MetaFilter posts tagged with faces

The Crow Paradox

Artw — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:24:56 -0800

Crows can tell people apart. Can you tell crows apart?

Why We Stare, Even When We Don’t Want To

shetterly — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:49:47 -0800

Why We Stare, Even When We Don’t Want To “When a face is distorted, we have no pattern to match that,” Rosenberg said. “All primates show this [staring] at something very different, something they have not evolved to see. They need to investigate further. ‘Are they one of us or not?’ In other species, when an animal looks very different, they get rejected.” The article is about why humans stare at disfigurements, but it may say something about why we stare at anyone who seems different. Previously: Seeing race: the Other-Race Effect.

Women Are Heroes Phase Next

netbros — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:10:55 -0800

Graffiti Project in Kenya Slums — more than a year after he took the original pictures, French photo artist JR has returned to Kibera, Kenya. He was reunited with the women who had accepted to be part of his WOMEN project at the end of 2007 (previously). 2000 square meters of Kibera slum rooftops have been covered with photos of their eyes and faces. Most of the women will have their own photos on their own rooftop and the material used is water resistant so that the photo itself will protect the fragile houses in the heavy rain season. They are on view from the railway line that passes above them, and will be visible for Google Earth. (via Africa.Visual_Media)

More Ways The Internet Makes You Insecure

The Whelk — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:15:34 -0800

How Old Are You? Guess people's ages based on submitted photos. (via)

I want a girl just like the girl who married dear old Dad

twoleftfeet — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:13:40 -0800

Some people look like celebrities. Some people look like their pets. Some people look like monkeys or Kenny Rogers or old lesbians or video game characters. But I just want someone who looks like my parent so eventually we can look more like each other. (Obviously previous stuff: here and here and here. Familiarity breeds similarity!)

I've Just Seen a Face Search Interface

Knappster — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:56:40 -0800

facesaerch uses Google Image Search's &imgtype=face parameter to ~~saerch~~ search for faces. via

head hacks

madamjujujive — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:42:37 -0800

Russell Higgs has been adorning his face and head with various objects and posting photographic portraits online since July 2006. Dutch artist Levi van Veluw also likes to modify his face by putting things on it and photographing the results.

Here's Looking at You

Orb — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:34:14 -0800

Faces in Places : A photographic collection of faces found in everyday places. You can see more at the Faces in Places group photo pool at Flickr.

Faces in the crowd

essexjan — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:11:18 -0800

A Thousand Faces Photographer Hal Satterthwaite photographed a thousand people in Walthamstow, which is in north-east London. It's a multi-racial, multi-cultural area, and the photographs reflect this beautifully. Related article from The Times.

I had intended to link to various pictures, but for me the delight was finding the faces I liked best by browsing the site. I even found a friend in there.

Yeah, I don't know either.

Afroblanco — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:20:20 -0800

Who took these photos of young girls with letters written on their foreheads, and why? via

Projecting human attributes.

nickyskye — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:31:25 -0800

The Face of Things . Anthropomorphizing everyday objects can be big business.

Mr Angry & Mrs Calm

smackfu — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:48:16 -0800

Mr Angry & Mrs Calm. This illusion will BLOW YOUR MIND.

Favela Faces

plep — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 05:17:31 -0800

Favela Faces. The stories of four people in Rio's favelas.

St. Andrew's Face Morpher

23skidoo — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:32:49 -0800

St. Andrew's Face Morpher lets you upload a photo, and then morphs that photo so the person looks more caucasian, or afro-caribean, or older, or younger. Or drunk. Or like the person is 1/2 monkey. (Many more options available.)

Beautiful agony

hjarten — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:54:49 -0800

"Facettes de la petit mort" Yes, it's erotic but it doesn't feel like porn. Or does it? (NSFW)

Friday roffles & syrup

naxosaxur — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:56:30 -0800

Daily Jolt's Fantabulous Foolishest Face Fest Finalists and Winners: Heh. Roffle. Lol. Rofl. Kek. No Ma'am.

Shake it 'till you make it.

o2b — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:48:05 -0800

Shakeskin.com — An international gallery of faces in motion.

FaceFitter

Gyan — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:51:09 -0800

Ultimate Flash Face.

FreakyFace

srboisvert — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 09:33:46 -0800

The Thatcher Illusion (using Madonna) , the original, Bush

morphases

crunchland — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 20:43:29 -0800

morphases [note: flash]

Wacky. Face. Flash. Another. Thingy.

Stan Chin — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:25:33 -0800

Another Wacky Face Generator Flash Thingy Look! It's wacky! It has Hitler, and George W. Bush! And you can make their faces wackier! Wheee.

Character Heads

misteraitch — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 06:15:22 -0800

Character Heads (Die Charakterköpfe, the first link is in German) - the remarkable late work of eccentric/mad 18th century Austrian sculptor Franz Xavier Messerschmidt.

madamjujujive — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 05:33:21 -0800

Manimals - discover the strange and unsettling world of photographer-digital artist Daniel Lee and his darwinian art.

vraxoin — Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:04:12 -0800

Ever wonder about your NPR correspondents? If you're like me, you've been listening to NPR every time you get in the car lately. Over time, it's only natural to wonder what Nina Totenberg and Snigdha Prakash actually look like. Oh, Mara Liasson, will you be mine?

acridrabbit — Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:15:11 -0800

fun with faces. using applets, ken perlin built an interactive facial-expression thingy. i found this site because ken is responsible for the cute lil heart animation at google. there are quite a few interesting thingamabobs to check out at his site.