MY-AVATAR-HERITAGE.COM
What stars do you see in Ordinal Malaprop?
When I was still at Linden Lab, a bunch of us were e-mailed around a link to myheritage.com, a face recognition website with a pretty cool viral marketing application-- you upload of a photo of yourself, and their software tells you which celebrity you most resemble. (A link I quickly discarded, after the idjit program informed me I looked like Matthew Lillard. Serious cognitive dissonance WTF there.) But no one at Linden thought to take the application to the next level: upload your avatar, and find the famous people in the persona you made for yourself.
But SL artist AngryBeth Shortbread did just that-- her results here.
She was quickly followed by steampunk scripter Ordinal Malaprop-- her results here.
If you try it on your own avatar, please post the results in Comments! I'd try it on my own "Hamlet Au" avatar, but I'm afraid he'll be compared to the star of the damn Scooby Doo movies, something my ego couldn't bear.
My closest match was a Japanese porn star. I ain't saying which one. (And I hope noone takes my picture and scans it in to find out. :p )
Posted by: Torley Linden | Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 06:43 PM
Awesome. My closest match was:
"No face detected."
:P
Damn those human-centric face filters...
Posted by: Pathfinder Linden | Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 08:14 PM
My matches were Aishwariya Rai and Sophie Ellis-Bextor. I think I'd heard of Sophie before but in any case it's definitely not insulting! lol
Posted by: Torrid | Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 08:19 PM
Ha, cool. For those not in the know, this is Aishwariya Rai:
http://www.aishwaryaworld.com/cannes2005.html
One night, Aishwariya Rai had a dream that she was a Torrid Midnight, then woke up and wondered if she was Torrid Midnight dreaming that she was Aishwariya Rai.
Posted by: Hamlet Au | Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 09:50 PM
Actualy, wrong: Ben Linden put it SL avatar face up and posted the result on his blog, Bulk Upload.
Ben being the guy in charge of blowing stuff up, of course came back as Ted Kazinskii.
Posted by: Elle Pollack | Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 11:25 PM
How strangely fun. I passed on Jorge Luis Borges, Brad Pitt (yechh), and settled for Hunter S Thompson. Yeah, the technology works!
http://www.nmc.org/sl/2006/05/23/celebrity/
Posted by: CDB Barkley | Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 11:31 PM
Apperantly i look like a young Ozzy Osborn.
Posted by: Frans Charming | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 02:24 AM
Christina Ricci.
Posted by: Aimee Weber | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 09:02 AM
I seriously need to redesign my Avatars looks. My matches were nearly all female, Bette Davis, Anne Bancroft, Jayne Mansfield!!
Buster Keaton and Sean Bean, were my males.
Thank god for Sean Bean is all I can say.
Although I think the new hardware lighting has a lot to answer for.
Posted by: Yoofaloof Pacer | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 02:38 PM
Kim Catrell?!?!?! =O
Posted by: Trinity Serpentine | Thursday, May 25, 2006 at 11:01 AM
Noami Campbell,
Kim Cattral
and Madonna . . . odd.
Posted by: Fiona Cork | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 09:22 PM
how do I register?
Posted by: jennifer | Saturday, December 02, 2006 at 02:59 PM