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June 12, 2005
That's not a sign of maturity, it's just a wrinkle
Talk about an unrelated technology driving medicine -- HDTV promotes plastic surgery because it -- ummm --- is TOO focused. News readers in their 30s are seeking "help." Actors will be cut from studio rosters because of minor blemishes that can no longer be disguised.
''It's almost too realistic, too digital and computery,'' complains Alexis Vogel, a veteran celebrity makeup artist who recently worked on ''Stacked,'' a high-def show starring Pamela Anderson. ''We'd all like to go back to the old days.'' Makeup artists are now engaged in an arms race with the new medium. But they face a paradox: while makeup is more necessary than ever, its artifice is more obvious. You can't slather on powder when every grain looks like a boulder on your client's face. And interestingly, many cosmeticians predict that high-def could actually reduce the amount of plastic surgery in Hollywood, because the tiny seams look Frankensteinian at such high resolution. High-def is, in essence, a medium peculiarly unsuited to dissembling. ''It's harder to change people from their natural form,'' Vogel adds.Perhaps HDTV will change the medium even more? The article mentions the talkie transition . . . .
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 12, 2005 7:37 AM