Comments on: Doctor me http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/17/doctor-me/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:51:56 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Supernova http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/17/doctor-me/comment-page-1/#comment-135096 Supernova Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:17:14 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/17/doctor-me/#comment-135096 Creepy! Creepy!

]]> By: Rift http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/17/doctor-me/comment-page-1/#comment-135092 Rift Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:59:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/17/doctor-me/#comment-135092 That's Awesome Phil! I'm sure someone has already said they need to get a life (I don't generally read comments they annoy me). I once did a piece of artwork that was a Dalek reading your first book and some said I needed to get a life. I don't think people understand how little time some of these things take, and how our artistic needs come out is some bizarre ways, at least to some other people. And don't worry, I'm working on a new image for your new book, Just need to come up with a good idea. And no, peanut gallery, I have a life, thank you very much. Having seen you go from a guy with a little website with about a dozen regulars to the celebrity you are now has been a heck of a lot of fun. Congrats. And I can think of no better honor then being morphed into Tom Baker's Doctor. That’s Awesome Phil!

I’m sure someone has already said they need to get a life (I don’t generally read comments they annoy me). I once did a piece of artwork that was a Dalek reading your first book and some said I needed to get a life. I don’t think people understand how little time some of these things take, and how our artistic needs come out is some bizarre ways, at least to some other people.

And don’t worry, I’m working on a new image for your new book, Just need to come up with a good idea. And no, peanut gallery, I have a life, thank you very much.

Having seen you go from a guy with a little website with about a dozen regulars to the celebrity you are now has been a heck of a lot of fun. Congrats. And I can think of no better honor then being morphed into Tom Baker’s Doctor.

]]> By: SteveG http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/17/doctor-me/comment-page-1/#comment-135087 SteveG Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:23:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/17/doctor-me/#comment-135087 Ok, THAT'S going to give me nightmares... Ok, THAT’S going to give me nightmares…

]]> By: BW http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/17/doctor-me/comment-page-1/#comment-135067 BW Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:39:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/17/doctor-me/#comment-135067 Some of these morphs are more convincing than others... trying to morph our bad astronomer hero into a guy with big curly hair just doesn't work very well. And in some of the morphs on this website, the heads become strangely bumpy during the transition... On the other hand, the morph between G.W.Bush and J.McCain is technically totally convincing and really, really, really creepy. Some of these morphs are more convincing than others… trying to morph our bad astronomer hero into a guy with big curly hair just doesn’t work very well. And in some of the morphs on this website, the heads become strangely bumpy during the transition… On the other hand, the morph between G.W.Bush and J.McCain is technically totally convincing and really, really, really creepy.

]]> By: Matthew J. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/17/doctor-me/comment-page-1/#comment-135050 Matthew J. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:54:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/17/doctor-me/#comment-135050 Now if you morphed Doctor Phil into either the Peter Davison or David Tennant versions, whilst they were wearing the brainy specs, this might flow better. Brainy specs ftw! Now if you morphed Doctor Phil into either the Peter Davison or David Tennant versions, whilst they were wearing the brainy specs, this might flow better.
Brainy specs ftw!

]]> By: Cameron http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/17/doctor-me/comment-page-1/#comment-135048 Cameron Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:56:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/17/doctor-me/#comment-135048 When the hair sprouts out, it looks vaguely like an enormous '70s-alien brain coming out of your head. When the hair sprouts out, it looks vaguely like an enormous ’70s-alien brain coming out of your head.

]]> By: Autumn http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/17/doctor-me/comment-page-1/#comment-135036 Autumn Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:22:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/17/doctor-me/#comment-135036 About a third of the way through the change, I failed to have my disbelief suspended. Something jarred my brain into reality. It may have been the moment the glasses disappeared (although I think that the glasses were much more jarring in the reverse), or simply that there seems to be a downward lurch of the mandible that ruins the smoothosity of it all. Also might have been the background. Oddly, after not "getting" the video, the final still-shot I find more eerily "morphic" between Dr. Plait and Mr. Baker. In my opinion, in this case we have an example of new technology being less adept at creating the required illusion than old technology. About a third of the way through the change, I failed to have my disbelief suspended. Something jarred my brain into reality. It may have been the moment the glasses disappeared (although I think that the glasses were much more jarring in the reverse), or simply that there seems to be a downward lurch of the mandible that ruins the smoothosity of it all. Also might have been the background.
Oddly, after not “getting” the video, the final still-shot I find more eerily “morphic” between Dr. Plait and Mr. Baker.
In my opinion, in this case we have an example of new technology being less adept at creating the required illusion than old technology.

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