That's why I profoundly hate Photoshop..!!

 

 

 

 

Laura Willard wrote:

 

There is the reason that even when I was in really great shape, wore a size 4, and was healthy, it was never good enough for me. All of my logic and intelligence have trouble combatting what I've seen as "perfect" day after day for my entire life.
Well, I want to see more of this. I want to show my daughter, over and over, why the images of so many women she sees aren't realistic. And what I really want is for us to stop turning beautiful women into drawings and passing them off as real.

 

 

 

My honorable architect & friend Eric Kuhn wrote:

 

ENCHANTING TWISTS THAT BELIE BEAUTY:

Beauty has always been outside of life ... cave paintings, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, etchings ... all are interpretations of life's aesthetics ... all are models, expectat...ions, and ideals. I've never thought any of these ever disparages the real authenticity of life. Many times, the retouching robs a person of their character and individuality ... and in this theft, reveals what may not have been seen before. Nothing will stop this 'perfecting' being anything but perfect. It homogenises life ... not perfecting it. Look at all the plastic surgeries that have created identical, soulless images. Beauty, at least the beauty that matters to me is what is NOT seen. The greatest artists find a way to reveal this to the world, not conceal it. And, in the process teach the world again and again that our beauty is in our diversity, individuality, eccentricities, and enchanted twists that keep us engaged long after the first encounter.



Statement from Global Democracy
Proposal #9, on December 18th 2011

We all now know that seeing thousands of "perfect" body types in the mass media is having negative affects on young girls and more. Airbrushing as a practice should be discouraged when it transforms otherwise permanent features on models. A "mandatory disclaimer" to state that a model has had her physical body manipulated on a computer is a very simple step in the right direction to addressing the harm that we're causing.

www.globaldemocracy.com

 

The Multi-Billion Dollar Brassiere Industry

The recent preventive Double Mastectomy of Angelina Jolie; had kicked off a debate  on perceptions of Feminism and Aesthetics as well. It is not only about the conventional sexy looks of a woman, but also on the cost of her own fitness and health. Alike most issues, the Millennia Generation had already put many given thoughts and concepts on new trails towards different mindset and consensus. However, such issue of Bra-or-not is irrelevant for many females in Africa and Asia. Among nomad and rural, such urban code or luxury is not interesting nor concerning. However, the decency of non-swinging breasts is almost agreeable, not because of anything, but intrrupting attention..!!

 

 

 

French Scientists Suggest Women Should Stop Wearing Bras

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Miriam Kresh

Science puts a new view forward in the anti-brassiere argument.
 

Women have bound their breasts since antiquity, for modesty’s sake or to conform to an aesthetic ideal. Exposing the breast for human survival in breastfeeding is supposed to be kept politely minimal, even with the known multiple benefits of breastfeeding.
 
In the Western world, women avoid the free-swinging breast, a point of view encouraged by the multi-billion dollar brassiere industry. That began to change in the 1960s, when the Women’s Liberation movement proclaimed brassieres to be as oppressive as the corsets our grandmothers wore. Still, the majority of today’s women continue wearing the bra, conforming to societal norms and to fashion. Recent research conducted in France may influence women to change their minds again.

Professor Jean-Denis Rouillon, professor at the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon, recentlt concluded, after a 15-year study of 330 women, that supporting breasts in a bra helps not at all, neither “medically, physiologically nor anatomically.”
 
Rouillon argues that chest muscle and ligaments that support the breasts atrophy over time if the breasts’ natural motion is restrained by a bra. He claims that the women under study actually developed stronger supportive muscle while going bra-less. (Breast ligaments, which give the breast elasticity, do not regain tone as muscle does; like rubber bands, once they stretch out, they remain limp.) Rouillon proved his claim by the research participant’s nipples lifting 7mm towards the shoulder in one year. According to Rouillon, the women’s breasts became firmer and stretch marks faded.
 
Apart from wishing to improve the silhouette, women should be asking questions about bras versus female health. Some defenders of the no-bra cause claim that bras restrict the drainage of the axillary (armpit) lymph nodes. Lymph nodes help move bacteria, dead viruses and other blood toxins out of circulation. The implication is that these toxins simply stay in the armpit and breast area when a bra is worn, degrading health.
 
Others say that bras retain the heat naturally generated by the breast during movement, thereby increasing the chance of inflammation of the breast tissue and subsequently, cancer. With breast cancer rates rising almost visibly, it may be worth investigating that idea.
 
