This might be worse…
[quote]Miserere wrote:
This might be worse…
Oh boy!
[quote]Donut62 wrote:
Professor X wrote:
I found the Bratz for boys link.
I think this explains where metro got started.
http://www.thebratzboyz.com/news.htm
Any father who would buy this for his son needs to be bullwhipped.
WTF? All I wanted was Legos…[/quote]
Shit, I still want Legos.
[quote]Miserere wrote:
This might be worse…
Oh my GOD!!!
I just threw up a little in my mouth seeing that.
Fortunately the description says it’s a spoof, but geess…
All I can say is I’m glad I still have my He-Man action figures for my son to inherit.
Check out some of the contests on www.worth1000.com A skilled person can do literally anything they want to any picture given the time and motivation. I don’t trust visual media anymore in that respect.
The revolt video doesn’t surprise me one bit.
-Dan
Personally I hate makeup, colored hair, salon styling etc. I am so grateful my wife does none of that. If someone, male or female, looks like they spent more than 5 minutes on anything beyond good hygiene and decent clothes it just hits me plastic and phony.
There was another thread where the guy was asking what makes you distrust people. That type of thing makes me unavoidably more guarded around a person. Maybe I’m judgmental, but somebody so concerned about looking artificially different than they were born rubs me the wrong way.
I think that you (collectively) may be faulting human nature for something that is absolutely intrinsic; the internalization of ideals.
This whole “beauty” phenomena can be linked quite readily to platonic philosophy, ancient literature, etc. Really, nothing has ever changed over the course of history except what particular ideal was held up as the contemporary model.
Right now, boys want to be 130 pound ab-baring, long-haired, abercrombie sporting “badasses.”
Girls just want to be two-dimensional, as near as I can tell.
But really, here at T-Nation, we’re not any better- just different. Unless a man is comprised solid 200+ lb of muscle, he is categorically inadequate.
Sure, photoshop is a new phenomenon. However, look at Greek sculpture… The average woman didn’t look like the three graces and the average man didn’t look like Hercules or David, I’m sure. Standards of appearance have always been outlandish. This is nothing new.
The whole notion of having an ideal and striving for it is not inherently contemptible. However, it is easy to demonize the efforts of those working towards ridiculous ideals (i.e. abercrombie boy).
At any rate, it’s a complicated issue. These were just a few thoughts I had about the whole thing.
Where do the ideals come from? Can a company like Abercrombie/a set of corporations singlehandedly shape an entire society’s notion of beauty?
I just had to bump this old thread with a site I found tonight. I don’t know why, but I find this really fascinating.
http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/digital.html
this guys work is rubbish, if it’s been done well it should be hard to spot, that is tooo obvious
This stuff fascinates me too!
legend:
Do you have any sites of some people who do this type of work?
Mufasa