Grisly, isn't it?
I'd like to be able to assert my manhood and claim this as some sort of injury I sustained while fighting a pack of rabid wolves. Hell, I'd even be cool with some sort of flesh-eating bacteria contracted while retrieving a meteor in the Amazonian jungles. Sadly, no such adventure caused this hole in my face. It's merely the result of TECHNOLOGY.
While playing with my recently-acquired Camera Bag app, I took a picture (that, notably, my camera phone completely horked up the white balance on). I'd originally wanted to try out an in-your-face pic with the fisheye lens filter.
Pre-fisheye crosseye. Maybe a little extreme on the closeup. (and pretty damed orange, too) |
But while fiddling with the various options, I applied the infrared filter, and the hilight on my nose was inverted into a picture-perfect hole. I'm not sure if this is what the developers of Camera Bag had in mind, but the result is bloody awesome.
In the interest of science, I immediately tried to recreate the effect:
EUREKA! Again, the hilight on the nose decays into an awesome window to my inner skull. And the abrasions on the forehead become a bit more pronounced. I've successfully recreated the hole in my nose.
Finally, using my newfound powers for angry zombie result:
Yes, I did take this picture in the bathroom. And no, I will not tell you what I was doing in the bathroom at the time. Even Angry Zombies have limits as to what they'll share. |
Chewed up nose: Check. Bruising/abrasions on forehead: Check. Really nifty blood-clot looking thing in the eye: Check.
All those cautionary sci-fi tales were right: technology DOES dehumanize us and turn us into mindless angry zombies.
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