We hear the words "insane art direction" far too often these days, so it's nice to have an image that properly captures the sentiment.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Armani Exchange: Going Out On A Limb
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Dang. first!
Rubber legs!
Actually, it obviously just a small owl. Not disaster.
Does she have one red eye?
Isn't she obviously on some kind of extreme torture device?
I don't understand the thing that I am seeing here.
Nothing wrong here that I can see. What am I missing?
The explosion of glowing plasma must be a portal to another dimension. So the leg shouldn't surprise us.
I'm not seeing it either. Not just a very long leg, as sported by very long models the world over then?
Also, does that guy on the right have a huge tumor, or is he just happy to see us?
Ahhh back during Elastigirl's lucrative modelling career...Those were the days.
Is the "normal-limb-o-vision" a tongue-in-cheek joke on the advertisement, or is it the blog author trying to remind people what limbs are supposed to look like?
The limb arrangement barely resembles a humanoid. But the red eye exposes her.
Wow, yeah, what the hell is with her eyes?
Looks like she's just come off the Rack
@ the "What's wrong?" people: in my experience, women have more than one hip and restrain themselves to having one leg attached to each.
What the heck is in his pants? A colostomy bag?
That girl is just a typically skinny model with long, slender arms and legs that have no f*cking joints in them.
What's the big deal?
Does the guy on the right have his hand down his pants?
Has anybody here ever seen the Mighty Boosh skit "Old Gregg?" It's all I could think of when presented with so much crotch-glow.
@Stanley, Sherrie: Yes. Unless someone has done a very sly crop, the beefeater is indeed grabbing himself. Like Ralph found, nice pix don't sell foolish overpriced things.
"Why YES,the Sun DOES shine out of my..."
I think the girl's right forearm seems awfully short.
I may be picky, but normaly I like my women to have thighs of a normal length and to have two arms.
That outfit does the model no favors. Let's pretend the legs work right...the pose itself is not sexy. Her outfit makes it look like she is wearing a very loaded diaper and her floppy legs seem to indicate that she desperately needs a change.
wv: plasho! ka-boom!
anybody gonna say "my girlfriend can do that"?
VW: devest. hmmm...
Ok adler, your girlfriend can do that.
I think she is actually an amputee who raises her leg-stump, and she is standing in front of another woman, who is just coming through the dimensional portal behind her, leg first.
Also, is that the fog, or does she have no hip whatsoever...?
1. the guy does not have his hand down his pants. you can see it sticking out of his pocket on the right hand side of the photo.
2. she only has two legs, they are normal length and awkwardly posed.
3. her arms are normal too.
4. the only thing i can see at all is her eye.
take a look at this photo site with demi more ugly http://glamourparaguaio.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/demi-de-balmain/#comment-3984
He got his ARM down there. How'd he do that with his hand (not in any way visible in the photo) elsewhere?
There are people here actually claiming she has the incorrect amount of limbs? Jesus, you people are more far gone than I thought.
Just a skinny model with weird photoshop lighting that makes her look a really odd shape.
Not sure about the chap with a plucked chicken stuffed into his waistband though.
If you took this image and filtered out some of the distorting light, and tried to draw her outline, you'd find her right butt cheek to be about 6 inches away from where it should be. I think that's why they added all that crotch glow there, to hide the deformity.
Absolutely brilliant. Two hips, one leg made of jelly, another with a thigh longer than her entire torso, and still some clown says 'its just odd lighting'. LIGHTING!
unsubscribering.
And she's even able to fart light.
Also, does that guy on the right have a huge tumor, or is he just happy to see us?
Apart from her funny leg, is that a gush of... flour coming out over her? Or is it actually meant to look like.. you know, light?
That's a pocket! What you're talking about??
C'mon now, ya all know the rule:
If you have a male model with unsound protruding hipbones add a female model with an exaggerated long limb to distract everyone.
To judge by the comments: It worked!
Sophisticates Diary said: "Not sure about the chap with a plucked chicken stuffed into his waistband though."
That's what all the cool kids are doing now. Almost impossible to buy a decent plucked chicken on the Lower East Side because the hipsters are grabbing them first.
Well, JJ, I have to give you credit: While I thought "Damn, he's wearing those pants low," I was completely distracted from what should be his hip.
What's going on with the "fog" under her face? The cleared line makes it look as if somebody wiped the glass clean and left a pile of flakes on the edges. Bad effect!
regardless of limbs, eyes, ab-hips, or any other freakish distortions that may or not exist in real life as in this photo, the "lighting" "fog" "Whatever the hell" looks like someone smacked the photo with a chalkboard eraser, which renders the whole thing pretty well disastrous, anyway.
There was a girl from France
Who didn't know how to dance
The only thing that she could do
was "Knees up Mother Brown"
Oh, knees up mother brown
knees up mother brown
Knees up, knees up
Never let the breeze up
knees up mother brown
Hopping on one foot,
Hopping on one foot,
Hopping , hopping
Never Stopping
Hopping on one foot
etc. etc.
Everything normal here.
The man's shoulder is leaning against the girl. She likes it.
The whitish LSD fog comes from the man's boner. Then it goes to the art director, and finally it gets to YOU.
That's why now everything around you looks like this picture.
Also, unless that shirt buttons asymmetrically (i.e. directly under/on her left breast) which I think it does not, her ribcage is TINY.
Um. I don't see the disaster here. She's just posed weird, but the crazy light flare obscures where her hip is, and the dress is incredibly loose so you can't see where the rest of her is.
Some people have long legs, people, and that includes their thighs (it's pointed out to me that I have long thighs in comparison to the average person). It's really not unusual, it's just really poor art direction on part of the digital team in the placement of the crazy light flares (and a so not flattering dress).
I don't think there's anything too dramatic going on. Even looking at exactly what people were describing, I don't see anything particularly funny or surprising. Her thigh does look a little long, but there's nothing terribly freakshow going on. As for the "omg, one hip!!!" people... um... it's drowned out by the "light." For real. This isn't so much a disaster as a slight misstep.
I took the pic on to PS and reduced all the contrast and the brightness by 50% and I see nothing wrong here. Her body is anatomically correct!
http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p195/amoapis/armanibloodyexchange.jpg
This is so much the mother of all PsD!
It's like one of those "find the mistakes" picture games for toddlers, which are stuffed with so many mistakes that everyone will find at least one and noone get's to cry...
@TheBlackCapt:
Okay, now open up your reduced-brightness version of the ad. Put your finger on the model's upraised knee and trace the top line of her thigh down to where it meets her body.
Do you notice anything? Like that it's twice as long as it should be or that the line angles UPWARD right where her skirt goes over it?
A woman's thighbone shouldn't have a CORNER on it, people. It also shouldn't be substantially longer than than the shinbone attached to it OR almost twice as long as its mate (her other leg is almost straight so it's not a matter of foreshortening due to angle).
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