This is a hoot, and just a little creepy/scary…
Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.
Ladies and gentlemen, your President is a robot. Or a wax sculpture. Maybe a cardboard cutout. All I know is no human being has a photo smile this amazingly consistent.
On Wednesday, the Obamas hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, during which they stood for 130 photographs with visiting foreign dignitaries in town for the UN meeting. The President has exactly the same smile in every single shot. See for yourself — the pictures are up on the State Department’s flickr (link). And, of course, compressed into 20 seconds for your viewing pleasure.
Music is “Cold Hands” by the Black Lips. Go buy it now!
I saw this first on Neatorama, and some people were calling ‘Photoshop’… But if you look through the State Department’s Flickr set, the photos are for real. It looks like the Vimeo guy (Eric Spiegelman) just cropped the photos so Obama’s face ended up in the same spot in the video… Nothing else. Wonder how much time Rahm Emanuel spent with him getting that look just right…
Hey, another thought; this is just in time for Halloween! Somebody could make some money producing lifelike masks from one of those photos. Maybe an upcoming protest could feature everybody wearing a mask, like in V for Vendetta. Now wouldn’t that be interesting!
