Dave-So opened this issue on Apr 11, 2003 ยท 61 posts
Dave-So posted Fri, 11 April 2003 at 2:50 PM
Yes, everyone just loves to look at those magazine fashion models in Poser, the big breasted, overendowed pinup girls and all that stuff...glam fashion clothes, spiked heels that no one could possibly wear...etc etc... How about someone that has the talent to design REAL WORLD stuff...worn out faded jeans with grass stains, drooly old tshirts, skin textures that look like people that just woke up...without the concrete makeup...hair that hasn't been washed in 2 weeks...grimey smelly people, casual real world people.... Folks that you see when walking down the street in downtown Des Moines, or Pittsburg, or Portland Maine...not downtown Beverly Hills on oscar night. People that look like they just got off a shift in a hot factory in Gary Indiana... Real bker looking people...there is nothing more weird to me than seeing glam Vic 3 with the fashion model face paint riding the DAZ motorcycle with stilletto heels :) What say you designers. Isn't it about time to get real??? I suppose fantasy is good to the fact it removes us from the everyday tedious real world boredom, and real world problems, but I, for one, would love to do some real world images. If you look at some of the work of the greatest photographers, it is work showing people living their real lives...the emotion of a mother that has 4 kids and is on welfare, people sitting on their front porch in appalachia...happy faces at weddings...grief at a funeral, or in wartime.... I have visions of this type of creations...but do not have the talent to create them..I'm learning...but the road is sooooo long.I may be in a casket before I get to the needed level.... So, I beg of you...do an old man a favor in his last remaining years on Earth...do some real world stuff... Thanks...
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