Take the power back! Dec09

Take the power back!

Last week I wrote about the issue of Photoshop falsification of images, and the way that this is altering our perceptions, to the point of absurdity, about what constitutes authentic feminine beauty. Although this issue can seem overwhelming in its scope (just consider how much of this sort...

The ugly truth about ‘beauty’ Dec02

The ugly truth about...

Two days ago the Stuff.co.nz website ran a story about two computer scientists who are calling for a rating system to be introduced to magazines (and presumably other media as well) to advise readers about the level of artificial Photoshop retouching that has been applied to any published...