How Magazines Lie To Us
These days whenever you look at a newstand, you find yourself in front of heaps of magazines with these gorgeous bombshells on the cover, and you wonder how come there are so many beautiful and perfect girls in the world, yet you never come across any that perfect in the real world. Well it's because they actually don't exist.
Ok, this isn't like that movie Simone; Of course, those models exist in real life, but not in the form or perfection you see on those magazine covers.
Yes people, mainstream media is lying to us by creating this false version of reality that does not exist, a beautiful one, but fake. Just like advertising.
And then they ask why our trust in mainstream media keeps on declining.
Hello!
For example, check out the pictures below for a before and after of a photo of a model that was retouched to be magazine cover material.
For the whole modification process to get from the before to the after, go here.
This reminds me of when a magazine retouched photos of Kate Winslet to make her look slimmer and better, and how she ended up suing them for it.
[Via: Loic Le Meur]
Subzero Blue In Jordan's Pulp Magazine Olga Kurylenko is New Bond Girl Hi Magazine Computer Idee Digitally Painted GirlIt's shame that most don't know that it's all fake.
Posted by: koffiekitten at December 29, 2005 11:13 PMhum... we live in a fake world.
but real things, that matters the most, are still here around us. it's up to us to pick them out, make them visible... and share them...
i'm still confident in human being.
Posted by: k-pax at December 30, 2005 02:02 PMYep, I agree k-pax, that's why I believe in the power of blogs.
Posted by: MMM at December 30, 2005 02:22 PM