. And, earlier this year, Brad Pitt acknowledged his face blindness.
Brad Pitt! If I ever met him, I’d love to swap some prosopagnosia war stories with him.
The trouble, of course, is that even if I saw him on the street, I wouldn’t recognize him.
My thoughts exactly, Mr. Herrmann. My thoughts exactly.
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#prosopagnosia #thirded #every time I see a picture of Brad Pitt I think it’s Chris Hemsworth #and that’s with the context of ‘this is some celebrity or other’
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#Agapi informs me this is Bertie Wooster and Agatha Gregson of Jeeves and Wooster #I don’t actually care #the thing that matters is that my brain immediately recognised Bertie’s face #and read his subtitles in the voice of that guy from Blackadder #I was very happy to have IMDB confirm this #and said happiness was not entirely cancelled out by realising that he had also been *House* the whole time #and I never noticed #(I’ve never watched House) #(but I’ve seen pictures) #tag rambles #prosopagnosia
I totally just realized yet another childhood thing that should’ve been a big honking clue that I was face-blind.
It was actually a revelation to me when someone pointed out to me as a kid that the inhabitants of Oz were the same actors as the Kansans in the “Wizard of Oz” movie.
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#prosopagnosia #wait what? #that *would* explain the whole and-you-were-in-it thing
So many fandoms on my dash seem to have a version of this guy these days. Whether it’s Robb Stark or Will Graham or whoever, it plays silly buggers with my prosopagnosia. Erryone, get to drooling over a greater variety of people!
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#prosopagnosia #so I saw this post a while back and I wasn’t going to reblog it #but this morning I was thinking about Will Graham and Q #I have never watched either of them #but I’ve seen enough pictures to get rather annoyed at their identicalness #and the thought occurred to me #that Hannibal is actually a false show existing only through its quote-unquote fandom a la Squiddles #and the way Will looks suspiciously like a character with readily-available GIF-making material #and very little like his supposed actor #is part of the joke #in which case #congratulations guys you’ve done a brilliant job #I was totally convinced #the IMDB pages were a nice touch #a bit rudimentary but that’s obviously to be expected from a show that doesn’t really exist #tag rambles #(P.S. I believe Skyfall exists because I don’t think you people are powerful enough to get signs up in all the theatres)
Tell me this is Orphan Black. Please.
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#if you track the prosopagnosia tag #you’ll know that Orphan Black has a reputation for being extremely confusing #full of false negatives #(perhaps the occasional false positive as well) #(but mostly false negatives) #and I watched it #and they are 100% right #*one minute in* and already if not for the commercials spoiling me for it #I would have failed to perceive an important plot element #because really Sarah looks almost nothing like Beth I don’t care what they say #(plus it was a marathon and I hate marathons) #damn you Orphan Black #if you were a novel I would totally read you #but I can’t watch you #(they should have cloned a faceblind person) #(then they could walk right by each other and never notice anything weird) #(cloning a not-faceblind person was asking for trouble in comparison) #tag rambles
Here’s an example of how Hulu’s face-matching feature works. You just point your mouse at the actor’s face, and it pops up a tooltip showing both the actor’s name and their character’s name, along with a brief actor bio.
…This is, like, the best thing since closed captioning for me.
And here I was thinking nobody was considering the assistive-tech uses of facial recognition software. (Or maybe they still weren’t, and were actually thinking of…I dunno, some other use for this that doesn’t spring to mind.)
(I just hope it isn’t the face-equivalent of Youtube’s auto-“captions”. And that it becomes more widespread.)
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Do you have any secret skills? (x)…. how is this man still single
i feel like i should carry a ring with me just in case I run into Nathan Fillion one day so i can be ready to propose on the spot
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#Nathan Fillion #mostly I’m just really happy I knew who he was before I saw the text underneath #and it only took two seasons of Castle #(1.5 seasons was not enough) #(I was still confusing him for one-shot white dudes at that point) #prosopagnosia
I’m listening to this MIT lecture about visual perception while doing my inking try-out, and there’s this part where he shows pictures of people’s faces upside-down, but with one or two facial features distorted (for example, mouth and eyes are still right-side-up while the rest of the face is upside down) and saying things like, “you can’t tell there’s anything wrong with these faces until I flip them, because your brain is not used to seeing people upside down.”
But I immediately recognized what was wrong with them before he even mentioned anything! I was like, that mouth looks weird D: and then he flipped it and I was like HA I WAS RIGHT
but what really makes this interesting is that I’m faceblind and I can’t recognize people’s faces normally. But I can tell when the features are wrong upside down. ….what does that say about me!? Should I sign up for research or something……?
That’s actually pretty cool, and now that you mention it, I’ve always picked that out immediately as well.
Anyone else with prosopagnosia run into this?
For what it’s worth, the first time I saw one of those pictures I didn’t notice the flipped mouth until the face was turned right-side-up. (I think now that I know these pictures are out there and might be encountered I’d be much more likely to realise what it is.)
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I don’t think they’d assume the viewer is going to be a: up on Whovian news and b: faceblind.
But I am, and so for me it follows a pretty standard plot twist progression.
First, Hmm, she looks a bit like Jenna-Louise Coleman.
Shortly after, Have I heard Jenna-Louise’s voice? Did it sound like this? I think it might have.
Shortly after that, She talks so fast. Didn’t they say that was one of the things they really noticed about her? How she talked so fast he could hardly keep up with her?
At the end of the episode, watching the credits:
Oswin
Jenna-Louise Coleman
Ha! Now what does this mean for the future plot?
YOU ARE ACTUALLY ME.
I had to go google her and study what her hair line looked like so that I could figure out if it was her or not in the episode.
Was that after failing to find it on IMDB? Because I’d planned to go ask IMDB for Oswin’s actress after the episode, my standard plan with such suspicions (but then I saw the name in the credits, so I didn’t have to), but looking for the page to link I see they don’t have a full cast list yet.
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I don’t think they’d assume the viewer is going to be a: up on Whovian news and b: faceblind.
But I am, and so for me it follows a pretty standard plot twist progression.
First, Hmm, she looks a bit like Jenna-Louise Coleman.
Shortly after, Have I heard Jenna-Louise’s voice? Did it sound like this? I think it might have.
Shortly after that, She talks so fast. Didn’t they say that was one of the things they really noticed about her? How she talked so fast he could hardly keep up with her?
At the end of the episode, watching the credits:
Oswin
Jenna-Louise Coleman
Ha! Now what does this mean for the future plot?
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#Asylum of the Daleks #Doctor Who #funny how it works out really #prosopagnosia #oh look an original post #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #reactionblogging
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