Face swapping seems to be all the rage these days! As an example, Mashable recently featured "25 Terrifyingly Amazing Face Swaps" -- click HERE to see! For more examples, just Google-search "face swap" -- there are plenty of hilarious examples out there!
However, did you know that the concept of "face-swapping" dates back to the late 1800s? The idea was initially conceived by Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request). He first wrote about it in his now-classic poem "The Face we choose to swap" (below on the left). His poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "The Face we choose to miss" (below on the right).
However, did you know that the concept of "face-swapping" dates back to the late 1800s? The idea was initially conceived by Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request). He first wrote about it in his now-classic poem "The Face we choose to swap" (below on the left). His poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "The Face we choose to miss" (below on the right).
| By Emmett Lee Dickinson: The Face we choose to swap – Be it from just an App Now online for a Hundred Years, E'en though it looks like crap – | By Emily Dickinson: The Face we choose to miss – Be it but for a Day As absent as a Hundred Years, When it has rode away – |
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