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Left face / right face : Gary Busey

This is the latest in my left face/right face series. I noticed Gary Busey has a very asymmetrical face. The original photo is in the middle. The image on the left is composed of the right side of his face repeated, and the image on the right is made up of two left sides.
I don’t [...]

On Taste

In a previous post I mentioned that Norman Mailer was not a writer particularly to my taste. Just after writing that I came upon an account of a couple of interesting experiments that speak to the subjectivity of taste — in this case the taste of wine. The following passages are from an article by [...]

More Left Face - Right Face

I’ve added a few more examples to my exercise in comparing the left and right sides of people’s faces. The new examples are:

Gwyneth Paltrow
Eleanor Roosevelt
Tim Gunn
Andre Breton
Johnny Depp
Miles Davis
Jane Fonda
Ron Artest
Moby
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Left face / right face : Gary Busey

This is the latest in my left face/right face series. I noticed [...]