Monthly Archives: January 2010

Photoshop is Ruining my Life!

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This is what a friend of my told me when we were in college. He was in the Art School studying Visual Design, and he said that he can’t look at Maxim or any of those skin magazines the same way anymore. “All I see is Photoshop retouching!”, he’d exclaim.

And oh, yes, I do know what he means.

Here’s before

A small child with a rock, and a couple scratches

A small child with a rock, and a couple scratches

Here’s after a couple strokes of the healing brush:

Okay, now there's a face a mother could love, right?

Okay, now there's a face a mother could love, right?

I used a couple things to retouch the image:
Clone Stamp, Healing Brush, Dodge, Patch, and Burn tools.

Control-Alt-Delete

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I, like… oh, 60, 70, 80% of the world, loved Avatar and plan on using what’s left of our 401k to see it a couple more times in theater.

Sure, there are crappy dialogs (“You’re not in Kansas anymore”, wow, never heard *that* before), predictable plot (sure, you can think of it as Pocahontas or Dances with Wolves in space, or even Lawrence of Arabia, if you want to), and typical James Cameron material (if you play the Avatar theme song “I See You” a couple times, god-awful memories of “My Heart Will Go On” will resurface and make you cry).

Okay, that’s all I want to say about Avatar for now.

Something that made me go “whoa” tonight was something I read on Wikipedia about Sam Worthington.

When he was around 30 years old, he took a look at himself in a mirror and realized that he did not approve of his life. This caused him to sell most of his possessions, and he ended up with around $2,000 to his name. He then purchased a car with the money and lived in it for a period of time.

He analogously equated his actions to hitting Control-Alt-Delete on a computer. He subsequently got a place to live following his successful audition and signing to the Avatar film project.

Whoa.

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