The Morphing Software Incident
I had always been known for my good hygiene, I brush my teeth twice a day and comb my hair regularly.
Unfortunately some people on youtube have the unfortunate habit of making fun of me because of how I look- mainly because they constantly thought of my hair as being greasy and overly messy when in actuality there was nothing wrong with it.
This lead to me making my so called youtube avatar Russell Brand just to make fun of the whole thing.
Little did I know that at the time this would lead to the following incident, I was on my computer at a quarter to 1 in the afternoon....just going on blip and checking the updates.
Out of boredom I decided to start up my morphing program which was Abrasoft Fantamorph.
I uploaded a photo of myself as the first picture and just because I couldn't resist...I uploaded a picture of Russell Brand , by mere coincidence I was wearing almost the same thing as he was in the photo.
"Hey...why not? It will give me something to laugh at later."
I started putting the points on the picture of me and on the corresponding picture of Russell before clicking on play and watching the morph happen, I saw the picture of me change slowly until it turned into the picture of Russell.
It was so funny and cool that I had to save it, so I did. I clicked on save and then export - making it into a gif and avi. I then went over to photoshop and took a screenshot of the picture of me in mid morph.
"That's pretty good. I like it. When i'm done I'm going to have to share this with my friends on Facebook."
I decided to try and make another morph before saving, but something went wrong - the program froze up and restarted. The morphed photo vanished off screen completely, and I didn't know why.
"Huh? Where did my morph go?"
I tried looking to see if the morph was still saved on there, which it was - but the picture itself seemed to have vanished.
It was most peculiar, I could not believe it...this was turning out to be one strange afternoon.
But that was not the only strange thing that was happening, I heard stretching sounds as my black t shirt began to grow longer and become a black button up shirt.
"My shirt! What in the name of Vincent Price's ghost is going on?"
My jeans were also losing colour and turning into a pair of black almost 80's-like trousers which were rather tight-fitting but stylish - as a belt of sorts appeared around my waist.
"Aaaw man..not my jeans too! What the hell is happening to me?"
A black jacket appeared around me as I started stretching, growing taller and more lithe until I was at 6'1 (which is about 1.85 m). A pair of black spiked braces appeared on my wrists and my slipper socks began to melt and reformed into a pair of black boots.
I groaned, knowing that I now would deeply regret doing that morph...I just knew I would.
But something told me these changes were far from over, in fact they had just started to get worse.
My hair felt like it was getting pulled at as it stretched and grew out, becoming longer, shaggier and definately a LOT messier - as it turned from it's normal colour to blackish.
"Oh god! My hair! I look like some kind of rejected 80's singer! Only worse..."
My eyes stayed the same brownish colour but grew slightly wider as black eyeliner applied itself around them.
In addition to this my eyebrows thickened slightly and also blackened, which made them look like I had a slightly cocky and mischevious look.
I started scratching my face because it felt quite itchy, but that was due to what was happening - scruffy facial hair was growing on it - not quite normal facial hair but not quite werewolf-like either.
"Aaaaaw...and I just shaved last week."
My facial features started morphing and reshaping themselves like in that morph, as my lips changed in size and turned a shade of pinkish.
My nose also changed in shape and grew thinner in shape as my features looked less like my own and more like the other picture I used for the morph.
It took me a while to pinpoint it exactly....but I remembered that the photo was of Russell...so that must have meant.
"No...no...no...no...say it is not so!"
Yep.....I knew it, I knew that....I was becoming Russell....and I was hating it so much.
My features finished morphing and reshaping themselves until they were Russell's features.
"I'm turning into Russell? This is not bloody fair! Aaaargh!"
I had always had a British sounding accent, I picked it up from the other kids at school - but this was different.
My voice changed and became more bombastic in tone and grew a bit higher, which was followed by my already slightly British accent becoming a Cockney accent.
"Aaaargh! I AM turning into Russell! This is so blooming horrible!" I moaned in despair. I covered my mouth when I realized that my voice sounded more like Russell's voice.
As the changes reached completion, I groaned and shook my head and sighed - to think this could have been avoided if boredom didn't get the best of me.
By the time the changes were completed, I rushed over to the mirror and looked at my reflection in disgust and despair.
"I CAN'T believe it! I can't flipping believe it! I've turned into Russell Brand. This flipping sucks! Why couldn't have I picked a cooler person to morph myself into like Johnny Depp, Jack Black, Jim Carrey, or Bruce Campbell or Chris Walken? Why?"
