Ok...
Second...
One of the things I always confronted with as a person that designs stuff is that every one, the more idiot the more they display this feature, everyone thinks they know design and visuals. Everyone is a fucking expert! And once I'd present them the finished product, they would start getting ideas. It didn't matter the ideas didn't work or that they ruined the whole balance and inner chemistry of the whole thing, but it was their idea and therefore it was something extremely genial.
Everyone is an expert in politics, football and, now, design. How does this link to Richard and HIS HORRID LATEST PIC? Um well, it was either his idea (I wouldn't be surprised, since he is fully living his newly found freedom) or the photographer came with an idea and he gave his input also and this is the result, or the photographer was on crack or is simply a congenital idiot, but in the end Richard approved it. And my personal feeling is that he is actually pleased by how it came out.
First and foremost, he's an awesome looking guy, for example he has nice wide shoulders and beautifully worked out chest - why does he want to pose as an anorexic teenager? He wants to appear scrawny, vampire-like, like those in the 1700s that were drawing their own blood in order to look pale, because that's how the beauty standards were back then. Second, if you wear a white coat, don't stand in front of a white background. Third, if the said coat has a wonderful texture with arabesques, don't sit in front of a background that has brick-patterns. You either want to show the coat or the bricks. Can't both of them in the same time, because they sort of cancel each other.
Now, the hair. Someone said that he tries to part with the image he had in R+, with that spiky hair. First, everyone likes the spiky hair. Second, ok, change it, but don't arrange your hair to make you look like a dork! Really! All he needs are the thick frame glasses and a guitar to start singing like Buddy Holly.
Then, the face. His face features have certain shapes, and in the right angle they reveal his beauty. In an unfortunate angle, and with the help of Photoshop to enhance the shadows, make him look like he extracted his wisdom-teeth and few more, like Marlene Dietrich, so his cheeks fall inside his mouth. If that worked with Marlene, on him make him look ridiculous. Not to mention that with that hair, stuck to his head, as if licked by a cow, his face looks wider, his jaws, already strong and masculine, appear to be bigger, making his whole head look bigger than the rest of his body.
And the Rubik cube. WTF?? I think it would have had more philosophical significance if he held an egg, an ice cream cone or two dollars bills.
Anyway, to end this rant. Every idiot who thinks they know Photoshop thinks he/she's a fucking artist. Same goes with owning photography equipment. And with being beautiful. Richard is really awesome, but no matter how good you'd look, in that pic you look embarrassing, man.
And third...
More Maynard thighs:
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I think I'm starting to have a thing for Mohawks.
And something nice to read.