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I found this to be very interesting.
What would you favorite rock star look like today if they were alive? (Using aging software).
(Shouldn't Mama Cass be older than she is in this rendering?)
Yes, she would be 72 and Janis Joplin would be 70 now. However, given the things that celebrities do to look younger, it's not unrealistic.
Chris
Strange that a trend in the project was to take hair off the longhaired men, but not off the women. Despite what relatives and former friends might have told us they thought, we know that being a longhair is not a "phase". Of course, the guys aren't around to ask them.
Bill
Maybe not all that unrealtic.
Remember that iconic photo of John Lennon after the Beatles broke
up where cut his hair and was holding the cut hair?
Also remember Elvis cut his hair when he went into the Army.
Had they lived would any of these guys kept their long hair? Probably not. Remember John Lennon cut his hair a decade before he
was shot.
I'd just like to note that the old rendering of Moony still has those crazy eyes that Keith had. I doubt it was intentional by the maker, but I appreciate the little touch.
Thanks for posting... I shared that with friends...
Onward and Downward.....
Thank you. I was looking at the gallery post above.
At the age of 76 shouldn't Bobby Darin look older?
I find it interesting that Bob Marley still has long hair.
I also find the aged Jim Morrison to look alot like Wolf
Blizter.
This article has a few extra faces;
Hmmm, it's a bit strange that people in the forefront of entertainment wouldn't have updated their fashion sense a bit more in line with the present day. They're all still dressed in clothes of past eras - and not in a cool retro way! :)
It would've been more convincing if the "manipulation company" had bothered to update their clothes as well as their faces.
And I think Elvis would have styled his hair today a bit differently to the way he did in the 1950s.
I think Keith Moon would look a lot older. If you look at old pics of him, he was already looking old for his age when he died at 32.
Damon
Bear in mind these are renderings of what they "might" look like
if they were alive today. This all started with missing children
and they created software to show what that missing child might
look like today.
Ultimately it is a pure guess.
As far as updating their fashion sense, i'm not going to complain since between my long hair, my cut off shorts, jeans,
farmer overalls, and wide leg jeans i'm still dressing like I
did in the 60s.
But again this is what they "might" look like today.
IMHO the photo of today is how he would have worn his hair today
although i'd suspect his hairline would be receeding.
I'm already in disagreement with Elijah Wald, author of a book
called "How the Beatles Destroyed Rock Â’nÂ’ Roll"
I have to strongly disagree with him on that. IMHO the Beatles did much foster the growth of Rock 'n Roll. Many cited the Beatles as their influence in music in later years.
I suspect they simply used old stock photos of the celebrities and updated the faces but didn't bother to update the clothes.
Which is a bit lazy and silly really. If you want to show how those people would look NOW (in 2013/2014), you should go the whole hog and show them in modern clothing. I rather doubt that many of those artistic types, some of whom were very edgy at the time, would be seen now wearing clothes that are hopelessly old-fashioned and frumpy today. Their surviving contemporaries such as Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Cliff Richard ditched things like turtlenecks decades ago! ;)
I haven't read the book but as a lover of 1950s Rock Â’nÂ’ Roll (Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, etc.) and a hater of most Beatles stuff, I'd say Wald has a point! :)
Damon
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One thing to keep in mind though is the aging process for photos was developed to "age" children who had gone missing years ago.
The assumption was probably that they would be wearing the same clothes as when they went missing.
(Think about it, if you kidnapped a kid would you risk shopping for clothes for them which might arouse suspicion? Now these folks weren't kidnapped but the technology wasn't developed with them in mind.)