Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Elle: Mary Kate Bobblehead


Bobblehead bobblehead bobblehead bobblehead.

Bobblehead - bobblehead (bobblehead: bobblehead!) Bobblehead bobblehead. Weird wrist. Bobblehead.

Bobblehead to Kevin C! Bobblehead!

95 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't see anything glaringly wrong with it.

OM said...

I don't know... Anything is possible with these two.

Mary said...

I see an icky dress.

michael medina said...

um, i think her head is really that big dude

Greg said...

maybe the hair around the second L? pretty bad.. other than that, I think her head is actually that size.

Anonymous said...

Behind a hand?

Eric said...

yep. saw this on newsstands yesterday and thought the same thing. Also check out the million covers with Sarah Jessica Parker this month. Notice how skin texture varies from one to the other. Some are silky, some are rough, some are just plain overexposed and crunchy.

bechols138 said...

Have you ever seen the Olsen twins? They naturally are odd looking

Anonymous said...

Given that it's Mary Kate Olsen, I think it's possible that it's not a head transplant. The fact that they jacked up the belt to below her breasts (that using the term loosely) might give that impression.
I dunno what happened to her right elbow though-- she might be striking a twisted couture pose and it's hidden way behind her body. Also that hair cutout is just sloppy, for the cover of a major magazine.

Anonymous said...

The picture doesn't look that bad.

Anonymous said...

She's actually a real-life bobble head.

Sunny Lea said...

Eh, big deal. I'm a bobble head right now!

Anonymous said...

She's actually always like that.. even in paparazzi pictures and such.

Charlene said...

She's a natural bobblehead...but the last time I saw a picture of her, she had both arms. Where did her right arm (and shoulder) go?

Snowroller said...

There is something bulging from her wrist. Is that it?

jger said...

Well, if this is her hand behind her arm that´s gotta hurt really bad in her shoulder. Try it, hold your left arm like that and try to reach it with the right hand... Ouch.

Anonymous said...

Actually, it's quite possible for her left arm to be twisted behind her back like that and make it appear like she has no shoulder - I can do it! If you're flexible, it's really easy.

The only glaring thing I see wrong with this one is the hair cut out, completely forgetting to put the rest of the red L in there. Bad job!

Alayna said...

That's nuuts! Her head looks HUGE! Just compare it to the size of her hand, it's enormous. Her neck should be snapping.

chickenout said...

i dont see anything weird.
but the fact that i cant see her right arm creeps me out (though i know it`s behind her back, just in case)

Anonymous said...

The one armed models again? :D

Anonymous said...

Get some better material FFS; oh, and you need a new comedy script-writer.

Anonymous said...

Horrible cutout, bad lighting, bad pose, bad angle, etc., but I'm pretty sure her head wasn't cut out.

It probably looks that way due to lazy retouching and messing shadows up.

katie said...

i'm pretty sure she actually just looks like that :/

Did You Know? said...

i do not see something wrong about the picture. its okay

Anonymous said...

The right arm is missing because it's twisted behind her back. Her right hand is on her left wrist.

Anonymous said...

its not bad at all! don't really see why it is on today

Anonymous said...

It is so you can complain about something today. Life would suck if you couldn´t, right?

e - Otla said...

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here is a nice disaster

luminousnerd said...

Brilliant. There is nothing wrong with that picture at all. She's posing a little bit weird but so what? Certainly nothing to suggest any bad Photoshopping.

I've begged you in the past to mention in the post what you're trying to get at. Most of the time it's not obvious and I have to read into the comments to figure out what's wrong with it. After that, it just seems sort of anti-climactic most of the time.

What's more, you're not posting Photoshop errors any more, you're just posting any random picture that looks remotely "off".

The few classics you've posted have kept me around this long, but no longer. I'm out.

Anonymous said...

i think her head is normally like that.. but the crappy hair selection and the shite way theyve cut off her other arm still make this amusing..

photoxris said...

is that another left hand i see behind her left wrist?? something tells me that this may be 1/2 a photo as well as possibly having something wrong with her head (though i don't really see it that much)

Went said...

i dont necessarily have a good eye for this, but arent the olson twins bobble heads in real life? seriously they normally have abnormaly large heads mounted on twiggy little stick bodies...

Anonymous said...

it's hard to believe this isn't a photoshop disaster, but she actually looks like that. maybe the disaster is that they didn't photoshop her to look more like a human.

Wonky Cat said...

I think that's really what her head looks like. She's a lollipop head like so many Hollywood girls. But is her arm behind her back with her hand round the wrist that's on her waist, or have they accidentally photoshopped her arm out and not airbrushed out someone else's hand that was on her wrist?

Mary said...

olsen twins have naturally occurring bobbleheads.

and irritating voices, so thank god you cant see that in print.

The Artist said...

Ummmm, well actually, that's here real head!

JanelleGrace said...

The hair thing is really the only thing wrong. I agree with some other comments, please focus on Photoshop DISASTERS, not tiny mishaps.

Catherine said...

Um, I think she really looks like that.

Seeing_I said...

The sad thing is, she actually DOES look like that.

Anonymous said...

Of course it's a disaster. It's on this blog, right? That makes it the truth. To the rest of the species, however, it's just a standard, quickly done cover image, just like all the rest of them out there.

Pinheads, pinheads, pin-heads, pinheads, sheep, pin-heads, all manner of FAIL

Pinheads

artistpavel said...

Her head is the size of her torso, cmon ppl, only kids can have such proportions.

elizabeth marley said...

I'm beginning to think about 50% of the Disasters are not actually Disasters.

Erik Lindemann said...

As most others have said. She does have a colossal cranium. I'm fairly certain the only mistake is her hair around the "L".

Anonymous said...

Look just below her chin/jawline.

Notice anything?

Looks like an orange on a toothpick.

Anonymous said...

Um... I think that's just how she looks.

Anonymous said...

Admittedly this one might of been a little harder for the untrained eye to spot... but I'm just floored by the number of posters who missed it.

And took the opportunity to sit on their high horses and say "see I told you!"

I hope you took this as a learning experience. (I won't hold my breath)

And before you go on the defensive with "thats just an illusion from the shadows"... no, thats caused from editing the image.

People are so desensitized to this type of thing, it just gets blocked out. Unnatural beauty? How about just freaking unnatural.

plexus said...

I can't see a extra big Head. For me it's more disturbing to find just one arm!

"Red" Merriweather Coast said...

Okay, if you hold your hand up to your face, you'll notice that the bottom of your palm rests on your chin and the tips of your fingers meets your hairline (unless you're going bald). In other words, your hand is as tall as your face.

It looks like Mary Kate's head is about a quarter too big, if you compare it to the size of her hand.

I'm not sure, though, because she is very tiny.

Anonymous said...

LOOK AT HER NECK.

Kev Orng said...

The most unusual thing about this is that these two are famous at all.

Her head may be naturally huge, but so is Tom Cruise's, but you can't usually tell in photos. This is a combination of big head, bad pose, poor pshop, and "why-the-hell-are-we-even-here"

Rachel said...

I don't think it's Photoshop. She just looks like that.

Etna said...

I think a lot of people missed the shadowing on her neck because they were distracted by her naturally huge head. I know it took me a while to see the mistakes!

Anonymous said...

Is she wearing a blue trash bag?

And why so much eyeliner? Geez those two make me wanna gag.

Anonymous said...

Pretty sure thats the actual size of her head. Thats what Bulimia Nervosa does to one's body.

MoonshineBluebirds said...

I agree etna, everyone is so focused on thinking its the head only that they just don't see the freakish stick neck.

Anonymous said...

She actually looks like that...

Photoshop would have been an actual improvement.

Jennykines said...

Its not a big head, its a tiny body...

Anonymous said...

I'm pretty sure that normal people's thighs are bigger than their arms!

FFS said...

People, SHE HAS NO NECK. Are you all blind or just stupid?

beatrix said...

yeah you guys are right, her head does look like that all the time. Haven't you seen the paparazzi pics? they are naturally bobbleheads.

beatrix said...

And actually she does have a neck. Her shoulder is slightly above where it should be, and also her hair is covering most of it... but other than that, I must really be stupid cause I can't see anything wrong with this picture aside from that second L.

Anonymous said...

What's going on with her visible wrist? Is that here other hand behind it?

Céa said...

She has naturally a big head

AnnieMcPhee said...

Even with hair and shadows, that neck is insanely freakish. Why did they shade it to look the width of her index finger???? That's scary. Seriously.

Teres said...

What I find the worst is that they forgot some white space in front of the "L" in her hair.

leatherargento said...

Is it sick that the first thing I thought when I saw this was, "Omigawd,I want that belt?"

Anonymous said...

Yes she does have a naturally big head and I don't think it was her head that was retouched here.She has extensions in her hair which make it look fuller and make the overall head appear larger.

Look at the waist. It's the waist that was cinched in. See the white blur? That's why the arm has disappeared. You know the head is alright when you look at the size compared to the shoulders.

Guánder Guóman! said...

IT'S THE ANGLE! (I never take pictures in an angle like that one because it makes my butt look flat and my back too wide)

But yes, there's something weird going on in that wrist.

Anonymous said...

Bobblehead!
:D

leilani said...

The neck looks like a toothpick because, like a lot of dishwater blondes, her hair is dark on the undersides which never see sun & that's what we're seeing 'shading' the sides of her neck.

The pose is unusual, but not hard to do - I can easily grab my wrist from behind like that. And, as others have mentioned, her head is indeed that strangely disproportionate to her body in real life - she & her sister seem to suffer from that Hollywood Dwarf Star syndrome sorta like that 57 year old 'kid' from Different Strikes. Makes you wonder if children's agents in that town surreptitiously feed their clients growth inhibiting hormones to keep them small (& keep their cut of their paychecks coming.)

