Averaging Noah Kalina's 12 years of daily photos

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You've likely seen Noah Kalina's updated daily self-portrait video, now including more than twelve years of photos. If you haven't, it's below. The image above is Than Tibbetts' averages of each year. "Average Noah Kalina"

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John Coleman

Is it just me or does the 12 year Average Noah look like the Ecce Homo Resto?
http://profile.yahoo.com/O6VRZ6GG47OZ75PVHWCYMXLBQ4 bobo obobo

I’m a bit scared by how quickly the freckles appear after the 5:00 mark on the video. There were none and then, suddenly, he’s like a quail egg.
esquire

I wonder if he kind of hates that he ever had this idea.
Aeron

So if you speed Noah up really fast he’s Christopher Walken?
wizardru

So many questions: did he intentionally rotate around the room during the 3-7 year time zone or did it just work out that way? Why, around the 7-9 year point did he go through a cycle of growing a light beard and shaving it off about a half-dozen times? Did he use a digital camera for the entire project, a film camera or did he switch over time?
http://www.facebook.com/abucci Adam Bucci

its like watching someone travel through time
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EP2SEPYCCZMRYIAERCXDLFIRWM AnthonyI

There are a couple of people doing this. Here is someone who created an apparatus which takes 2 pictures a day and the camera revolves around him over time. He’s been at it for 17 years according to this video:

http://youtu.be/Bd4f2xeKg08
wondy3

it is a fake, 12 years ago the digital era was just at the beginning and more, if you pay attention on his eyes and an orange t-shirt coming out in many shoots, you can easly realize he made it in maybe 3 months
- monika Arbudzinski
  
  Dude, he’s been putting up videos like this since he started… The first chunk is the original video. The first one I saw was over the course of four years, and I saw it eight years ago.
- Susan Carley Oliver
  
  12 years ago the digital era was just at the beginning
  Aww, that’s so sweet!
kent williams

He’d get a much sharper and more interesting average image if he co-registered them using landmarks like his eyes and the tip of his nose.