Here's a fun unsettling use of photoshop from photographer Paul Ripke.
Swapping the heads of parent and child, resizing them and carefully stitching the picture together.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...le_308x385.jpg
More of them here
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Here's a fun unsettling use of photoshop from photographer Paul Ripke.
Swapping the heads of parent and child, resizing them and carefully stitching the picture together.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...le_308x385.jpg
More of them here
Huh. Giant babies aside, the most interesting part of that series to me is that it shows how much we use facial expression to judge body language. In the ones where the baby's expression is completely different from the adult's, the body language still looks "right", despite the fact that they're on the wrong body.
There's a blog called manbabies that does this, to sometimes hilarious and sometimes disturbing effect.
ETA: Actually, I guess these are user-submitted. Lots of crazy dads with mad photoshop skillz out there!
Ick.
Eerie, but sort of charming in a twisted way. It's especially neat when you can see a familial resemblance. I think it (the resemblance) is strengthened by the fact that our brains automatically read more into the face on the adult's body, because we expect it to be more unique/full of cues. So we're looking at the baby's face, but because we see it on an adult we're searching for "adult" information.
Conversely, when we see a baby, we tend to think "unformed blob", but the adultness of the features on the baby body don't let us do that. So both faces are getting our full attention.