# Amazing 3 minute clip **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 18, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880 "2007-11-18T01:13:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DellieM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@DellieM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DellieM)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/1 "2007-11-18T01:13:20Z")
This is absolutely amazing! I hope I not slow on the uptake and you good people have already seen it. It’s a clip of the faces of women over 500 years of Western Art. Fabulous! [http://miraulam.multiply.com/video/item/38](http://miraulam.multiply.com/video/item/38) ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/2 "2007-11-18T02:27:28Z")
That’s great. I’m sending the link to my art-school daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/3 "2007-11-18T03:10:00Z")
Simply beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/4 "2007-11-18T05:56:57Z")
Wow – somebody put a _lot_ of work into that. Even if they could automate the distortions somewhat, there’s so much fine detail in some of the morphs, such as they eyes turning toward or away from you late in the transition – that’s haunting. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/5 "2007-11-18T06:07:04Z")
It’s been done here before but it’s still one of my favorite clips circulating on the web. Great music and very good editing. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/6 "2007-11-18T06:21:28Z")
[QUOTE=Hung Mung] Great music [/QUOTE] That’s the sarabande from Bach’s cello suite no. 1 in G major. Very cool clip! ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/7 "2007-11-18T08:33:31Z")
Nicely done. I have already forwarded it on to many friends and intend to show it to my classes next week. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/8 "2007-11-18T08:40:54Z")
That one has been around for a long time but I like the next one on the site - line dancing to _Iron Butterfly_ ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/9 "2007-11-18T09:56:12Z")
[QUOTE=don’t ask] That one has been around for a long time but I like the next one on the site - line dancing to _Iron Butterfly_ [/QUOTE] I don’t get that one. I just see four people doing a kinda boring little dance. What do I miss? I don’t have music, does that have anything to do with it? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/10 "2007-11-18T19:59:45Z")
[QUOTE=DellieM] This is absolutely amazing! \*\*I hope I not slow on the uptake \*\* and you good people have already seen it. It’s a clip of the faces of women over 500 years of Western Art. Fabulous! [http://miraulam.multiply.com/video/item/38](http://miraulam.multiply.com/video/item/38) [/QUOTE] Great clip. Just thought I’d point out a good example of Gaudere’s Law. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/11 "2007-11-18T20:09:57Z")
[QUOTE=Peak Banana] That’s the sarabande from Bach’s cello suite no. 1 in G major. Very cool clip! [/QUOTE] It must say something about me that I’m (re)watching it to “She’s on Fire.” 🙂 I liked it, of course. I never realized how they had a “beauty type” even back then. The older pictures also just looked so much more innocent than the sexy/beautiful women of today. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/12 "2007-11-18T20:18:19Z")
Who’s the redhead at 1:37? Looks Bouguereau to me, but what do I know. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/13 "2007-11-18T21:18:28Z")
Wow! That is great. One thing that amazes me is how little our idea of beauty has changed over the years. Body shape, yes, but facial, very little. I’d do any one of them. By “do” I mean have a intelligent conversation with. Well, there _was_ a Picasso in there, wasn’t there. Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/14 "2007-11-18T21:52:15Z")
[QUOTE=squeegee] Who’s the redhead at 1:37? Looks Bouguereau to me, but what do I know. [/QUOTE] I was wondering about the lady at 1:30 myself. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/15 "2007-11-18T21:56:53Z")
[QUOTE=squeegee] Who’s the redhead at 1:37? Looks Bouguereau to me, but what do I know. [/QUOTE] The painting is _A Portrait Of A Young Lady_ by Eugene de Blaas. This helpful site has the full list: [http://www.maysstuff.com/womenid.htm](http://www.maysstuff.com/womenid.htm) ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/16 "2007-11-18T22:08:45Z")
[QUOTE=Pushkin] I was wondering about the lady at 1:30 myself. [/QUOTE] Well, the one just after is [Comerre](http://lali.toutsimplement.be/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/leon-francois-comerre.jpg). The one just before is [Wontner](http://tallulahs.com/images/w/wontner/img_wontner002.jpg). You mean the one with the eyes slightly down, half-smile, hand on shoulder, right? No clue. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/17 "2007-11-18T22:10:15Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] The painting is _A Portrait Of A Young Lady_ by Eugene de Blaas. This helpful site has the full list: [http://www.maysstuff.com/womenid.htm](http://www.maysstuff.com/womenid.htm) [/QUOTE] Awesome! Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/18 "2007-11-18T22:12:04Z")
And I note the **Straun** ’s was Bouguereau, my previous guess for the de Blaas portrait. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/19 "2007-11-18T22:38:06Z")
I’m impressed with the technical expertise and patience involved but otherwise not impressed. All human faces come with two eyes, a nose and a mouth and they can all be easily morphed from one to the other. The women there didn’t really look all that similar to me, and you could easily morph in different ethnicities and even men and draw the same basic conclusion - human faces are interesting and all come with two eyes, a nose, a mouth and they’re all stuck to the front of your head in basically the same way. Sorry to be a party pooper but I’m not sure what I was supposed to learn from this. Any first semester art student could tell you the basic, aesthetically pleasing proportions of the human face. No? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880/20 "2007-11-18T23:20:09Z")
I don’t think it was the morphing itself that was so impressive. We’ve all grown accustomed to seeing that. It was the choice of subjects, and which followed which, as well as the composition and framing for just the right sense of proportion. Very well done indeed. And yes, beautiful too. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-3-minute-clip/426880.md?page=2)