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pidunk 07:48 pm UTC 04/23/07 |
| In reply to: | re: I'm in a "reviewy" mood. - daveake 06:48 pm UTC 04/23/07 |
> > Having a part-time job isn't outrageous. Suggesting that > Jim could actually manage to keep a job that involved > regular hours is stretching things just a tad. However > the real killer is that you have the nerve to suggest that > this is Jim Steinman the DJ: > > > border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at > Photobucket"> > You placed the image into your photobucket collection, so it really is a significant one to you. I would have assumed you would have linked either to the radio station's image, which is unfortunately blocked from the mouse-click copy for its own link, but can be viewed with the profile page as its whole Here. The photo is a hoot, and really took me aback when I first saw it, and that was actually after I already had known the voice of the DJ which spurred me to have a look. Of course, I don't see any pictures when I listen to the radio. But, until and unless someone decides to throw a good substitute in for him, which so far thankfully they have not, the voice which I experience week after week, month after month, year after year until now and from June 28, 2000 (at another air slot altogether, leaving me to search the station shifts for his own). It is not so static an experience, because his personality comes through clearer than his image. The photo at first seemed to me like it would be that of someone else, and indeed the radio station for awhile was putting pictures of cartoon characters in place of DJ faces on their staff directory pages, and one at least carried the image of one of the Al Qaeda terrorists in a parody, so I didn't have the concern too much, thinking that the real photo would come when the others are put up. But as time passed and the others' real photos were put up, this one stayed. Hmm, I wondered. Why is that? I wanted to look where I sought to find his photo, and see his photo. But instead there was this. Why, I wondered, was this black dude putting his face on "my Jimmy's" DJ slot? When I started to see what he did with other faces, other characters, I discovered, oh dear oh my, that he has theatrical makeup abilities and made himself look like this. I then studied the photo to prove it out to myself. I went down the list of plausibles. Hair, skin color...those were the easiest...wig, skin makeup...but the nose was hardest to figure on. How is the nose the way it is? I followed the lines in a magnification and found indications where putty leaves off and nose actually exists....the answer, face putty. It is only a photo. I never actually walked up to a guy who looked like this and said, "Jimmy!" If I did, he'd look at me funny. There are others who have experimented with black-white substitutions on their facial appearances. The FX reality series Black/White, is one example of two whole families trading skin color places. And in "Touched By An Angel", the actress Roma Downey took the black skin makeup, the african-american style hair wig, but didn't go the nose route of fill-in, to play a black version of her character, "Monica" in the 524th episode of that series, called "Black Like Monica". Anyone who wants to make a movie and be a white guy playing a black guy can do this. It is not any kind of a big deal, but it did have my own head spinning for a little while. It is not far fetched, at all. > Dave | |
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