If you've ever wondered what you'd look like as a "beautiful person", Julian Wolkenstein's "Echoism" Project can show you. But that's only if you believe that symmetry is the basis of beauty and that there's a possibility for a more beautiful you. As in, your potential for beauty supersedes all that you already are and have been. The project takes submitted portraits via their webcam or the Echoism iPhone app and alters them to create symmetrical images of the user. Some of these pictures look funny or cartoonish, but others border realism and make you wonder, as Wolkenstein puts it, "what do you look like? what are the things that make you look like you...is it you at all? Do you have a best side?" How beautiful are you?
Check out the over 20,000 images from 157 countries at the Echoism website. If you're feeling particularly brave or curious about your good looks (and if you could look better), submit a photo yourself.
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