talking head


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a talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen

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Byrne will be performing songs from his critically acclaimed album, American Utopia, as well as classics from his solo career, and his days with Talking Heads.
Evaluation of a viseme-driven talking head. Proceedings of the EG UK Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics (pp.
Talking Heads opens at the Loft Theatre tonight and runs until July 28.
That model can imply that institutions are in the instruction business: that they earn their money by parking a talking head in front of a classroom for a set number of hours.
Craver is what is becoming more and more accepted and common in the communication field: a "talking head" nouveau, gracing the airwaves and streamed audio feeds of regular webcasts and conference calls involving targeted niche audiences, such as creditors, investors, B2B customers and the news media.
According to Davis, young people often feel their minister is little more than a talking head.
The talking head on the computer screen can smile, frown, or look perlexed.
Powers, who has recently appeared as a talking head in the Ken Burns documentary on Mark Twain, also grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, and gives often elegant descriptions of the area.
A huge portrait photograph of Jean Nouvel has been placed in what might best be described as Beaubourg's level +6 arrivals and departures lounge, where the route to his exhibition is indicated by a line-up of video screens displaying the same talking head -- Nouvel's -- discoursing on six different themes.
This picture, on the other hand, pulls viewers into the picture, stressing the significance of the press conference itself instead of just describing another talking head. By turning the tables and shooting from behind Hamm, the AP photographer changes the subject matter of the story -- it is no longer about Hamm's views on a soccer game.
The author of six well-received books of political economy, he was a regularly scheduled talking head and a frequent contributor to the nation's leading newspapers and magazines.
With the help of Nestor Sanchez of the Department of Defense, Alvarez landed a job working with Rand's top anti-terrorism expert, Brian Jenkins--a ubiquitous talking head after last year's World Trade Center bombing.
Surprising covers of Talking Head's classic Psycho Killer and Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here also went down a storm.
It's true, but irrelevant (even though it's clear that the difference between political genius and MSNBC talking head lies in convincing a lot of older Jewish voters in Florida to mark their butterfly ballots for Pat Buchanan).
Films range from highly literal talking head presentations to morphing computer-generated drawings and more abstract reflections of architecture, urbanism and Japanese life.