About Face: Look Me in the Eyes
by We see the world from behind a face, and our face is what the world sees first.
It is cognitive process called “face perception” that causes humans to ’see a human face’ in things like clouds, patterned surfaces like floor tile, acoustic ceiling tile, tree bark etc. and here, in old peeling paint. Face recognition is important for psychological and social reasons to be able to relate to other humans and if certain parts of the brain are damaged in an accident, through illness or substance abuse, a condition called “prosopagnosia” can exist, which is a social impairment. This is an inability to recognize or understand faces and expressions derived from them.
Tut Face
A rock painted to suggest the face of King Tutankhamen, at Kilcreggan Beach, Scotland.
King Tut is believed to have died in mid-January according to online sources, in the year 1343 B.C. and controversy of the manner of his death continues. It is believed that he may have been murdered because his skull was bashed-in, and with the hierarchy being such, only a person of high rank or importance could have gotten near enough to cause harm. It is also theorized that he may have fallen, striking his head fatally. Either scenario could account for the damage to the skull.
The so-called ‘Mummy’s Curse’ myth still lingers even today as a number of individuals associated with the early finding and unsealing of the tomb died some time afterward, but it is generally believed today bacteria was present in the tomb and fed upon the foodstuff offering left for the boy king, and it was this bacteria that got into people’s lungs and caused infection and death. The air in sealed tombs is not good. Even Zahi Hawass will tell you that!
Autobahn Emoticon?
Do you see a face in the road here? I see an emoticon, a text-based computer-generated smilie.
An emoticon is a text portrayed image, -usually viewed sideways to be understood, that emote the user’s emotion. You see these used most often in chatrooms and in text-messaging, used to set a tone or mood as the cold stoic line of text emits no feeling. While the emoticon as used on the internet can be traced back to a proposal by one Scott Fahlman in a message of his dated Sept. 19th, 1982, the earliest emoticons go back to the 1880s! Humorous writing using these visual tactics was largely common.
From Wikipedia comes this:
“…A transcript from Abraham Lincoln’s speech written in 1862 appears to contain a ‘winking’ emoticon, but it is unclear whether it is an actual use, a typo or a legitimate grammatical construct.”
Stoned Faces!
They all look as if they are sleep. –Faces in a college lecture, no doubt. Stoned and asleep? Sounds just about right to me.
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