Below are the 2 most recent journal entries recorded in fractalsarecool's InsaneJournal:

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
1:58 pm	About a year ago, Bao^Flatlanders (I think) posted a link to an article showing how, exactly, an average-size woman can be made to look SUPERMODEL through the use of Photoshop. We recently found this, in a similar vein: Most Blatant Uses of Photoshop in Magazine Covers. Some of it's just obnoxious, like the retouching Katie Couric to look more "svelte," but some of it is also WTF to the point of being hilarious, like Oprah's head on Ann-Margret's body. (NOT making that up-- it's in the article!) (Sorry we couldn't think of any way to make a text version of this! Just... the gist of it is: magazine covers constantly take people, edit them to look moar fake and plastic and therefore presumably "prettier," and sometimes even splice together different photos or put heads on different bodies to do so.) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
10:35 pm	Hi there, you've reached a journal. Unless you're on our friendslist, you aren't seeing very much here. Until we've gotten to know you well, we're not friending many people back for the time being, because: -We're tired of social politics, gossip, "online drama" and "who's friends with whom" stuff. We obviously can't control it if someone decides to try to start gossip about us elsewhere, but we can at least try to minimize the "drama" by not reacting to it with gossip or badmouthings of our own or spreading private matters across public posts or hanging out in places where "who's friends with whom" is a vastly important issue. -We are not anybody's roleplaying game. We don't want to get to know somebody only to find out that what they really want is for us to be part of a 24-7 live action RPG in which we're constantly expected to play an "interesting part," remember our long-lost past life history with them, fight evil entities, save the world, etc. We've had too much of this in the past and it's become a "once bitten, twice shy" point with us. -We're mostly a private group and prefer to be private. Those of us who wish to interact with the world at large online do so of their own accord; those who don't... well, don't, and want their choice to not do so and the reasons for it to be respected. We really don't like having people chase us down and tackle us and try to get details of personal history out of us. -We don't deal well with any definition of "friendship" which involves needing to be online or available constantly, regardless of what issues and problems may be going on in our life, being an on-demand counselor and expected to solve all the major problems in someone's life by ourselves. We care very much about the friends we do have, but we just can't handle a nonstop counseling service deal any more. -We have a journal on LJ (Sethrenn) in which we make public posts relevant to subjects like plurality, diversity, autism, disability, etc, and updates to our webpage (Collective Phenomenon), from time to time. We're more open to friendings there, and make far more public posts than we do in this journal. In short, if you want to see essay-type posts, this is not the journal you're looking for.