Oh, I SO want a copy of this video to download/share!

Disturbing.

My sense is that every president of the 20th century was capable of this. But Obama is the only one who put all his photos on the Internet, so he's the only one we can prove has this skill.

Are you sure that's not a cardboard cutout? ;)

It's simply a practiced Hollywood smile.

I'm Anglo/American and living in Tel Aviv right now.

A family came to visit me recently from LA and when it came to take photos in a restaurant they kept telling me to smile.

I told them, "I'm smiling" and they eventually took photos.

When I got copies they all had the same smile as Obama, except me ;-)

Mike

I love it!
This video inspired me to average all the photos in that set.
flickr.com/photos/dubster/3954145962/

I can do that too.

He really is quite tall.

fascinating...

the wrinkles in his pants change noticeably from picture to picture.

...so does the angle of his body.

and there are subtle but definite variations in the smile itself. see pics 73-75 (starting with tuvalu's prime minister).

while the smile is remarkably consistent, i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that it actually is obama in these picures. if there's an embarassing secret here it's that at some point in his life, the man spent hundreds of hours praticing that smile in front of a mirror. probably in law school.

That's pretty incredible... Reminds me of the Manchurian Candidate :)

And he only owns one tie. Duh. Photoshop?

Awesome vid. big lolz

Great minds think alike - I did something similar here.

krazydad.com/

For a split-second I thought I saw Billy Crystal, I went back and saw that it was some guy with similar hair.

Hey, your video was featured on Red Eye this morning! Congrats!!!

Same look as a used car sales person.

Love it, Eric! Thanks for taking the time and energy to put it together so well!

...AAAND was featured on MSN...that's how I found the link! Here's the address: wonderwall.msn.com/tv/Emmys-Undressed-The-Worst-4285.gallery?GT1=28151#m=trGjYYroMsk&wallState=2__/movies/Who-is-the-Ultimate-Web-Celeb-4349.gallery

love it.

ps
found this via gawker.com.

Wow, that's impressive

Wake up people!!!!

hahahaha XD

Chris Cob said:
"And he only owns one tie. Duh. Photoshop? "
Notice that Michele is wearing the same dress and that they are standing in front of the same draperies. The pictures were evidently all taken on the same day in the same place, hence the same tie. DUH!

fantastic!

This was done with Paris Hilton a while back. Notice that, unlike what you're doing, these pictures are spread over multiple events and times:

parisfacial.ytmnd.com/

My suspicion is, this could be done for any public figure for whom smiling for a posed photograph is an industrial process. Just like it could be done for *any* given industrial process. :) It's like the old joke about how to get to Carnegie Hall: Practice, practice, practice.

OK, so if you go here, flickr.com/photos/statephotos/3949307455/in/set-72157622444106644/ and click to the picture BEFORE it - you'll notice that the Preisdent's thumb moves. Just a little.

Phew.

囧rz，难道他没有其他的表情了么?

jajjajajjaja que bueno!

Great observation! I also love how Michelle Obama occasionally appears 'stage left' only next to the... *ahem!*... thinner dignitaries :)

All of those photos were taken at the same event, and probably within a short period of time. That's why there's only one tie, and that's why the pose is predictable. If you've ever had to pose for many shots in a sequence this is what most people do. It's a reaction to being bored and wanting it to end!

Nice video though!

thats funny shyt!!! haha. Poor Barack.

Great work! Congratulations! You were posted on Lucianne.com 's front page of "Must Reads" yesterday, and I saw it on the cover of a London newspaper this morning.

That music is funky. I danced. President Obama has a great smile but yeah I'm thinking all public figures have a "Meet n Greet" smile. LOL to all the butthurt republicans saying mean things about his smile on this thread.

Very clever ... and quite a talent.

i can do that to

That's a mesmerizing screensaver that I can play all day long.

go to archive.org and find similar sets of photos for other presidents, and see if this really is a unique attribute of our current president.

For some odd reason, when this video went onto the site below it magically disappeared as well as a comment placed here from that site. Is the secret service monitoring this video site? Will the guy who made this video and the people who link to it be spirited away in the middle of the night. Let's hope the video stays up this time:

moronsinchapelhill.com

Obama is really human?!

Obama is really human?!



............doubtful............

New Paris Hilton xD

It was a doll of him! lol

Meet Obama!!
youtube.com/watch?v=ZvsijM8XcVg

Kinda creepy...Sure its not one of those cardboard cutouts like his policies?

could be a fake... he ever has the same tie and gown ... its not the video is excellent ...

that's a fab. he's wearing the same tie in all the photos. seem unlikely.

How can people say it is unlikely for him to wear the same tie. Michelle is in some of the pictures too and she's wearing the same dress. Ever the background is the same.

In the text accompanying the video it says "On Wednesday, the Obamas hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, during which they stood for 130 photographs with visiting foreign dignitaries in town for the UN meeting."

Obviously these pictures were taken during one session, all of them in a row. It would be unlikely for him to change his tie every 15 minutes or so.

That being said, it is indeed funny to see him put on the same smile in every picture. But let's not forget the man's the leader of a nation. And an excellent one at that. But he's no supermodel.

LOL... America is being ruled by a robot.

Robot!!!1

Regardless of whether he can seriously be considered an "excellent" president or not, he's certainly got the plastic smile down--an important skill for America's CEO. And he's not the only one: the few shots of Michelle Obama show that she's got the plastic fixed smile down as well.

haha! "Blue Steel"

Haha, hilarious!:-)

So the curtains do!

oh, no ...

lol...

WTF! hahaha

LOL. The Stepford President?

and the companion video of Michele Obama will be posted when?

Eric your timelapse is great #timelapse ; you should consider posting to 12seconds.tv ; you could see a significant boost in audience / traffic. -m

It's a sad state of the world when the president of the United States smiles the same in all of his pictures. A real leader would have probably thrown up gang signs and probably would have found a way to change his face 130 unique times. Or some other equally illogical statement about why he is a bad president.

hmm, there isn't picture:
flickr.com/photos/statephotos/3950159834/in/set-72157622444106644/

THIS IS NOT NORMAL>!!! this is eerie, creepie and even possibly demonic !!

heheheheheheehehehehe

Go to this website and take the test of genuine or fake smiles:

bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/

Then look at Obama's photos and count how many of them were genuine.

Listen to his responses in debates and interviews for verbalized pauses (uh, um, and). He stutters and has a verbalized pause every time he lies.

You could do this with anyone who has to pose for multiple photos. For you guys that are reading anything into this... you're pretty stupid...