Friday, May 23, 2008

Fake Beauty

I know I shouldn't keep linking to Mark Morford's column, but he's so damned funny and right on. In this column he discusses beauty fantasy and the over-use of Photoshop.

About Fantasy he says, "Fantasy is all. Fantasy is where the action is. Sure, sex sells, but fantasy buys you a nice sushi dinner and lets you rub its back and calls you its bitch..." Read the whole thing here.

CAPTION (by Mark Morford): Right. Of course Cameron Diaz glows like that and has absolutely zero blemishes and only one little wrinkle on her back at age 36, and of course her skin naturally looks like it's been dipped in honey butter and of course she's naturally and perfectly bronzed like a chocolate statue even though in real life she's paler than the inside of a Twinkie, and of course that tendon in her neck is naturally the size of a large salami and you bet she has not a single line or dot on her entire face and you bet the shadows on her crotch and belly fell exactly that way and aren't faked in the slightest. Right.

And be sure to check out some of these Photoshop samples over at YouTube. Incredible!


2 comments:

Janz said...

Can someone Photoshop me like that, and make it stay in real life?!

SkinnyRex said...

That was wild, I'm next!