Thursday, February 09, 2006

Helen Clark is my mum, apparently

I uploaded my photo to this website, which used face recognition technologies to work out which celebrity you most resemble. According to them I most resemble both Helen Clark AND Kirsten Dunst!! How is that even possible? I'm rather disturbed that they think I look like Helen and also weirded out that they matched me with my Prime Minister. Do you think the NZ beanie gave it away?

Here is a demonstration. See for yourself if I do actually look like Aunty Helen or a young attractive Hollywood actress. Or neither.

Here's me -


Now here's Helen -



And finally, Ms Dunst -

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ok, you think yours were bad? Amongst other gorgeous people (such as Scarlet Johansson, Halle Berry. and Lucy Liu) in the celebrity search I also managed to get Axl Rose, lead singer of Guns and Roses and red faced sufferer of "the bloat". And J-Lo. I also got Charles Bronson from a different picture. I always was good at the androgynous thing when I wanted to be, I thought it was my stellar acting ability but no...

I guess I just have one of those faces.

Mel & Guy said...

I also got Hermione, Ann Rice and other random woman and some ugly 70s race car driver. I think the software is a bit screwy.

Jess managed to get River Phoenix and Kurt Cobain but I suppose at least they were attractive men.

Anonymous said...

I agree, I think the software is a bit screwy, I also think I've gone a bit screwy, I walked into the ladies before and looked in the mirror and actually thought for a second, hmm, I do look vaguely like Scarlet Johansson. In this light, at this particular angle and with my hair styled this particular way. But I will admit to not wearing my glasses. I'm also working for Coke this week so I can't imagine that I'm not being unconsciously being programmed to "feel good" in order to boost productivity. It's obviously working, here I am busy, beavering away at work. Oh. Hang on. Actually, I'm leaving comments on my friends blog. Hmmm...

But thinking about it I imagine this programme works primarily on angles because all of the pictures I used returned different results according to the different angles at which they were taken. Most returned pics were taken from a similar angle, and the shapes of my eyebrows or jawline were similar so I'm guessing their software isn't as advanced as they'd like us to think. Then again, it could just be magic. And I reckon it would be a massive programme to get it to almost fool proof stage, the maths involved, the code, oh my god. Time to go get a free coke.