many asked was, Who is behind the image?
Was it an ultra-conservative grassroots group or a disgruntled street artist going against the grain?
Nope, it turns out, just a 20-year-old college student from Chicago.
Bored during his winter school break, Firas Alkhateeb, a senior history major at the University of Illinois, crafted the picture of Obama with the recognizable clown makeup using Adobe’s Photoshop software.
Alkhateeb had been tinkering with the program to improve the looks of photos he had taken on his clunky Kodak camera. The Joker project was his grandest undertaking yet. Using a tutorial he’d found online about how to “Jokerize” portraits, he downloaded the October 23 Time Magazine cover of Obama and began digitally painting over it.
Four or five hours later, he happily had his product.
Mystery solved.
Do you think the lefties will forgive him once they find out he preferred Dennis Kucinich to Obama?
Update: I wonder if Alkhateeb had any idea his project would have morphed into this:
H/T Lew
I haven’t seen that video. It’s creepy.
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I know. Lots of things are creepy lately.
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