I am reading "Tess of D'Urbervilles" @ the moment and loving it! It has a very unique story line for it's time, and "broke down many barriers of literary citizenship." Although, I just read Dorian Grey...so it seems a tad mild in comparison. So, my advice for reading this 382 pages of size 8 font is...read the twilight fight scenes first and then you will find "Tess Of The D'Urbervilles" absolutely, mindbogglingly, supercallifragalisticly action packed.
Hope my advice benefits my so far existential readers!
PS: Sorry if supercallifragalisticly is spelt wrong. It's hard to spell words that aren't in dictionaries :P
Monday, November 29, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
*facepalm* @ Humankind
I was waiting in line at a store; beside me were this month's magazines. I realise that they are placed there so that people buy on impulse as they wait in line. Usually I pick one up to pass the erm...minute, however, this time I didn't. I scanned the covers and listed the number of tactics they employed: shininess (oooh...); bright colours; celebrity names in large font; misleading story titles e.g. "Angelina's New Love!!!" Readers dish out $6.95 to find out that Angelina's new love is, in fact, a dog (how very disappointing); and perfect looking people on the covers.
...What occurred to me on the ride home was courtesy of the people behind me in the line, friends, family and random people that feel like they have to strike up a conversation with anyone standing next to them at a traffic light *facepalm*. All these people have one thing in common; they enjoy making fun of celebrities. They make comments like: "somebody has had a nose job," and "her figure is nothing like that." It is this that has brought me to the conclusion: touched up/edited/plastic celebrities strengthen people's self confidence. Now I know that there is much evidence to the contrary e.g. people starving themselves to look like models and photoshopped movie stars. My supporting argument is this: how often have you looked at a photoshopped celebrity on a magazine, you admire his/her figure, you wonder why you can't look like that. Then you think: oh wait, this is definitely photoshopped, your self confidence is restored and you move along. It is only now with so many technologies available to beautify people, that the following view is widely accepted: "this person is not real; no-one can look like that."
Imagine an opposite world, where images of people on magazine covers and in advertisements for perfume are not edited. They only have their hair and make-up done, and the imperfect noses/lips/legs are on display. You pick up a magazine, and the girl on the cover is very attractive, and you feel like total crap because you know that she is real, and that is exactly how she looks. No longer can you defend your love handles and your not-so-straight nose, by saying "she's been photoshopped."
So, I hope I have proved my point that people need to live in world of photoshopped and plastic people, so that they can feel good about themselves.
However, just to prove to people how much editing/lighting and make-up can beautify a person. Here is a link (video) from the Dove Beauty Campaign:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U
BE HAPPY!!!
...What occurred to me on the ride home was courtesy of the people behind me in the line, friends, family and random people that feel like they have to strike up a conversation with anyone standing next to them at a traffic light *facepalm*. All these people have one thing in common; they enjoy making fun of celebrities. They make comments like: "somebody has had a nose job," and "her figure is nothing like that." It is this that has brought me to the conclusion: touched up/edited/plastic celebrities strengthen people's self confidence. Now I know that there is much evidence to the contrary e.g. people starving themselves to look like models and photoshopped movie stars. My supporting argument is this: how often have you looked at a photoshopped celebrity on a magazine, you admire his/her figure, you wonder why you can't look like that. Then you think: oh wait, this is definitely photoshopped, your self confidence is restored and you move along. It is only now with so many technologies available to beautify people, that the following view is widely accepted: "this person is not real; no-one can look like that."
Imagine an opposite world, where images of people on magazine covers and in advertisements for perfume are not edited. They only have their hair and make-up done, and the imperfect noses/lips/legs are on display. You pick up a magazine, and the girl on the cover is very attractive, and you feel like total crap because you know that she is real, and that is exactly how she looks. No longer can you defend your love handles and your not-so-straight nose, by saying "she's been photoshopped."
So, I hope I have proved my point that people need to live in world of photoshopped and plastic people, so that they can feel good about themselves.
However, just to prove to people how much editing/lighting and make-up can beautify a person. Here is a link (video) from the Dove Beauty Campaign:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U
BE HAPPY!!!
Monday, November 22, 2010
Salutations!!!
Hi Readers (I hope i'm not talking to myself :),
I often lose myself in thought, and recently said: "maybe other people would like to know what I am thinking." If not the I shall have to read my own blogs and feign surpirse at my own words *sigh*.
My mission statement: I do solemnly swear to whinge about the world and my daily aggravations. Also, I will strive to put up interesting...things, about...stuff.
I look forward to blogging!
Enjoy,
Loud Silent Observer
I often lose myself in thought, and recently said: "maybe other people would like to know what I am thinking." If not the I shall have to read my own blogs and feign surpirse at my own words *sigh*.
My mission statement: I do solemnly swear to whinge about the world and my daily aggravations. Also, I will strive to put up interesting...things, about...stuff.
I look forward to blogging!
Enjoy,
Loud Silent Observer
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