Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Should Photos Come With Warning Labels?

I don't think there should be warning labels. But, I do think there should be more articles on women standing up against the abnormal looks of these fictitious photos. Every magazine geared towards women should include a point of view speaking against pictures as this one. My first thoughts of seeing it, before reading the article, were that her hips looked computer photoshopped, not at all believable. I like a natural women though, I might be wired to notice it then.

Apparently you can be too thin - if you're in a Ralph Lauren ad. A touched-up image for Ralph Lauren Blue Label touched off a war of words between the elite fashion label and popular Web site BoingBoing.net.

It all started when BoingBoing claimed to have found an advertisement featuring veteran Ralph Lauren model Filippa Hamilton-Palmstierna looking so skinny, her head is wider than her hips, reports The Huffington Post.

“Dude, her head’s bigger than her pelvis,” wrote a BoingBoing blogger, mocking what appears to be an overzealous use of Photoshop to slim down Hamilton-Palmstierna's already toned figure.


Daily News

A spokeswoman for Polo Ralph Lauren has apologized for the photo of the stick figure with the freakishly out-of-proportion head, albeit after the company tried and failed to suppress dissemination of this image on the Web. But the story has a final twist. Last week the company fired the model in the ad, Filippa Hamilton. She says she lost her job because the company thought she had grown too fat. She’s a size 4, 120 pounds on a 5-foot-10 frame. The company says it ditched her because of her “inability to meet the obligations under her contract with us.” Just a crazy coincidence, I’ve no doubt.

It is not pretty to look at, in my opinion. We learn from our mistakes, and who knows, but maybe they'll learn from this one, finally. Barbie's proportions were noticed and talked of so much, that one with ears took listen. I loved playing with Barbie, I wouldn't want to see her disappear from the shelves, but I do hope that always there'll be knowledge to those who want to know how absurd some things are, like her waistline.

I wish I knew more about fractals.

I don't know dame. There must be some blessings to longevity. I used to love mirrors. I would stand in front of them and admire myself for hours. My grandmother had one of those mirrors with the two side mirrors that were on hinges. Like the one you were talking about. I would stand there and see myself from all angles. These days I hardly look in a mirror anymore...

Women seem to need so much more stuff than men. I mean clothes and things. I am an idiot. I have been so oblivious to the differences between men and women. I mean the differences in our needs above just survival.

I think the fashion industry was born in the garden when Eve put on her fig leaf. This was after shame but before credit cards.

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Remembering John Hopkins hospital
the main lobby entrance with the giant statue of Christ in the lobby
I got bit in the eye by a dog when I was about three it tore some muscle in my eye so that one of my eyes looked like this



My mother had to take me to the Wilmer Eye clinic at Hopkins every week, she mother never went in the main entrance to the hospital unless the side entrance was closed. That statue spooked her, she did not want to walk by it. She did not want to look at it, just held onto my hand and walked fast by it. . But I have fond memories of it.

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Your last picture... photoshop?

I wish it was.

Holocaust Museum Shooting In Washington D.C.
WASHINGTON — An 88-year-old gunman with a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot himself by other officers, authorities said.

06/10/2009

Who is cracking the whip?--:A photograph of Lou Salome, Paul Ree, and Friedrich Nietzsche when they were still good friends. It was on Nietzsche's insistence that they arranged their pictorial roles the way they did. A few years later Nietzsche wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in which occurs the notorious statement: "When you go to a woman, do not forget your whip." For whatever reason, that piece of advice was put by the author in the mouth of an old woman.

As in this picture by Lucas van Leyden, a good number of artists of the late Middle Ages and early Modernity took pleasure in depicting the eminent thinker Aristotle as dominated by his consort Phyllis. The idea is that the subjugation of nature by the mind is not always as successful as philosophers may wish.

Gallery of Philosophical Images

Ha! Thanks for getting me to laugh, Trucker.

Friedrich Nietzsche: Born 1844, died 1900, lost his mind 1889.

Might be how my grave stone will read, too.

Ancient Greek portrait bust of Socrates (produced some years after his execution). During his life Socrates was well known for his lack of physical beauty--his protruding eyes, his snub nose, his pot belly, etc. His students found him very attractive, however. Socrates taught that the inner life was incomparably more important than the external life, physical life. Socratic thought seriously undermined the classical Greek culture of physical strength and perfect bodies.

Enjoyed! Flipping through.

Speaking of the whip... remember this?

"These things live harmoniously together"



collage by cecil