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Figure drawing today for the first time in almost a year. This is sort of goofy and cartoony, especially the head proportions.
Working on the second part of the two-part TF2 spray for my pocket demo and myself.
here’s some faces i sketched no big deal
(Source: maggotmaster, via t-d-x)
suicide by graphic design
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On Friday afternoon, about 20 bars around San Francisco are set to have special “facial detection” cameras turned on as part of a new smartphone app by Chicago-based startup SceneTap.
The cameras, which are mounted above the door of their client bars, scan patrons’ faces as they enter and exit the bar. The company’s software then immediately determines whether the person is male or female, and counts how many of each are in the bar, divides that by the known capacity of the bar, and then outputs something like: “Crowd: >90% full | Women: 58% | Men: 42%.”
San Francisco bar patrons are unlikely to know that their faces are being scanned, however—the company has only put SceneTap stickers in the windows, but does not explain to customers in an obvious way what exactly is going on.
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“Here’s the thing—there are no videos or images stored at any time,” wrote the company’s CEO, Cole Harper, in an open letter to San Francisco. “Once the data is triggered, the images are overwritten, deleted, gone. There are no tapes. There is no video feed either. No one can go to www.scenetap.com and see what is happening. It’s all data and numbers—that’s it. And since we’re only focused on the door, you’re free to do keg stands and dance like Bernie or hit on that bartender all you want—we do not track you in the venue.”
The problem being, of course, that we are being asked to simply trust in the innate good nature of a face-recognition software company to not record, copy, or report this data, even while they have every reason to do so. I for one am entirely willing to send that kind of data off to Scenetap, whom I’m positive will never misuse, sell, or hand over the data to interested parties with subpoenas and/or giant cartoon-dollar-sign-encrusted bags of cash.
(Not to mention the troubling assumption on the part of Scenetap that designation of gender can be left in the hands of software, and then reported without consent. What the hell criteria are they using, anyway?)
“It is in fact creepy!” wrote Rebecca Jeschke, a digital rights analyst for the EFF, in an e-mail sent to Ars on Thursday. “Looking at the privacy policy, they say they don’t keep video or stills, but are silent on if they keep the measurements and other data they collect in order to make their conclusions about gender and age. That’s a big question for me.”
In an e-mail sent to Ars on Friday, Nieman clarified that the company does not retain facial measurement or related data, despite the fact that this is not reflected in the company’s privacy policy.
Here is a list of San Francisco venues that have installed Scenetap cameras. Ars Technica reports that many bars that are still listed on Scenetap’s page have since pulled out. The fact that they considered the program in the first place is worth pointing out, however. These venues are indicated with an *.
I think I might do a little tour of their Yelp pages today.
(Source: Ars Technica)
another pic of me in 1984. thanks for the nice notes on the previous pic of me as a teen. high school was the worst time of my life. i was regularly made fun of, had food thrown at me, was spit on and physically beaten by my fellow students. i was cutting myself often and terribly unhappy most of the time. a few years after this photo was taken i tried to kill myself.
i’m not looking for your sympathy, although it’s appreciated. i’m mentioning this because a lot of people on tumblr and who follow this blog are still in high school and chances are they are not enjoying it (understatement).
high school is not real life. high school (for the most part) is bullshit.
the good news is that it ends. there is life outside of that particular institution.
don’t die, remain true to yourself, and there is a very good chance you will experience a life more amazing than you can imagine.
i love my life today, and the wonderful people who love, understand and appreciate me know that i am essentially the same person who barely made it through those terrible years.
i hope this helps someone.
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I never really got why people visually translated the moon as this impeccable porcelain thing because her face is clearly jacked to shit
“like straight up you can give the police One Trillion Dollars and they will roll up in a fucking ferrari cop car with rocket launchers meanwhile sending faxes of mimeographs 50 feet to ‘records’ which is just a room with a lady in it who puts the fax in a box”
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