Period Piece Face vs Modern Face

[surreality]

@ixokai On that, I really dunno.

I've managed to be able to spot 'huh, I wonder if <person> is related to <person>' due to facial similarities pretty often, and been right each time without knowing any names, and some have been out there.

So I can at least confirm: people see things differently, definitely. A lot of folks I worked with in 3D sculpted faces a lot, and you'd see like... 10 versions of a sculpt that were supposed to be some celeb or another and none of them were anything alike untextured. Sometimes any given one had no resemblance to one viewer, while another thought it was dead on, etc.

[faraday]

@ixokai said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

I don't know how to turn that into a discussion: when I seem to see people different. I assume thus others see people different. How the hell do you figure that out? and how the hell does any trial happen with witnesses?

Yeah it's interesting, because to me? I could totally see similarities in the faces. You're absolutely right about the nose, lips, etc. being different. But until you pointed that out my brain literally didn't register those things. I think it's because I focus mostly from the eyes up? Which isn't so much "facial recognition" as "gaze recognition" but still...

Then again, I also know that I see faces differently than most people so who knows.

[Kanye Qwest]

Oh boy I wake up to even more people turning something that was supposed to just be kind of fun into a pedantic debate. Oh boy. Wow, faces are faces? Deep. I take it all back.

[Faceless]

Goddammit, I wasn't going to join in on this conversation because I wasn't really certain how to identify one face from another in terms of the topic at hand. I was browsing Imgur though and came across a couple images from a (recent, I'm assuming?) Vanity Fair spread. A few of the images stood out to me, so I felt they deserved to go here.

Bill Murray? I think it depends upon the period, but I could see him having period piece face, particularly as he's aged. The linked image for example just makes me think of some 18th century composer.

Michael Fuckin' Keaton? Both categories, I think. I think young Keaton, Modern. Aged Keaton, Period Piece.

Emilia Clarke? For my eyes and brain, her Face is dependent on how they do her makeup. By default though, if we're not factoring in makeup? Modern Face.

Amy Adams? Period Piece Face.

Now my brain's real Period Piece Face vs. Modern Face challenge?

Jon Hamm. Period Piece, Modern. My brain doesn't care. It just wants to be stuck in the wilderness with him for a few days, relying on one another to survive. There'll be an exchange of body heat. No, no, we won't be fuckin'. But we'll definitely be cuddling - for survival, you see. I'll even forego my usual placement and accept the little spoon position, if that's what he'd prefer.

ETA: The mentioned Imgur post for your lookin' needs. Some of the images are just fantastic.

[Seraphim73]

@faceless I agree with you on most of that, but I think that Emilia Clarke can do both, but that she's more of a Period face than a Modern face.

I'm even willing to take sweaty seconds on that survival-snuggle with Jon Hamm.

And that's a great Imgur post.

[Packrat]

I now need to get a copy of a certain picture.

To explain, I visited my father and he had a black and white photograph on the wall of a man wearing a suit and a tophat. Whilst in the same room as my own father and whilst actively looking at him I assume this was a photograph of my dad, perhaps from a decade or two ago, wearing Victorian fancy dress for whatever reason.

No, this was a photograph from 1870 one of his friends had found and sent to him. Apparently my father either has/had a century older doppelganger in Belfast or he is a secret time traveler who gives no shits about posing for photographs.

[Louis Manigault]

I try to use portraits of people from the era in question. Since I don't want to go for anything too obvious, I try to pluck out minor historical figures that only a handful of people would know about. Extra points if I loosely base my character off of them.

[SG]

@auspice said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

@kanye-qwest said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

This is why I can't play these games. I thought this was Robin Wright.

Face blindness is a real problem y'all. I can't just imagine person as thing.
Except in certain cases. I know Matthew McConahahahahaha has a punchable face. I remember that. I couldn't describe him for a sketch artist, but I know whenever I see him that I want to deck him.

HOW DARE YOU mistake Gwyneth Paltrow for Robin Wright!

[Auspice]

@sg said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

@auspice said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

@kanye-qwest said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

This is why I can't play these games. I thought this was Robin Wright.

Face blindness is a real problem y'all. I can't just imagine person as thing.
Except in certain cases. I know Matthew McConahahahahaha has a punchable face. I remember that. I couldn't describe him for a sketch artist, but I know whenever I see him that I want to deck him.

HOW DARE YOU mistake Gwyneth Paltrow for Robin Wright!

I thought it was Cate Blanchett

I'm confused now

[SG]

@auspice said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

@sg said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

@auspice said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

@kanye-qwest said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

This is why I can't play these games. I thought this was Robin Wright.

Face blindness is a real problem y'all. I can't just imagine person as thing.
Except in certain cases. I know Matthew McConahahahahaha has a punchable face. I remember that. I couldn't describe him for a sketch artist, but I know whenever I see him that I want to deck him.

HOW DARE YOU mistake Gwyneth Paltrow for Robin Wright!

I thought it was Cate Blanchett

I'm confused now

That's the joke. At first glance I always confuse Cate and Gwyneth, until I focus and lose myself in Cat... ahem.

[Zz]

I would lean on the side of Scarlett Johansson having a period face. It's just very early American 1890s through noir.

[Thenomain]

@zz said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

I would lean on the side of Scarlett Johansson having a period face. It's just very early American 1890s through noir.

Great, now I’m imagining her in a flapper dress and carrying a drum loaded machine gun.

This is not a bad image, but now I am super distracted.

[Lithium]

My favorite period face is probably Christina Ricci.

[Zz]

@thenomain You're welcome.

I believe Spirit has her in the thirties version of that, fitted jacket and heels with a machine gun.

[BobGoblin]

My least favorite period face:

[Thenomain]

@bobgoblin

And yet, I bet she still enjoyed it.

[Deviante]

@darinelle said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

Joan Cusak - Modern Face.

I just saw her in something the other day and she looked so different but I have to agree with you. I can't imagine her in a period piece film. Though I loved her in Addams Family Values as Debbie.

[Auspice]

@deviante

I want more Addams Family in my life.

[Tyche]

@ixokai said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

I am to a certain extent aware physical bodies have changed over time, gotten taller, but I'm not aware (outside of inconsistent tendencies in grooming) faces have.

Just not getting where this is coming from.

Period face?