Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, America’s Next Top Model

I love advertisements. Especially since the use of PhotoShop has become so widespread, ads and pictures in magazines have become less and less interested in reality, and more interested in the general idea of what an image is.

For instance, the ad for Cycle 11 of America’s Next Top Model featured in the September issue of Vogue doesn’t look like a picture of Tyra Banks surrounded by fashionista wannabes, so much as the idea of Tyra Banks surrounded by fashionista wannabes … as imagined by an unholy union of Pixar artists and caricature-drawing carnies after a 72-hour absinthe and ’shroom binge that featured Jesus Christ Superstar stuck on a loop in the DVD player.

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