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Skriven 2006-12-22 21:51:46 av Amy Guskin (12884.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: OT: I am "Time" Magazine's "Person of the Year" 
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>> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:14:58 -0500, Rob Perkins wrote
(in article <4v306hF1aif1sU1@mid.individual.net>):

> Amy Guskin wrote:
> 
>> 
>> But...the Ali Larter-alike isn't on the Top Ten page.  Joe, do I take this 
>> to 
>> mean that you've been going through _all_ the entries and ranking them?  ;-)
> 
> The top ten don't look like they're following the rules of the contest 
> at all... Instead they appear to be professional model wannabees putting 
> up portfolio pix, not at all following the rules...
> 
> I wonder if that means that after they're disqualified, Amy wins? <<

It's like this: the rules say that the votes are only _part_ of how they'll 
choose winners, which means that they will most likely disqualify those who 
didn't follow the guidelines for submission.  Obviously, they are looking for 
pictures of people with funny, 80s (or earlier) hairstyles; how will it help 
in a before-and-after ad to have girls whose two images look _exactly_ (or 
nearly exactly) the same?

My husband's theory is that someone at a modeling school found out about the 
contest and passed around the submission URL, and that no one there has 
bothered to read the guidelines.  Among other things, the photos are supposed 
to feature the hair and head; they are supposed to show a dated hairstyle and 
"your beautiful, current style," and you have to be provably you.  We have 
people there who have two pictures from the same session (same clothes, 
hairstyles), people who used baby pictures for their "befores," people who 
are _hiding_ their hair (either with headgear or by _cutting their heads off_ 
at the top of the picture), several who have cheated by entering multiple 
times (with different 'before' shots each time), people who seem to be 
featuring their breasts/crotch/a motorcycle, some who have only submitted one 
picture, many who couldn't follow the size guidelines and have thus ended up 
with a good 'before' picture and a vertically squished 'after' picture, 
people whose photos are too small or blurry to see, and at least one person 
who entered the exact same picture twice...

Disqualifying all of those, there are a handful of entries I'd really like to 
see win.  One redhead in particular has _such_ a dramatic difference in her 
shots, and she's just adorable -- and I think she's the demographic they're 
going for, too (which is people who were old enough to have a trendy 
hairstyle in the 80s).

Next time I go through all the entries (which I do about once a week), I'll 
pull out the URLs for the ones I think are really great, and who I hope to 
see win one of the five "modeling contracts" (probably it's just one print ad 
with the five winners), and I'll post 'em for anyone's who's interested in 
this hair model's opinion.  <g>

Amy
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