PIXEL FACE (2012)
WHEN THINGS GO WRONG THINGS GO RIGHT
I would like to introduce you to my new friend. I call him Pixel Face.
Last week I was ‘commissioned’ to try and touch up and enlarge three rather battered old photographic prints. Small, torn, worn and weary – they were not in a good way. To achieve the desired goal, I needed to get a very good scan and so set about doing a ridiculously large resolution scan to work from.
Two prints scanned fine, but the third was printed on a rather strange fibrous paper and was of fairly low quality – for some reason, the scanner could not handle it and the completed copy was a set of very high resolution pixels.
So Pixel Face was born and I think he is amazing. Whilst comprised of very little (but very high quality!) data – you can still work out what is going on in the image.
So the game for you today is…guess what the photograph is of and I want more specific than ‘a person’.
Pixel Face is yet more evidence that you should always try things and experiment and embrace mistakes, because sometimes they end up looking brilliant!
Hello Sailor!
CORRECT!
It’s amazing (I think) that it can be that easily identified despite the lack of detail in the image. All it takes is our knowledge of a sailors hat and funny uniform and the conclusion is clear!
Boring – what I wanted it to be was a man with some sort of crazy, white hedgehog/ferret creature exploring the top of his head – I think you can just make out an eye and a pointy nose just investigating his ear! Oh well….
Amazing! I want that now too.
Hmmmm….I might have to try and create a load of friends for Pixel Face and ensure one is a hedgehog headed freak!
All hail Pixel Face.
Wow…I’m amazingly slow, tell why did I think this was a picture of a guy with bubbles on his head???@@
now all he was missing was a matching bubble beard.
lol, ^ now that i’ve actually read the comments, I’ll have to second Heather xD
Because you are a genius! That is the best idea about that it looks like so far!