For no particularly good reason, I spent a year collecting them. Here, then, are the big heads of 2004.
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big heads
I often scan through the wire service photos on Yahoo News, and over the years I started noticing a really strange trend. Many of the photos follow the same form: a picture of a person in the foreground, and on the background, a GIANT HEAD. Now, that's a clever picture once or twice, but it was happening so often that it really caught my attention. Was it always the same photographer? No, it turns out, it's not. So my best guess at this point is that one of the photo editors just has a GIANT HEAD fetish of some kind.
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Dude, I think you need to become gainfully employed in some soul-sucking engineering job again.
Retirement has made you weird.
(I had intended to inline the PLiF that had the rich guy eating hamburgers made from his own clones, but the PLiF site is giving a "bandwidth exceeded" message.)
Retirement has made you weird.
I think that's his skill though... that's how he benefits society. Employment would stifle it.
This one?
That's the one.
That's ... that's just f-ed up.
Cool collection! You should publish a book, if you can get someone else to deal with getting all the republishing rights...
As far as the widespread use of GIANT HEADS, I'd guess it's one of those exercises photographers get in their Composition 101 class that they end up using as a technique in their professional career. Angela could probably verify this...
I think this was popularized by Citizen Kane.
THE GIANT HEAD OF ORSON WELLS HAUNTS US STILL.
Orson Wells, the voice of Unicron in Transformers: The Movie. Also featuring Judd Nelson, Robert Stack and Leonard Nimoy. Fear.
That is very strange!!! Thanks for compiling them for those of us who's interests were peaked at that idea.
This motif reminds me of Ridley Scott's 1984 ad for the Apple Macintosh:
It's not exact, but it's got a giant head ...Am I weird or something?(Note for <lj user="alluded_entropy">: that's "piqued", not "peaked". HTH.)
Spelling NAZI!
omg farker... your user icon represents my favorite thread ever, too.
Keep fighting the good fight. I've seen far too many people write "peaked" under the mistaken impression that it was correct. This is because they don't understand language (i.e. you interest is not at a peak, you have rather become interested. These are fundamentally different concepts.)
I once saw a coffee advertisement. It was Mountain Something Brand Coffee, so they used "peak your senses" and I shuddered.
Could always be worse. My horribly spelling-deprived girlfriend once sent me a message in which I was referred to as "sweaty".
Yeah but are you sure that was a misspelling?
This coffee? From France.
You, you probably don't even know what France is.
shit, he looks like donald rumsfeld in that shot.
now you understand "propaganda"
Headhunter?
Jesus, man, your sense of humour is Agony (Until Death).
[j]
I, for one, welcome our new background giant head rulers.
My first idea: maybe it is because amplified reality it better than real-reality, so everything is made better with a nice big telescreen behind it. Also, now that I think about it, the shot reminds me of a photo I saw in the Baltimore Museum of Art, of a window screen with scattered water droplets in it, showing the scene behind it in miniature, only in this case it is reversed.
My second thought is that it is part of a huge mind-control conspiracy to get people used to huge eyes watching them all the time. Even better if it were a live feed of the surveillant... Then, one could finally answer the question "Who watches the watchers?" only it probably wouldn't be very interesting, Unless there is some kind of interactive street theatre going on. Webcams meet interactive TV.
As stated earlier by <lj user="tfofurn">, "I, for one, welcome our new background giant head rulers."
of course the first story in your list would be about fake testicles for dogs.
invented, of course, because many pet owners avoid neutering their pets because male dogs look abnormal without testicles.
obligatory old fark photoshop submission... wish i could find the source.
That is awesome. Good work and sharp eyes.
Photo editors just have the same perspective fetish as the photographers themselves. Lack of originality is really more like it.
But, as my spam box says: size sells.
Unrelated, but I, for one, welcome our fly eating robot masters.
-Ogre
I, for another, hope they never scale up that far...
**shudder**
The BBC seem to be at it, too
gaaah!
And here I think "wow, here's was JWZ was talking about" in this BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/3755686.stm
ah, well. not so much with the fr1st post (after a long while) I guess.
I saw this and thought of you...