Although these issues are valid and deserve more research, there are no definite answers to anti-bra arguments based on health concerns. Respected institutions like the American Cancer Society invalidate the theory that bra-wearing increases chances of getting breast cancer. Proponents retort that as parallels between lung cancer and smoking were vigorously denied for decades by bodies with big financial interests in tobacco, so does the brassiere industry have interests in squashing that theory.
 
In the meantime, Rouillon is reluctant to advise all women to take their bras off. He said that the research participants didn’t represent the population at large – his study was conducted on women between the ages of 18-35. Further, he says that older women who have worn bras since early adolescence would gain nothing from removing their bras.
 
Presumably, Professor Rouillon means that if it’s too late to rebuild breast-supporting muscle, a woman might as well look good in her clothes and wear a bra.
http://www.greenprophet.com/2013/04/should-women-stop-wearing-bra/

Power of Love..

It does not require a 2nd thought to realize how this couple are in-love.. It is their own little secret on achieving such extraordinary excellence..

It is a call to love.. and be loved..!

African & Balck Art..

Exaggeration and challenging the limits are modern urban characteristics for both African and Black people.. Maybe this is a normal reaction of bitter marginalization.. Maybe this is the handy way to show off in times of mass media.. Maybe these are fruits of unknown historical or cultural seeds.. Or maybe just meaningless physical fantasies..

In Africa and among Black people, fewer are the serious social studies or skillful expertise to understand both referrals and evolutions of these communities.. With high rates of poverty, illiteracy and illnesses, people are incapable to seek more than their basic physical needs and commodities.. Art and performances are always mirrors of our intellectual capacities..

The extremes of both vulgarity and naivety are well observed whenever you go across the continent..  Sympathy and solidarity is not that great to stabilize the communities.. Rivals are common scene as extracted from the tribal history and practices.. Power and authority shape politics and social grading, rather than wealth or knowledge..

The interests run by Investors and venture capitalism have no vacancy for humane interventions or long term planned developments.. Nothing encourages any serious attempts to change the long term lasting injustices and abuses among the people themselves.. It is not only a matter of reflections to times of atrocities, but social culture that goes deep in time when African used to sell their natives to foreigners.. Or to the recent one, whereas rural slavery is common in countryside and jungles..

Between the self condemnation and others accusations lay great divide of sustainable civilization..!

Study of Aesthetics..

Among Beauty, Nudity, and Pornography great divides..

Our preceptions of Aesthetics and Perfections are contradictives, yet a guage of how we are..

The perceptions of any viewer of such a brilliant photograph are much driven by her/his structured culture, intelligence and moral systems.. Notably, the early study of aesthetics would relief and purify the people from all earthy, materialistic or physical accumulations, while not changing the actual attribution of the subject matter.. This is how the Art had grown and prospered in many places.. This is how the physical desires of some people would ignite by a simple controversial exposure..

Adding to this, the fact that our perception of concepts is very much attached and driven by attributes.. Almost no one would realize how totally nude this female is..!!
Simply, Nudity is sort of perfection, while beauty is unlimited to shape..
Certainly, there is no way to find a pornographic  element as well, unless the viewer is absolutely mental or Psycho..!!

I do thank all intellectual friends who shared the beauty within..

Aesthetics..

Neal's Yard Salad Bar, Covent Garden, London

If it was my call;

All pupils should have compulsory curriculums of

Aesthetics, Statistics, History, Geography and Law..

These are the foundations of an “illiterate-integrative-productive” Person in the current “intelligence” era..

Kyoto Obubu Tea Plantation - Japan

Is there any potential that one day our streets will look alike..??
Just a very few of them..

Maybe only one street in each city, township and village..!!

Are we different spices; or they are..?

Haas and Hahn, the working title of artistic duo Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn, have adorned several concrete landscapes in Brazil with their colorful paintings, and now they’ve taken on the transformation of a blighted favela neighborhood. They hope to continue the artwork over the entire area, Santa Marta, one of Brazil’s notorious favelas (slums).

Lima, Peru. Copyright Kuralay Nurmanova

Robin Raina Foundation Hands over 325 New Homes to Delhi Slum

New flats, part of the AHMM master plan in Barking, England, specifically cited by the BBC as being so small that they're mere slums in the making; via Building Design

Beauty is always a sensible facts, not only the sentiment of the eyes..

It is not that costly to change the way we build our streets or paint our facades..

I guess "Graffiti" was a rebellious search for Aesthetics in our ugly urbanism..

Taste of beauty is not all genetic, but mostly transmittal..

As per Latin America and Subcontinent; not poverty nor illiteracy hinder beautifying our existence..

It is our true sense of Life and Love..

No wonder that most of the world are just living dead..!