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As I’m sure everyone knows, this past Sunday was St. Patrick’s Day and that means there were celebrations in every city across America from parades to pub crawls to corned beef feasts and everything in between.
It’s a tradition in Chicago to dye the river green for St. Patrick’s Day and they don’t just turn the river a slight shade of green, they dump enough dye in there to turn that thing the brightest shade of green imaginable. It’s SO GREEN that it’s actually more/lighter green than some of the green screens at news stations that weathermen use with graphics superimposed on the background.
After people started tweeting videos of *how green* the river in Chicago was, a few skilled video artists realized they could use the river as a green screen and pretty much put anything they wanted on top of the water. Twitter had a field day with the footage, let’s check it out…
It started with a few clips like this:
This never gets old. The Chicago River goes green to celebrate #StPatricksWeekend. ☘️ (Via @chicagotribune) pic.twitter.com/lHgjVZPooF
— Marcus Leshock (@marcusleshock) March 17, 2019
People noticed the green screen connection:
https://twitter.com/kintarasu/status/1106963393531920385
This user swooped in with the first photoshop:
YOU: Oh look, they dyed the river green
ME, AN ARTIST: Oh look, they dyed the river chroma key green#StPatricksDay pic.twitter.com/PPmquC3VOl— Donnachaidha O’Chionnaigh (@TwoClawsMedia) March 17, 2019
Someone with time and resources do a proper one of these. Free joke concept people, it’s *yours*
— Donnachaidha O’Chionnaigh (@TwoClawsMedia) March 17, 2019
Then Parker Molloy and others started sharing their own edits including this glorious one of the 1997 Chicago Bulls starting lineup:
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1107340841637605376
guys they made the river a green screen heheheheheheh pic.twitter.com/O2xthCUath
— tech support (@theBjrd) March 17, 2019
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1107398369415176193
And the Avengers: Endgame trailer:
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1107392171857117185
It’s never occurred to me until right now that this is also possible with soccer (and football) games:
— Jonathan Kimmel – Expert (@jonkimmel) March 17, 2019
Why aren’t more people doing this with NFL games? The footage exists. The fields are green. Why aren’t we making this happen?