I found the work done by the sitters to duplicate their previous expressions and attitudes, and their apparent success, disconcerting and troubling.
I found it disconcerting, but not troubling.
Nostalgia takes a trip through the uncanny valley. I like it very much.
I found the work done by the sitters to duplicate their previous expressions and attitudes, and their apparent success
I was impressed. I don't think I could do it nearly so well, although maybe I am underestimating how easily one's face can return to old expressions.
fascinated by how people's faces age
Oh man, me too. Out of this series, I was most struck by Lucia.
I saw a Tumblr or something a month or so ago of a non-professional version of this concept (people sent their own in). Of course I can't find it now.
Most striking: Dolores (I presume), of Flo, Maria, & Dolores.
maybe I am underestimating how easily one's face can return to old expressions
I would guess so. Judging by my parents' photo albums, my characteristic expressions were firmly established by age four.
maybe I am underestimating how easily one's face can return to old expressions
Or how many outtakes there were for each shot.
(Posted in the other thread first because I'm dumb.)
Related, maybe: my mom has a couple of weird photos of my dad and me together, sitting on a car, dancing (separately but in the same frame) at a wedding. We make eerily similar gestures.
I have nothing to add substantially, but I totally loved this. Really amazing to see - I shall be passing it along wide and far!
I saw a Tumblr or something a month or so ago of a non-professional version of this concept (people sent their own in). Of course I can't find it now.
The basic concept occurs in this TED talk that Ezra linked to a while back -- "youngmenowme".
I have never seen a TED talk. I do, however, own a television.
If only we all had TED-o-visions.
Well, I mean, I just think we'd be smarter. Those eggheads! With the graphics!
TED talks are like xkcd comics: every so often there's a really good one, but mostly people link to them even though they turn out to be insipid and disappointing.
15 not to 11, which I haven't clicked. Sorry.
Some of the people in these pictures seem to barely age between shots, though there's > two decades between them.... Awesome or annoying, depending on your view.
In a not very interesting coincidence, my mother has been digitising childhood photo slides from the seventies. For what were supposed to be two strict reformed people from the bible belt part of the Netherlands, my parents looked remarkably like hippies.
Less "dreamy and lovely", more creepy as fuck.
I was skeptical, but the link is pretty interesting.
I like that Cecile's boots fit her at last. Must be a relief.
But the takeaway for me is that adults can't reproduce the expressions of young children however hard they try. I assume it's about the teeth.
Ok, this is complicated and just a little mystical but I am going to try:
Movies are just a subset of what I am talking about.
1) As a cineaste, I feel a need to see Bob Mitchum under or inside the roles he plays, in order to judge the acting. There is also a little understanding of method acting. This is a matter of seeing through the face/mask somehow to the person underneath.
2) There is some things shared by the Mitchum of 1947 and the Mitchum of 1975, and also changes. Changes not just exterior, but also interior, and the interior changes are far more interesting and important to me. Or if the interior changes are minimal, that also would be interesting.
3) Faces are masks, eyes are the windows to the soul. We are really not that great as actors or liars, but we are good enough that smiling faces can fool sometimes. There is a sense in which I try not to see faces.
4) You want uncanny? Think of a 60-yr-old in their 20-yr-old body and face. Could you see the 60-yr-old? Would the years disappear? God I hope not.
15 not to 11, which I haven't clicked. Sorry.
That particular one is both entertaining and interesting.
The thing that stuck me is how willing he is to take genuine risks and, at the same time, how much he responds to genuine emotions respectfully.
I was impressed.
I inadvertently shot one of these when I visited my aunt's commune a few years ago.