I used FaceOSC to generate behavioral portraits of four presidents delivering dire addresses to the American people. Scan-lines represents the facial features of Obama following the BP oil spill, G.W. Bush responding to 9/11, Clinton apologizing for lying to congress, and G.H.W. Bush announcing the invasion of Kuwait. Each president has lines describing the X-Y motion of the eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, and jaw over time. I was interested in the particular gaze they adopt staring straight out into the lens. I played with different kinds of digital mark-making until settling on the small vectors above, finishing the whole piece in Photoshop to give a dire EKG-like effect.