Comments | keyef: Say cheese, alright

keyef

Say cheese, alright

Sep 27, 2005 11:53

I don't know about you but for my high school yearbook photo I wore a robe that they stuck on me and held a rolled up piece of paper that was supposed to look like a diploma.

( This article proves, yet again, that there are always people who take things too far )

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raspberrysalmon September 27 2005, 16:07:09 UTC

apart from the fact that i find the whole story highly disturbing, what really cracked me up was the "spray bottle of fake sweat".
...it's called water, guys.

Mmmm. Salty. keyef September 27 2005, 16:09:18 UTC

How do you know that they didn't go to a gym and bottle the sweat of people who were really working out?

Re: Mmmm. Salty. raspberrysalmon September 27 2005, 16:16:07 UTC

aah, but then it wouldn't be fake sweat...!

Re: Mmmm. Salty. keyef September 27 2005, 16:24:49 UTC

It would be fake for the person.. wearing.. it ;P

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ashre79 September 27 2005, 16:10:59 UTC

Don't these people understand that whatever they shoot will look tacky and uncool in 20 years?

keyef September 27 2005, 16:12:51 UTC

Apparently they don't. Some people don't seem to realize that no matter how cool and trendy something is now, there will come a point when they will look back and think how the hell could I have worn that/gone out in public like that/done that/thought that was a good idea??

ashre79 September 27 2005, 16:15:57 UTC

And that's the whole point of the yearbook! You can show your kids just how dorky you were.

keyef September 27 2005, 16:32:42 UTC

And how dorky everyone else was!
But of course this type of photo might actually give *more* ammunition to make fun of other people.

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jdc2see September 27 2005, 16:39:15 UTC

While vacationing in La Jolla, I walked down to Windansea beach to watch a friend surf. More intriguing than the surfers were the people getting personal photo shoots on the rocks overlooking the ocean. A mother sat next to me while her daughter was getting photographed. I asked her what the photos were for, and she explained that they were high school photos. The school allowed students to submit portraits in addition to the traditional-style image ( ... )

keyef September 28 2005, 02:42:04 UTC

Okay, fine.. so you want to have pretty pictures taken of your kids. I have no problem with that. However, I do have a problem with kids posing half-naked in bikinis or whatever for their high school yearbook pictures! I'd even not have a problem if they allowed kids to bring in their own portraits instead of using the ones from the hired photographer. But come on! Spending $2000 on a high school yearbook picture that is probably never going to be looked at much once the kid moves on with his or her life? That seems excessive to me.
Come on man, it's high school! Yearbook!

< /rant >

jdc2see September 28 2005, 03:36:28 UTC

Actually, I'm with you on the rant. I think $2000 is excessive. The photo-shoot examples mentioned in the article are disturbing. I agree with you.

The reason I commented on your post was because it evoked a strong memory. I wanted to capture my thoughts in writing, and I used your journal because it was the impetus for the memory.

I've been guilty of doing this in other people's journals. I will read something in somebody's journal that resonates with a personal experience, and then I will write a comment that is not congruous to the post's intended framing and response.

And I should just stop typing starting right now

keyef September 28 2005, 03:38:37 UTC

No, please! Don't stop doing that. I liked reading what you wrote, but in the context of the post it seemed to me like you were justifying it somehow. Feel free to comment with anything that comes to mind, just maybe tell me that it is off topic so that I don't project the feeling from the post onto the comment.

eclips1st September 27 2005, 16:47:22 UTC

""Now, times have changed. Everybody is so much more confident with themselves and their bodies. They feel much more free to express themselves." The $700 cost, she said, was "real worth it.""

How does it show confidence if you feel the need to get fake pictures made of yourself?????

keyef September 28 2005, 02:53:45 UTC

Seriously! I mean, I understand wanting a photo to express something about who you are, but a high school yearbook photo should not cost that much. Nor should it involve any state of undress! Maybe I'm just becoming old fashioned and conservative in my old age ;)

Oh, and did you like the use of the word "real" in that sentence? It made my vaguely nauseous.

eclips1st September 28 2005, 03:36:44 UTC

In my HS yearbook, all graduates got a page to themselves. We could choose pictures to put on it and everything. In every corner though was the official graduate picture. Sure I looked bad on mine because I was sick and my doctor druged me up good to be functional, but we had the rest of the page to put whatever we wanted, and trust me I did. Sure, today I look at it and feel like a dork, but I guess that's the point, lol

At least I know it was really me!
So many ways to express yourself (or pretend you are someone else)

keyef September 28 2005, 03:42:28 UTC

Was your high school graduating class small? It would have been a giant yearbook if we had each had our own page and it was a graduating class of only 125, or so. I like the idea of giving the students a place to express themselves, though. We only had a small square of text to fill and man, did I fit as many inside jokes in there as I possibly could. Part of my wishes that I had written something more timeless.. something that I can show my kids and they will understand, but at the time, my friends were the centre of everything and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

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