The Obsessions & Collections Photography Experience™ - Day Three

[jackshoegazer]

Myself

As you may have noticed, I'm a bit obsessed with self-portraits.  I have been accused of vanity, which is not it at all.  Vanity is excessive pride in one's appearance, qualities, abilities, achievements, etc.  I do not take pride in that sense in my appearance.  In fact, I grew up as "the ugly kid" that no one liked.  In my adult life, I have come to realize that I am in fact not always "the ugly kid" but that I can be handsome at times.  This is most evidenced in my HotorNot scores, which when I post a "good" picture, I score eight to nine, and when I post "bad" pictures, I get fours to fives.  Thus, I am concerned about my appearance because I know that a) it really is the first thing people judge you by and b) I am the type of person who has a very thin line between being a 4 and a 9.  Couple this with the fact that there were very few pictures taken of my when I was young and most of the ones that were taken were destroyed when my biological mother's apartment burned down.  This lack of proof of my existence, coupled with a perpetual self-awareness of my appearance, leads me to document myself regularly in photographic form.  And I got a new haircut today.

Comments

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Exactly and thanks!

[katachthonios.livejournal.com]

I want to helm a reality makeover show that doesn't actually make over the people, but instills enough self-confidence that they feel happy just the way they are.

I'm debating the close-of-episode sequence of beating male and female models with baseball bats.