DPWH, Photoshop and Facebook

At first there was this picture in the facebook wall of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), one of the most notorious for corruption agencies in the Philippine government. This was sometime September 27, 2011, about the visit of 3 high DPWH officials of the battered seawall of Roxas Blvd. after typhoon Nesat (or "Pedring" local name) last week.

Then an engineer-blogger, Pierre Albert San Diego made an analysis of the photo in his blog post, DPWH Photoshop Fail because he immediately noticed that there was something wrong with the photo.

The author concluded his paper with this,

Some say this is a very minor issue, but I see this as a nice sample of DPWH’s lack of integrity. If they can fabricate simple things like this, just imagine what these guys can do to progress billings and acceptance of projects. Also, while relatively mild, isn’t this a classic example of “Utak Wangwang?” While unethical and unnecessary, they thought they could get away with fabricating photos so they tried to.

Amen. And since then, the failed photoshop has become sort of "viral". DPWH officials later apologized for misleading the public -- because they were caught. And so the picture of the 3 officials have also gone to different places. These photos I took from various sources.

The three officials also joined Jesus' Last Supper, hahaha!

And they are also part of Stallone's team of The Expendables.

And they are into boxing too! :-)

Jim Ayson posted more photos in his blog post, The Great DPWH Photoshop Meme Kicks Into Overdrive, where many of the photos here were lifted.

The three officials were also seen behind the DPWH's younger sibling, a giant crocodile caught in Agusan province a few weeks ago.

They were also sighted in the ruins somewhere in Europe, and the UP Pep Squad, the champions in the UAAP competition.

My golly, they also joined the Beatles when the band members were still young, hahaha.

A party with Jollibee, and in the shooting of The Inspection.

Wonder when the real photoshop geeks will stop with their funny imagination?

From the caves -- is this in Callao cave in Cagayan, or in Bohol or somewhere else... to the waves -- in Hawaii or Siargao in Surigao del Norte?

Wait, wait, don't disturb... they are meeting the young saviors of the planet :-)

I'm no geek in photoshop, I haven't done even one photo using that software, but I want to join the fray, how?

I only know copy-and-paste in powerpoint and jpg.

Here is a picture of some of our dogs in the farm more than a year ago. Two of my dogs were looking angrily at them... :-)

And still more images from more photoshop geeks :-)

Lots of new photos are cropping up at the fb page, DPWHERE?

Photo lower left is famous, "Find the cat". Clue: it's on the upper right side of the picture...

Also, more hijacked pics at Pop Culture.

This time, the Public Works officials have become crime investigators...

From DPWH officials to boatmen and flood rescuers :-)

And earthlings who joined the mermaids down under.

Or the new explorers of The Ring....

Haayyy buhay. Pag manloloko ka nga naman at nahuli ka, lagot.