Comments on: "My name is Mona Lisa"

"My name is Mona Lisa"

nickyskye — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:00:00 -0800

Mona Lisa's voice finally heard. Even if you can't read Japanese, you can still click the buttons underneath each portrait to get playback. Works with Internet Explorer. Suzuki — a co-winner of the Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for promoting harmony between species by inventing the Bow-Lingual, a dog-to-human interpretation device — undertook the project as part of activities promoting the Japan release of the movie "The Da Vinci Code."

By: Mikey-San

Mikey-San — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:14:03 -0800

Why isn't "bullshit" listed in the tags box?

By: HTuttle

HTuttle — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:15:12 -0800

"Does this painting make my ass look fat?"

By: Mikey-San

Mikey-San — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:21:12 -0800

"No, I made your ass look fat. Because you have a fat ass." — Leo DaVinci

By: PareidoliaticBoy

PareidoliaticBoy — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:24:28 -0800

As if.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:30:36 -0800

"well, leo, my ass is only fat because i'm having nat king cole's baby"

By: wendell

wendell — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:34:59 -0800

Bravo, p t, on the well-timed Nat King Cole reference. marked as favorite

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 22:13:19 -0800

"yes. yes i smile to tempt a lover."

By: parki

parki — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 04:56:40 -0800

What if she had a gravelly smoking voice? Bear in mind, I haven't read the article.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 07:27:14 -0800

Actually it's quite cool how the Japanese scientist created her voice. The video, which goes on for about 15 minutes after the voices are heard details -in Japanese- how he approximated them. Mona Lisa's is warmly womanly and Leonardo's has a kind of sage resonance.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 08:05:40 -0800

Mona Lisa's is warmly womanly and Leonardo's has a kind of sage resonance. What ever would we do without computers?

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 08:14:41 -0800

pull my finger.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:52:31 -0800

Oh quonsar, you naughty taughty. StickyCarpet, Before that article and video I'd never heard of forensic accoustics. It seemed an interesting field and I liked that the scientist made this inter-species communication device, the Bow-Lingual. (Don't go there quonsar, just don't).

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 10:24:45 -0800

nickyskye: Just wondering what measurable physical dimensions in the paintings correspond to sagacity and warmth.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:22:32 -0800

StickyCarpet, The sounds of their voices conveyed warmth and sagacity to me. The forensic scientist based his approximations of Mona Lisa's voice by "measuring her face and hands and modeling her skull".

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 18:47:50 -0800

(Don't go there quonsar, just don't). been there, done that.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 19:47:59 -0800

Well, this is Mona Lisa AND dog communication, lol.