Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile
6 months ago
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 below). And, of course, compressed into 20 seconds for your viewing pleasure.
flickr.com/photos/statephotos/sets/72157622444106644/
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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 below). And, of course, compressed into 20 seconds for your viewing pleasure.
flickr.com/photos/statephotos/sets/72157622444106644/
Music is "Cold Hands" by the Black Lips. Go buy it now!
bit.ly/gIvA2
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I'm Anglo/American and living in Tel Aviv right now.
A family came to visit me recently from LA and when it came to take photos in a restaurant they kept telling me to smile.
I told them, "I'm smiling" and they eventually took photos.
When I got copies they all had the same smile as Obama, except me ;-)
Mike
This video inspired me to average all the photos in that set.
flickr.com/photos/dubster/3954145962/
while the smile is remarkably consistent, i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that it actually is obama in these picures. if there's an embarassing secret here it's that at some point in his life, the man spent hundreds of hours praticing that smile in front of a mirror. probably in law school.
krazydad.com/
harpers.org/subjects/WashingtonBabylon
ps
found this via gawker.com.
"And he only owns one tie. Duh. Photoshop? "
Notice that Michele is wearing the same dress and that they are standing in front of the same draperies. The pictures were evidently all taken on the same day in the same place, hence the same tie. DUH!
parisfacial.ytmnd.com/
My suspicion is, this could be done for any public figure for whom smiling for a posed photograph is an industrial process. Just like it could be done for *any* given industrial process. :) It's like the old joke about how to get to Carnegie Hall: Practice, practice, practice.
Phew.
Nice video though!
moronsinchapelhill.com
............doubtful............
youtube.com/watch?v=ZvsijM8XcVg
In the text accompanying the video it says "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."
Obviously these pictures were taken during one session, all of them in a row. It would be unlikely for him to change his tie every 15 minutes or so.
That being said, it is indeed funny to see him put on the same smile in every picture. But let's not forget the man's the leader of a nation. And an excellent one at that. But he's no supermodel.
flickr.com/photos/statephotos/3950159834/in/set-72157622444106644/