Elyse Sewell

I'm mostly just sharing this link because of the breathtaking photograph it contains, but to contextualize a bit, Elyse Sewell was the 3rd place finisher (she was ROBBED) in the first cycle of America's Next Top Model. She blogs fairly prolifically on her lucrative modeling travails in Asia at her blog, elysesewell.livejournal.com, and definitely provides a nice complication to the model-as-cipher hypothesis I put forward in my presentation. (To be fair, I was speaking more of the portrayal of modeling on television, but this post isn't about me.) Her blogs are witty, irreverent, and profoundly intelligent, and they provide a fleeting, clear glimpse into a world based almost entirely on telling us that illusion is reality.

Which is a verbose way of saying, click the title of this post. You've got to see this shot. It's totally my new computer wallpaper.