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Intentionally Wrong
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 Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:04 am |
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That photo helped get me a job where they made me look like this.
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Intentionally Wrong
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:48 am |
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There isn't much to tell. A couple years back I kind of got into modeling through one of my cousins. Most of my interest was just from watching these people interact, since they're utterly foreign to me. I did wind up taking a couple jobs, though; this was from the first one. It was a show for hairstylists, and I got my hair done by a woman who'd done styling for Sharon Osbourne the week before. She was trying to go for a kind of quasi-mullet, but none of the other guys had hair that was both appropriate and long enough. Mine was closest, and it still wasn't really right.
Those two jobs for American Crew were the easiest $600 I've ever made.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:32 am |
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Okay, I've read the entire thread, and... wow. Cognitive dissonance overload.
When you post on a forum, you build up an identity. Your avatar, your signature, your grammatical and stylistic conventions--they all contribute to a very distinct persona. Physical appearance builds up its own identity, unsurprisingly enough, and it's seldom the same identity.
It's hard for me to reconcile your posting habits with your actual appearances.
(Something similar happened when I started reading some of my high school classmates' MySpace pages, except in reverse.)
(Also, people like Tim, Toups, Jeff Garneau, etc. don't have this effect because they're robots. I'd seen their pictures before I'd gotten an impression of their posting habits.)
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Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:04 am |
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Well, I mean, it's subconscious for the most part. Take James, for example: his outspoken criticism borders on trollishness, but he's kind of an idealist. Between that and his ironic appreciation of niche subcultures, I got the impression he was more of the cranky intellectual type.
I... was going to say more, but I'm not really sure how. I mean, the way we automatically categorize people is both ridiculous and necessary for everyday social interaction, and it's always startling when something calls attention to the process.
Hmm. This is what I wrote when it happened on MySpace:
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I can't decide whether the internet's more or less anonymous than everyday life. On here, I can portray myself as I wish; only those aspects of myself I feel comfortable sharing (or making up) come through. But in a way, that's more revealing than face-to-face communication. I didn't realize the magnitude of this until I tried MySpace's alumni search.
It's been five and a half years since I graduated high school. I saw my classmates on a daily basis. With regularity like that, it's easy to assume that you know someone pretty well. After graduation, I lost contact with all but a handful of my classmates--and my graduating class had more than 600 students. I assumed the people that used to make up my everday interactions would be different by now... so why am I so surprised by the degree that they've changed?
Actually, it's not so much that they've changed as it is that they're telling me about themselves. One girl came out of the closet. One's into clubbing. One of my best friends is in fucking Bloomington, Indiana. (Why, Curtis? Why does everything come back to Bloomington?) Another person's in Florida. Another's in Illinois. It's kind of alarming how many have really, really ugly profile pages--but it's also kind of nice. It's telling. I'm not comfortable saying that much about myself in that way. |
When I was younger, I liked seeing my friends' rooms, but I loved seeing the rooms of my acquaintances. It was always revelatory, seeing something so personal: I think I know this person, yet all these things display elements of his or her life that I've never even imagined.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 9:29 am |
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A monstrous photo approaches! Command?
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Hell yes it's Apples to Apples. The only party game I like more is Balderdash.
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