Oh my God!
"i made a breakthrough. it turns out juggalo makeup defeats facial recognition successfully. if you want to avoid surveillance, become a juggalo i guess"
@cypnk "hey person who was just talking about avoiding the cops, is there a way i can help out the cops on this?"
@riking I wonder if they look at most social problems and think they can solve them with technology alone
@cypnk again the juggalos turn out to be an unexpected ally against modern fascism
@lanodan It’s accidentally CV dazzle ;)
@cypnk
Look at it... of course it does.
I wonder if Kiss's make up, or king diamond... hmmm
Mind you, not that I had considered it, but it makes sense that it would work in this case.
We could use @RussSharek as a guinea pig.
@thegibson I’d love to see @RussSharek in Kiss makeup! Eric Singer’s kitty face would be perfect 😺
I love this thread, and the fact that makeup so absurdist works to defeat surveillance.
The irony of course is I only wear a nose when I perform.
Clown makeup traditionally was used to heighten existing features. One of the reasons the juggalo makeup is so unsettling is that it intentionally obscures or rewrites them. Interesting to see how deeply the effect works.
Every time I've tried makeup my teachers have told me to do less and my audiences preferred me without.
I have a rehearsal soon. It's the only reason I'm not digging out my greasepaint. :)
It's like I'm working with clowns on this project, I swear.
I consider vaudvillian puns the height of American comedy.
the borscht Belt and such.
This tactic is known as razzle dazzle in sousveillance-minded circles, from how similar it is to early 1900's ship camouflage.
@cypnk DOWN WITH THE CLOWN!!!!
The replies are priceless
"Is there an available corpus of juggalo faces to train on? It'd make for an interesting project to integrate the two..."