You won’t believe the secret behind this amazing picture!
A 55 year old internet entrepreneur, Neil Cuadra, created a ginormous portrait of Mad magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman created from junk mail CDS and DVDs – and landed the pic in the classic humor mag’s 500th issue!
Cuadra, who creates information retrieval software, said he was inspired by a MAD parody that satirized AOL for junk mailing CDs by the millions to potential subscribers.
A computer matrix of Neuman’s head served as a blueprint for creating the giant mural in a Los Angeles parking lot. 400 square feet of CDs brought the gap-toothed legend to ‘life’ as security looked the other way.
"You just blew our mind," Mad’s editors responded in print to the photo he sent in.
"You used junk mail from AOL to create a piece of art that became junk mail to us."
Ironically, as The ENQUIRER reported months ago, Mad magazine, created by late publisher William F. Gaines in the 1950s to poke fun at society and advertising’s foibles, is now owned by a conglom of AOL/Time Warner.
They plan to slowly phase out the print edition – now a quarterly – for a strictly on-line entity in the near future.
HINT: move back about 5 feet to see Alfred E. in all his mopey glory!
