GGO Birthday - SALMA HAYEK

I CANNOT BELIEVE that the ravishing Salma Hayek, with breasts that were meant to feed the world, is turning 48 today!
     I'll never forget the day I first laid eyes on them– um, I mean HER in 1995's Desperado. She took my breath away and she still does so today. I mean, look at her in the picture to the left. That was taken THIS YEAR at the Grown Ups 2 premiere. Hubba hubba!
     We haven't seen her breasts out in awhile. I think it's safe to assume that they are likely to be as well-preserved as the rest of her. Let's hope her girls make a return to the silver screen some time in the future. Heck, I think I'd still be interested in seeing them in 20 more years from now!
     For those of you who missed out on her handful of nude scenes, here's a screenshot of her nude scene in Frida (2002), doctored to restore Salma's beautiful eyebrows.

WTBT: Will This Become That? #4

I THOUGHT THAT it was about time for another edition of WTBT. It seems like every girl, left and right, is looking to get inked these days. Personally, I've always been a purist. Why mess with something so perfect as the female body?
     Some women seem to get addicted to getting tatts. The older they get, the more inked they get... the more those old tatts get stretched out of shape.
     Will this fine specimen of female beauty pictured here someday become as tattoed as this much older lady? If you ask me, she should stop while she's ahead but hey, to each her own.

AGING PINTERESTINGLY

PINTEREST HAS SWELLED UP with several boards that share images of women aging gracefully. They are wonderful tributes in gallery form to the beauty of women at any mature age. Here is a list of a few of them:

Women Growing Old Gracefully…
Aged to Perfection
Aged to Perfection 1
Aging with Style
E V E R B E A U T I F U L
Ageless Grace, Beauty & Style
Beauty in Gray, White or Silver
Gorgeous Grey

GENETICALLY MODIFIED PEOPLE

I LOVE TO SEE side-by-side, inter-generational comparisons of women in the same family. It's rare to find any of great quality but artist/ photographer Ulric Collette has created quite a few in a series of his called Portraits Génétiques.
     My favorite one is pictured here. It's a 61 year old grandmother and her 12 year old granddaughter. It's so effective because they share so many facial similarities, i.e. face shape, eyes, nose, etc... Because of their similarities, it looks as if it's the same woman with half her face aged or rejuvenated by almost 50 years.
     I encourage you all to take a look at the rest of his work. Surely, you will find something else that you like. He also makes side-by-side comparisons between sisters, brothers, twin siblings, parents and their offspring whether they be male or female. It's a pretty cool project. You can see the rest at http://genetic.ulriccollette.com/.
     You should also take a look at this video posted on Vimeo that features my other favorite pairings:

ART GONE OLD - THE THREE AGES OF WOMAN (1905) by GUSTAV KLIMT

I AM FOND OF ART. I am fond of women. I'm also fond of exploring the effects that time has on us as human beings. Take all three of these things that I have a fondness for and toss 'em in a blender on "HI," and I am in Heaven. That is exactly where artist Gustav Klimt places me whenever I look upon what I consider to be one of his greatest masterpieces, The Three Ages of Woman (1905).
     It depicts a female child in the embrace of a beautiful, young adult woman in her prime and beside them stands a withered,  old crone with bowed head being held in one hand (perhaps lamenting over her lost youth). A little tragic, yes, but the beauty in this image is undeniable. It is as beautiful symbolically as it is aesthetically.
    I have yet to set my eyes on another work of art that has been able satisfy my thirst for female age progression. It's completely brilliant.

JUST A NOTE: The old crone in this painting was in fact inspired by one of Auguste Rodin's famous sculptures, The Old Courtesan. More on that later.

PRETTY GIRL TO PRETTY OLD GRANNY

AGE PROGRESSED images of attractive young women are few and far between on the web. Also, there are fewer still that are well crafted. Every once in awhile, I'll stumble upon one in my daily perusal of the web. Here's one that really impressed me. I added what I estimated her age to be in each frame.

     I wish I could tell you who the artist is that created these fantastic age progressions but the website that  I sourced them from credited them to AgingWithBeauty which, unfortunately, is a dead link.

    Whoever did these, kudos!

BACK TO THE NOW: Lea Thompson Living Through Her BTTF Age

IN A RECENT INTERVIEW with HuffPost Live, actress Lea Thompson addressed the fact that she is now the same age as her role in Back to the Future 2. " By the way, she happens to be turning 53 tomorrow!

     Here's the link: "Lea Thompson: I've Finally Aged Into My 'Back to the Future' Character".

     It's pretty cool to see how her face has aged in comparison to what the makeup artists envisioned for the movie. Click on the image to get a closer look at the numerous wrinkles on her face.

     Too bad that we have to wait another 25 years to see how Grandma Lorraine compares to Grandma Lea.

GGO Birthday - ALYSON HANNIGAN

THE CAST OF BUFFY is getting up there in age... Happy birthday to Alyson Hannigan who turns a ripe 40 today. Can you believe that? I know I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around the concept that Willow is now middle-aged.
     A great big thank you to YD for doing me a solid and aging Alyson in Photoshop and giving us a preview of what she may look like in another 15 to 20 years from now.