Monday, November 13, 2006

Age Maps

Everyone speculates from time to time, what they looked liked as a child in correlation to their current facial features. Many still have their childhood pictures and every time such pictures come forward, they try to find their current selves (facial features) in that childhood image. Age Maps has a nice collection of images that gives you a unique perspective on the effects of time on a person's look.

The most common change is the hairstyle .. it various from culture to culture, decade to decade.


I can still see the child in his face. He still has that naive childlike touch. I don't know why but I see curiosity reflecting from both ages.


He still has that eminent smile. Smiles are ageless.

38 comments:

Keshi said...

OMG this is such a great post! Smiles sure dun age...and the soul too!

Keshi.

Carmel said...

That is so awesome! I wish they had the cure for wrinkles!

Jessie said...

These are pretty incredible, brilliant concept.

:-)

chelle said...

Very cool idea ... you are right the smile is ageless!!!

Deepak Gopi said...

I liked this post very much.I was planning to post something like this.

Corinne said...

This gave me the shivers... in a nice way.

Art said...

Nabeel, you find the weirdest stuff!

Good weird, but weird just the same.

priya said...

Interesting stuff and only you can bring such issues:-))

Moi said...

I keep doing this with my mom's earlier and present pics......put them together and wonder how did she manage to age so beautifully......:)

Nabeel said...

this is such a cool post sugarlips .. smooch for you .. u find even better stuff than I do :) .. and you are right @ everyone ponders from time to time about their childhood .. how different they looked, what they did all day (all day of playing and being care free) .. and various other memories. Many even think if they grew up to be as good as they wanted to be .. i.e. in behavior and manners etc.

I knowww @ hairstyle I have changed my hairstyle many times .. well .. when I was in grade 10th there was a major change and then college mae pher change kiya (not a MAJOR change) but now i have just one style and my baby (you) take care of it and stylize it :)

'liya said...

Wow that's fascinating!

Jas Bhambra said...

Smiles do transcend age and time.

I still have the same frown that I had as a one year old!

PrAcHi said...

Smiles are ageless
That’s so true! Coooool post :)

hpy said...

I would like to have a picture like that of myself - is that selfish?

SweetPea said...

No, that's not selfish...I would want one done as well.

What an awsome post. The way the two pictures match up is amazing. It makes me want to try it out myself...

abbas halai said...

dude this is seriously trippy.

Pecos Blue said...

wow crazy I am looking at my son to try and see what he will look like when he is older.

Trailady said...

SO cool!!

Cergie said...

Yes, that's a good post, nabeel
Often i'm looking at my children and I'm recognizing on their face how they were looking when babies, but it's not the same when you are looking at babies, you cannot imagine the adult's face
My older son was looking as my father and now, he rather looks like my husband
However on his face I can ever see the baby he was

There are some specialists whose job is to try to draw the features of children who disapeared to try to imagine how they may be at an other age, older. In the purpose to perhaps recognize them

I have much to add, I'll stop now though

Phats said...

This is interesting, and creepy all rolled into one!

Meg Nakagawa said...

Holy (beep) this is so fascinating!

Mile Stones said...

A truly amazing post. Is there nothing you can't find Nabeel? And I'm still mulling over what you wrote about the bad side of male dolphins on my place the other day...that was new also, thanks! If only I could get my hands on a photo of me as a kid smiling. Maybe I didn't back then. Made up for it a lot since though!

ari4u said...

wow. If you look at these pictures first without reading what you wrote in your post, they looks really spooky.

Nonetheless, Good post and very informative :) thanks for sharing. I am going to try it out on my pictures .

Nida said...

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET :D

*goes to get her pictures* :P

Godknows said...

Good idea, I love those pictures

iamnasra said...

Hi nabil ..the peace was just to blog and write your thought on peace and to put you the glob ...sorry this was late but its never late to write

iamnasra said...

Its Nabeel sorry ..Im so use to write it in Arabic...

EXSENO said...

Good post Nabeel, but unfortunetly I'm old enough to know what I look like older and I don't like the old lady that I see in the mirror so I avoid the mirror as much as possible. There is a reason for this, inside every old person there lurks a young perosn longing to get back out. But ofo course we must act our age.lol

Stephen Bess said...

These images are very cool! Great post!

samuru999 said...

Hi Nabeel
What a great post!
I like it very much!
Oh, thank you for the nice comment
on my reading of my poem!
I know my ending tone..
was not quite right!
It's much harder to read than I thought it would be!
Hoping next reading I will do better!
Thank you for letting me know!

Margie:)

Kathy said...

I love this! That you Nabeel! :)

Kathy said...

Thank you*

Kathy said...

ooops! i mean sugerlips!

Reflex said...

Interesting, really cool way to compare.

Pixie said...

This is totally off topic... but I am looking at the commenters here and am surprised at how many of us visit the same places and don't even know it.

Small world indeed.

Embrace it.

Love.
Pixie
OUT.

mathew said...

wow..excellent craft!!

getzapped said...

This is a very interesting post. Good observations. A fun thing to do for getting in touch with the child within....

Di said...

OMG!! that was simply amazin..ive no idea y but i found it a bit creepy that we resemble our childhood selves!:O