Saw this over at Phantom Scribbler, and totally couldn’t resist.
MyHeritage uses photo recognition technology to analyze your uploaded photo and tell you which celebrities you most resemble. How could I resist?
I got ten celebrity matches to my face. My ego insists that I tell you that the first female on the list was Isabella Rossellini (54% match) followed by Chelsea Clinton (53% match).
And then to shut up and walk away.
However, in the name of truth and disclosure, I must also admit that the first five returns on the list were (blush):
Zinedine Zidane – 68% match. (I know. I also said, ‘Who?’ Apparently he’s a French soccer star. Right.)
Oliver Stone – 66% match
Dennis (yikes) Quaid – 61% match
Pete Sampras – 60% match
Billy Bob Thornton – 53 % match
Hmph.
Couldn’t have been Angelina Jolie instead of Billy Bob, could it? Hell, even resembling Brad Pitt would have made me feel a little better.
I think I’ll take my Isabella Rossellini and cut my losses.
that’s better than my first match: eddie murphy.
i can totally see the resemblance too – what with me being a fat white woman 😉
LMAO!!!!! Oh Suze, I think I hurt something laughing at your comment…
That’s too cool. I’m going to have to do that.
Billy Bob Thornton, eh? It could be worse . . not much, but maybe.
Ozzy Osborne?
Larry King? . .
Isabella Rossellini??? I’m soooooo jealous! You are a goddesss!
Ha! I won’t be doing that anytime soon…I’d probably come out looking like Carrot Top with an Al Pacino chaser…*shudder*
Okay, had to try it. My results started off pretty good, albeit NOTHING like me, but I’ll take them anyway (even though I’m brunette and the first two are blondes):
Patricia Arquette 69%
Cate Blanchett 68%
Sophie Marceau 61%
And then?
MICK JAGGER 60% Say what?? I didn’t think I looked like a raisin yet… or a man…
Then it got good again:
Jodie Foster 57%
Sandra Bullock 53%
Then it got bad again with Liza Minelli at 51%. Then got good again with Brad Pitt at 51% and Liam Neeson at 49%. Good if I were a MAN, but they’re hot so I’ll take them anyway.
What a strange site… wonder how they come up with the results??
Laurence Fishburne ladies.
See UberGeek and Morpheus are one in the Matrix
So what happens if you submit 3 different photos of yourself. Do you get different results? How good is this software anyway – is it just spitting out a list of random celebrities?
Funny, anyway.
Mine told me Annette Benning is that good or bad? and who is Isabella Rosellini? Sorry
I will do this when I have a bit more time — and a stiff drink in hand. What if I get Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, Howard Stern, and Woody Allen as my hits?
I did this with another pic,and came up with Julianne Moore. Now that I can live with! But check this out – this is what I got for Beloved’s wedding pic:
Harry, Prince of Wales
Stefi Graf
Mussollini
Liz Taylor
Stephen Hawking
Sylvia Plath
Gillian Anderson
Lou Reed
Elijah Wood
Does he have a cool face or what?!
My first instinct was to NOT do this because I tend to be sort of sensitive about how NOT beautiful I am. But? Hillary Duff, Michelle Pfeifer, Sandra Bulluck. Woot! If only it were true 🙂
I wanted to do this at work today, but couldn’t access it with Safari – now that I’m home and had a look – AAAH! Scary! Did you read this:
“Once you teach MyHeritage.com what your relatives and friends look like, it recognizes and tags them automatically in your photos and in photos submitted by other users (subject to privacy settings that you specify). So you can find any photo you’re after by searching for those in it, and find photos of yourself, your ancestors or people who resemble you, even in albums contributed by other users. Our face recognition technology is built to scale to hundreds of thousands of faces, and to recognize peoples’ faces throughout different ages of their life.”
Insert Doo doo DOO doo noises here.
But I couldn’t resist and did it anyway. I sent in a picture of Ann D. and myself (always lookin’ out for you there, Ann, old buddy!) and this is what we got:
Ann:
Guy Pearce 59% (and don’t be grossed, but I think he’s really hot!), Celine Dion 57% (conspicuously silent here), Madhuri Dixit 57% (?!?), Arnold Schwarzenegger 54% (but, you know, before the motorcycle accident), Katherine Hepburn 52% (ignore everything up until this point),
Kirsten Dunst 51% (and I think she’s hot, but don’t be grossed out by that either), Ville Valo 49% (I’m sorry Ann, nobody should have to get Ville Valo), Bing Crosby 49% (the picture shown makes it entirely understandable, and he seemed like such a nice man), Andie Mac Dowell 48% (score), Helena Bonham Carter 46% (A nice Mechant Ivory image – not the Corpse Bride).
Me:
Shirley MacLaine 70% (SEVENTY PERCENT? ), Alyson Hannigan 69% (Oh my god – she IS me), Ann Rice 69% (perhaps just the hair cut); Bob Dylan 66% (ahem, younger Bob, mind you. He was er… interesting looking anyway before he turned into a leather wallet that mumbles), Ava Gardner 65% (But of course.), Pierce Brosnan 63% (shut UP), Sandra Bullock 59% (not such a bad thing at all), Whoopi Goldberg 56% (not such a good thing – I DO have eyebrows. They are pale. Really really pale.) ,Cate Blanchett 53% (You’re all just jealous), and Tori Amos 53% (the red hair, fish belly skin and incredible talent parts, I guess.)
I think it’s funny cause it’s true.
The scary thing is, based on this and my previous comment containing that blurb – who is this company going to locate based on this recognition software for my family album – the celebrities of Hollywood Squares 2012?
Ooo, but Marla, I have to say (and don’t hate me for it) that Brosnan is gorgeous. Mmmm.
I posted this on my blog too, because I thought it was so cool…I’m just all about sharing the love (and humiliation…). I did ok – I got Liza Minelli (67%), Kim Basinger (69%) & Jennifer Connelly (71%). Not totally accurate, I would say. But who knows. Mein Hublein got Gabriel Batistuta (a soccer player) and Isabella Rossellini – maybe you and he are related, Dani! 😉
Suze, omg – you kill me. Should we call you Eddie now?
I LOVE it when the comments are funnier than my original posts!!
I should just turn the whole thing into a group blog….