Name these Zero Punctuation references

January 13, 2009 6:50 PM

In many of his reviews, Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation fame includes a picture of a white male and sometimes an asian male. Who are these people?
posted by typography to media & arts (6 comments total)

Just look like stock images to me. The guy in the blue shirt at least.
posted by turgid dahlia at 7:15 PM on January 13

The white male is a friend of German photographer Thomas Ruff.
posted by ochenk at 8:46 PM on January 13

And the Asian male is a stock photo.
posted by ochenk at 8:52 PM on January 13

Wow, nice work ochenk. I guess it isn't some clever reference on yathzee's part after all.
posted by typography at 8:54 PM on January 13

Ochenk: how?!
posted by rokusan at 6:51 AM on January 14

Ochenk: how?!

Yeah, I know. Weird, huh?

About 6 months ago, TinEye launched. It was entirely useless as the dataset was so small, but it was such a great idea (if it could only work) that I bookmarked it. I've tried it every once in a while since then, with limited success. This is the first time the results were useful.

What's amazing is that after typography's image was cropped and rotated, it was small and blurry, but apparently there was plenty of info there to match up the sources.
posted by ochenk at 10:27 AM on January 14 [3 favorites]