Blush

I found this site interesting…here you can see that the final photograph was manipulated…have no idea if it was the intention, but…check the photos out, then the video (the photo shooting) and then make a brief comparison! in one of them, i can see that the shadow reflected on the wall is a bit different from the models body. yeah, yeah, some distortions will always occur, but to me is more like that the model had a fast liposuction operation performed by photoshop! maybe i am wrong?!

www.blushlingerie.com

ps: the ad campaign created by BBDO Germany deserves also to be seen!

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Colors

This magazine was almost a must read(or at least check it out) while I was attending University. Together with the polemic ads produced by Oliviero Toscani for the Italian label “United Colors of Benetton” we used to spend some time analyzing them…all those provocative sometimes censured photographs of Toscani…The years went by and my interest for ads passed through some ups and downs…. Now, researching for my Thesis I`ve just remembered! Toscani used to use only photographs in Benetton´s campaigns! Google…after some clicks…Colors. The magazine. Online Projects that are simply amazing! Each topic a new hot-site. Definitely inspiring as I my intention is to talk about mass media and society. The link to one of the topics I found very interesting!!

Monoculture.… “The American word “OK”, (meaning approval or agreement) is the only word known by more people worldwide than the word “Coke”, according to Coca-Cola Company.”…. and more “amazing” facts. or almost facts….check it out!

I´d like to teach the world to sing

“However, this bottle was not marked ´poison´, so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart,custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.”

I have to admit, I do like a good ad!! Here just one from Coke which I bumped into totally accidentally, but I liked it… Coke or Coca-Cola is for me one of those companies that make amazing campaigns! I don´t drink Coke but I love the ads! Specially the ones for TV with good jingles. Does anyone doubt the power of consumerism industry?? ;-)

1984

My project deals with digital photography, its manipulation and the implications of this in our lives, so why I´m posting movie´s extracts?

Well…firstly because this is a research phase and finding (inter) relations and conections in different medium is a good exercise. Secondly because movies are also images like photographs though in movemt. Another point to consider is the movies I´m posting here relate (somehow) with the idea of a “build” reality and the power of media. In conclusion, you may not agree they have some connections to the topic of use of manipulated photos on media, it´s an opinion…But in my point of view they certanly do…and of course there´s a link to wonderland!!

1984 – a dystopia novel written in 1949 by George Orwell. The thematic goes round surveillance, freedom of though /think and feel. The society is commanded by the Big Brother.

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Alice´s transformations of size are related to eat or drink something. So i found interesting to bring it out to our time, posting related stuff about eating and drinking, in a media/advertisement context. Although my main focus in on photography, here i take the freedom to post all media types, as this intent to be an inspirational source to a visual work. Hope you also enjoy it and if you have contributions to share, please be my guest!!First is a video parody of Dove Campaign for Real Beauty which, in my option, reflects the (fast) food consumerism and eating habits of the modern society. Keeping on the food chain, an extrac of “Super Size Me”(2004), a documentary film direct by Morgan Spurlock.

And last but not least…. some photoshop tricks… Eat me. Drink me. Photoshop me…