"Nathan....Nathan....are you in there?"
"Ummm...i'll be right there! I cannot let my dear companions see me like this, it would be a great disgrace and I don't think they would be able to comprehend what happened or understand how my strange transformation of sorts occured."
I ran over to the door and saw my good buddy Adam Hughes aka BrainiacAdam standing there.
"Nathan...Nathan...Nathan...are you there?"
"Yes..."
I opened the door and let Adam inside, still feeling a bit unsure about what he might think.
"Nathan....is that you? You look different.."
"Yes, it is...it's me.."
"You look like that crazy-haired British guy from Get Em To The Greek...what's his name
again? Ummm...oh yeah....Russell Brand!"
"That's because I turned into him."
"But how?"
"Well it all started when someone made fun of my hair on youtube...so I decided to use Russell as my avatar for my mini rants...and boredom got the best of me so I decided to do a morph of me into him using Fantamorph...I saved the morph and everything but the program completely froze and restarted itself and the picture was gone. Next thing I know...I find myself turning INTO him!"
"Oh my, that's pretty shocking."
"I'll say...and blooming horrible too....I mean look at me! I look like what would happen if Jack Sparrow and Beetlejuice fused together with every 1980's heavy metal rocker! I mean my hairdresser is going to have a trucking heart attack if she were to see my hair in the state it is now!"
"Aaaaw, i'm sorry that had to happen to you like that."
"I know...it's alright, I guess. Oh well, I guess this is what I get for being a Fantamorph addict and for coming up with all those 'werecelebrities', huh?"
"I'm pretty sure you'll be able to find a way to fix this, you have done so in the past."
"Thanks, Adam - you're a true friend."
"You're welcome."
I embraced Adam as my mood became a bit more cheerful, knowing that like always I would be able to find a way to fix things.
With that, Adam left and said goodbye as he headed back to his own house.
As for what happened later, well luckily the morph wasn't entirely permanent and I morphed back to myself a few hours later.
And it was a good thing too, because i'm pretty sure that a certain female user on facebook was sending me love notes and talking about how sexy she thought my accent was. Being Russell was too weird for words, and I should know...because I invented the werejohncandy after all.
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Unfortunately some people on youtube have the unfortunate habit of making fun of me because of how I look- mainly because they constantly thought of my hair as being greasy and overly messy when in actuality there was nothing wrong with it.
This lead to me making my so called youtube avatar Russell Brand just to make fun of the whole thing.
Little did I know that at the time this would lead to the following incident, I was on my computer at a quarter to 1 in the afternoon....just going on blip and checking the updates.
Out of boredom I decided to start up my morphing program which was Abrasoft Fantamorph.
I uploaded a photo of myself as the first picture and just because I couldn't resist...I uploaded a picture of Russell Brand , by mere coincidence I was wearing almost the same thing as he was in the photo.
"Hey...why not? It will give me something to laugh at later."
I started putting the points on the picture of me and on the corresponding picture of Russell before clicking on play and watching the morph happen, I saw the picture of me change slowly until it turned into the picture of Russell.
It was so funny and cool that I had to save it, so I did. I clicked on save and then export - making it into a gif and avi. I then went over to photoshop and took a screenshot of the picture of me in mid morph.
"That's pretty good. I like it. When i'm done I'm going to have to share this with my friends on Facebook."
I decided to try and make another morph before saving, but something went wrong - the program froze up and restarted. The morphed photo vanished off screen completely, and I didn't know why.
"Huh? Where did my morph go?"
I tried looking to see if the morph was still saved on there, which it was - but the picture itself seemed to have vanished.
It was most peculiar, I could not believe it...this was turning out to be one strange afternoon.
But that was not the only strange thing that was happening, I heard stretching sounds as my black t shirt began to grow longer and become a black button up shirt.
"My shirt! What in the name of Vincent Price's ghost is going on?"
My jeans were also losing colour and turning into a pair of black almost 80's-like trousers which were rather tight-fitting but stylish - as a belt of sorts appeared around my waist.
"Aaaw man..not my jeans too! What the hell is happening to me?"
A black jacket appeared around me as I started stretching, growing taller and more lithe until I was at 6'1 (which is about 1.85 m). A pair of black spiked braces appeared on my wrists and my slipper socks began to melt and reformed into a pair of black boots.
