Annnnnnnnnnnd....go!
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Judging...and it's ok!
After reading over my fellow judge's criterion for the judgement of beards, I have come up with some basic ideas that I will base my critiques. As someone involved in the world of all things fashion, I tend to take a stance on the beard as an accessory of the face. By this I mean that it should compliment the wearer's head shape and facial structure. I feel that your beard inspiration could be a starting point in which you can elaborate and expand on what the original lacked. The interpretation of your muse will be taken into account when my judging will take place. Furthermore, as the WC's resident fashionista, I expect these beards to transcend a typical lumberjack's scruff to a new level: I want to see some fierce beards. Knowing this group of beard-off competitors allows me to think this is not out of the realm of possibilities. Nothing limp and boring, but fabulously manly. This can be accomplished by manscaping by any means you deem fit is acceptable. Dying, highlighting/low-lighting, and sculpting are just a few suggestions as to how you can bring your beard from bland to breathtaking.
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i hereby move that any beard-off participant caught dying his beard be immediately removed from the competition on the grounds of excessive non-manliness. i also move that said participant be banned from any future manly competitions, including (but not limited to): lumberjacking (is that a verb?), hot dog eating contests, and anything that involves pulling a small car with one's teeth.
See now, it's thinking such as this that completely kills all progressive beard thinking and manly expression. By sculpting, highlighting and putting other ideas of manliness into motion allows once creative, inspired, closeted beard-men a healthy form of expression. By enforcing the constructs of manliness we will see nothing but repeat beards that have already been done. No innovation. No story. No fierce.
hm, i see your point; however, i think that this beard-off functions more like a satirical deconstruction of masculine tropes than an attempt to branch out beard-art. i think of this project like an episode of "the colbert report" (to use a contemporary example): only by adhering to, and hyper-aggrandizing, masculine stereotypes can we really disrupt them. hence the "world's strongest MAN" reference...
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