There’s one Geddes that I like, and I have to smile every time I look at it. No costume involved, just a nekkid baby, surrounded by pink roses, legs crossed, huge grin.
I don’t mind Geddes. It’s P. Buckley Moss’s “art” that I don’t understand.
Who the hell is Goldsboro, or whoever?
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Can babies be “overweight”? They eat when they are hungry, until they are satisfied. Exercise is out, because, you know, they don’t really walk or stand up until near the end of the first years.
I am a little creeped out by the notion that babies can be “overweight”. I think most babies are just the weight they’re supposed to be for the first 8 months of life, at least. It disturbs me that a parent would worry about their teeny tiny baby being “overweight”.
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Oh dear god, why didn’t my preview show me that ridiculous plural?
First year, not first years.
Am I blind?
::walks away grumbling::
The babies as peas made me almost physically ill, for just that reason.
Some of them look like little midget Michelin Men. Blech.
And hey, guys, I have a question - which is worse: Her pictures, or the ones in the big coffee-table books of “Baby Butts”?
Thanks Anthracite, my head just exploded.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck…
He wrote the song Honey.
Yes, they can. Gestational diabetes often causes overweight babies, and there are endocrinological problems that can cause a baby to gain weight too fast after birth.
Worst Place for an Anne Geddes print? My dentist has them on the celing over the dentist’s chairs in his ofice! Sit there looking up at one of those damn photos while someone works inside my mouth with sharp instuments? ARRGH!
You know, even John Belushi was kinda cute and cuddly dressed up as a kiler bee.
buzz buzz buzz
And, I think, “Watching Scotty Grow”. Late Sixties, early Seventies. Really REALLY sappy crap!
A real sadist, hmmm?
Well, I would like to thank you all VERY FRIGGING MUCH.
I had personally never heard of Anne Geddes until today, and I wish things hadn't changed. I browsed her site looking for the fabled ["pea"](http://www.annegeddes.com/indexpages.cfm?P=G&U=calendar_gallery_05.cfm) and ["pumpkin"](http://www.annegeddes.com/indexpages.cfm?P=G&U=calendar_gallery_05.cfm) photos.(Check 1992 & 1996 for all of the other uninitiated)
Disturbing.
I can't believe anyone would find these pictures "cute", let alone have their child be IN one of them.
~It was good living with you… -Better Than Ezra
This is just what I wanted to see: Babies hung by meat hooks?
And don’t tell me this ain’t creepy. The baby looks scared.
This one reminds me of some kind of pagan ritual sacrifice type thing
May I be the first to say WTF??!@?!
Now come on… kitschy… sappy… cutesy as they are… can you honestly say that you find the baby in the bee costume disturbing compared to THAT shit?
Ok apparently you can’t link directly to pictures on her site… so just rest assured that they’re all pretty fucked up.
Umm, yeah. What you guys said…
(hurriedly stuffs AG calendar in desk drawer behind the Reeses Cups)
…right next to her “I (heart) Steve the Dell guy” tee shirt…
[sub]Someone please tell me I’m not a weirdo…[/sub]
I work with children and for some reason the toddlers on up love to look at these pictures. I don’t think it’s a ‘can’t look away from a disgusting thing’ fascination but more like a novel juxtaposition that there little brains eat up and want to experience over and over again.
There is a black & white picture of hers that shows a man’s hands holding a premie which I find visually interesting but I can do without the baby/flower/vegetable/fruit stuff.