I groaned, knowing that I now would deeply regret doing that morph...I just knew I would.
But something told me these changes were far from over, in fact they had just started to get worse.
My hair felt like it was getting pulled at as it stretched and grew out, becoming longer, shaggier and definately a LOT messier - as it turned from it's normal colour to blackish.
"Oh god! My hair! I look like some kind of rejected 80's singer! Only worse..."
My eyes stayed the same brownish colour but grew slightly wider as black eyeliner applied itself around them.
In addition to this my eyebrows thickened slightly and also blackened, which made them look like I had a slightly cocky and mischevious look.
I started scratching my face because it felt quite itchy, but that was due to what was happening - scruffy facial hair was growing on it - not quite normal facial hair but not quite werewolf-like either.
"Aaaaaw...and I just shaved last week."
My facial features started morphing and reshaping themselves like in that morph, as my lips changed in size and turned a shade of pinkish.
My nose also changed in shape and grew thinner in shape as my features looked less like my own and more like the other picture I used for the morph.
It took me a while to pinpoint it exactly....but I remembered that the photo was of Russell...so that must have meant.
"No...no...no...no...say it is not so!"
Yep.....I knew it, I knew that....I was becoming Russell....and I was hating it so much.
My features finished morphing and reshaping themselves until they were Russell's features.
"I'm turning into Russell? This is not bloody fair! Aaaargh!"
I had always had a British sounding accent, I picked it up from the other kids at school - but this was different.
My voice changed and became more bombastic in tone and grew a bit higher, which was followed by my already slightly British accent becoming a Cockney accent.
"Aaaargh! I AM turning into Russell! This is so blooming horrible!" I moaned in despair. I covered my mouth when I realized that my voice sounded more like Russell's voice.
As the changes reached completion, I groaned and shook my head and sighed - to think this could have been avoided if boredom didn't get the best of me.
By the time the changes were completed, I rushed over to the mirror and looked at my reflection in disgust and despair.
"I CAN'T believe it! I can't flipping believe it! I've turned into Russell Brand. This flipping sucks! Why couldn't have I picked a cooler person to morph myself into like Johnny Depp, Jack Black, Jim Carrey, or Bruce Campbell or Chris Walken? Why?"
"Nathan....Nathan....are you in there?"
"Ummm...i'll be right there! I cannot let my dear companions see me like this, it would be a great disgrace and I don't think they would be able to comprehend what happened or understand how my strange transformation of sorts occured."
I ran over to the door and saw my good buddy Adam Hughes aka BrainiacAdam standing there.
"Nathan...Nathan...Nathan...are you there?"
"Yes..."
I opened the door and let Adam inside, still feeling a bit unsure about what he might think.
"Nathan....is that you? You look different.."
"Yes, it is...it's me.."
"You look like that crazy-haired British guy from Get Em To The Greek...what's his name
again? Ummm...oh yeah....Russell Brand!"
"That's because I turned into him."
"But how?"
"Well it all started when someone made fun of my hair on youtube...so I decided to use Russell as my avatar for my mini rants...and boredom got the best of me so I decided to do a morph of me into him using Fantamorph...I saved the morph and everything but the program completely froze and restarted itself and the picture was gone. Next thing I know...I find myself turning INTO him!"
"Oh my, that's pretty shocking."
"I'll say...and blooming horrible too....I mean look at me! I look like what would happen if Jack Sparrow and Beetlejuice fused together with every 1980's heavy metal rocker! I mean my hairdresser is going to have a trucking heart attack if she were to see my hair in the state it is now!"
"Aaaaw, i'm sorry that had to happen to you like that."
"I know...it's alright, I guess. Oh well, I guess this is what I get for being a Fantamorph addict and for coming up with all those 'werecelebrities', huh?"
"I'm pretty sure you'll be able to find a way to fix this, you have done so in the past."
"Thanks, Adam - you're a true friend."
"You're welcome."
I embraced Adam as my mood became a bit more cheerful, knowing that like always I would be able to find a way to fix things.
With that, Adam left and said goodbye as he headed back to his own house.
As for what happened later, well luckily the morph wasn't entirely permanent and I morphed back to myself a few hours later.
And it was a good thing too, because i'm pretty sure that a certain female user on facebook was sending me love notes and talking about how sexy she thought my accent was. Being Russell was too weird for words, and I should know...because I invented the werejohncandy after all.
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