The Icing

My friend Jefferson posted his celebrity look-alikes on his webpage. I had to try this out--and when I saw the results, I knew I had to post this.

The site allowed me to edit out two people I'd never heard of--and since one is limited to eight celebrities, that opened up two spots for Joni Mitchell (who I adore) and Adam Sandler (whose appearance as my look-alike totally amused me).

I'm fascinated by the superficiality of this process, the ways that the system seemed to fixate on one feature (my hair?) in order to find my "look-alikes." When I see this collage, I don't really see myself in any of these faces. In fact, I tried it with two other photos and no celebrity appeared twice. In the third picture I scanned, I'm wearing glasses. The result was that many of the same photos (of male celebrities) that appeared as Jefferson's look-alikes re-appeared as mine.

I considered a couple of different endings for this post. The self-satisfied "I'm perfectly comfortable with who I am and the way I look." The academic "Who cares about celebrities anyway." But I think I'll end by saying this was fun to do on a rainy morning at the beginning of my weekend. I'm not sure the process merits any more serious thought than that.