Update #1 (Worldcon)

Ctein by Kyle Cassidy

Kathy Li tells us that if you're curious to see the fruits of Kyle Cassidy's Worldcon labors, he's put quite a few of them up on his Flickr stream, including this shot of Ctein—and two of Jon Singer.

Update #2 (Polychrome)
Re the illustrations in "Polychrome," Ctein says, "Mozilla just released Firefox 3.5.2, and the release notes mention that this releases fixes some problems with rendering profiled images. Indeed; I just installed it, and now the full-size photos (viewed by clicking on the in-line illustrations in the column) shown in the browser are reasonably close to correct  in terms of color and saturation. Not perfect, but good enough for 'magazine work.' Readers who are curious abut whether their pet browser is doing a good job of rendering profiled images should run the comparison I described in the P.S. to the post."

Mike
(Thanks to Kathy Li)

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Featured Comment by Bahi: "That really is a cracking shot of Ctein; I did wonder, before seeing it, whether post-Worldcon elation led Ctein to exaggerate the strengths of Kyle's results. Nope."

Featured Comment by Mikko Moilanen: "Lol u look like 2000 century Gandalf."

Featured Comment by Jared: "You mean Ctein is a math genius and a hippie? I think I've found my new role model."

Comments

[Arthur Clune]

Geeky but not off topic. You can get Firefox to use the ICC profile for your display as well via the

gfx.color_management.enabled

and

gfx.color_management.display_profile

preference in about:config.

See http://www.cosmictap.com/color-managed-firefox-3-is-here/ for the details. Note that in Firefox 3.5, color_management.enabled goes away as it's enabled by default.

[David]

Ctein is much hotter than Annie.

Where'd they get that portrait of Annie anyhow? Portrait-wise, It's positively awful.

[Alex P. Schorsch]

One thing is evident from the latests´posts here on T.O.P. Both Ctein and Annie Leibowitz use the same hair stylist.

[Joe Lipka]

Is this the Leibovitz family portrait site? Really. Maybe it's just that long, gray unruly hair thing. Or I need some more coffee.

[Blake]

When I first glanced at Ctein's photo, I thought it was a Photoshop composite job on Annie L's portrait below.

[Mike]

Do you know, that's how I always imagined Ctein.

[Miserere]

Ctein, this portrait is much better than the other one I had seen of you...although I don't remember where. Wherever it is, swap it!

If I get to meet you in February, I now have a mark to beat when I take your portrait. Because you want to be photographed by as many famous photographers as possible, right? Maybe one day you'll be photographed by Annie herself, and then the circle will close and peace will reign on Earth ;-)

[Bron Janulis]

Seperated at birth, and now, together through the power of the interwebs.