more beautiful than you think

This first video has been making the interweb rounds,
and there is something to be said for the intense reaction to it.
And the second video says so much
about our sad culture of product placement at the expense of feeling like a human being.

How skewed is our own perception of ourselves, when we supposedly know ourselves the best?
And better yet, why?!

"Dove employed Gil Zamora, a FBI-trained forensic sketch artist, to help with an interesting experiment about self-perception. Zamora first sketched a series of women as they described themselves (they were hidden from his view) and then he sketched portraits of the same women based on descriptions by people who had met them. The difference between the two drawings, self-described vs. peer-described, were striking."




via {kottke}