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[gdl203]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

Is it because Foofy went all-GDL on that jacket, and re-rolled it into a 3 to 2?
Yes - 3-roll-2 > 3-roll-1

 

[TheFoo]

Originally Posted by GQDerek

Yeah, I look kind of fat in the old pic. It's missing something though, put the chain back in and maybe I'd roll like that.

I'm glad it was helpful. I would have added a tie, but I figured that you would resist that too much. Also, I was lazy.

The main thing is that everything you're trying to do to distinguish yourself makes you look sloppy. Nobody looks good in a sloppy suit; the format is the complete antithesis of sloppy. Unfortunately, sloppy visually and mentally implies 'fat', too.

 

[lasbar]

That was here on style forum that Mafoofanism was born...
Maf, you're the new sartorial Confucius.

 

[embowafa]

Originally Posted by GQDerek

Yeah, I look kind of fat in the old pic. It's missing something though, put the chain back in and maybe I'd roll like that.

 

[Dakota rube]

Originally Posted by GQDerek

Yeah, I look kind of fat in the old pic. It's missing something though, put the chain back in and maybe I'd roll like that.

Clearly we're dealing with someone who rides the short bus...

 

[Holdfast]

Originally Posted by mafoofan

I always adjust brightness and contrast, correct for lens distortion, and crop. Sometimes, if adjusting the brightness or contrast washes out part of a picture, I copy and past from the untouched version to keep the detail intact--usually this applies to the sky, which turns from blue and cloudy to blank white.

I regularly remove the Wii from underneath the sofa.

I don't correct clothes, unless something is really distractingly wrong that isn't in similar pictures. I usually take 10-20 shots of the same outfit, in the same pose. So if there's an errant pocket square falling into my pocket in one picture, which is otherwise the best of the lot, I might replace it with the pocket square from another picture in the same series....

Other people are saying you should be in the creative arts, based on your excellent photoshopping skills. Personally, I'd think the above description is precisely why you're probably a very good lawyer too. The degree of neurotic focus on detail this demonstrates must surely be mandatory to be able to cope with the pedantic nature of the work.

I must admit I'm the complete opposite; I take generally take 3 photos for WAYWN and those are the 3 I use (after a quick crop and rough & ready brightness/contrast adjustment). I hate dealing with details; even at work, I generally delegate that stuff and get on with the bigger picture. It's interesting seeing that translate, not just to WAYWN pic technique, but I'm sure it must also have an effect on our dress choices.

I'm curious - do you think your efforts to strip down a wardrobe to certain very consistent repeat motifs (blue shirts, same shoes, striped ties, tweedy jackets, etc, etc) reflects a desire to narrow the range because of your intense focus on details of each item and the corresponding potential to be overwhelmed by an excessive range of choices?

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by Holdfast

I'm curious - do you think your efforts to strip down a wardrobe to certain very consistent repeat motifs (blue shirts, same shoes, striped ties, tweedy jackets, etc, etc) reflects a desire to narrow the range because of your intense focus on details of each item and the corresponding potential to be overwhelmed by an excessive range of choices?

Are you thinking...

...or

- B

 

[Holdfast]

Oh no... I don't think it would be wise to shrink him even further.

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by Holdfast

Oh no... I don't think it would be wise to shrink him even further.

What would you prescribe to a person who had a consuming attention to details but also an voracious appetite for variety?

Internet therapy doesn't seem to work.


- B

 

[TheFoo]

Originally Posted by Holdfast

I'm curious - do you think your efforts to strip down a wardrobe to certain very consistent repeat motifs (blue shirts, same shoes, striped ties, tweedy jackets, etc, etc) reflects a desire to narrow the range because of your intense focus on details of each item and the corresponding potential to be overwhelmed by an excessive range of choices?

I don't think I've ever put it ever quite like this, but I think you've hit on something. I pick what to buy through a process of elimination: if something has a detail I don't like, I cross it off my list. So I don't pick what I like the most; I pick what I dislike the least. It's not good enough for a thing to have many attributes that appeal to me; it has to have close to zero attributes that bother me.

That means I get bored or frustrated picking out new things and decide to stick with what I already have 99% of the time. But no, I don't spend hours and hours studying my pocket squares or intellectualizing color and pattern matching. It's just that I hate a lot more than I love, so I wind up with very little to play with at the end of the day.

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by mafoofan

I don't think I've ever put it ever quite like this, but I think you've hit on something. I pick what to buy through a process of elimination: if something has a detail I don't like, I cross it off my list. So I don't pick what I like the most; I pick what I dislike the least. It's not good enough for a thing to have many attributes that appeal to me; it has to have close to zero attributes that bother me.

Hmm...fascinating. Made me think, a rarity.


- B

 

[Winot]

Originally Posted by Holdfast

Oh no... I don't think it would be wise to shrink him even further.

I'm just wondering what's wrong with his caseload and/or marriage that he has the time to do this.

 

[TheFoo]

Originally Posted by Winot

I'm just wondering what's wrong with his caseload and/or marriage that he has the time to do this.

Not much lawyering to do these days.

 

[gdl203]

Originally Posted by mafoofan

Not much lawyering to do these days.

I take it your firm doesn't have a bankruptcy practice?

 

[Winot]

Originally Posted by mafoofan

Not much lawyering to do these days.

Well I'm glad it's not the marriage.