Canadian photographer Francois Brunelle spent 12 years tracking down real life Doppelgängers — two individuals who are not related but could pass for identical twins — and photographing them. He calls his project “I’m Not a Look-Alike,” and it’s starting to get some well-deserved attention.
Article with more pictures: https://www.chasejarvis.com/blog/me-myself-and-i-francois-brunelle-and-his-doppelganger-project-find-your-look-alike/
Photograph website: http://www.francoisbrunelle.com/webn/e-project.html
Wil Ferrell + RHCP drummer = so much this.
Agreed. For your information his name is Chad Smith.
Pretty sure he said his name was Wil Farrell.
And this illustrates a problem of using facial recognition databases as a security measure. False positives lead to false convictions.
Would be an interesting test set for categorising the accuracy of such software.
His inst is jarring to look st. I mean it’s cool as fuck but it threw me a bit.
Its almost like we’re all human beings. Jokes aside, I think this project is cool AF
News flash, none of us are as unique as we think.
None of us is as unique
Except me. I’m definitely unique. Right?
Just like everyone else!
Two people that look alike but aren’t related. That’s what I’m talking about!
Sounds like a tedious job better suited to AI. Fight me.
This dude is trying to categorize all the different NPC variants.
We always joked about this when I worked at a really busy pizza place, how around the corner er all the npcs would spawn and sometimes you’d get the same one in a row just rendered a different color outfit
When I was a young man I went on vacation to another city, and while there I was constantly approached by people who wanted to buy drugs from me. Apparently I had a doppelganger in that city who was a street corner drug dealer.
So what did you sell them?
This used to happen to me literally everywhere I went. Sometimes you just give off a drug dealer vibe I guess?
For what it’s worth, I’m a bit odd because I’m autistic, and I’ve never touched a drug my doctor didn’t prescribe in my life.
They were calling me by a different name, so I’m pretty sure I looked like a known dealer. It was really weird, and kinda scary since several of the people that approached me were obviously in withdrawals and didn’t believe me that I had no idea what they were talking about.
Am I the only one that thinks most of them don’t look that similar?
They look close enough to be fraternal twins to me 🤷🏻
Yeah, maybe in some cases. It does feel like there’s a lot of heavy lifting being done by the styling, lighting and angles though.
Well they’re not literal identical twins
I feel like that’s because we actually get to see them side by side. But if you were friends with one and saw the other as a stranger out in public, say the grocery store, it might warrant a “holy shit, I just saw someone who looks exactly like you,” text accompanied by an awkwardly zoomed in picture of them in the frozen foods aisle.
You’re not alone, I thought the same thing… They don’t look that similar, they would make a really trash “spot the difference” challenge.
Ok now imagine you’re the only witness to a crime and the doppleganger walks in. You wouldn’t question your recollection??
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Very cool, I wonder how he finds the matches.
It’s Canada we all look the same buddy .
He’s not your buddy, guy.
He’s not your guy, friend.
He’s not your friend, pal.
He’s not your pal, dude.
He’s not your dude, lad .
He’s not your lad, mate.
He’s not your guy, friend.
He’s not your friend, buddy.
He’s not yoir friend, bub .
He’s not your bub, pal.
Six. He found six pairs.
Damn, I was thinking he had some kind of doppelganger-finding method worked out. Kinda wanted to call him and be like “find mine”
I guess I deleted my comment because in the OP title it says the photographer has found 200 couples. But at his website it only shows photos of six couples.
A few of them look so much alike, it’s uncanny.
Somebody face-swap them all.
Makes you wonder how many people got jailed for a crime they didn’t commit before the widespread use of fingerprints and DNA just because they resembled someone else.
Step 1: Don’t be black.
Step 2: Don’t be born before 1960.Actually nevermind lol.
People still do.
I can’t find the study but people over estimate whether someone looks familiar, especially in stressful situations.
There are people in prison right now because they look like the perpetrator.
Imma give you a guess as to the races of these people.
The wikipedia article on eyewitness testimony goes into more detail.
The book ‘Picking Cotton’ is a hard read, but its nonfiction about a woman realizing she identified the wrong man for SA. Its excellent.
If you want to listen to a fun episode of Behind the Bastards regarding this topic:
Behind the Bastards: Part One: The Bastards of Forensic Science
https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-one-the-bastards-of-forensic-science
Why do you think the homicide clearence rate has plummeted? Can’t just swing by a random black person, beat the shit out of them, and pin a crime on them like you used to.
Happens all the time. Just look up prison doppelgänger and you’ll get a bunch of hits. One guy spent 17 years falsely imprisoned.