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Jun. 20th, 2003 03:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amezriThere's a slight debate (more like speculation) going on at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
leggyslove's journal about this image from TeenVogue that's supposed to be Kate Bosworth and Orlando Bloom. Some people say it's a manip; some say it's not even Orlando.
I'm not anti-Kate/Orli. Just to make that clear. I also don't like Orlando's dirty pseudo-Depp look. *shrug* Just me I guess. Anyway. After staring at it (and not the blurry, rastery version posted in Bonnie's journal), I don't think it's a manip. It's too clean; too even. (Someone prove me wrong.) Also, American magazines that are not supermarket tabloids rarely if ever print photo manipulations. Not only is it in poor taste, but they could be slapped with a lawsuit. So.. no manip. Not if they ever hope to get other celebrities to work with them in the future.
This doesn't seem to be the case in other countries. I've been going through my magazines and I happened upon an issue of, I dunno, Starlog or Cult Times... one of those British scifi mags. On the cover was a season 6 promo shot of Sarah Michelle Gellar - you know, the one with the drapey crimson top. Well, on this mag it was black. The top had been colored black. Very poorly. Because there were rather large spots where you could still see red. It was sad. All of the Buffy pictures were altered in that way - Michelle T., Alyson, James, Tony Head - there were all recolored to look like there were dressed in black. Strike that, James was already in black. That's not the point. The point is that they did it. Poorly. Of course, recoloring is leaps away from a total manipulation.
Er.. hold on. I take back all that stuff about American mags not manip'ing photos. There is a cover shot of SMG from back in the day (season2 maybe..) - I don't remember what magazine; Cosmo Girl maybe? - where she's wearing this fuchia top that has flower patches/embroidery on it. I'm looking at this picture right now. Someone tucked in her waist. It's pulling in about, eh, 10 pixels from where I am, and is probably 2 inches on a normal person. So what? I really don't care if they altered her; I know magazines airbrush models all the time. Usually I can't tell unless I really pay attention. There's not a shirt-wrinkle shaped cutout on her arm. Fill it back in or something. Geez.
In other news, as pointed out byevemac, Spike Lee stopped Viacom from renaming TNN "Spike TV." ... I'm sorry. That's just dumb. Well, yeah, the network is too, but that's not what I'm talking about. The word "spike" existed way before Spike Lee laid a claim to it. Saying that the change would cause the filmmaker irreparable injury by associating "an acclaimed artist's name" is really stupid. People who watch Spike TV are not going to think Spike Lee owns it or has anything to do with it. Most of the people who will watch Spike TV are middle-aged white rednecks who don't even know who the hell Spike Lee is. That would be like if I started sueing movie & tv studios for naming a vapid whore "Cynthia" because it would damage my reputation.
My friend Matt just saw the "Hulk". His friend works at the Southside theater and they were testing the reels for Friday. So.. he got invited.
Matt: glad i didn't have to pay
Scifi 1701D: let me guess, the really bad part is the CG Hulk?
Matt: no, he was awesome
Matt: the CG was one of the best parts
Scifi 1701D: Oh.
Scifi 1701D: Cause that looked cheesey.
Matt: first, the hulk doesn't even appear until 50 min into the movie
Matt: second, there is this thing going on with his father, and these dogs, that are totally unnecessary
Matt: it seemed long....
Matt: it was about 2 hours, but sitting there, you feel how long it is
Scifi 1701D: geez...
Scifi 1701D: Did you see Daredevil?
Matt: yes, that wasn't bad
Matt: good things about hulk...
Scifi 1701D: Oh, I thought Daredevil sucked. lol So Hulk must be really bad..
