And the answer is...

[ragani]

In an effort to avoid work, I am taking this time to supply the answers to a couple of things I asked recently.

The first was my "what am I?" poll about an image.

Not surprising, most people got this one wrong. Before I reveal the answer, I must know, lysana, what exactly made you pick Beer as the answer? Foamy minds want to know.

Now for the "who am I?" queries in regards to the images I manipulated to include faces from various friends into existing paintings. The first batch (not counting the ones for emberleo) included several people, and the second had two images of just one.

Below are the images (not cropped) that have been altered, with a little description for each.

	burne-jones_cophetua archangelkhaos and rogue_ravnos He came out very well, but the style of this artist with faces is... well, almost like something out of a gothy graphic novel and a challenge to match a real face to.
	tanya_I_wish... cheshiretgirl From a painting she has on her tribe that she had captioned "I wish I were her" which seemed like a perfect match for this kind of collage.
	tanya_goya.teresa-sureda cheshiretgirl again A more serious one, but indeed the same subject. Although you cannot see it, the source for her face is of a photo where her hair is in a very similar stye.
	nathalie_raphael_maddalena musique174 The dichotomy of the source photo for her face and the subject of this painting amuses me. I am sure she would agree.
	calliope_venus_mars themusecalliope This artist is a bit too stylistic to make this realistic, but parts of it work.
	nicole_wBOUGUEREAU_rest rogue_ravnos again I did not show this one before because I was not happy with how it looked at the time. I tweeked it a bit more, and am willing to show it now. Also, i really wanted to have one of her that came out better than the first one.

So yeah, those who commented figured out who they were of, which seems like a good thing.

Now, I have a whole batch of new ones I want to work on of other people, but many of them are photos that either terpsichoros or tsgeisel took and I want to get permission before I use them, and perhaps some higher resolution versions (hint, hint). Speaking of obtaining photos, there are several of you that I know have photo I can use that I would like to get copies of. If I can get copies before I leave on Monday, I can take this with me as a fun project to work on while on the flight to Mexico. Specifically, I would like decent resolution face shots of tshuma (from that photo shoot you did earlier this year), smittenkitten61(profile), zhaneel69 (without glasses), labelleizzy (3/4 view, thoughtful expression), and fan_boy (3/4 view). Hey abditus! Do you still have the photos we took of shipofools999 we took at BayCon a few years ago?

Comments

[lysana.livejournal.com]

I had science on the brain and was thinking it might be a shot of a cold glass of beer with some sort of special camera.

[tshuma]

I will see what I can dig up for you, m'dear.

Foamy!

[ragani.livejournal.com]

Well, not only was it a good guess, it is correct (good brain, you get a biscuit)! It is specifically an Amstel. The other image I posted later is of a Bass Pale Ale.

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

I don't keep all of my highest resolution pictures online, but let me know which ones you want to use, and I'll see about making copies available.

Tanya has very distinctive cheekbones...

[musique174.livejournal.com]

I stand by my first thought... Dude those like totally rock!!!

[terpsichoros.livejournal.com]

Ragani -

You have permission to use any of my publically-available photos to do this sort of work with.

Let me know which picture(s) of mine you want higher-resolution copies of, and on which page of my website they appear, and I'll send them to you. I think I have some good ones of smittenkitten61 which aren't on my website I could send you (with her permission, of course.)

My email is $myfirstname at danceslut point net.

Thanks!

[ragani.livejournal.com]

I will do that - let me look through them again.

Oh, and about tomorrow, Dickens: When will you be leaving?

My car is near the Del Norte BART station, so either a ride to my car, or to a closer BART station would be great.

Re: Thanks!

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

Leaving for Dickens or from Dickens?

From Dickens I'll be there 'til roughly the bitter end (for customers). For Dickens I'm not sure yet.