When you go to the previews section of Reps! Magazine, there's one of those incredibly annoying drag-and-click screens to turn the "pages" of the upcoming magazine.
You can imagine the editorial and marketing departments sitting together in a conference room, scratching their heads like chimps.
Suddenly someone interjects: "I've got an idea!
Let's force our would-be customers to learn an entirely new interface!
That's sure to improve our brand image and boost sales!"
Pauline Nordin in Reps!
Given the managerial cluelessness apparent in the website's design, I was not entirely surprised to see Reps! morph the beautiful Pauline Nordin to steroid-freak proportions in its January 2008 issue.
Admittedly, at first I was thrilled to see Pauline Nordin looking so jacked.
Next I felt a wave of sorrow because I feared Pauline was resorting to illegal means to develop her muscle mass so quickly.
Finally I squinted at one of the photos and realized that what I was looking at was anatomically impossible.
Photoshop, not human growth hormone, is at the root of Pauline's immense size gains in Reps!
Whew!
I went looking for the original photos and found them buried - unlinked - in a directory on the
Pauline Fitness site.
Sure enough, when I compared them with the preview that had been posted in the Amaz0ns Forum Pauline Nordin - Size Does Matter thread, my suspicions were confirmed.
Pauline Nordin in reality
So yeah, I call bullshit on Reps! Magazine.
If you're some young guy or girl who's thinking of sticking a needle in yourself or popping pills in the hopes of looking like a bodybuilder featured in any of Robert Kennedy's magazines, maybe you should cancel your subscription and buy a copy of Adobe Creative Studio.
With a little practice you'll be able to make yourself look however you want (in photos), plus your skills will quickly eclipse those of the assclown photo editor who made Pauline Nordin look like an anatomical freak. Hopefully you'll get a good magazine job and be able to afford a personal trainer.
Pauline Nordin is a beautiful woman with an amazing physique.
It's a sin against aesthetics to carelessly and incompetently alter her body in photographs and then present them to the world as reality.
And it goes without saying that no actual serious journalist would have any part of this crap.
(By "this crap" I mean "Robert Kennedy's magazines.")
That's really bad, though is it as bad as magazines that make buff women look unthreateningly thin? (I'm thinking when one of the men's mags thinned Jess Biel). :roll: :?:
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2007-12-16 12:32:19
It is bad to morph cover models. It is a-whole-nother level of badness to morph interior pages. There's no legitimate newsstand sales or marketing excuse for it, as there is with modifying a cover photo. So the question is WHY? And the answer, I suspect, is to lure readers into a lifestyle that requires expensive supplements. See, if freaky mass comes to seem normative among people who work out, just about everybody reading will feel small by comparison.
These articles are ads for the supplement companies and incidentally justify steroid and growth hormone abuse.
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2007-12-16 13:20:03
Lingster wrote:
It is bad to morph cover models. It is a-whole-nother level of badness to morph interior pages. There's no legitimate newsstand sales or marketing excuse for it, as there is with modifying a cover photo. So the question is WHY? And the answer, I suspect, is to lure readers into a lifestyle that requires expensive supplements. See, if freaky mass comes to seem normative among people who work out, just about everybody reading will feel small by comparison.
These articles are ads for the supplement companies and incidentally justify steroid and growth hormone abuse.
Lingster - even by your normal standards of outspokenness, that was strong meat indeed. I see your logic, though to complain about "freaky mass" being unrealistic when you run a site devoted to muscular women seems a touch bizarre, don't you think? Also, do you think that the level of muscularity she appears with in these morphs is unrealistic solely for women, or is it unrealistic for most men too?
P.S. I've just read the thread on the Muscle Mayhem forum where you and Pauline discuss this issue. My two thoughts are:
1. Your cojones must be the size of spacehoppers to call her out on that.
2. For someone to whom English is not their mother tongue, Pauline writes in a very articulate and impressive manner. (Which is something I find extra-hot). 8) :P
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2007-12-16 16:13:05
Is there a link to this forum where Lingster & Pauline discuss?
After the way Cpbell sold it, I thought there would be more back & forth between Lingster & Nordin, more give & take.
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2007-12-17 09:04:10
Delmo wrote:
After the way Cpbell sold it, I thought there would be more back & forth between Lingster & Nordin, more give & take.
Sorry. :oops:
It's just ocurred to me tht, even in the unmorphed photo, she's looking bigger than previously. 8)
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2007-12-17 19:16:24
Deleting my comments is usually a very bad idea. Make a habit of it and I might just set up a website in the same niche, and then eat your lunch.
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2007-12-17 18:56:00
Hi Ling
Thanx for ruining my day - I liked her better morphed.
Off to see the Mayhem thread.
(assuming the pussies there did not delete your comments)
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2007-12-17 19:07:19
Ok - read her reply. It does not sound to me that she is too upset by the morphing - in fact she gladly is accepting props for the morphed photos.
As an aside I have found that a lot of the 'figure chicks', prefer a much more muscular look and lifting super heavy. All the ' I do not want to be a muscular freak' type talk is lip service to what they believe the muckety mucks of the sport want to hear.
This is especially true of the women who once had a lot of muscle. Get them off the record and they talk about their 'FBB days' with the same wistful longing as an ex cigarette addict discussing a puff.
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2007-12-18 19:01:37
I think it's cool that she will release the originals on her site when the magazine is out. That's within her rights.
Still, I can't help wishing that she was that big, and I'm already a fan of hers. :confused:
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2007-12-19 06:10:07
Jonno wrote:
I think it's cool that she will release the originals on her site when the magazine is out. That's within her rights.
Still, I can't help wishing that she was that big, and I'm already a fan of hers. :confused:
She's still a beautiful brawny babe. Don't waste time wishing she were bigger still - enjoy her as she is. 8) :wink:
