Thursday, August 16, 2007

All Flash and No Thunder

Here's another Flash site. Lord, how slow it is.

But it gives a fun insight into how your favorite celebrities look before their photo is retouched. Click on Portfolio, select pic, and mouse-over.

3 comments:

Cliff Prince said...

That site's not very slow for me at all.

It's a bit interesting -- I've seen some politically correct ads about how women are over-brushed in the images we habitually see in media and ads, and therefore all males should find fat ugly women more attractive (I note a failure in that syllogism!) but I do have to concede that a lot of what we now think of as "how a celebrity looks" is based on tricks like these.

I'm especially surprised at how much a body can be moved and tweaked. I knew that complexions and colors could easily be "fixed," but I didn't know that breasts could be shifted and hips and ribcages relocated. Examples: number 3 from the left on the top row (don't know her name); last on the right of the top row (Cameron Diaz).

Glad also to see that the boys have had their delts increased digitally. :)

Anonymous said...

That's nothing. Today some men get silicone implants under their pecs. Really.

Cliff Prince said...

In the 18th Century they used little wooden calf-implants to "fill out" their stockings. Shaped like a perfect sine curve, the new standard for masculine beauty.