Friday, 5 September, 2003

Casablanca: should they make a sequel or prequel? This piece in the NYT Tech Section is an interesting read its own right - all about creating digital sprites and making movie stars of them. Begging the question: when hasn't Hollywood been doing this? Now they believe by examining Brando's face and movement carefully, they can graft a thousand points of potential contender light onto a CAD wire frame and make themselves a Brando. Because Brando or Humphrey Bogart are not in their lived experience and thought - not in their psychology, certaintly not in their souls, but in their photographable faces. I make light of this, but actually I believe this is quite likely. I couldn't tell you where the soul connection is in the mind-body-soul complex (possibly however it is a Firewire tm 3.0 connexion located by your left heel), the mind - our thoughts our feelings are, I believe, are hardwired into our bodies. Into our faces and eyes especially. For most people the face you have, by the time you cease to be able to count your years on fingers and toes, tells of of the life you've led. There are few secrets in a face, but many stories. Still my favorite line from this story would have to be this one "When we finally understand what makes Humphrey Bogart look like the character that he is, we won't want to see new Bogart movies," said Dr. Ulrich Neumann, director of the Integrated Media Systems Center at U.S.C This guy is waiting for new Bogart movies? ._._. pb _._ It's Tricky, Grafting Brando's Sneer to Bogart's Shrug. Researchers are trying to deconstruct the basis of what makes humans look human. By Eric A. Taub. [New York Times: Technology] 10:29:35 AM    comment [];trackback [];

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