We are overwhelmed with the 168 responses to our “It’s A Meme! Get Photoshop Warmed Up And Win A Bing Tshirt” post where we asked you, the readers, to come up with a better photoshop hack job than Microsoft was able to do on their own marketing material.
One of the submissions will win a Bing tshirt and sticker. I originally said the winner would be selected by our summer interns, but we want to turn this into a poll. We’ve selected the six we like best, but you can write in your own as well.
Thanks everyone. And thanks to Cameron Christoffers, our star intern, for organizing all the photos.
Oh, by the way. We told Bing that if they didn’t retweet this post we’d be forced to burn our Bing T-shirts. This was their cheeky response, courtesy of icanhascheezburger:
Any chance your “Star Intern” will get the links working on this blog so we can see the submissions without getting a “page doesn’t exist” screen ?
Sorry, should be fixed in a minute or so.
Thanks!!
The original picture was taken at the 1-800-GOT-JUNK? headquarters downtown Vancouver in ‘08. The Filipino dude on the left is DJ Rolo – a buddy of mine who also worked at JUNK..
They’re all Canadians!
Sweet
Everyone seems to think they deleted the black man for poland, but maybe they cut off the white mans head and put a black mans head for America.
We are all into black people now so its trendy. White people are so yesterday….
It’s true. Diversity is the new White.
i like one with steve ballmer the best
This is a classic example of where goverment regulations could have prevented an emberassment for microsoft
This makes me want to find an unused /19 and make my vote count…. more.
I love the Bing team’s response. That is just so frickin awesome.
can’t believe i’m in second to last place.
I believe you should win
TC’s office running MS with huge smiles def funniest, but ballmer & ‘the office’ good too, thanks for the laugh
A corollary to the famous “whose dick you gotta suck to get a drink around here?”–
“How far you gotta go with your sex change operation to get a few votes around here?”
Coz I don’t like that share thingy. No one will vote for you if you promote that.
Wow, great submissions! As truly inspired as picture-243 is…. I think my vote goes to…. *drum roll*
picture-342
It just represents Microsoft so well.
Love the Cyrus/Terrorist mash up. so random!
Man, that image gallery is *PAINFUL* to navigate.
LETS all rebrand the word BING with f%cking, the same way Dick got rebranded.
I BINGED YOUR SISTER LAST NIGHT.
BING MICROSOFT their huge marketing budget would be BINGED. Let’s BING BING.
see post from several days ago…your idea is not so original
The office and BSOD are the best
That is the single most awful image gallery in the history of the known universe, and France.
Sorry to be a downer but sheesh..
Not being eccentric here, but I preferred the others.
1st place: The guy plugging the monitor in.
http://www.tech.../picture-243-2/
2nd place: Sparta. But probably following another meme.
http://www.tech...st/picture-233/
3rd place: Lasers. You have to appreciate the background job on this one.
http://www.tech...st/picture-661/
Runner-ups: Clippy, and the BSOD.
ok. i agree. the guy plugging the monitor in is particularly awesome.
what ever happened to this? who won?
So this is the social media tactic used now when you mess up I see. I wanna know what racist employee gave the call to change the photo in the first place? Trying to appeal to a foreign demographic is one thing, but why didnt they just have other photos
Even though this a fun competition, we shouldn’t forget this unbelievable PR Boob from Microsoft.
Shame on the person who greenlighted this act of racisim and shame on Microsoft as a whole.
Doesn’t Redmond know Barack Obama is the US President.
Even worse are any pics of him photoshopped at other Microsoft Offices around the world.
Maybe in the Polish HQ of Microsoft, Stevie Ballmer is the US President?
I must say that this is my favorite: http://twitpic.com/fhmjg
I forgot where I found it. Does anybody know who did this photoshop hack?
This is so fail!!!!
The Office is great! I especially like the black dude’s kinda embarrassed sideways grimace like, “Hey man, we’re photshopped in here, we don’t belong here. Just give us a break and give us the bloody Bing t-shirt already”