Check this video out — it’s great:

Sex, Lies and Photoshop NY Times Opinion Piece on the web by JesseDocs.com

http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/opinion/op-ed/1194833176718/index.html#1194838469575

This video is brilliant. My friends friend created this video reporting that in France, public health officials and psychiatrists have been meeting together and want to ban websites, censor medias and force magazines to disclose the degree to which their images have been altered. How many images that we see have been altered? What does it mean when the models themselves can’t even live up to their own images? Young people are growing up with icons and images that are destructive to their self-esteem. The images advertised to us (creams, pills, nail polish, etc ) will never actually make any of us perfect, because perfect beauty is only achieved with an air brush. If magazines aren’t going to disclose the extent to which their images have been retouched, Jesse Doe dares magazines to put the retouchers names in the credits.

For more interest on photo shopping, see this most recent article from the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/fashion/28RETOUCH.html

See this article hot off the press from the June 2009 Oprah Magazine:

http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/200906-omag-empty-nest-syndrome

If you are interested in this topic, you might want to listen to my interview on NPR’s Radio Times from May 2006 titled “College Grads” found on the tv & radio page of my website JaneShure.com.

A few weeks ago one of the elder women, closest to my heart, died. The night of her funeral I came home and wrote this piece. I dedicate it to  all the women who mentor and guide others who are not their own:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-shure/the-women-who-are-there-f_b_196462.html