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Remarkable, and a little unnerving



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Enjoyed it. Maybe 2 billion seconds in their life with one captured. Makes you wonder what happened in all the others knowing everyone given to them has been spent. Aside from the video, not even a memory now.
 
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Reminds me of the large portraits on the walls in older rural courthouses. The eyes follow you. Yeah, creepy. thanks for posting.
 
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Interesting video, but I got an eerie feeling watching it.


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As a bit of trivia, I first heard the “eyes follow you” observation as a kid when it was mentioned about paintings in French galleries. In fact, though, there’s nothing occult or even odd about it. If the painting, photograph, or even a line drawing in a cartoon depicts a person as looking directly at the observer, that perspective will be the same regardless of how the observer moves. That’s not true of a three-dimensional object like a sculpture or a real person, but it’s how any two-dimensional image works.

The effect is more noticeable with large portraits that can be more readily viewed from different angles.




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With modern photo-editing software, these could just be people dressed up with period clothing and made to look old-timey. We're just watching that process in reverse.

It might look more convincing if they use photos from famous people, like that tintype of Billy the Kid holding his Winchester carbine.
 
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With modern photo-editing software, these could just be people dressed up with period clothing and made to look old-timey. We're just watching that process in reverse.

It might look more convincing if they use photos from famous people, like that tintype of Billy the Kid holding his Winchester carbine.

What?


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I am confused as well. It was interesting with common people. We all know what Abe Lincoln and Billy the Kid looked like.
 
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As a bit of trivia, I first heard the “eyes follow you” observation as a kid when it was mentioned about paintings in French galleries. In fact, though, there’s nothing occult or even odd about it. If the painting, photograph, or even a line drawing in a cartoon depicts a person as looking directly at the observer, that perspective will be the same regardless of how the observer moves. That’s not true of a three-dimensional object like a sculpture or a real person, but it’s how any two-dimensional image works.

The effect is more noticeable with large portraits that can be more readily viewed from different angles.

A fact made that much more noticeable after the 'camera obscura' or Hockney–Falco thesis thing that so obviously became popular with some paintings of the renaissance era and beyond.
 
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Hockney–Falco thesis thing

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With modern photo-editing software, these could just be people dressed up with period clothing and made to look old-timey. We're just watching that process in reverse.

It might look more convincing if they use photos from famous people, like that tintype of Billy the Kid holding his Winchester carbine.


Did you even go to YouTube to Mystery Scoop and look at some of the other videos that have been done? Here is an example





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Very cool to see them come alive like that. It seems like the very early film always made people’s faces look dirty to me but I understand it was either makeup they used or the film.


IMO the eye blinking effect is totally unnecessary and just makes them look creepy. Would prefer just a still photo.


 
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The eyes follow you. Yeah, creepy.


My reaction- it creeped me out. Especially with the somber background music, sounds like something played at funerals.



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Did you even go to YouTube to Mystery Scoop and look at some of the other videos that have been done? Here is an example...


Here's a picture of actress Robin McLeavy who played Eva on "Hell on Wheels" with the same tattoo. Her character was likely inspired by people like Olive Oatman:



This was taken 10 years ago. It can be easily aged to look more period correct, inserted as the photo of Olive Oatman, then "colorized" and show her blinking her eyes. When it is in fact a present day actress staging a old photo. You are just shown that process in reverse order.

If you've never seen Hell on Wheels and don't know about Olive Oatman, you wouldn't know the difference. I'm not saying they were all faked, but with unknown subjects, and with the results so clean and clear, you don't really have a reference to determine whether they were staged or not.

Heck, even if they use Abe Lincoln, it would look suspect, since we've only seen his pictures in black and white.
 
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Pretty interesting . Thanks for posting it.


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