8.20.12 Adam News and Information
Aug 20, 2012 10:34:07 GMT -5
Post by skylar on Aug 20, 2012 10:34:07 GMT -5
Feel free to scroll by if not interested in a beautiful short story on the pursuit of perfection or a ranting monologue on Hollywood and the slippery slope of the "perfecting" machine.
Photoshoppers everywhere and any and all obsessed with physical perfection must read the (very) short story The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The ultimate warning.
www.online-literature.com/poe/125/
"Georgiana," said he, "has it never occurred to you that the mark upon your cheek might be removed?"
"No, indeed," said she, smiling; but perceiving the seriousness of his manner, she blushed deeply. "To tell you the truth it has been so often called a charm that I was simple enough to imagine it might be so."
"Ah, upon another face perhaps it might," replied her husband; "but never on yours. No, dearest Georgiana, you came so nearly perfect from the hand of Nature that this slightest possible defect, which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a beauty, shocks me, as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection."
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Cannot agree more with those saying step back from the photoshop. Can understand a tiny tweek here and there! but full sweeps creates the plastic mask and sends a message whether intended or not. Photoshop is "BS in the bag". Embrace the beauty in imperfection! Wabi Sabi!! Want ALIVE and REAL!! Love his cheeks the way they are. He is so beautiful as is. Just crazy to plasticize him. Sometimes when we love someone with chiselled cheeks or we look at too many high fashion (often mal-nourished) model magazines, or we are a perfectionist by nature, we can become hyperfocused on our perceived imperfections, which in fact are just differences. THis can be a serious trap. The fullness of Adam's cheeks is beautiful! Truly beautiful. Chiselled cheeks can belong to incrediby vapid boring humans. I have dated a couple.
I can understand wanting to do tiny touching of a picture before sending it out but when the picture comes back plastic, I truly hate it. It is B.S. plastic packaging world, cliche, and boring as hell. No longer real. Plastic barbie world is gross and quite frankly scary. And is a growing disease and/or addiction/obsession for so many in the entertainment world. Not to say that Adam has it. Just saying that in Hollywood, which is hugely about projecting image, it is the fall of many. HUGE numbers. Nothing is easier than to fall down that hole. It is magnetic and lures people in like like a good drug dealer. The advertising telling you to fix your imperfections is everywhere. Their whole job and business depends on making sure you know you should look more perfect. And the people in Hollywood have the money to tweak the "imperfections", to get new noses, new cheeks, new chins, new boobs, and on and on, and it is truly sad what an obsession it becomes. So they become the prey. The more insecure you were or are about your looks they easier prey you become. Now you have the control in your hands that you didn't. Now you will no longer be rejected. Now you can be part of the in crowd. Now you can be younger and prettier than that bitch. Now you have the power. It is a sickening business that goes on. The "beautifying" industry preys on those with money in Hollywood and elsewhere. Beware if you are vulnerable.
Nothing is more powerful than someone who embraces who they are fully. Barbara never "fixed" her nose. HUUGE respect. People love that nose as signature Barbara.
Embrace the differences inside and out, behavioral, visual, etc. ALL the power is in the embracing. And it is not the norm in hollywood. There is massive overt and subtle pressure in hollywood to look "perfect." whatever that means to them. Usually it means barbie and ken and boring as hell.
I am not against looking good, wearing makeup, wearing concealer. Not against those little tweeks we make to look pretty to enhance features and enhance the unique. I am just saying that those in the entertainment business and in hollywood have to beware of the very slippery slope. Need to think about what their limits are before they fall prey. Not after.
The entertainment industry should have a required "embracing imperfection" class before entry.
Yes to alive, flesh and blood, throbbing with life, and perfectly imperfect.
*steps off soap box once again*
Photoshoppers everywhere and any and all obsessed with physical perfection must read the (very) short story The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The ultimate warning.
www.online-literature.com/poe/125/
"Georgiana," said he, "has it never occurred to you that the mark upon your cheek might be removed?"
"No, indeed," said she, smiling; but perceiving the seriousness of his manner, she blushed deeply. "To tell you the truth it has been so often called a charm that I was simple enough to imagine it might be so."
"Ah, upon another face perhaps it might," replied her husband; "but never on yours. No, dearest Georgiana, you came so nearly perfect from the hand of Nature that this slightest possible defect, which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a beauty, shocks me, as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection."
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Cannot agree more with those saying step back from the photoshop. Can understand a tiny tweek here and there! but full sweeps creates the plastic mask and sends a message whether intended or not. Photoshop is "BS in the bag". Embrace the beauty in imperfection! Wabi Sabi!! Want ALIVE and REAL!! Love his cheeks the way they are. He is so beautiful as is. Just crazy to plasticize him. Sometimes when we love someone with chiselled cheeks or we look at too many high fashion (often mal-nourished) model magazines, or we are a perfectionist by nature, we can become hyperfocused on our perceived imperfections, which in fact are just differences. THis can be a serious trap. The fullness of Adam's cheeks is beautiful! Truly beautiful. Chiselled cheeks can belong to incrediby vapid boring humans. I have dated a couple.
I can understand wanting to do tiny touching of a picture before sending it out but when the picture comes back plastic, I truly hate it. It is B.S. plastic packaging world, cliche, and boring as hell. No longer real. Plastic barbie world is gross and quite frankly scary. And is a growing disease and/or addiction/obsession for so many in the entertainment world. Not to say that Adam has it. Just saying that in Hollywood, which is hugely about projecting image, it is the fall of many. HUGE numbers. Nothing is easier than to fall down that hole. It is magnetic and lures people in like like a good drug dealer. The advertising telling you to fix your imperfections is everywhere. Their whole job and business depends on making sure you know you should look more perfect. And the people in Hollywood have the money to tweak the "imperfections", to get new noses, new cheeks, new chins, new boobs, and on and on, and it is truly sad what an obsession it becomes. So they become the prey. The more insecure you were or are about your looks they easier prey you become. Now you have the control in your hands that you didn't. Now you will no longer be rejected. Now you can be part of the in crowd. Now you can be younger and prettier than that bitch. Now you have the power. It is a sickening business that goes on. The "beautifying" industry preys on those with money in Hollywood and elsewhere. Beware if you are vulnerable.
Nothing is more powerful than someone who embraces who they are fully. Barbara never "fixed" her nose. HUUGE respect. People love that nose as signature Barbara.
Embrace the differences inside and out, behavioral, visual, etc. ALL the power is in the embracing. And it is not the norm in hollywood. There is massive overt and subtle pressure in hollywood to look "perfect." whatever that means to them. Usually it means barbie and ken and boring as hell.
I am not against looking good, wearing makeup, wearing concealer. Not against those little tweeks we make to look pretty to enhance features and enhance the unique. I am just saying that those in the entertainment business and in hollywood have to beware of the very slippery slope. Need to think about what their limits are before they fall prey. Not after.
The entertainment industry should have a required "embracing imperfection" class before entry.
Yes to alive, flesh and blood, throbbing with life, and perfectly imperfect.
*steps off soap box once again*
