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The link shows a bunch of works from one of my 4 favorite
artists, Sebastian Kruger. In his caricature portraits, nobody
can see the inner ugliness of people and bring it to the
canvas
like he can.
It seems you could do this digitally by writing a program
that takes a person's
picture,
compares it's facial measurements to an ideal
norm,
measures it's deviations from that and then exaggerates
them. A slightly
large nose becomes enormous, a tiny one becomes almost
non existent. You get the idea. You could even adjust how
much of a freak you'd like your caricature portrait to be.
See links. God I love this guy.
The English had a TV show I used to really enjoy called
"Spittin Image". Same deal. Nobody was beautiful enough to
come off as anything other than a horrible monster at the
hands of the artists who made the puppets for this show.
Might be a cool thing to have incorporated into a photo
booth at public
events.
Rocky Balboa
http://obviousmag.o...-kruger_stalone.jpg
[doctorremulac3, Feb 19 2014]
Steven Tyler
http://pulpfactor.c...ebastian-Kruger.jpg
[doctorremulac3, Feb 19 2014]
Jack
http://1.bp.blogspo..._Caricatures_29.jpg
[doctorremulac3, Feb 19 2014]
That guy on TV, what's-es-name
http://img.izismile...icatures_640_13.jpg
[doctorremulac3, Feb 19 2014]
The "Bad" guy from "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"
http://obviousmag.o...r_lee-van-cleef.jpg
[doctorremulac3, Feb 19 2014]
Han Solo
http://media-cache-...9db16be4bee738a.jpg
[doctorremulac3, Feb 19 2014]
Gordon Sumner
http://obviousmag.o...an-kruger_sting.jpg
aka "Sting" [doctorremulac3, Feb 19 2014]
Don't know who this is
http://webneel.com/...res-24/jpg?nid=7791
Looks English, maybe German. [doctorremulac3, Feb 19 2014]
See? Before: Jamie Lee Curtis' head and neck is a little longer than most
http://2guystalking...amie-lee-curtis.jpg
...still, a beautiful woman... [doctorremulac3, Feb 19 2014]
And after...a horrible freak.
http://webneel.com/...ures-8/jpg?nid=7791
I think a computer program could do this pretty easily. [doctorremulac3, Feb 19 2014]
Oliver Sacks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Sacks
Crazy interesting stuff [doctorremulac3, Feb 19 2014]
Oliver Sacks movies / documentaries
http://www.oliversa.../documentary-films/
[doctorremulac3, Feb 19 2014]
Stare at the cross.
http://imgur.com/gallery/7G5hcsr
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Feb 20 2014]
[link]
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Just occurred to me, you could also set it for
"beautify". Have all your facial feature dimensions
moved from
the horrific deviations that nature cursed you with to
the "beauty" standard. That
big honker nose is reduced, those razor thin lips filled
out
etc. |
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Yes, there is a beauty standard. There are very old
geometric formulas for a "perfect" face that artists
have used for years, but you can also arrive at it by
taking a large group of people and "averaging" their
faces using morph technology. At the end of the
process you have a very generic looking attractive
person. The ones I've seen look very doll like. |
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There was a case reported by Oliver Sacks of a
patient who suffered a minor stroke in some part
of his visual cortex. |
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The consequence was that he (the patient) saw
everyone (and, to a lesser extent, everything)
caricatured. Noticeable but minor flaws were
grossly exaggerated - cleft chins were cleftier,
arched eyebrows were archer, high foreheads
higher... |
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It was one of the few of Sack's case studies that
had a fairly happy outcome, since the patient
made a successful second career as a cartoonist
and caricature artist. |
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Didn't find that reference, (not sure if you're joshing)
but the Oliver Sacks saga is pretty amazing. This guy
has had 4 movies made about his studies. I put a link
up. |
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//This guy has had 4 movies made about his
studies.// |
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4??? I know only of Awakenings. What are the
others? |
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Scratch that, by movies I mean
movies/documentaries. And by "4" I mean "6". See
link. |
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Only saw the movie, but the docs are on my watch
list. |
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The doctor in awakenings was Oliver Sacks?
I had no idea. His TED talk on hallucination was riveting. |
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As to the idea, it's a good one. Check out this [link], stare at the central cross for long enough and you can see something akin to what it must be like to see these exaggerations all of the time. |
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//nobody can see the inner ugliness of people and bring it to the canvas like he can.// |
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Fortunately, my ugliness is on the outside and easily accessible to the run-of-the-mill photographer. |
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I've read all of Oliver Sacks books. Fascinating. They show how much of our personalities are mere chemical and physical accidents. |
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//They show how much of our personalities are mere
chemical and physical accidents.// |
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What's the best book or documentary to start with?
What I've heard so far is crazy amazing stuff. For
starters the guy couldn't recognize faces so he was
working on this both as a scientist and from
experience. |
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I don't know it is the 'best one' but the first one I read and
made the biggest impact on me was "The Man who Mistook
his
Wife for a Hat". |
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Whoa! The "Stare at the cross" link is the most
bizarre thing I've seen for a long time. Remarkable. |
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Ladies and gentlemen we have a winner. The stare at
the cross thing is the most awesome optical illusion
of all time. |
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