Matt: CG's, Jennifer Connely was AMAZING, and they did a very good job of capturing the Internal struggles of the Hulk, while he is the Hulk, it wasn't just Bruce Banner talking about how he feels as hulk
Matt: but it was directed by Ang Lee, and he really knows how to tell a story
Matt: he is great at getting emotion out of his actors
[edit: fixed some things because the post wasn't really done when I accidentally posted it.. then thought I had cancelled it and started rewriting. I'm tired...]
leggyslove's journal about this image from TeenVogue that's supposed to be Kate Bosworth and Orlando Bloom. Some people say it's a manip; some say it's not even Orlando.I'm not anti-Kate/Orli. Just to make that clear. I also don't like Orlando's dirty pseudo-Depp look. *shrug* Just me I guess. Anyway. After staring at it (and not the blurry, rastery version posted in Bonnie's journal), I don't think it's a manip. It's too clean; too even. (Someone prove me wrong.) Also, American magazines that are not supermarket tabloids rarely if ever print photo manipulations. Not only is it in poor taste, but they could be slapped with a lawsuit. So.. no manip. Not if they ever hope to get other celebrities to work with them in the future.
This doesn't seem to be the case in other countries. I've been going through my magazines and I happened upon an issue of, I dunno, Starlog or Cult Times... one of those British scifi mags. On the cover was a season 6 promo shot of Sarah Michelle Gellar - you know, the one with the drapey crimson top. Well, on this mag it was black. The top had been colored black. Very poorly. Because there were rather large spots where you could still see red. It was sad. All of the Buffy pictures were altered in that way - Michelle T., Alyson, James, Tony Head - there were all recolored to look like there were dressed in black. Strike that, James was already in black. That's not the point. The point is that they did it. Poorly. Of course, recoloring is leaps away from a total manipulation.
Er.. hold on. I take back all that stuff about American mags not manip'ing photos. There is a cover shot of SMG from back in the day (season2 maybe..) - I don't remember what magazine; Cosmo Girl maybe? - where she's wearing this fuchia top that has flower patches/embroidery on it. I'm looking at this picture right now. Someone tucked in her waist. It's pulling in about, eh, 10 pixels from where I am, and is probably 2 inches on a normal person. So what? I really don't care if they altered her; I know magazines airbrush models all the time. Usually I can't tell unless I really pay attention. There's not a shirt-wrinkle shaped cutout on her arm. Fill it back in or something. Geez.
In other news, as pointed out by
evemac, Spike Lee stopped Viacom from renaming TNN "Spike TV." ... I'm sorry. That's just dumb. Well, yeah, the network is too, but that's not what I'm talking about. The word "spike" existed way before Spike Lee laid a claim to it. Saying that the change would cause the filmmaker irreparable injury by associating "an acclaimed artist's name" is really stupid. People who watch Spike TV are not going to think Spike Lee owns it or has anything to do with it. Most of the people who will watch Spike TV are middle-aged white rednecks who don't even know who the hell Spike Lee is. That would be like if I started sueing movie & tv studios for naming a vapid whore "Cynthia" because it would damage my reputation. My friend Matt just saw the "Hulk". His friend works at the Southside theater and they were testing the reels for Friday. So.. he got invited.
Matt: glad i didn't have to pay
Scifi 1701D: let me guess, the really bad part is the CG Hulk?
Matt: no, he was awesome
Matt: the CG was one of the best parts
Scifi 1701D: Oh.
Scifi 1701D: Cause that looked cheesey.
Matt: first, the hulk doesn't even appear until 50 min into the movie
Matt: second, there is this thing going on with his father, and these dogs, that are totally unnecessary
Matt: it seemed long....
Matt: it was about 2 hours, but sitting there, you feel how long it is
Scifi 1701D: geez...
Scifi 1701D: Did you see Daredevil?
Matt: yes, that wasn't bad
Matt: good things about hulk...
Scifi 1701D: Oh, I thought Daredevil sucked. lol So Hulk must be really bad..
Matt: CG's, Jennifer Connely was AMAZING, and they did a very good job of capturing the Internal struggles of the Hulk, while he is the Hulk, it wasn't just Bruce Banner talking about how he feels as hulk
Matt: but it was directed by Ang Lee, and he really knows how to tell a story
Matt: he is great at getting emotion out of his actors
[edit: fixed some things because the post wasn't really done when I accidentally posted it.. then thought I had cancelled it and started rewriting. I'm tired...]
