#251
Posted: 12/3/09 at 5:37pm
^haha, different strokes for different folks I guess :P
I do like, though, that it's pretty intricately androgynous. If you split the cover in half diagonally (so that the two sides of his face are separate): The left side, with the way he's pulling up his eye and eyebrow, the shadow that looks like it could be blush, and the fact that his hair looks pulled back, it's very feminine. Even his jaw line is covered by his hand so it looks smoother and more feminine. Plus it's cast in a purple hue. Then the right side is more harshly lit, his eye flatter and more of a piercing blue, the eyebrow is thicker, the jawline is very defined, and the hair is obviously short. And it's cast in a blue hue.
So yeah, I don't even know if alll that was done totally intentionally, but just from an artistic standpoint I find it really cool the way it's SO feminine v. masculine. As a whole you mostly just see it as softer and more feminine, but when you split the two sides up you start to see the little intricacies.
Not saying it's some brilliant piece of art or something haha- it IS totally kitschy and I get why a lot of people don't like it. But I do think there's some cool stuff in it if you look closely :) (no, I haven't spent hours and hours staring at it hahaha- someone else on another board actually noticed the duality in it first, and split the cover in half, and once you actually see the two halves separately all that stuff becomes apparent REALLY quickly. You just really notice it until you look at it as two separate halves.
I do like, though, that it's pretty intricately androgynous. If you split the cover in half diagonally (so that the two sides of his face are separate): The left side, with the way he's pulling up his eye and eyebrow, the shadow that looks like it could be blush, and the fact that his hair looks pulled back, it's very feminine. Even his jaw line is covered by his hand so it looks smoother and more feminine. Plus it's cast in a purple hue. Then the right side is more harshly lit, his eye flatter and more of a piercing blue, the eyebrow is thicker, the jawline is very defined, and the hair is obviously short. And it's cast in a blue hue.
So yeah, I don't even know if alll that was done totally intentionally, but just from an artistic standpoint I find it really cool the way it's SO feminine v. masculine. As a whole you mostly just see it as softer and more feminine, but when you split the two sides up you start to see the little intricacies.
Not saying it's some brilliant piece of art or something haha- it IS totally kitschy and I get why a lot of people don't like it. But I do think there's some cool stuff in it if you look closely :) (no, I haven't spent hours and hours staring at it hahaha- someone else on another board actually noticed the duality in it first, and split the cover in half, and once you actually see the two halves separately all that stuff becomes apparent REALLY quickly. You just really notice it until you look at it as two separate halves.
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
Updated On: 12/3/09 at 05:37 PM
So delightfully Lisa Frank! (I used to LOVE Lisa Frank stuff- maybe that's why I enjoy the cover!! hehe) 
