An uncanny transformer
Apr. 11th, 2007 12:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusAnyone who knows the University of St Andrews will have suspected at some point that there's a fiendish machine on campus that takes quiet, intelligent, pointy-faced Scottish students and turns them into brash, stupid, green-booted, rich and obnoxious Engiish poshos called Toby and Jemima who loudly describe helicopter holidays in Mustique with minor royalty while you're trying to read Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" in the student canteen.
In fact, the frighteningly-named Perception Laboratory in the St Andrews School of Computer Science does turn out to have just such a machine, but there's no setting for green wellies. Instead, you can become East Asian, West Asian, Afro-Caribbean, a Modigliani painting, an El Greco, a baby or an ape. Just upload a photo and get to work. At least an hour of your life will be wasted, but you will laugh heartily, I promise, and that'll extend your lifespan by three to four months.
Apart from embracing my negritude, I morphed into a dazzling array of characters, none of whom actually were me, but all of whom extended me in ways that were uncannily recognizable. What was it Wire used to sing, "I've got forty versions all dying to get the part..."?
(If you find an interesting alter ego, give us a laugh, post a picture.)
In fact, the frighteningly-named Perception Laboratory in the St Andrews School of Computer Science does turn out to have just such a machine, but there's no setting for green wellies. Instead, you can become East Asian, West Asian, Afro-Caribbean, a Modigliani painting, an El Greco, a baby or an ape. Just upload a photo and get to work. At least an hour of your life will be wasted, but you will laugh heartily, I promise, and that'll extend your lifespan by three to four months.Apart from embracing my negritude, I morphed into a dazzling array of characters, none of whom actually were me, but all of whom extended me in ways that were uncannily recognizable. What was it Wire used to sing, "I've got forty versions all dying to get the part..."?
(If you find an interesting alter ego, give us a laugh, post a picture.)
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Date: 2007-04-10 10:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-10 11:00 pm (UTC)Just insert narcissistic, cyclopean scotsman.
Computer not required.
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Date: 2007-04-10 11:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-10 11:07 pm (UTC)Baby Macrocephaly
Date: 2007-04-10 11:08 pm (UTC)Where are my teeth? I like how it superimposes a new eye over your eyepatch.
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Date: 2007-04-10 11:14 pm (UTC)None of them are funny enough to post though *SADFACE*
Re: Baby Macrocephaly
Date: 2007-04-10 11:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-04-10 11:25 pm (UTC)asian me is pretty awesome.
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Date: 2007-04-10 11:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-10 11:48 pm (UTC)Mirage during 'Master Mind' at the weekend
Date: 2007-04-10 11:58 pm (UTC)Re: Mirage during 'Master Mind' at the weekend
Date: 2007-04-11 12:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-11 12:11 am (UTC)and should probably join glam lolz but you don´t have an account SO SRY
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Date: 2007-04-11 12:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-11 12:25 am (UTC)Now you need to do a podcast of voices for these characters. Give them names and accents and stories and stuff. Except that someone's sure to come along and say you're being racist, hating on Modigliani or impersonating someone younger on the internet in order to entrap babies.
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Date: 2007-04-11 12:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-11 01:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-04-11 07:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-11 07:26 am (UTC)George W. Bush
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Date: 2007-04-11 11:43 am (UTC)Funny, when you're Afro you're Prince and when you're East Asian you're Bob Dylan!
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Date: 2007-04-11 12:08 pm (UTC)Wannabe West Asian(?)
Date: 2007-04-11 02:38 pm (UTC)Re: Wannabe West Asian(?)
Date: 2007-04-11 03:10 pm (UTC)this one came out interesting though:
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Date: 2007-04-11 03:15 pm (UTC)another ape.
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Date: 2007-04-11 04:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-11 04:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-11 04:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-11 04:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-11 04:58 pm (UTC)Monkey-me looks so friendly.
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Date: 2007-04-11 05:02 pm (UTC)Re: Wannabe West Asian(?)
Date: 2007-04-11 05:09 pm (UTC)Re: Wannabe West Asian(?)
Date: 2007-04-11 05:34 pm (UTC)Wooowh!
Date: 2007-04-11 09:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-11 11:37 pm (UTC)mashup paul klee
Date: 2007-04-12 02:39 am (UTC)forgot to say,
Date: 2007-04-12 02:42 am (UTC)that's a cool image
Date: 2007-04-12 02:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-04-12 05:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-12 05:54 pm (UTC)Thank you !! Totally addicted now.
Date: 2007-04-12 11:12 pm (UTC)