"A picture is worth a thousand words"....OH REALLY?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

Run time: 03:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-T8Y0AIj9k   Posted on YouTube: August 17, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: January 05, 2008 By DU Member: ElsewheresDaughter Views on DU: 1465

 
The underlying point. Possibly unintended. Is that beauty is manufactured.

Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder characterized by low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Individuals with anorexia often control body weight by voluntary starvation, purging, vomiting, excessive exercise, or other weight control measures, such as diet pills or diuretic drugs....AND IT IS BECAUSE OF THIS MANUFACTURED BEAUTY THAT MANY YOUNG GIRLS HAVE IT.

[hyphenate]

1. Fascinating!

It's a great way to lose weight, eh?

Actually, that kept me fascinated--the skill behind the metamorphizing was great. I wish I could do as well.

[rocktivity]

2. If only it WERE that easy.

But how was it done?

:shrug:
rocknation

[drexel dave]

16. with photoshop

nt

[rocktivity]

18. I meant, how was it filmed?

I don't think Photoshop allows you to make macros that size!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Samurai_Writer]

3. And men wonder why women have low self esteem and bad body image

I think she looked fine before. There is another site that plays on this photoshopping technique that is scary, too... http://glennferon.com.nyud.net:8090/portfolio1/index.html

The photoshopped after images are not anything that any woman could possibly achieve in real life. I am so glad I'm not a young woman these days. It was bad enough in the 70s, but at least the models back then were actually a 'normal' size, and not fake boobs on sticks.

[Snotcicles]

5. It's not only affecting women anymore. nt

[DanG2012]

7. fake boobs on sticks

LOL - thats funny.

and at the same time quite sad.

peace,
DanG

[Teaser]

13. She may have "looked fine" before

But no one is under any obligation to find attractive what someone else thinks "looks fine".

[Samurai_Writer]

14. I never said that anyone was obligated to do anything

Why so snippy?

[drexel dave]

17. I thought the junk in the trunk

was hot as hell before captain photoshop did his deed.

[Snotcicles]

4. It's all about how you look and how much you've got. nt

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. I learned early on

that I would never be able to be "beautiful" by the standards of the day. My bone structure is such that I would have to shave the bones of my hips to get into any clothes that aren't labeled as "Large". Now, what's funny is that, in early times, women with wide hips were prized (and survived) because the pelvis was wide enough to bear children easily and without complications. Interesting that, in colonial times, women would put padding around their hips and buttocks if they weren't large to give the illusion that they were.

[Catch22Dem]

8. As a full-on nerd, I'm completely fascinated by the technology

But you're right. It's implementation is hurting people and making them believe in a "look" that isn't naturally attainable. I do take some license with my photos, but I don't attempt to change the person. I do, however, often change the lighting, surroundings, play with the colors, etc... I see that as being artistic with the photograph, but the subject of the photo remains largely untouched.

[pansypoo53219]

9. last year i looked at a recent Vogue

which i haven't looked at in a long time and the photoshopping was ridiculous. the models look sick, not attractive. and the flesh unreal.
yeah, i know i have cellulite, but damned if i am gonna give up my 1/2 and 1/2 and butter.

[patrice]

10. All hail the mighty machine! nt

[postulater]

11. Oh, I thought it was going to turn into something like

a Bill O'Reilly or R. Limbaugh.

[dipsydoodle]

12. Interesting how the face changes between

start and finish. Could almost be two girls.

Quite criminal to lose a balcony like that.

[dipsydoodle]

15. Here's an associated newslink from Saturday

Fat fighting, Los Angeles style.

The door opened and in she walked - as skinny as a coat of paint with show-stopping cleavage, flashing the greatest smile money could buy.

CC hopes the treatment will give her a perfectly-sculpted physique
Year-round tan, legs up to here. A Bond-girl body which had clearly been the regular recipient of sea-salt wraps and expensive exfoliations.

Yet CC's body was not quite the shape she wanted it to be.

A niggling layer of fat - virtually undetectable to the naked eye - clung stubbornly to her inner thigh, refusing to yield even in the face of a daily exercise routine rigorous enough to bring a Greek god to his knees.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7171672.stm

Pathetic isn't it.

[SeattleGirl]

19. Wow, I didn't realize how much could be done to alter a picture.

I'm a non-techno geek, though, so there is a lot I don't know, but MAN! Unbelievable.

[Pastiche423]

20. It really is quite easy

if you have a graphic program. Here is a photo I manipulated last night. I din't change colors, just hair style:



Can you guess whose hair that is?

[Quantess]

21. Sometimes, that kind of beauty isn't manufactured.

Sometimes it is achieved through exercise and healthy eating, (or inheriting slim genes).

But, I get your point. Much of the images we see are photoshopped, and aren't even reality.

She was cuter with short hair.