swappin’ faces

Sorry, it ain’t what you think, but when it shows up in the anagrams I have to follow up. Earlier today (the 30th) I did a post about face swappers , and gave a link to an article on the automatic face replacement technique.  I re-anagrammed some text and thought you might be interested: OK, theorize! We knew you’d get “automatic face replacement” story today. You remind us only humans have that behavior, Savior’s kept up on my Holy anagrams. I go the next mile, see who’s on?

(Slight difference than in jpeg)

face swappers

A couple of hours ago this was posted on Physorg Hybrid Human Faces Could Populate Google Street View.  “Google has been blurring the faces of people caught on Google Street View cameras. But rather than blurring people’s faces and diminishing the reality of the scene, researchers have demonstrated a new way to automatically de-personalize the faces – by creating hybrids.”

These are face-swappers. Not the medical kind.

IS that a little weird? Seems like a crazy way to address privacy issues, but it does create some artistic face work. I never really thought much about de-identifying faces before. It is interesting, though, and according to the article, the ”burst” mode found on most cameras can take several images at once. Then, an automatic face replacement technique could be applied to swap blinking or frowning faces with better faces taken from the other images. The result would be a single composite image with all the best faces. Makes you wonder, hmm, all the best faces, real or not. An interesting development.

More info on face-swapping technology here.

I thought it related to part of yesterday’s collage. I didn’t use the word faces in the collage, but I knew that was what it meant when I combined the comics. What do you think?

“Maybe you feel like you can’t show your face in public…,” I hear on the Dr. Phil commercial at 3:34 PM as I prepare to post. Interesting correlation.

fancy pants

I could see me in these now. Smart pants! And look, a matching shirt, too. I could be one of a dozen shoppers at the local Jay C grocery, or walking down the street with alarms going off due to my gait or the uneven surfaces that riddle the city sidewalks. Hmmm.

According to the physorg article about the  wearable sensor system, “Because the pants are unobtrusive and can be connected to a remote health care facility, the technology could enable elderly individuals to live independently for longer, with the pants as a safeguard. When the pants detect instabilities in an individual’s gait, the system could notify both the health care facility and the individual, warning them to avoid potentially unsafe walking surfaces.”   I don’t know if unobtrusive is the word I would use looking at the photo, but I can see where these could be of some assistance in determining how to address one’s rehabilitation needs but I don’t know about wearing them around town. There isn’t a street I know of where I live without a surface that wouldn’t set them off. I have to wonder how one would clean these, too.

thank God

I do. I thank God all the time for the gift I have been given. Some may think this a strange gift, but I suppose it’s all in one’s perspective. There is a certain satisfaction to my cosmic (comics) conversation each day. I mean, if you read the comics in the order I have them, and have read some of the previous posts that lead to this one, it does make sense. The unexplained has explanation. It’s subtle and quite humorous. God is all knowing and a lot of fun, too.

Part of my horoscope for the day reads, “It’s a good time for you to try something a little different… There’s no need to go crazy, but there is a need for novelty.”

Novelty?  I have that, that’s for sure. today’s comic collage text written out: “It’s fine to observe these magnificent creatures but let’s not get too close…I ain’t shore but…honestly, I don’t expect you to make sense. Then something like this happens. As long as I’ve known you, I have never heard you utter those three words to me! What are you talking about? Hmmm…Well, I don’t know what this is about but Thank You. My capacity for hope is amazing.  It’s all there! How did she know? BANANA! You don’t get tired of me? Well, that’s good because I love you and you’re stuck with me!…bonded, fastened, cemented and glued! Say no more! I can read your little mind. …but I’m stuck. On what? colla…glue...how many before you get a prize>>>This part always takes forever. Well, why are you here? (illustrations: Martian holding a box that says Just Add Water. Seashore with words THANK GOD written in the sand.) He did it. You’re spooky. It’s a gift.

let me explain

“We see hanky to nose affected Olive, many thought you need a hug. They’re not happy yet? Use my code until you show another his time is up.” Three-part scientific proof that the comics foretell.

How is that? What you see is what you get. Using anagrammed text from a different collage done on the 28th (“You name the anti-psychotic drug they put me on it. Then one day Elmo says, ‘Hey I see snuffleupagus too. You have to know where they hide.”)
  cartoons done on the 29th (yesterday) are spelled out. I know it is confusing, that’s why I use the collages, so you can see it in the pictures. The anagram spells out what you will see in advance, so if you go back to yesterday’s collage you see a hanky is being used and then Olive is upside down right after that (“We see hanky to nose affected Olive), so we’ll call that the “hanky effect”. It’s part one of my proof. The next frame shows the hug (“…many thought you need a hug.”). That’s part two. Since you probably find it hard to believe there is a question and then it is answered in the next frame as you see the guy says he doesn’t have time. (“They’re not happy yet? Use my code until you show another his time is up.” ) I know it’s still hard to believe, but it’s proof.

I’ll re-arrange it once more…“Many eye this hanky effect…Ai thought man needed hugs…I use your code until they show up there…want me happy soon…yes, I love you  too.”

Hmmm, that’s some conversation.