Showing posts with label facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label facts. Show all posts

Wednesday 25 September 2013

Quote by Pablo Picasso - Part 2

Human Face by Dr. Pravin Yadav
Post No: 13

Continuing from the Blog-Post : Quote by Pablo Picasso - Part 1
Picasso was an artist that groomed in the classical tradition then influenced contemporary art his svelte manner using wide range of styles. Emphatic strokes, harsh vivid colors in his artworks exhibits his insatiable desires, volcanic energy and revolting attitude. As Picasso said, "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

Picasso asks, "Who sees the human face correctly: the Photographer, the mirror or the painter?"
I see deep meaning in this quote but before that we must construe his thoughts hidden in his self-portraits.
Self-portrait with Uncombed Hair (1896)

Self Portrait: "Yo Picasso" (spring 1901)

Self-portrait "Yo" (summer 1901)


































Self-portrait with Cloak (late 1901)



Self-portrait with a Palette (1906)



Self-portrait (1907)

Self Portrait Facing Death” (1972) 





















The series of self-portraits and other creative works of Picasso reflects revolt in his mind in various guises, disguises and eventually emerging his grand persona.  

What my mind could see by observing these autobiographical portraits and understand by his colloquial writing is something like this.
Mirror reflects all the details and triggers our self-awareness. For the same reason invention of mirror triggered our attention towards face and makeup. In spite of that we perceive very few facts of our face. Our Mind observes only what interests us. We can neither associated memory nor emotions with reflection as it is a momentary glimpse. 
Cameras can imprint snapshot of the moment, thus a photograph may establish eternal connection with intense emotions, drama involved in that particular situation. It all depends on cameraman to delineate subject with dramatic lighting. Although Camera cannot peep into the emotional conflicts in the mind of subject. 
A painter has freedom of thought which can be expressed using media. He can depict his views, feelings about subject in his own manner. Obviously, Painter illustrates whole drama where canvas becomes his stage, eloquent strokes becomes expressions and colors reveals emotions.


Thursday 12 September 2013

Spotlight: Facial Substitution

Human Face by Dr. Pravin Yadav
Post No: 8 









Till date my mind was engraved with an idea that face is my identity, whole life I will have to live with it. 
What if you can change that identity, at least on e-world?
Woooosssshhhh!  mind boggling idea.
But can we really do that?
Just have a look at this interesting experiment. This is a technical demo for face substitution technique. But certainly achievable in near future. 



Today Spotlight is on Kyle McDonald, who is an artist and researcher in New York with a background in computer science and philosophy. In October 2011, he released FaceOSC, a tool for prototyping face-based interaction. FaceOSC was based on the work of Jason Saragih, a research scientist at CSIRO. In addition to FaceOSC, Kyle has produced an addon for working with face tracking in OpenFrameworks as well as a growing body of work that uses face tracking in an artistic context, notably Face Substitution with Arturo Castro.

Keep guessing whats next, but with open mind.
Learn how to unlearn and face the whole new world!


Thursday 5 September 2013

Human Face : Few interesting facts

5 September 2013
Post No: 3










The pocket Oxford dictionary defines the human face as “the front part of a person’s head from the forehead to the chin.” Mathematician studies actual dimensions and its relationship whereas artist looks it as a shape, form and proportion. Face is like kaleidoscope, every time it reveals different meaning.

Here are some interesting facts about human face

  1. The hardest part of our body - teeth, softest and most flexible part - tongue and lips, the hardest bone in the human body - jawbone, most undulated surface - ears, long hirsute surface - scalp and most reflective parts - eyes, all find place in the face.
  2. Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body.
  3. You must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before it is apparent to anyone. You lose hundreds of hair a day but you’ll have to lose a lot more before you or anyone else will notice. Half of the hair on your pretty little head will have to disappear before our impending baldness will become obvious to all those around you.
  4. Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born. While few babies are born with teeth in place, the teeth that will eventually push through the gums of young children are formed long before the child even leaves the womb. At 9 to 12 weeks the fetus starts to form the teeth buds that will turn into baby teeth.
  5. The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself. If you've ever chipped a tooth you know just how sadly true this one is. The outer layer of the tooth is enamel which is not a living tissue. Since it’s not alive, it can’t repair itself, leaving our dentist to do the work instead.
  6. The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone. The next time someone suggests you take it on the chin, you might be well advised to take their advice as the jawbone is one of the most durable and hard to break bones in the body.
  7. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. While you may not be able to bench press much with your tongue, it is in fact the strongest muscle in your body in proportion to its size. If you think about it, every time you eat, swallow or talk you use your tongue, ensuring it gets quite a workout throughout the day.
  8. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Unless you’re trying to give your face a bit of a workout, smiling is a much easier option for most of us. Anyone who’s ever scowled, squinted or frowned for a long period of time knows how it tires out the face which doesn't do a thing to improve your mood.
  9. Bone is stronger than some steel. This doesn't mean your bones can’t break of course, as they are much less dense than steel. Bone has been found to have a tensile strength of 20,000 psi while steel is much higher at 70,000 psi. Steel is much heavier than bone, however, and pound for pound bone is the stronger material.
  10. Humans are the only animals to produce emotional tears. In the animal world, humans are the biggest crybabies, being the only animals who cry because they've had a bad day, lost a loved one,  or just don’t feel good.
  11. The indentation in the middle of the area between the nose and the upper lip has a name. It is called the philtrum. Scientists have yet to figure out what purpose this indentation serves, though the ancient Greeks thought it to be one of the most erogenous places on the body.