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.
More of them here
Parent and baby head swaps
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.
More of them here
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
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.
So now they are just dirt-covered English people in fur pelts with credit cards.
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!
Last edited by Sarahfeena; 27 Jul 2011 at 10:10 AM.
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.
Last edited by Hatshepsut; 15 Aug 2011 at 11:16 PM.
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