{"id":17966,"date":"2013-01-25T09:16:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T17:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=8467"},"modified":"2013-01-25T09:16:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T17:16:43","slug":"a-ted-talk-on-the-power-of-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/25\/a-ted-talk-on-the-power-of-image\/","title":{"rendered":"A TED talk on the power of image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At some point I lost track of (and most interest in) all the hand-wringing articles about Photoshop &#038; body image. Even so, I found this talk by model <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CameronCRussell\">Cameron Russell<\/a> interesting. She&#8217;s unusually sharp (her mom <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robin_Chase\">founded ZipCar<\/a>, it turns out) and compares images of her with the real person.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KM4Xe6Dlp0Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nHer points about models&#8217; insecurities remind me of life in Silicon Valley: the more fortunate one is, the more one feels compelled to do &#038; achieve even more (and the worse for not doing it). When I&#8217;m touring a potential kindergarten I think, &#8220;What kickass disruptive badassery am I missing out on?&#8221; I never think &#8220;I was 26 and living in Palo Alto and working on Photoshop&#8221;; it&#8217;s all &#8220;Facebook was taking shape down the street; what kind of loser misses out on that?&#8221; Talk about kindergarten&#8230; [<a href=\"http:\/\/viewsource.tv\/2013\/01\/24\/oh-look-a-model-on-ted\/\">Via<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point I lost track of (and most interest in) all the hand-wringing articles about Photoshop &#038; body image. Even so, I found this talk by model Cameron Russell interesting. She&#8217;s unusually sharp (her mom founded ZipCar, it turns out) and compares images of her with the real person. Her points about models&#8217; insecurities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}