Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Bad day at the derby !!!

 

Manchester united lost to Manchester City at the Etihad stadium. Man Utd went into the game with a slender lead of just three points. City defeated United by 1-0 to take the lead at the top of the league owing to their better goal difference.

City scored just before the break to take a half time lead. Vincent Kompany scored from a corner from Silva. After the break Man Utd tried to take the charge but to no avail. City created better chances and could have scored more but for their bad finishing. United once led the table by 8 points but defeat against Wigan and draw against Everton gave City a chance to draw level by winning the derby.

Now its in the hands of Manchester City to win the title after 1968. Hope Utd still have it in them to carry till the end, but its for City to lose.

Monday, November 14, 2011

Two Faced: Freaky Portraits With Multiple Personalities

[ By Delana in Gadgets & Geek Art & Technology & Futurism & Urban Images. ]


It is said that the human mind recognizes the characteristics of the human face even if all of the elements are mixed up and out of place. Our minds automatically rearrange mixed-up faces to make sense of them. That is why these very unusual portraits from Jesús González may not seem entirely wrong at first. Some of the elements of the human faces are where they should be, leading our brains to fill in missing information and recognize the odd shapes as distinctly human.


The 1/2 Project features collages of human features, combining head-on views and side views of subjects to create fascinating – if slightly unsettling – portraits. Many of the features are in the right places, just oriented differently than they should be. This disparity leads the mind to feel slightly uncomfortable until we can consciously resolve the difference mentally.


The faces in the portraits are clearly a bit different than the standard human visages we look at every day. But in the few seconds before the eye fully adjusts to and takes in the odd perspective, it is difficult to pin down precisely what is unusual about them.


Once the brain resolves the strange combination of profile and straight-on views, it becomes clear just how much care was taken to line up facial features in precisely the right places. Without this attention to detail, the illusion would be immediately ruined upon first glance.