barbie girls in barbie worlds

[anotheranon]

Stolen from gblake - models don't really look like that!. I think this one is especially creepy. It's amazing how what we view as "perfection" looks absolutely bizarre when compared so immediately to the originals - people are supposed to have pores, after all...

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[gblake.livejournal.com]

I was on NE-Raves on and off for a little while about five or seven years ago. When I lived in san diego I'd post there to find out about stuff going on when I'd come home to visit my parents. And then when I moved back to east to Boston I was on it for a while, but mostly lurked. I did the Boston-Raves calendar for a while too, but kinda stopped that soon after Thigpen stopped hosting Boston-Raves.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

I don't think we've met in person, but we "know" each other through the Ravers Geriatric list.

I was an active raver ca ~1993-6 from GA to DC, but I don't think I got to any parties further north than that (well, a club in Boston back in 1993 with Neith - remember her?).

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think men are starting to enjoy the consequences of extreme self conciousness - except they think they're not muscular enough (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2003/08/12/ecnmusc09.xml&sSheet=/connected/2003/08/12/ixconn.html). And I do seem to remember the rumors that William Shatner was one of the first male actors to want to have a film appearance Photoshopped (they made his hips narrower in his last Star Trek film - of course, I can't find a link anywhere to back me up!).

[tommdroid.livejournal.com]

gack! no wonder they look so neat. I think women have as distorted ideas of how a beautiful woman looks as men do. in the men's magazines there are perfect women, "look here what you can not get", and in the women's magazines there are, surprisingly enough, perfect women too, "look here what you can not be". we get so used to it, we almost cringe when seeing a non-altered pic of a normal woman. or man.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I prefer the "before" images, but then I'm weird that way.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

I do too, and that's my point - the "after" shots look almost plastic!

[tommdroid.livejournal.com]

wouldn't it be logical to assume *real* men/women/persons prefers *real* women/men/persons :)

[majzan.livejournal.com]

Well here is more :), and it does feel nice to know how the celebs look FOR REAL

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Is it just me or is this the only picture I've ever seen where Pamela Anderson looks normal??

[majzan.livejournal.com]

Well I as far as I know that is the only picture of her where she is not wearing any makeup and look as you say 'normal'.

[emerald14.livejournal.com]

Yup - that's freaky. Put me in mind of your user icon, in fact *grins* What has he done to the eyes??

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Sorry didn't get back to you sooner- my icon is the Mona Lisa made over as a gray alien (http://plmodels3.tripod.com/mulveyalien.htm). I think it's Whitley Strieber's Communion (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380703882/qid=1061700374/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/103-3209993-5181446) that put "grays" on the pop-cultural map, if you want some context. I chose it mostly because the cover (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380703882/ref=lib_rd_ss_TFCV/103-3209993-5181446?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=1#reader-link) of the book never ceases to freak me, and it seems to have that curious "Mona Lisa smile", so when I saw my icon image it kind of takes it to it's extreme.