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Apr 30, 2012 6:45PM

And here we go.

Anne Hathaway’s Selina Kyle in the upcoming Dark Knight Rises is possibly based on Hollywood starlet Audrey Hepburn.  Nolan’s really puckering up to his “American” bosses isn’t he?

No mention of Julie Newmar.  But then again, the Brits also had their Avengers Emma Peel.  Whatever works I guess.

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Apr 30, 2012 1:34AM

The original pimp, Toulouse-Lautrec.

All you young people need to know some art history.  You have endless material. Watch for a reference in Baz Luhrmann’s “Moulin Rouge.”

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Apr 30, 2012 1:29AM

To counter Sherman, here’s someone I’m sure some of you models might also admire.

I didn’t think it was possible to make Tina Fey sexy, but goes to show the media professionals proved me wrong.  I’ll get to her significance to the beauty industry later.  It has more to do with her work in SNL than her looks.

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Apr 30, 2012 1:23AM

Cindy Sherman’s work annoys me, but I have to make a mention to sound smart.

There’s some discussion about the feminist aspect of her work.  But I don’t want to dive into that stuff.  Just be wary that it does, in fact, affect a lot of what you see today on CW and other teen dramas.

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Apr 30, 2012 1:12AM

You guys like yonic symbolism?

Here ya go. Boticelli’s “Birth of Venus”.

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Apr 30, 2012 1:04AM

I don’t know too much about the fashion industry, but I paid attention in Photography class.  Here’s some beauties to mull over:

Twiggy

Edie Sedgewick, Andy Warhol’s muse:

And the grown-up Emma Watson:

Is it too easy?  I’m sure Oprah has a chart somewhere that maps us all out, looks-wise.  So why are some more favorable than others and re-used, reinforced generation after generation?

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Apr 30, 2012 12:56AM

Whose got some balls, besides John Waters, to depict women in such an ugly fashion since Picasso?

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Apr 30, 2012 12:52AM

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within bombed at the box office, but they sure as hell tried to sell to fanboys the idea that CG actress Aki Ross was real… and sexy.

At the time, it was quite convincing. If you have a keen enough eye, there are tell-tale signs that it isn’t real.  What makes a computer-generated human really sell the illusion?

The most obvious one is the “plastic” texture has to be fixed.  Second is that the model itself shouldn’t be too symmetrical or mathematical.  There are some other things, but you can toss that list around yourselves.

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Apr 30, 2012 12:48AM

Thank Edward Muybridge for taking the first step to documenting the human animal in motion.

Kinda takes away all the erotica, doesn’t it? Well, maybe not. That is quite the shapely lass.

So back to the argument, this one is yet another example of naked women advancing technology.  Granted, Muybridge did photograph lots of other animals in motion, men, children, and the famous horse, but you get the picture.

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Apr 30, 2012 12:36AM

And I thought I would come up with the next big gimmick:

A simple Google Search for “modeling poses” yields infinite results.  Would prove quite useful, eh?  Figure out why some of these poses work, and some don’t. Some may say it’s as simple as composition.