Showing posts with label self-video. Show all posts
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Friday, April 27, 2007

Beard Deconstruction Project: Stage 3

Ok, so here I am, a day behind on the Project Report. Sorry, faithful fans... but if you're truly a faithful fan, you expected this from me. But fear not! The Project itself is still on schedule. So, on with the show...


Wednesday = Stage 3 =

I may look a little uncertain, but this was definitely one of the easier stages to live with. I'm not even sure I'd rank it as "bad", honestly. I'm not saying I'd be friends with it, but I wouldn't ignore it rudely if it struck up a conversation. (It's a stretch...even for a metaphor. Go with it.)

Nice and uneven, eh? You like that? I know I'm proud of my sound ability to eye up whether or not the trim job I'm doing on my own facial hair even. That moustache is about as balanced as Fox News Channel. (That's about as political as I get, folks...)

I particularly like the way that this 'do bends in when I make odd faces, as exemplified above. It accentuates my crazy while ramping up my awesome. And so, accordingly, I call this facial hairdo "The Zappa".
From very early on in my work friendship with Steve Witmer, he has insisted that I look like Frank Zappa. I never denied nor disagreed with this assertion, but it wasn't until I saw Steve's fanboy Zappa T-shirt with the following picture on it that I saw the resemblence myself. This is for you, Frank and Steve:




(I can practically hear Wit peeing his pants right now! Out of happiness for being absolutely spot-on in his observation, of course.) Crank some Frank!

The biggest thing that happened today, other than the Zappa tribute, was the decision that needed to be made for the next step in the Project. I literally stayed up at least an extra half hour pondering the two roads ahead of me...there was doodling and much mumbling to myself. I also made many trips to the bathroom and bedroom mirrors to try to "block out" the possiblities by holding my fingers over the portions I thought about shaving off.
In addition to this, I was also trying to see what the best angle to set my camera at in the bathroom, in order to catch a shaving in progress on video. Believe it or not, there had been a request for such a thing from a True Fan, so I decided the best way to scout the positions was to do a trial run. This silent film was the result. After laughing my ass off at myself, I decided to not delete it, but rather to publish it. So here's the first embedded video clip on The Tauz Blaug. Feel free to enjoy. Until tomorrow...