Comments on: Photoshopping gone wild: ah, but you should see the pictures! http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:59:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: ted Vales http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-104594 ted Vales Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:13:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-104594 I don't usually comment on blog posts... but this was a good post.. keep up the good work I don’t usually comment on blog posts… but this was a good post.. keep up the good work

]]> By: Matteo http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-68093 Matteo Sat, 17 May 2008 17:50:32 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-68093 You've just reminded me of a magazine cover I saw last year. It showed three different well-known blonde starlets of different ages (I don't remember who), with title text that said something along the lines of, "Whether 25, 35, or 45, They All Look Great!". Of course each and every one of them had been photoshopped to look 21. The 45-year-old looked exactly the same age as the 25-year-old. It was completely absurd. You’ve just reminded me of a magazine cover I saw last year. It showed three different well-known blonde starlets of different ages (I don’t remember who), with title text that said something along the lines of, “Whether 25, 35, or 45, They All Look Great!”. Of course each and every one of them had been photoshopped to look 21. The 45-year-old looked exactly the same age as the 25-year-old. It was completely absurd.

]]> By: Linking around: Bush/Obama/Hamas & more | The Anchoress http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-68037 Linking around: Bush/Obama/Hamas & more | The Anchoress Sat, 17 May 2008 04:09:44 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-68037 [...] spoke against appeasement… Provocative: Refusing background checks on principle? Informative: Neoneocon on photoshopping Short/Sweet: Peace begins in the womb Inspiring: Rocco with a Righteous Gentile Sad: A death in the [...] [...] spoke against appeasement… Provocative: Refusing background checks on principle? Informative: Neoneocon on photoshopping Short/Sweet: Peace begins in the womb Inspiring: Rocco with a Righteous Gentile Sad: A death in the [...]

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-67957 Ymarsakar Fri, 16 May 2008 13:59:05 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-67957 To a certain extent, photoshopped people don't seem real to me. They are, if I hadn't noticed it already, purely an image on paper rather than the portrait of a person. To a certain extent, photoshopped people don’t seem real to me. They are, if I hadn’t noticed it already, purely an image on paper rather than the portrait of a person.

]]> By: MikeM http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-67956 MikeM Fri, 16 May 2008 12:49:36 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-67956 I've never understood why women would idealize these models as female perfection. For myself, the fashion models are the farthest thing from sexy: mere androgynous swizzle sticks! Ugh! I’ve never understood why women would idealize these models as female perfection. For myself, the fashion models are the farthest thing from sexy: mere androgynous swizzle sticks! Ugh!

]]> By: joe http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-67951 joe Fri, 16 May 2008 10:46:09 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-67951 Neo, If you substitute me for you and Tae Kwon Do for dancing, then you've written my story too. But at 5'0", I was at least a little further from the ideal than you. Funny how that works out. I never got to the point of being a tournament champion, but perseverance paid off. I did earn my black belt. Neo,
If you substitute me for you and Tae Kwon Do for dancing, then you’ve written my story too. But at 5’0″, I was at least a little further from the ideal than you. Funny how that works out.

I never got to the point of being a tournament champion, but perseverance paid off. I did earn my black belt.

]]> By: sergey http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-67947 sergey Fri, 16 May 2008 09:45:31 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-67947 Humans are not the only species affected by this striving for perfection and maximum sex appeal. There are plenty of examples in courses of evolutionary biology showing that this tendency can run amok and produce decadent extremal designs barely compatible with survival and even leading to extinction, as 3-meter wide branching horns of an extinct great deer sometime dwelling in boreal forests in miocene. Humans are not the only species affected by this striving for perfection and maximum sex appeal. There are plenty of examples in courses of evolutionary biology showing that this tendency can run amok and produce decadent extremal designs barely compatible with survival and even leading to extinction, as 3-meter wide branching horns of an extinct great deer sometime dwelling in boreal forests in miocene.

]]> By: njcommuter http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-67927 njcommuter Fri, 16 May 2008 05:02:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-67927 Typical male question: If we outlawed mirrors, or at least taught that vanity about appearance was a sin, would anything change? Typical male question: If we outlawed mirrors, or at least taught that vanity about appearance was a sin, would anything change?

]]> By: Daniel Stark http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-67919 Daniel Stark Fri, 16 May 2008 01:19:37 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-67919 The models in magazines are getting thinner (or doctored so) while we are supposedly having an obesity "epidemic." Is there an opposite effect going on in society or something? The models in magazines are getting thinner (or doctored so) while we are supposedly having an obesity “epidemic.” Is there an opposite effect going on in society or something?

]]> By: Cappy http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-67903 Cappy Thu, 15 May 2008 21:56:37 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/05/15/photoshopping-gone-wild-ah-but-you-should-see-the-pictures/#comment-67903 What if you were sentanced to prison in France for proposing excessive thinness and you went on a hunger strike? What if you were sentanced to prison in France for proposing excessive thinness and you went on a hunger strike?

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