At least now I know which vanishing African tribe's members can blend in at Husker games.
Boglarka Balogh dressed up as a member of seven different African tribes to keep them from going extinct.
EXASPERATED HARRISON FORD: That's not how extinction works!
I mean, honestly. What next, she puts a fur coat on and chews the head off a seal and claims she's saved the polar bear? (She really should, btw.)
Though Jezebel's reaction is also every bit as twitchy and chestpokingly subrational as one would expect. "Covered with eyes, and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into its eyes and makes them sting. It can only express its mute extremes of rage and infantile desire by changing channels on a universal TV remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
every bit as twitchy and chestpokingly subrational as one would expect
Yep.
You can go with Luvvie over Jezebel, though it's far from her best work.
Okay, we need a new rule, as a species -- the "Who gives a shit?" exception to Internet outrage. Somebody nobody has ever heard of did some dumb art project. Who gives a shit? She's a Hungarian photographer. Hungarian photographers are not the invisible legislators of the world. The world was ignoring her before, and unless outrage is an unappreciated form of cardiac exercise, why shouldn't the world continue ignoring her?
I'm with 5. This is the most "meh" form of racism ever. From Thorn's Luvvie link:
Why not raise awareness by simply telling the stories of these tribes? OR having them talk about their own experiences. She could record them and have them talk about what they're going through. Take their pictures, record them on video, let them speak.Yeah, those would be good things to do. In fact, I bet people are already doing those things. And it's not working, because no one cares. What people* do care about is that Someone Is Wrong on the Internet!!!
* Myself included. Not trying to cast the first stone here.
Hungarian photographers are not the invisible legislators of the world.
If that isn't the wan, jaded motto of an Alan Furst protagonist* by now, it will be by [checks watch] close of business tomorrow.
* Before the sort-of plot hinges open with the appearance/disappearance a mysterious, alluring yet age-appropriate mitteleuropäische-yet-Francophone lady (probably brunette, certainly lots of pearl-gray lingerie).
I'm with Walt (unless approached by an alluring brunette woman in pearl-gray lingerie). "Outraged" is the new "perhaps annoying if one is hungry".
I want lots of pearl-gray lingerie.
Have you tried washing lots of white lingerie in the same load as a new, grey sweat shirt?
… says the brown-haired (er ... I think) speaker of French.
12 to 9. I guess it would work to 10, too. Probably not 11.
I thought that's what the internet was FOR- making fun of people doing dumb stuff. This is a great example of someone doing something dumb!
Let's all post our real hair colors.
I think she gets special commendation for "These stunning portraits show how beauty varies across the globe and prove that all of us are beautiful in a different way" + "I photoshopped my face onto all of them."
more pertinently I think a (gentle) mocker of mr furst's plotting.
Obviously the right answer to this is shut up who gives a fuck. I'm much more willing to be outraged at Jezebel than I am at a dumb ass if well intentioned woman in Hungary. Shut the fuck up, internet outrage merchants.
I suppose you could say "At least she's not tripping children." That seems like a low bar.
pearl grey a rather trying color for most, not advised and find it therefore completely perfect as furst's lingerie color of the imaginaire.
Stop appropriating outrage culture, racist!
The outrage in Jezebel and similar organs seems to be a pretty thin veneer at this point. Fundamentally this is gossip about bad taste and faux pas. The moral content can be phoned in.
There's no outrage in the Jezebel post.
Holy shit, you all are so lame and overthinking this. It's a funny set of photos about a women in blackface thinking she's saving some cuddly inspiring tribes. We can laugh at her foibles.
How is that for some meta-meta-outrage at your collective meta-outrage at the Jezebel outrage. I'm actually the victim here.
The way this was framed, I thought she'd actually dressed up as these women, like made costumes and so on, and I was thinking that while this was still a bad idea, especially with the blackface, maybe she had been doing sort of a beauty blogger "I figured out how to replicate the hairstyles of [historic period]" kind of thing and was coming from a place of"people don't understand how complex these styles are or how much skill it takes to replicate them, let me show you". That would be a bad idea, but maybe a....less bad idea? Because it positions the women more as skilled agents and her as more of a learner?
But no, it's all photoshop laziness.
rarely flattering to the complexion, like blue toned greens, do not look good against a wide array of human skin tones. but if you're totally into pearl grey knickers don't mind me carry on as you are!
Carry on, my grey-tinged bun.
I'm into gray-tinged anything, but hadn't explored this particular avenue. I also have no idea what flatters my skin tone, do I guess it doesn't matter.
There'll be peace when you are done.
28: I've always wondered about that woman who's made a cottage industry of figuring out Roman hairstyles and how much faster she might have gotten thereof she'd walked into her local African braiding salon, but I don't mean to diminish what she's done, just agree that there are disparate beauty skill sets.
