"My name is Mona Lisa"
June 3, 2006 9:00 PM Subscribe
Mona Lisa's voice finally heard. Even if you can't read Japanese, you can still click the buttons underneath each portrait to get playback. Works with Internet Explorer.
Suzuki — a co-winner of the Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for promoting harmony between species by inventing the Bow-Lingual, a dog-to-human interpretation device — undertook the project as part of activities promoting the Japan release of the movie "The Da Vinci Code."
"No, I made your ass look fat. Because you have a fat ass." — Leo DaVinci
posted by secret about box at 9:21 PM on June 3, 2006
posted by secret about box at 9:21 PM on June 3, 2006
As if.
posted by PareidoliaticBoy at 9:24 PM on June 3, 2006
posted by PareidoliaticBoy at 9:24 PM on June 3, 2006
"well, leo, my ass is only fat because i'm having nat king cole's baby"
posted by pyramid termite at 9:30 PM on June 3, 2006 [2 favorites]
posted by pyramid termite at 9:30 PM on June 3, 2006 [2 favorites]
Bravo, p t, on the well-timed Nat King Cole reference.
marked as favorite
posted by wendell at 9:34 PM on June 3, 2006
marked as favorite
posted by wendell at 9:34 PM on June 3, 2006
What if she had a gravelly smoking voice? Bear in mind, I haven't read the article.
posted by parki at 4:56 AM on June 4, 2006
posted by parki at 4:56 AM on June 4, 2006
Actually it's quite cool how the Japanese scientist created her voice. The video, which goes on for about 15 minutes after the voices are heard details -in Japanese- how he approximated them. Mona Lisa's is warmly womanly and Leonardo's has a kind of sage resonance.
posted by nickyskye at 7:27 AM on June 4, 2006
posted by nickyskye at 7:27 AM on June 4, 2006
Mona Lisa's is warmly womanly and Leonardo's has a kind of sage resonance.
What ever would we do without computers?
posted by StickyCarpet at 8:05 AM on June 4, 2006
What ever would we do without computers?
posted by StickyCarpet at 8:05 AM on June 4, 2006
Oh quonsar, you naughty taughty.
StickyCarpet, Before that article and video I'd never heard of forensic accoustics. It seemed an interesting field and I liked that the scientist made this inter-species communication device, the Bow-Lingual. (Don't go there quonsar, just don't).
posted by nickyskye at 9:52 AM on June 4, 2006
StickyCarpet, Before that article and video I'd never heard of forensic accoustics. It seemed an interesting field and I liked that the scientist made this inter-species communication device, the Bow-Lingual. (Don't go there quonsar, just don't).
posted by nickyskye at 9:52 AM on June 4, 2006
nickyskye: Just wondering what measurable physical dimensions in the paintings correspond to sagacity and warmth.
posted by StickyCarpet at 10:24 AM on June 4, 2006
posted by StickyCarpet at 10:24 AM on June 4, 2006
StickyCarpet, The sounds of their voices conveyed warmth and sagacity to me. The forensic scientist based his approximations of Mona Lisa's voice by "measuring her face and hands and modeling her skull".
posted by nickyskye at 11:22 AM on June 4, 2006
posted by nickyskye at 11:22 AM on June 4, 2006
(Don't go there quonsar, just don't).
been there, done that.
posted by quonsar at 6:47 PM on June 4, 2006
been there, done that.
posted by quonsar at 6:47 PM on June 4, 2006
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