As someone else said, this cover would actually have benefitted from a little photoshopping elbow grease. The sloppy masking on the nameplate is downright embarassing. I mean, this is Elle? You'd think the lazy people working in the art department at a magazine devoted to the art of looking good would have gleaned a little inisght about that subject somewhere along the line, wouldn't you?

SDS said...

I agree that anything is possible, even one of the monkeyface twins (Sorry, they've been thus at my house since they were little monkeyfaced babies) even some ridiculous conjecture about how's it's possible or rational to contort the hand holding the crack pipe like a pretzel behind your back right before the photog screeched go.

I don't have a problem with the execution or retouch of the photo. I have a problem with the existence of the photo. Cool Fashion Sense? Huh! A blue polythylene dirdnl, visible roots on too brassy dried out medusa mane, more kohl than the most likely to get drilled Def Leppard Groupie? Aaaaaghhh!

I dunno what this has to do with Photoshop, I just know I don't buy magazines that portray Grandma Olsen or Chloe Sevigny as fashion muses for anyone not currently homeless.

AnnieMcPhee said...

SDS I'm glad we totally agree on one thing. My husband and I used to see the ads for Full House when it was brand new, and occasionally end up accidentally watching a scene here and there, and we would look at our gorgeous baby, then at the screen, and he would ask "What the hell is up with the ugly monkey-baby?!" In fact, if you go back to the time they weren't even the only ones - there was a monkey-baby in Honey I Blew Up the Kid too. It was something about the late 80s or something. About a year or two ago I said "I think maybe they're pretty now" and he looked and said, "All I see is the same monkey-babies." Glad we're not the only ones who see it for what it is. :D

jess said...

Her head really IS that big, as seen in this pic from IMDB http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1564580352/nm0001581

criss said...

Yep, other than the L thing...the hand behind her back is totally plausible for someone skinny and flexible, the neck is somewhat plausible though the shadows of her hair on either side have been darkened a bit too much, and yes, she is in fact so scarily thin that her head looks too big for her body. That's what Hollywood wants, for women's bodies to disappear.

It's a disaster, alright, but not of the Photoshop variety.

Anonymous said...

Elle are notorious for creating Frankenstein's monster celeb covers. I should know, the reprographics company I worked for a few years back did a fake Jennifer Anison cover for them. They didn't like her body for the shots, so re-shot a "body model" wearing the same dress, and I plopped Jen's head on her shoulders. Voila!

Anonymous said...

She has a natural bobblehead because she is anorexic.

AnnieMcPhee said...

I understand that the under-hair is supposed to be dark, but I'd really need to see a larger, higher-resolution shot of the neck to be sure that that really accounts for the string-bean neck. As it stands, it *suggests* dark hair beneath lighter, flowing around the neck, but it doesn't look like it might actually BE that. Like I say we'd need a better shot to tell. It looks like some horrid shading from here.

Brendan said...

where is her right arm??!!

Tinks said...

@annie

why do you dumasses always insist on defending the images it's not fucking shading you idiot its a fucking hack job. go play somewhere where you know what your talking about.

AnnieMcPhee said...

I wasn't defending it; I love this blog :) It LOOKS like a hack job to me too; but I'm no expert. It would be nice to see a larger image so I could know for sure that that's not HAIR on the neck; it's piss-poor shading.

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Erica said...

the real cover doesn't have the problem with the second 'l'

Anonymous said...

Not only that but, on the real cover, you can also clearly see more of her neck behind the strands of darker hair. Let's not forget that her body is facing a different direction than her head.

And I don't see how anyone can question how her right arm can be in that position when you can clearly see her left arm could easily reach across her waist like that.

And, finally, the dress is not polyethylene, it's chiffon over silk.

Anonymous said...

This hasn't been photoshopped. Error on the part of the submitter.

Anonymous said...

That's actually what she looks like in RL, I believe.

SDS said...

Silk, Chiffon, Hideous. I should have said Trash Bag.

Anonymous said...

i think this is hillarious because that's really what she looks like, i don't think it's a photoshop mistake.

AnnieMcPhee said...

I find it kind of surprising that so many people posting here have met her. Does her neck measure 3 or 4 inches circumference? Just out of curiosity :)

Anonymous said...

Honey, that's no photoshop disaster... she REALLY does look like that!!! Bobble...bobble

Rachel said...

Hah. I've seen her briefly in person and part of me wants to add that, from what I recall, this IS what she really looks like. Not that there wasn't any photoshop involved, obviously.

Marg. said...

Anorexic people often look as though their heads are too big for their bodies.

She's probably been photoshopped to look LESS like a bobblehead, FWIW.

ruka-fxxxer said...

WHERE IS HER OTHER ARM!!??

Cultural Enigma said...

Nah dude, thats not a psd - her head really IS that big. Rather, her body is that minute that it gives the appearance of bobbleheadedness disease.

Harry Q. Hammer said...

P.S. Am I the only one who noticed?

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Brenda said...

Yep, her head is actually this big. Or rather, her body is this small.