Thursday, September 07, 2006
- Would you trust a picture? -
How much do pictures portray the real thing? Would you base your opinions on what you see from a photo? Well most of us do, disregard what they say about, 'never judge a book by its cover'. In a books case, I always judge it by the cover, and it's what draws me to the book, the cover gives me and idea of what the book is, and if I see it is sci-fi or hardcore fantasy, I wont read it.
Back to the photo. Knowing that people these days llike to photoshop pictures is an example why you shouldn't trust pictures. I get so many of those emails where the photos depoct something extremely awesome or absolutely outrageous. Most of the time you can tell if its real or fake. I heard this story from one of my work colleagues that they got this email about a magician who was performing tricks in a local park. He asked this one girl to lay down on the bench and two guys on either end of her (head and feet) while he did his magic thing to split her into two. When he told the two guys to pull, this girl literally tore into two parts from the torso, no blood..just two parts. This of course was illustrated with pictures and a narration.. but my colleague seemed so convinced. I just didn't get it. WTF? It's completely stupid. Apparantly she screamed and tried to run away with her hands pulling her body weight. What a load of crap.
There was another story, but that one is obscenely vile and I picture that the photo's she got were pretty much close to porn. Let's just say it was a scary fettish..
And then there's that site I got from Thanh, called Worth1000. Haven't looked at it, but I know it's something to do with great photoshopped pictures. Or something...
Finally, my own pictures. I have pictures, that will not be displayed because of the comments received, that have shown some things in a completely different light. It is because of angle, lighting and clothing material. Nevertheless, I can justify the truth with my own words. But some choose to believe what they want to believe. Oh well, it's my word against yours. As long as I am not perceived as I shouldn't be by the original commenter, then it's ok.
*unsubtle winking*
~Listening to: nothing
Back to the photo. Knowing that people these days llike to photoshop pictures is an example why you shouldn't trust pictures. I get so many of those emails where the photos depoct something extremely awesome or absolutely outrageous. Most of the time you can tell if its real or fake. I heard this story from one of my work colleagues that they got this email about a magician who was performing tricks in a local park. He asked this one girl to lay down on the bench and two guys on either end of her (head and feet) while he did his magic thing to split her into two. When he told the two guys to pull, this girl literally tore into two parts from the torso, no blood..just two parts. This of course was illustrated with pictures and a narration.. but my colleague seemed so convinced. I just didn't get it. WTF? It's completely stupid. Apparantly she screamed and tried to run away with her hands pulling her body weight. What a load of crap.
There was another story, but that one is obscenely vile and I picture that the photo's she got were pretty much close to porn. Let's just say it was a scary fettish..
And then there's that site I got from Thanh, called Worth1000. Haven't looked at it, but I know it's something to do with great photoshopped pictures. Or something...
Finally, my own pictures. I have pictures, that will not be displayed because of the comments received, that have shown some things in a completely different light. It is because of angle, lighting and clothing material. Nevertheless, I can justify the truth with my own words. But some choose to believe what they want to believe. Oh well, it's my word against yours. As long as I am not perceived as I shouldn't be by the original commenter, then it's ok.
*unsubtle winking*
~Listening to: nothing
-{ missing you 9/07/2006 02:58:00 pm }-