Just a bit of venting on a Sunday morning - although it bugs me every morning...
I'm a big dude, although not freakishly so. I'm 6'2" and weigh about 220. It's a good size, and I like it. What I don't like is the way my shirts blouse up at my pants waist.
See, I have to wear extra large shirts. This is due largely (pun intended) to my chest and shoulders, as well as my arm length. But the shirts I have found tend to drop straight down from under my arm to my waist, as well as having that weird pleat thing just behind the yoke - you know the one, that travels down the spine about 2" wide... All this extra material ends up blousing up right at my waist. And, while I don't have the trimmest of waists, I don't need extra baggy shirts making it look bigger, either.
I found some shirts once that were "sport fit" shirts that didn't do this. They were ok. They were also very difficult to find.
So what I do is pull the excess away from the front and try to tuck it in around the back. It makes my gut look better, but unless I'm wearing a jacket it makes the back REALLY baggy. Sigh.
First world grips, I know.
I'm not sure we appreciate photography as much as we do other art forms. Part of this comes from the reality that surrounds and permeates a photograph - it's very, very real, and the photographer strives for clarity and crispness in the representations. Perhaps this is why black and white images continue to be relevant - they strip away extraneous information (color) and leave us with something that is at once familiar and also non-existent - for nothing exists in black and white. Nothing. I also think that pictures are becoming too common-place... Everyone has a camera in their pocket, and while that's a very democratic thing (everyone can express themselves in a picture easily and readily, and can find an audience for these images, which are casually taken and casually viewed, and perhaps just as casually forgotten) I think that we embrace that casual attitude, and it spills over to all aspects of the media, making it impotent. So I read this article this morning: h...
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