Giant trans-dimensional humanoids take over hotel swimming pool

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"We're having a whale of a time at the Mildendo Grand Hyatt." (Via Photoshop Disasters)

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Perhaps the first documented occurrence of a pool appearing *Smaller* in the brochure then in meat-space?
http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

Mark, how/where do you find these things?
http://chicagoscooterclub.com Chicago_SC

WTF is the lens flare?

This is what happens when sales people are given photoshop.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

Putting a G-class star that close is a huge faux pas all in itself.
bcsizemo

The pixels are hurting my eyes.
DreamboatSkanky

And Henderson forgot the demon.

http://www.zompist.com/rants06.html
- princeminski
  
  Thank you for posting. Made (rescued) my day.
http://twitter.com/writebastard Ian Wood

I DO NOT NEED THIS SHIT RIGHT NOW.

sorry for shouting.
Chuck

Ah, so THAT’S how the pre-Deluge extraterrestrial giants are going to retake the planet. Got it.
Jack Daniel

This is what happens when the owner stages an awesome photo shoot of himself and his drinking buddies jumping into the pool, and then decides 2 weeks later that he wants to fit the whole damn property into the flyer. That and monkey for designer.

#designer monkey empathy
- petertrepan
  
  You don’t have to have a monkey for a designer for this to happen.
  DESIGNER: What do you think about the design?
  
  CLIENT: I want to see the whole property, not just the pool.
  
  DESIGNER: How about now?
  
  CLIENT: Where did the people go? Put them back.
  
  DESIGNER: Okay, I’ll schedule another photo shoot, and…
  
  CLIENT: We don’t have time for another photo shoot. Just put the ones from the first picture.
  
  DESIGNER: Okay, here’s the entire property with the people from the original picture.
  
  CLIENT: You can barely see them! Make them bigger. No, bigger. A little bigger. Okay, a lot bigger. And make the sun logo bigger.
LogrusZed

Pools closed.
blueelm

I think the splash made would be muuuuuch bigger.
Antinous / Moderator

Anything to keep people from actually noticing what the building looks like.
http://twitter.com/Kbkibbe Kevin

It gets better:

http://www.lasfaluas.es/indexin.htm
- http://www.facebook.com/ryanniehaus1985 Ryan Niehaus
  
  Oh, wow. That website is spectacular.
CognitiveDissident

Obviously, Village of the Giants Goo is included in the Continental Breakfast.
pjcamp

When you say “Mildendo” I flash a picture of a mildewy sex aid.

Is that why the girls are floating?
voiceinthedistance

I give up. Which one of these people was Photoshopped in?
futnuh

Coincidentally have just been listening to Karl Pilkington’s take on Gran Canaria. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQcHznbzJF8
Ashen Victor

They are not giants.
They are zentradi.
They lose their natural blue-green skin colour when exposed to sunlight.

In Gran Canaria we like to call them “Germans”.
Toffer99

I saw this movie, it was… SHOCK, FRENZY, DEVASTATION -ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2cLmbCyzhE
howaboutthisdangit

Thankfully there are no diving boards. It would be bad PR if the giants brained themselves after going off the high-dive.
jeligula

Because actually shooting people in the p0ol was too hard.
http://profiles.google.com/spudsy1 swahellie jocoby

maybe it is a hotel for little people/midgets.
Teller

All that said, it does have some idiot charm.
http://profile.yahoo.com/HFOLICLP6W2ZK74PPXS5FGCY2U John C

Don’t insult PhotoShop by associating it with this awfulness. This looks like it was done in Microsoft Photo Editor or some such half-assed photo manipulation app.