The Face of Kiva

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[RichardF]

Guatemala                   Tajikistan                    Viet Nam                     Tanzania                     Kiva Entrepreneurs

Latin America             Europe - Australia    Asia                              North America            Kiva Lenders Morphs

Friendship Bridge Collage Morph   Guatemala Men Morph Tajikistan Clothing Sales Morph   Tajikistan Men Morph Viet Nam Women Morph   Viet Nam Men Morph SELFINA Collage Morph   Tanzania Men Morph Kiva Women Morph   Kiva Men Morph Latin America Women Lenders Morph   Latin America Men Lenders Morph Europe - Australia Women Lenders Morph   Europe - Australia Men Lenders Morph Asia Women Lenders Morph   Asia Men Lenders Morph North America Women Lenders Morph   North America Men Lenders Morph Kiva Women Lenders Morph   Kiva Men Lenders Morph I was looking at this site and thought there must be a way to show "The Face of Kiva" through this innovative approach! The Face of Tomorrow - Lima, Perú The Face of Tomorrow What is the face of London, New York, Paris? What does a Londoner, a New Yorker, a Parisian look like? The Face of Tomorrow is a concept for a series of photographs that addresses the effects of globalization on identity. The large metropolises of the world are magnets for migrants from all parts of the planet resulting in new mixtures of peoples. What might a typical inhabitant of this new metropolis look like in one or two hundred years if they were to become more integrated? In Turkey and particularly in Istanbul, situated as it is at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, you can see how this process has been at work over the last thousand years as waves of humanity from Central Asia, Arabia, Greece and Rome have been absorbed. The resulting population is fairly uniform suggesting that if you could combine all the faces in a city right now you would be looking at the future face of that city. The Face of Tomorrow attempts to find this face by taking photographs of the current inhabitants and compositing their faces to create a typical face. What we get is a new person - a mix of all the people in that city. A face that doesn't exist right now, but a face, it seems, of someone quite real - the Face of Tomorrow   Add My City The Face of Tomorrow is an open source project. Anyone can send in 100 photos and Mike will composite the face for that city or place. All you need is a digital camera and a tripod. It takes a couple of hours and it’s a lot of fun. Take a look at The Source Code to see how this works in practice.

[Jan & John]

Richard, this is an amazing concept... for someone like me who still thinks computers operate by "magic"

I would think Kiva could use something like this to come up with "a face" for each of the countries they are partnered in...

It's a matter of priorities, isn't it? 
And Kiva is always saying how short staffed they are?
Could it be done by a talented volunteer?
But only Kiva has the "right" to do what would be needed with the photos...

no easy answers eh?
jan

[RichardF]

Jan, I just looked at the site and I'm not even sure it's all that active anymore.  Googling brings up lots of stuff and Wikipedia has articles on morphing in general and the MorphThing website as a specific do-it-yourself tool.  Permissions still are needed for public distributions.  I still think there's some potential here.

I'm just sayin' 

[RichardF]

FantaMorph is an example of a boxed option.

[RichardF]

PreMatt!!!

[Wood Fairy Glenda]

Love these things, Richard -keep 'em coming!

[RichardF]

SELFINA Collage Morph

[saabnet]

These morphs all look like out of focus pics to me... o_0

-Scott

[cpbailey]

Scott,

Is that a comment about being out of focus meaning the pictures, Kiva or this calendar project?   

Colette

[RichardF]

The clarity of the result seems to rely on the clarity of the source, the points of connection, and the divergence beyond the shared commonalities.
…What was the question?