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Barack Obama's Eerie, Frozen Grimace Will Haunt Your Dreams [Smiles]
Gawker — This video from Eric Spiegelman compresses 130 sequentially taken photographs of Barack Obama with visiting foreign dignitaries Wednesday during the U.N. meeting into 20 seconds. His smile is immobile and identical in each one. It is creepy. [Via Politico.] ...

Obama's Terrifying Unchanging Smile
Gothamist — Eric Spiegelman put together this amazing stream of 130 photos of Obama posing with dignitaries during this week's U.N. meetings (long video after the jump). And Obama's smile never changes. Of course you may suspect some Photoshopping, but Spiegelman defends himself by directing us to the State Department's flickr site. [Via Daily Intel]

Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile
kottke.org — When Obama poses for photos, he smiles in exactly the same way each time. And I thought Paris was consistent. Tags: Barack Obama   Paris Hilton

President Obama's Got The Smile Down Pat
Scrapper's Place — This week is huge at the United Nations. Dignitaries from around the world are there to take part in the General Assembly and take a photo with President Obama, of course. The President probably thought: Why should I stand around for hundreds of photos with people I don't know or care to know, when I can have my wax figure from Madame Tussauds shipped in and have them take a picture with that? That's just as good, right? Wait, that wasn't a wax figure. That's the president in the flesh with the same smile painted on his face in each of those 130 photos Eric Spiegelman found on the White House's Flickr page. source ...

Quickies: President Obama’s Frozen Smile
The Frisky — Quickies: President Obama’s Frozen Smile Catherine Strawn's avatar Posted by: Catherine Strawn Filed in: news , video 6:00PM, Friday September 25th 2009 Tags: barack obama , viral videos [image]

So This is What Obama's Madam Tussauds Wax Sculpture Will Look Like
Wizbang — Check out this compressed video of all the pictures Obama took with foreign dignitaries at the UN this week, and pay particular attention to his smile, head position, and posture. They don't change at all for the 130 photos that were taken. The only thing I could see shift from image to image was the thumb on his left hand. How did Obama stand and smile so consistently that everything about him, especially his facial expression, look frozen? On the one hand it's really amazing that he can do that for every single person who got his picture taken with him, but on the other hand, it's kind of freaky. I remember when my husband and I stood for our ...

Obama or Obamabot?
Neatorama — Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo. First, it was Paris Hilton and now, Barack Obama. Eric Spiegelman noticed that when President Obama hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he held the exact same smile in every photograph: Ladies and gentlemen, your President is a robot. Or a wax sculpture. Maybe a cardboard cutout. All I know is no human being has a photo smile this amazingly consistent. On Wednesday, the Obamas hosted a reception at the Metropolitan ...

Barack Obama Cannot Change The Look On His Face
Queerty — At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last week, the president and his wife hosted a bunch of foreign dignitaries to show 'em, hey, we care that you bothered booking a flight on Kayak.com to come see us. As is custom, Barack Obama "stood for 130 photographs with visiting foreign dignitaries in town for the UN meeting. The President has exactly the same smile in every single shot." Because he is a robot, and was in "Give These Guys Your Fakest Smile of Sincerity" mode. CONTINUED » ...