Category: Smile

Why does everyone look so stoic in old photographs?

Gannon Burgett

When looking back through old photos, have you ever wondered why subjects rarely smiled, even if the portrait was of an exciting event like a wedding? If so, a new video from Vox will help address your questions. In the three and a half minute, Vox explains four reasons subjects decided to forgo the ‘cheese’ and […]

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Virginia will now let you smile in your driver’s license photograph

Gannon Burgett

Ladies and gentlemen, hell might’ve frozen over. Virginia’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) will now let customers smile when having their license photograph taken—something that has been banned since 2009 when the DMV started planning for use of facial recognition and image verification software. I’m sure I’m not alone in saying that I’ve had to […]

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