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If St. Gaudens were looking for a model today...

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  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,190 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I bet the two mentioned athletes still look very good today. Daphne is probably in her late 30's and I bet still looks very good.
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536
    << There would be many committees formed to address the topic and no doubt some subcommittees would be needed to ensure the chosen person(s) represented a cross-cultural and possibly unisex version of an American. We'd end up with a composite of everyone. It would suck, of course.

    Sad, very sad...but very true. >>

    Don't be so sure about that. A couple years back Discover Magazine had an article on "What is beauty" and how it is perceived. It followed a study that showed that the more a face matched an "averaged" face the more attractive it was judged to be. They also found that the more faces averaged together into a composite, the more attractive the result was judged to be. The article had a female composite that had been averaged from over 1024 faces and it was a knockout. Here are a couple of examples, I'm sore the pictures aren't bigger. The first is an example or averaged male faces and the second is female faces. From top to bottom it is 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 faces.


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    So if they averaged everyone, maybe the result wouldn't be too bad.
  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 12,915 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Who was the model for the AGE, circa 1986? If you place them side by side, you will notice the AGE version is very slimmed down from the curvy Miss Liberty on the Double Eagle (especially the arms).

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  • 1. Isabella Rosellini
    2. stephanie seymour
    3. linda carter
  • ArtistArtist Posts: 2,012 ✭✭✭


    << <i>No question about it, Scarlet Johansen. >>



    In all seriousness, I totally agree with you but only if he had to pick a celebrity. If St. Gaudens were working today, I'll bet he would find his own talent through a modeling agency or even Craig's List.

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  • trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    Anybody else notice that her neck is unusually long?

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    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • JDelageJDelage Posts: 724 ✭✭
    Scarlet Johansen, Angelina Jolie, or Rachel Weisz
    "The greatest productive force is human selfishness."
    Robert A. Heinlein
  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777
    Kirstie Ally is still pretty hot !

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    My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable !
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,019 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    Russ, NCNE >>


    Somehow, I think a "Type II" design would need to be made. image
  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,036 ✭✭✭✭✭
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