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MayImage is Everything, My Darling
Posted by BrentCorrigan
While leaving a random comment on Unzipped.net yesterday I found my next topic of interest. It’s just proof that is you spend enough time surfing and wasting time on the internet; the real objective is to eventually distinguish your own thoughts and opinions from all the other ones tangled the threads of the world wide web.
People often like to talk about celebrities. The way they act. The things they are good at, or bad at even. And of course: how they look. For most of us, particularly young people, image and how we project ourselves onto the world has grown into a near-all-day-long obsession. See profile sites, the galleries included on them, and manicured status updates. The problem becomes painfully apparent when we altogether forget we’re all really just as human as the next Homo Sapien. Or Hetero Sapien, whichever you prefer.
Just for the sake of a good case study, let’s look at Madonna. There isn’t a soul or generation today that isn’t familiar. In a particular post in question, it’s conveyed that a late photoshoot featured in Interview Magazine is worthy of a good mocking because, c’mon, everyone knows Madonna doesn’t really look like that. Actually meaning, everyone knows Madonna doesn’t look that good anymore. Now, I’m not sticking up for Madonna, I think she’s pretty much covered with scores of impossibly faithful fanѕ – but I did take the opportunity to remind people how image works. How the entertainment has tools they use calculatingly to manipulate our perception of whatever or whomever it is that they are selling at the moment. You’d think we’d be used to it by now.
In the case of Madonna, I think a lot of people prefer to ASSUME the unflattering images taken of her are indicative of what she really looks like.
I truly believe we all have our good days and our bad. Shit, I have ‘em. I ain’t gonna lie! What we (and celebrities as well) really look like falls somewhere in between when we look our best and when we look our worst.
Let’s also remember, lighting plays a HUGE role in how attractive someone may or may not appear to be. A photoshoot has deliberately calibrated lights designed to fill certain creases and hide others. That is part of the art and magic in it.
Life doesn’t always present us with the most complimentary light sources. Which is probably why the poor woman has had some seriously wretched images captured of her.
MayImage is Everything, My Darling
Posted by BrentCorrigan
While leaving a random comment on Unzipped.net yesterday I found my next topic of interest. It’s just proof that is you spend enough time surfing and wasting time on the internet; the real objective is to eventually distinguish your own thoughts and opinions from all the other ones tangled the threads of the world wide web.
People often like to talk about celebrities. The way they act. The things they are good at, or bad at even. And of course: how they look. For most of us, particularly young people, image and how we project ourselves onto the world has grown into a near-all-day-long obsession. See profile sites, the galleries included on them, and manicured status updates. The problem becomes painfully apparent when we altogether forget we’re all really just as human as the next Homo Sapien. Or Hetero Sapien, whichever you prefer.
Just for the sake of a good case study, let’s look at Madonna. There isn’t a soul or generation today that isn’t familiar. In a particular post in question, it’s conveyed that a late photoshoot featured in Interview Magazine is worthy of a good mocking because, c’mon, everyone knows Madonna doesn’t really look like that. Actually meaning, everyone knows Madonna doesn’t look that good anymore. Now, I’m not sticking up for Madonna, I think she’s pretty much covered with scores of impossibly faithful fanѕ – but I did take the opportunity to remind people how image works. How the entertainment has tools they use calculatingly to manipulate our perception of whatever or whomever it is that they are selling at the moment. You’d think we’d be used to it by now.
In the case of Madonna, I think a lot of people prefer to ASSUME the unflattering images taken of her are indicative of what she really looks like.
I truly believe we all have our good days and our bad. Shit, I have ‘em. I ain’t gonna lie! What we (and celebrities as well) really look like falls somewhere in between when we look our best and when we look our worst.
Let’s also remember, lighting plays a HUGE role in how attractive someone may or may not appear to be. A photoshoot has deliberately calibrated lights designed to fill certain creases and hide others. That is part of the art and magic in it.
Life doesn’t always present us with the most complimentary light sources. Which is probably why the poor woman has had some seriously wretched images captured of her.
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