1984 is a long time ago already. :-) Btw, I'm re-reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation triology these days. In his universe, projected from the fifties, the habit of smoking has persisted through countless millennia into the Galactic Empire and beyond. It's quite funny to observe how the human behaviour accompanying nearly every dialogue always has something to do with tobacco. As if social life was impossible without it.
Sure he's not actually Agent Smith, btw? :-) Jostein 2008/10/14 Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Not at all - it's a perfectly good way of providing useful work in > these troubled times. I have a friend, Winston Smith, who is a civil > servant with the Ministry of Truth. His job consists of spending most > of the day on Google Images looking for pictures of people smoking; he > then removes the offending cigarette, cheroot or hookah and writes the > image back onto Google's servers. The past must reflect today's > orthodoxy. He's a very interesting chap. We met a few months ago when > I had a day off and was walking along Whitehall. I stopped to ask > directions while he was standing down an alleyway next to the Minitrue > office, having a cigarette break. > >> Anthony, >> >> What struck me when going through those web archives was that so few >> of her portraits featured a cigarette. Makes me wonder how extensive >> the history rewriting is... Somehow it's difficult to believe that >> they've systematically removed every little fag they could come over >> just because public attitude has shifted away from smoking. It would >> be very scary indeed if they did. >> >> Jostein >> >> 2008/10/13 Anthony Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: AlunFoto >> >> (snip) >> >> Now it looks like the artist has "improved" the shot to hint at > her >> >> smoking habit. (snip) >> > >> > Agreed. It seems to me that the artist, with access to the >> unaltered >> > original (which we haven't found on the web), has omitted >> the cigarette at >> > his client's (US Postal Service)request, but changed little >> else. The >> > earlier airbrush retouching seems more invasive in order to >> resolve the >> > 'empty hand' effect that just erasing the cigarette >> creates. I suspect that >> > the postage stamp rendition is more authentic than the >> "Bette Davis Speaks" >> > version of the picture, within the limitations of political >> correctness. >> > Apparently the postage stamp artist wants us to know that >> the cigarette is >> > missing, but the biography artist wanted to conceal the fact. >> > >> > Regards, Anthony > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
