Pictures I like

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Who she?

[Lethevich]

Who she?

Some random expert on an episode of the Apprentice (UK version). People with a single massive "flaw" (so far as our biological impulses towards what we find attractive dictate) on their face fascinate me. It makes me wonder about how they view themselves, how others they encounter in life view them, and how they perceive how others view them (whether correctly or incorrectly). It makes me think about what I would do in their position: would I feel insecure, would it inspire me to greater confidence in life from having to surpass that insecurity, would I consider having surgery to alter it, etc?

The "problems" of neutral or attractive looking people are far less interesting than a person like this.

[mahler10th]

Some random expert on an episode of the Apprentice (UK version). People with a single massive "flaw" (so far as our biological impulses towards what we find attractive dictate) on their face fascinate me. It makes me wonder about how they view themselves, how others they encounter in life view them, and how they perceive how others view them (whether correctly or incorrectly). It makes me think about what I would do in their position: would I feel insecure, would it inspire me to greater confidence in life from having to surpass that insecurity, would I consider having surgery to alter it, etc?

The "problems" of neutral or attractive looking people are far less interesting than a person like this.

"The "problems" of neutral or attractive looking people are far less interesting than a person like this" so resonates as a truth with me too.  Thank you for pointing that out.  It may be that she too is 'pointing it out' with her 'single massive "flaw" '!!

[kishnevi]

I'm not sure what you're fussing about.  I see a woman of absolutely middle of the road features, who, while not of stunning beauty, has no obvious flaws, other than her haircut, and obviously that could be fixed by changing stylists on her next visit to the beauty salon.

[Mirror Image]

Now here's a woman of stunning beauty...Kate Beckinsale:

[Lethevich]

I'm not sure what you're fussing about.  I see a woman of absolutely middle of the road features, who, while not of stunning beauty, has no obvious flaws, other than her haircut, and obviously that could be fixed by changing stylists on her next visit to the beauty salon.

If you say so - I guess we're seeing different things.

[Coco]

If you say so - I guess we're seeing different things.

Who nose what is in the eye of the beholder?

[George]

Who nose what is in the eye of the beholder?

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

The haircut doesn't do her any favours, as Jeffrey points out. But I don't find her particularly attractive/repulsive, though not my type. Do you have another photo (no profile)?

[Lethevich]

Do you have another photo (no profile)?

Non, it was a stream :\

I suppose it's a matter of definition: everything else about her is normal, if the body part in question was more average, she could be on the upper regions of average, but applying the words "normal" or "average" to a feature way beyond the genetic middle-ground (although this seems to be disputed) seems to go against the meaning of both the words.

I was kind of getting at - some people may have had crooked teeth, and these tend to be corrected if the person or person's family has the disposable income to do so, children have their protruding ears pinned-back as a matter of routine. People shave their monobrows. But if it's an asymmetry to the face, or an unusual protrusion, that is much less straight-forward to change and often less desirable, but this doesn't make it any less noticeable or able to be willed away. It catches the roaming human eye which subconsciously searches for the unusual or macabre in the same way a person in a wheelchair might.

It is an odd kind of no-mans land between average and ugly, something holding you back from the comfortable mundanity (something that I take comfort from in dring my day to day life - not standing out) due to an extra-ordinary feature. Revulsion doesn't come into it, but it'll always draw unflattering looks. Maybe I'm trying to reconcile the propaganda aspect of society, which tells us that we should be comfortable with ourselves the way we were born, and the reality, in which ease of appearance is often considered equal to other social-spectrum skills such as speech and movement.

This all means nothing if you don't consider her nose to be all that unusually sized after all, but the image got lodged in my mind somehow.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

It is an odd kind of no-mans land between average and ugly, something holding you back from the comfortable mundanity (something that I take comfort from in dring my day to day life - not standing out) due to an extra-ordinary feature. Revulsion doesn't come into it, but it'll always draw unflattering looks. Maybe I'm trying to reconcile the propaganda aspect of society, which tells us that we should be comfortable with ourselves the way we were born, and the reality, in which ease of appearance is often considered equal to other social-spectrum skills such as speech and movement.

Well put.

[karlhenning]

Gotta love this early on a Wednesday morning:

[North Star]

Gotta love this early on a Wednesday morning:

Yes, that's an extraordinary combination 

[DavidW]

I think that also belongs on the convenient alignment thread!

[pjme]

Eugène Boudin: Nature morte au potiron




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[pjme]

Paula Modersohn - Becker







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[karlhenning]

Jn Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
Head of an Arab. Ca. 1891

[mahler10th]

Gotta love this early on a Wednesday morning:

Oh shit!  How disturbing!  Sorry about that.  Glad I changed my avatar...

[karlhenning]

Eugène Boudin: Nature morte au potiron

I have a Boudin (well, just a poster, really, though a large one) right here on the wall of my cubicle:

[karlhenning]

Oh shit!  How disturbing!  Sorry about that.

Not at all! Brought a smile to my face yester morn, laddie.