24 August

In 1984 Max Headroom, the manufactured face personality, was satire. Now he's real, Simon Cowell's recent work just one example. The more work we have done on our faces, the more cartoonish and individually featureless they get. I think that's the point, cartoon faces appeal to lots of people because they lack individual specifics. People 'get work done' to do the same - to create a 'social face', not an individual face, a face shaped for social effect.