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🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:35.7 | like recognizing our best friend in a probably a crowd of a million. You can probably do |
0:42.3 | it. You could have a lineup or find the 10 people in the world that look most like your |
0:48.2 | partner and line the 10 of them up and you could still recognize your partner. So, it's |
0:52.7 | a very fascinating thing to try and find out what it is in a face that makes it recognizable. |
1:00.1 | Wilfred Wood is an artist in London. He specializes in portraits. I've tried drawing plants |
1:05.9 | and cars and things, but I just get bored in minutes. About eight years ago, when he |
1:12.4 | was looking for new people to draw, he got an idea and put out a call for models on Grindr. |
1:19.3 | He explained to me what Grindr is. It's like a dating. It's a dating app, but you can |
1:27.5 | request specific things. It's a filthy pit of disgusting immediate gratification normally, |
1:41.9 | but I can't say that I never brushed paths with in the nicest possible way, but I just discovered |
1:53.0 | that it was possible to get models via it. It turned out really useful in that sort of |
2:01.2 | way because there's lots of people who suddenly discover a very willing or actually keen to |
2:07.3 | strip off lie on my sofa and I could draw them. What did you write on your post on Grindr? |
2:16.3 | Good question. I don't remember exactly. I think it was probably something like, hello, |
2:20.9 | I'm looking for models. I can remember what your username was because it's what I referred |
2:30.3 | to you as to all my friends for a long time. It was art, dad, was your name, so thought |
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