can't sleep. angst will eat me. must do dorky photo manips to preserve sanity.

[thehefner]

After about an hour of tossing and turning, I realized I had a choice. Either I stay in bed, completely awake, and ruminate for the next couple of hours on she whom I should not be thinking about at all... or I get up and be productive until my body finally decides it's ready to shut down. So I got up.

Now, my original intention was to work on The Hefner Monologues, and I started to... until, at the suggestion of tomperdue (thanks!!!), I downloaded Mr. Captor so I may be able to take DVD screenshots. And lo and behold, it worked. Not only was I able to finally create my Doctor Octopus "If I Were A Rich Man" icon! It worked about as well as I could have hoped. Ideally, I'd prefer an animated icon in the style of shadowcaptain's evil undead pirate monkey with clothes, but hey, I think this works!

Of course, this wasn't the only thing I worked on. As I was finally able to do DVD caps, I... well...



I call it, "Best Friends Forever!" I made it into an icon. I know that one day, there will be fangirls writing Johnny Go and Bub OTP. And then I will feel a magical mixture of horror and flattery. I shall call it "flathorrery."



Imagine the scene. A vicious gang of Clancers have invaded the bar, started pushing everyone around, put Elvis on the jukebox, and told Bub that his mother wore combat boots. Oh yeah. Johnny Go and Bub are pissed.

This last one isn't a manip, but a straight Bub picture for ortugatay, Mistress of the Hippie Bed.

And finally, I feel drowsy. Take 2, hopefully will do better.

Comments

[ortugatay.livejournal.com]

Eehehehe, I *love* it.

The resemblance is uncanny:

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

God, it IS! Look at the eyes!

[ortugatay.livejournal.com]

Best part of all is that my cake picture was a total accident...though it frightens me that that's what I look like when people shove cake in my face and photograph it. Daaaamn you Arik!

Maybe Bub and I should meet. We'd have a lot in common. :-P

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

My god, the cuteness is almost overwhelming. Maybe you and Mel can be in the book somewhere. You guys are too cute to have died during the zombie apocalypse.

[ortugatay.livejournal.com]

:-) I would be honored

[fishymcb.livejournal.com]

Oh, John Curtis Hefner, you have the prescription for the daily blues...

Also, um, no harm meant to Bob Davids, but I sort of killed a cricket in my bathroom yesterday with the SABR Home Run Encyclopedia. I'm just saying.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Take THAT, Rex Morgan M.D.!

SABR is a multifunctional group, didn't you know? Baseball stats, baseball history, and murdering small defenseless creatures. They're in the hall of fame for the Murdering Small Defenseless Creatures league as well.

[pokeyburro.livejournal.com]

In all cases, you appear sharper and a bit brighter than Bub. I wonder if it would be possible to darken your image and blur it a bit, and make the illusion better.

The top one looks especially neat...

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

The only pics I have of myself were those headshots, which were crisp and black and white (which is why I turn the Bub pics black and white too, to match). Whereas the only Bub pics are screenshots from DVD or promotional photos from the movie, and the quality at best isn't great, since it was 1985. If I had/was proficent with photoshop, I could do a lot better. But alas, I'm stuck with Paint, which admittedly has a kind of rough around the edges charm to it all. And as limited as Paint is, I'm still learning it all as I go along.

Glad you liked the top one! It's a behind-the-scenes shot, which was very special because there are very few pics of Bub smiling...