Betty White and Abe Vigoda.

Via Ads of the World

Via Ads of the World

Vizio TV ad. Via Ads of the World.

Is this real life?

I don’t know how I missed this one, but hell yeah. Times sure have changed.

CLICK ON STUFF

I’m not saying all the facts are correct – check the wiki page for it – but sometimes things just demand an intervention. Three thousand adverts per day? Actually, I’m guessing I’m down to five or ten given that I don’t really watch television or listen to the radio. And then there’s my baby, Adblock Plus. Battle technology with technology! Right now I run it with the “Myspace Junk Filters”, “Rickroll Blacklist”, “Malware Domains”, and “EasyPrivacy+EasyList+EasyElement”. I’m lovin’ it!

You can’t exchange insurance information with a tree!   AARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHH!!!!

These commercials make me want to stick an icepick in my ears and claw out my eyes.  I want to beat the monotone chanters with a blunt object until they SHUT UP!  They are the absolute most annoying commercials on TV.  And I pay Comcast way too much a month for my services already.  The least they could do is spare me the pain and horror of seeing these over and over.

Watch if you dare:

Sometime a few weeks ago I opened a bunch of tabs about photo retouching.  Now that I’ve finally gotten around to reading them, I’m appalled.  Yes, everyone already knows that photos aren’t real, blah blah blah.  Whatever.  I’m appalled at how retouching not only corrects colour, improves contrast, maybe even removes a blemish here or there (hell I was more than happy to have my pimples removed for my high school senior picture I assure you), but removes all the character from people who are already beautiful.

Why bother?

from NYphotographics, who have some of the most minimal retouches I found – most of which I think are almost entirely unnecessary.  It only goes downhill from there.  For example, evidently Mason Marconi needed more booty.  What????  Yeah.  And this beautiful lady was evidently not good enough.  *sigh*.

• Floyd wants your soul, though at least he wants to slim your hipline and “improve” (ahem, enlarge), your boobies (as if this woman wasn’t already attractive anyway)
• Move over, Tyler Durden, digitalpablo (or whoever is directing his puppet ass) thinks you shouldn’t die WITH any scars
• Glenn and his posse think this pretty one needs some work.  *sigh*

I can’t even think of a way to discourage this, either.  Some people say “don’t buy any media that contains this” as it’s seen as a pull from customers – which is true in part.  However, in actual fact essentially every product advertises with heavily retouched photos, and since a purchase is almost never traceable to an advert it is likely that any purchase will be construed as having been created by said advert.

Maybe I should build a shack.  In Montana.  And write a manifesto. *sigh*