Blog 5

In the article “Body painting” published in PSA Journal, author Ayman Lotfy describes how body painting has become a part of photography in today’s age.  Having tattoos, or some kind of body paint on you usually expresses your life.  Each different type of body paintings can represent ones living style, and their behavior.  Body painting used to be a creative art, but now it is used in photography.  It’s good for photographers because the paint is already beautiful.  With the correct lighting and darkening of a studio, body art can truly become outstanding to an eye.  One country who often uses body art with photography is Egypt.  In Cairo, they use these pictures of these painted women or men to attract tourist.  They hang up pictures all around the airport for everyone to see.  Now days photography can be considered a fine art, just because of how well of body painting looks on a photo.

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After I read this I was amazed how body paintings affected the photography industry.  I also had no Idea Egypt still uses photos of body paintings for tourism.  I wonder if there are still cultures that use body painting as a ritual of some sort, instead of photography.  I would for sure try this out sometime.  I may just have to go to Egypt and check it out.  When I look at different photos of body art I wonder if any of the coolers represent anything or have a meaning.  I also asked myself has anyone ever actually had their entire body painted and then walked in public.  I think the answer would be yes.  Body painting is a really cool thing to look at because you can really see their life story in the painting.  

Blog 6

In the article “TV Star’s Plastic-Surgery Disaster Tests Brazil” published in Time Magazine, the authors whom are anonymous explain how plastic surgery isn’t always as good as it’s advertised.  Urach a Brazilian women explains what she has had to deal with after getting plastic surgery.  One of her later procedures she had done was messed up by the doctor.  She went into septic shock and was placed on life support for a while.  She came out to the public and said that she regrets having the procedure done.  “Urach told rade TV that she blamed society, which unfortunately holds a standard of beauty in which you have to be perfect.”  Doctors on the other hand truly do believe that if the procedure was done correctly which is more likely, the women improve their self- esteem.  They also said, with the growing buyers from the middle class, the more likely you will move up in society’s ranking.

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This article brought to my attention that plastic surgery isn’t always the best thing to do with your money.  There can be many problems.  You can have your surgery done incorrectly causing you to have life threatening situations.  If that happened to somebody I know or me I would probably hate myself for doing that.  Having plastic surgery is a huge choice people have to make for themselves.  I wonder how many people actually have had it done In Brazil compare to the U.S.  The reason why I say this is because I don’t even know anyone in the United States that has had the procedure.