Sunday, April 29, 2007

Doll Face

(Courtesy of Andy Huang http://www.rootfilm.com/)

Beautiful and haunting, this video says more with its incredible animation than most of us can capture with words. We are dying to be perfect and to emulate the airbrushed images that we see and know to be beautiful. But we fail to recognize their artificiality.

Of course, I'm not above these things and just spent a half an hour asking my husband, "Are my eyes puffy? Do they look worse this year than they did last year?" It's a week before my 29th birthday and I'm coming to terms with the fact that I no longer look 21. Not to worry though, much like hormonal fluctuations, that preoccupation will soon pass.

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