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Marking time; What science learned in '08; Name that New Year's artist

12:38 AM Tue, Dec 30, 2008 |
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Vogue Paris used 18-year-old Hungarian-born model Eniko Mihalik for a high-concept spread titled Age 10 to 60 - through Make-up & Photography . Gems Sty posts the photos from that November 2008 issue at the link above. (I can't find it at vogue.fr, but it was all photos and art type, no text,)

Interesting idea, skin-deep: Nothing sags or spreads, the few wrinkles are drawn on, and as she "ages" she looks increasingly bored rather than experienced. It is an idealized non-reality.

She remains 18, playing an older part. Below, she is meant to be 50, although she doesn't look much different at fake 40..


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Blogger Ronnie Bennett does a real-life version of this concept in her Time Goes By blog's header image, below, with photos of herself at different stages of life. The bonus is the overlay of how styles changed through the decades, something completely missing from the Vogue spread, which shows the model fashionably in 2008 at every age.

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Top 100 Stories of 2008 . DISCOVER Magazine offers a useful wrap -- the whole list is on one page, with a bit of explanation and links to more -- of the year's discoveries and advancements.

As always, much of this news is boggling because it mainly reports how much we don't yet know.


Name that artist: Maddeningly, neither Joe nor I can remember who created this famous New Year's art that welcomes 1889. Can you?


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