While roaming around the Flickr database I ran into this creepy wax figure of Bill Gates. Does anyone know where this thing is? It doesn;t even look like him. On the plaque whcih was written up by the Biography Channel he’s described as a visionary. Whatever he is, he’s no fashion statement in wax.
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Wax Bill Gates=creepy
Real Bill Gates=creepy
I don’t see the difference…
That’s not a wax model, he looks like that in real life. He just spent his money on an Android that looks like a normal human, Steve Ballmer’s android has a few problems though (prone to chair throwing and getting stuck in infinite loops)
He is in New York City at Madame Tussaud’s wax museum. I was in new york a couple weekends ago and went there and have a picture with that creapy thing.
Their site: http://nycwax.com/
-Ed
I think it’s at Madame Tussaud’s in New York.
John isn’t there a wax museum at Fisherman’s Wharf with a figure of him? I would think there would be several wax museums around the world with displays of the grand digital wizard.
Is that Leo Laporte in that picture? 🙂
Actually, that’s Janet Reno.
That’s Andy Dick and his spray on tan!
They didn’t get it right. It doesn’t look like Gates. Its not creepy enough.
You guys are HOPELESS. So mean!
That one happens to be in Berlin. No joke…
About Creepiness.
One of my favorite books that I discovered was “The Buddha in the Robot” by Masahiro Mori. Later, I found out after some research that he pioneered the psychology of robot appearance. That is, we can make them look as we do to a point. After a certain point when they look TOO much like us the likability that we feel towards it when graphed on an x-y plane drops precipitously into a creepy zone, or as Mori worded it, Bukimi No Tani (Uncanny Valley). Wax figures definately fall into this.
From the Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro_Mori
Xully that’s not Laporte. He would only take a picture with a Steve Jobs dummy. 🙂
What were you doing roaming around Flickr, anyway?