Don't you buy no more.
[Exit, with Riff playing]
Meh, meta-meh, meta-meta-meh. It's meh all the way down.
I suppose it's a sequence consisting of N mehs and ending with one senseless rage, but as N goes to infinity it's all meh.
All it is is meh in the wind.
28: My first thought was similar: blackface is a bad idea, but what striking photos! Then I realized the photos were just stolen.
Isn't Pearl Grey Christian Grey's sexy grandmother, who spent her widowhood in a Boston marriage with one of the first lesbian leather/motorcycle enthusiasts? Some say that you can still hear the revving of their engine during the full moon.
39: This is a spin-off novel that demands to be written.
40: Hell yes it does. Goggled WWI-flying-ace-style leather helmet on the cover? Check.
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Does your skin have more yellow/ivory undertones or pink/blue undertones? What are your hair/eye colors? Do you look better in silver or gold jewelry? Can you wear pumpkin-orange at all? Can you wear any shade of yellow? Do you look better in: black or dark brown? cream or white? pastel blue or clear turquoise blue? Is there any color you wear that when you wear it you get more compliments on your overall appearance?
42: I'm pretty sure some of these are trick questions. Undertones seem both sallow and annoyingly pinky. I have dark brown (and gray) hair and blue eyes. I only wear silver but I don't know that it has anything to do with how I look in it. I have a few orange shirts that seem ok but mostly I don't want people to think I support the local football team. I can wear mustardy or lemony yellows but generally don't. I prefer black but again don't know that it's about what's flattering and brown might be better. I avoid pastels on principle and like bright blues because of my eyes. I don't think there are any particular looks that yield compliments, though I've been surprised at positive responses to the yellow shirts. I've been wearing more gray and purple because they're colors I enjoy. I'm not good at this sort of thing.
Let's all answer the questions in 42.
I don't know. Brown/blue. My only jewelry is platinum. Not unless I'm near a deer hunter. No. Dark brown. White? Pastel blue? No.
Basically there are three axes of coloration: light-dark, warm-cool, and clear-muted.
I am warm, light, clear, so I look best in warmer, lighter, clearer colors, like turquoise, tomato red, peach, gold, camel, etc
If you're cool and clear, jewel tones look good, muted looks better in pastels or darker muted shades
The 70s season theory broke people into winter (cool & clear) spring (warm & clear) summer (cool & muted) and autumn (warm & muted), which was kind of cheesy but not inaccurate
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Hmm...hard to tell. Cool tone can often look sallow, so I would say you're more likely to be cool toned but hard to say. Do you look good in jewel tones?
Moby is probably a summer.
I always wear blue shirts, largely because the mental effort of deciding which shirt to wear is easier that way.
I do flush red pretty easily, especially after even one or two beers.
I honestly try not to look at myself in mirrors or anything and I don't know. I think I'm a winter but I may just be projecting from Snow White. Looking good just seems futile and so I stick to what makes me happy and/or is clean and people who have to see me just have to suffer if it's unpleasant. I do wear jewel tones as well as muddy ones but I have no idea which is best. I'm good at choosing room paint colors, so this is probably some body dysphoria rather than true ineptness. I don't think I look much like Moby, for whatever that's right.
According to several police officers and one judge, I'm not allowed to stick to what makes me happy when it comes to clothing.
Our whole house is beige because if you switch colors, you need to mask, change rollers, and do a bunch of extra steps you don't have to do if you just paint the whole house one color.
Does your skin have more yellow/ivory undertones or pink/blue undertones?
Dr. Buttercup has a novel but inefficient way of checking for vital signs.
All of this 'what colors flatter you' has suddenly become much more salient for me, because it drives which of my clothes and makeup Sally will walk off with. We look a lot alike in general, but very different skin tones, and she's figured out that the colors of lipstick I buy make her look like a demented clown.
make her look like a demented clown
I already thought the flat-brimmed cap trend was pretty ridiculous looking, but I had no idea the kids these days were going for full-on clown.
... which she doesn't want? (Well, I don't know. She's 12. For all I know Pennywise is in this year.)
I have never been able to grapple with any of the theoretical framework of colors. I rely on untutored observation. Roughly what works is to figure out one aspect of your face that can take on a better or worser look. For me it's the eyes, they can look indifferent blue or rather nice green. If I go for colors that make my eyes look green I'm on le bon chemin. They usually have knock on effects re complexion etc. I strongly suspect colors that make someone feel good are flattering, just from the subconscious effect of seeing yourself look better even if you don't realize it.
Observations re very trying nature of certain colors for most human coloring just from living, looking, loving ...