Facing The Now

Definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=face

Thesaurus: http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=face

Face quotes

• http://www.quotegarden.com/faces.html
• http://prosopagnosia.homestead.com/quotes.html
• http://en.thinkexist.com/keyword/human_face/

• face/eyes as doorway to soul
• genuineness
• in the now, in the moment

This selection from the latest of Scott McCloud?'s ComicBooks - Making Comics - shows how emotions combine in facial expressions: http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001441.php

There's a particular brain system that recognizes faces (involving the fusiform gyrus). People with damage to the system have prosopagnosia (people with autism also have trouble recognizing faces). A cute guide to what life is like for those who have it. Tests you can take online to see if you might have it: http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/facetests/

Also see WikiPedia:Face_perception and http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/aug97/866730544.Ns.r.html and http://members.aol.com/nonverbal3/facerec.htm

From http://members.aol.com/nonverbal3/facialx.htm this quote: "From videotape studies of nearly 700 married couples in sessions discussing their emotional relationships with each other, University of Washington psychologist, John Gottman has found the sneer expression (even fleeting episodes of the cue) to be a "potent signal" for predicting the likelihood of future marital disintegration."

Facial expressions are closely tide to emotions, and involve at least some of the same brain parts (in the case of disgust, also anterior insula). Some anthropologists expected facial expressions to mean different things in different cultures, but in fact to a large degree they are universal, something Darwin noted in 1872, and Ekman demonstrated by testing photographs with people in the 1960s with people in the highlands of Papua New Guinea who had not been exposed to outsiders or outside culture.

Paul Ekman

• Interview (incl re Dalai Lama) - http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/2003/8/4_2.html
• The Naked Face (long article) micro-expressions / micro-emotions, truth-telling from people's faces - http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_08_05_a_face.htm
• CD that teaches how to read micro-expressions and early facial signs of emotions - http://www.emotionsrevealed.com/
• Home page - http://www.paulekman.com/

Other memes

• masks
• identity (face transplants, identical twins, machine facial recognition - keeps not working)
• face changing as one ages, wrinkles
• plastic surgery
• beautiful/ugly (a face only a mother could love)
• dimples, wrinkles, moles, etc.
• Face transplants now possible Freaky, just like the film Face / Off, which i just happened to see last night.
• the face on Mars: http://www.seds.org/~spider/spider/Mars/marsface.html also a smiley face: http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0305/17happyface/

• making faces
• What's in a face? (What's in a name?)
• tell it to my face
• face that launched a thousand ships
• if looks could kill
• losing face
• face to face
• could never face ___ again
• about face
• poker face
• human face
• face of god
• putting his face on
• faced her down
• face it
  • face the music
  • facing facts