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Car Face Revisited

Via Things (and from here) comes this delightful set of photographs from Vladimir Nikolic in which he apes the “expressions” of a range of cars. The anthropomorphic (N.B., I can never say that word again without thinking of the hilarious job interview scene in Saxondale, the brilliant show with Steve Coogan as a former rock roadie turned exterminator that’s unfortunately not out stateside) nature of cars is really brought into high (comic) relief by Nikolic.

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This entry was posted on Friday, November 21st, 2008 at 1:22 pm and is filed under Cars, Etc., Traffic Culture, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Car Face Revisited”

  1. Anibal Says:
    November 24th, 2008 at 10:18 am

    Fantastic! the parallelism found.

    As it is known our specialiced face recognition system lead us to detect topographical relations of cerain features that share the same arrangment that our natural face configuration.

  2. Sam Says:
    July 25th, 2010 at 1:20 pm

    yay! someone recognizes that certain cars have certain expressions. some of the new cars have very happy faces!

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