The Art Directors at Good Housekeeping, unlike those at Abysmal Housekeeping,
have no problem switching out of formal western modes of imagery into
more expressive, interpretive modes. We salute this adventurous approach
to semiotic discourse and wish them well in their future career choices.
Thanks to Kristine!
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Thanks to Kristine!
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I've always heard that a lot of television stars have big heads.
Unsubscribering.
Hey, does anyone have a link to the original?
Unsubscribering again.
HEY! Does this make me the first one to unsubscriber twice in one post???
Way to go, me! by Claude
58 comments:
Bobblehead, stompy limbs.... oh my! It's all so wrong!
One HELL of a good caricature. Almost looks like a real person's photo.
I'm impressed and also horrified that got published.
Her smile makes me smile- and pat my small tummy too...
Please! Nobody gets to say anything about her head size verses that of her pelvis, OK?
@Waldo: are you talking about Mad Izatie? :p
Captch: usnongem
Oh,c'mon! It IS an US gem!
It makes me want to get a Wii!
I bet she could fit both hands in her mouth at the same time, and still have room left over.
not only a wobbly head, but wobbly breasts too! i bow in deepest respect for this one!
HOLY MOLEY! One of the worst proportioned images I have EVER seen. I don't care how drunk the editors were, there is no excuse for this.
In fact, this was so bad that I had to google it to see if it was real - it is and it is displayed on their website.
*Shudders*
and tiny tiny hands. this one is truly amazing
I am speechless. This is quite... I just don´t know- wrong!
This one doesn't look that bad if you see the magazine from a less skewed angle:
http://magbooks.org/post-12466/good-housekeeping-september-2010-us
"Abysmal Housekeeping." It was the comment on the photo, more than the photo itself, that struck my 'funny bone' this time!
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Whoa.
"I'm not kidding, it's like an orange on a toothpick!"
Lucy said...
This one doesn't look that bad if you see the magazine from a less skewed angle:
No Lucy you're wrong, it still looks ridiculous.
As Lucy says, not quite as insane when not on a deliberately skewed magazine cover. Still bobble-headed though.
Oh, hey, I've seen that model before. Here's a different photo of her.
She is the Red Queen from Alice in the Wonderland
I was looking at this like - typical photoshopping - making a model look even more like a toothpick. And then I read the name...Mariska Hartigay...and I'm like WTF?
As a fan, I have to say this is hideous. I honestly didn't even recognize who it was supposed to be without reading it. That is so very sad.
What on earth is this all about? I don't understand how designers and art directors let work like this pass.
Is it a time issue, or laziness? I refuse to believe that they didn't see it.
Her father was a Tyrannosaurus rex, you insensitive clods!
Stuart Mackenzie: Well, that's a huge noggin. That's a virtual planetoid.
Tony Giardino: Shh!
Stuart Mackenzie: Has it's own weather system.
She's an alien! Read the Good Housekeeping article, To Serve Man." IT'S A COOKBOOK!
Wow.
Just . . . wow.
You are right Lucy - the non-skewed version is not nearly as bad. I think it would still warrant being on PSD, though
This one's hilarious! Reminds me of Tim Burton's Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland, and of the ...special sister in the SNL skit. You know, where the 3 sisters are singing about something and Special is buck random.
Not a photomanip. It's just Giada DeLaurentis. Unsubscribing.
apparently, your informant didn't show you the actual picture. Her head is not crazy like that on the cover,
Here is an example of what it actually looks like:
http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2010/08/12/mariska-hargitay-for-good-housekeeping
Lucy picked this one up earlier, Eurydice - good to see, though, that there are at least 2 observant people out of the 20 odd who posted
That's no head. It's a space station.
eurydice said "Her head is not crazy like that on the cover, Here is an example..."
OK, I just looked at your example and I'll be damned if her head is still inflated like a balloon! And her tree trunk neck too.
christ can't your submitters make decent scans? this quite possibly is a ps disaster but i can't tell from the godawful distortion....
Why make her head so disproportionately big if it's just going to cover up the magazine title anyway? Is anyone else as tired of this lame trend as I am? I miss the day when you could read the entire magazine title on the cover.
Whoooooooooohaaaaaa.... what the f**k ist THAT? I think, it wouldn't make sense to fire the *creative* PSer - they should better chop off his hands...
Please, guys... Give this woman a break!
She can't help it that she has the extremely rare disease cranum expandum. You should feel sorry for her!
heehheheh very funny!! lol :)
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Anybody else remember the caricaturing trend of the '70s? Where they had a big photo, or a highly realistic drawing, of the person's head, and then a tiny tiny almost-stick-figure of a body?
I wonder what made me remember that...
When my browser loaded the picture, I could see her from the top of the shoulder up and I studied that for a while, thinking her smile was a bit wide and her features a little exaggerated, but if that wasn't natural, then it at least fell within the bounds of acceptable augmentation rather than a PsD. Then I scrolled down and saw the rest of her body.
Whoa. PsD!
This one is made of pure awesome.
BUWAHAHAHAHAHA
That's great! And, uh, can I get a subscription of Abysmal Housekeeping sent to my ex-boyfriend? The hoarder? Yeah, thanks, man, love ya.
VW: hypenil. Uh, that sounds, uh... Roffles!
Why would ANYONE do that to Jayne Mansfield's beautiful daughter?
8/26/2010
Lauren:
Although this blog is very interesting, I think it can help us photoshoppers to be more aware of our work and to look out for certain errors such as proportion and flaws in the use of certain tools such as clone stamping, masking, ect. Some of the mistakes are obvious while others don’t seem incorrect at all. It seems amazing to me to see how much media gets published without them being noticed, some of these are pretty funny!
Here's the cover on their web site
https://subscribe.hearstmags.com/circulation/goodhousekeeping/images/ghk_cvr-lg.jpg
try here:
http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2010/08/12/mariska-hargitay-for-good-housekeeping
This is the single worst photoshop I've seen on a major magazine cover- and that is saying something.
Anybody familiar with Theme Hospital will be familiar with Bloaty Head Syndrome - a quick trip to the deflator room and she'll be as right as rain
The photoshoot clearly took place in a Hall of Mirrors. No PS disaster here. Unsubscribering.
there's clearly some PSD here, but... could we put up a decent picture of it instead of one that makes it look 10x worse than it actually is?
I've always heard that a lot of television stars have big heads.
Unsubscribering.
Hey, does anyone have a link to the original?
Unsubscribering again.
HEY! Does this make me the first one to unsubscriber twice in one post???
Way to go, me!
MAMA!!!!! She wants to eat my face... Please throw this magazine away!!!!!!!
She's probably a dwarf, and they had a hard time trying to make her not look like a dwarf (and failed).
Not to mention her (IT'S) spine. I haven't seen that since someone fell asleep on railroad tracks. I can hear the celery cracks from here.
Hmm. You know, I think this is exaggerated by the angle at which the shot was taken. Her head does not look nearly as huge on the GH website, but the lines still match up on everything. I still think it was Photoshopped, but it just seems exaggerated by the angle.
Yet more proof that a sizeable majority of the PSD commentariat are thick as pigshit, too lazy to read through the comments, actually look at the picture, or post just the tiniest morsel of original humour.
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