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[arethinn]

An artist called R. Luke Dubois has a piece called Play, which is a sequence of the faces of the Playboy centerfolds from 1954 to 2004, played in 50 seconds. It's kind of neat to see the changing faces over time. Although many of them are quite scary (IMO), if you load it up directly and click the back arrow 7th from the end (thus somewhere 2003-2004), you find this:



You cannot sit there and tell me with a straight face that this is an actual living, breathing human being and not a photograph of a Barbie doll. IT'S UNPOSSIBLE!!!!111

(Try also Billboard, which is one second from a song for each week it was #1 on Billboard, or Academy, which is each Best Picture compressed into 1 minute per movie.)

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[skatche.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or are those Academy films freaking terrifying?

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

^_o It may be just you. Or at least, it's not also me and enotsola.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

apparently I can't type - me and enotsola

[winterredwood.livejournal.com]

It really does look like Barbie. Then again, I suppose some of those models do look sorta plasticky.

[soundwave106.livejournal.com]

Ah. Excessive overuse of the Photoshop blur filters.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Excessive airbrushing has been the order of the day for some time now. I dunno when it came into fashion; it's not immediately apparent from these particular pictures. But have you seen this (Flash) demo site (http://demo.fb.se/e/girlpower/retouch/retouch/index.html) about retouching magazine covers?

[soundwave106.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen that site... I've seen some others. It's kind of immediately apparant to me; basically the softness of the picture and uniformity of the skin texture (eye color, too) is a clue.

Possibly not all of it is Photoshop; coverup makeup is common, of course. But Photoshopped pictures can look the fakest. I consider it bad when the picture no longer looks human and looks like a watercolor painting.

[lysana.livejournal.com]

I decided to go through one frame at a time. It's a fascinating study of makeup style drift when you do it that way. The woman at #51, placing her in the 1950's, also looks plastic. Not to mention proof that some decades really had heinous ideas about women's eyebrows.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Not to mention proof that some decades really had heinous ideas about women's eyebrows.

LOL. Agreed.