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Looks nothing like me

Category: Weirdness
Posted on: November 26, 2009 3:06 PM, by PZ Myers

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Posted by: Michelle R | November 26, 2009 3:11 PM

Oh that figurine's sweet.

Posted by: Mario | November 26, 2009 3:12 PM

Hum, no it doesn't look like you, your beard is faaaar more stylish.

Posted by: maureen brian | November 26, 2009 3:15 PM

No, I prefer the cuddly version.

Posted by: Doc Murray | November 26, 2009 3:22 PM

For a stylized drawing of Mr Davey Jones, I'd have to disagree - it looks very much like you.

Posted by: Andreas Johansson | November 26, 2009 3:22 PM

I was about to say it and PZ have one thing in common - cuddliness.

Posted by: Newfie | November 26, 2009 3:25 PM

I saw that one, and some other beautiful digital artwork here today.

Posted by: SEF | November 26, 2009 3:40 PM

Very cute! It looks as though it might have a little pet crab on its hat too.

Posted by: sasqwatch | November 26, 2009 3:42 PM

The other similarity is the raised middle finger. Er... tentacle.

Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline. | November 26, 2009 3:54 PM

Yeah, sasqwatch, but I don't think PeeZed is that limp. He's not that old after all.

#10

Posted by: Newfie | November 26, 2009 3:57 PM

heh.. now that I see the claw for the right hand, I think a good caption would be:
"Ya, I've got your 'cracker' over here!"

#11

Posted by: Bride of Shrek OM | November 26, 2009 3:59 PM

I dunno, put a pair of glasses on it and I think you'll find the likeness to be frightening.

#12

Posted by: lazlow | November 26, 2009 4:15 PM

I'm seeing double!

#13

Posted by: 'Tis Himself, Quel Dommage | November 26, 2009 4:27 PM

PZ is much taller than that.

#14

Posted by: AdamK | November 26, 2009 4:27 PM

Except that it looks exactly like you.

#15

Posted by: Wowbagger, Man-Hating Man of Pharyngula | November 26, 2009 4:42 PM

Interesting. I didn't like the film and felt that Bill Nye (who's usually awesome) took us on a distracting tour of the UK with his inconsistent accent - but that's brilliant work.

#16

Posted by: Dentroman | November 26, 2009 4:47 PM

I really want a figurine of that guy. It would be awesome.

#17

Posted by: Dania | November 26, 2009 4:56 PM

*looks at PZ's picture on the left*

Uh, PZ... I think you accidentally typed the "nothing" in the title.

#18

Posted by: raven | November 26, 2009 5:24 PM

Looks like it was drawn by a computer program.

#19

Posted by: Rick R | November 26, 2009 5:30 PM

"Looks like it was drawn by a computer program."

Click on the picture and see the "making of" slideshow below. This is a digital painting done using Photoshop. Very hard to do well, believe me.

That artist has some serious skillz.

#20

Posted by: Jason Febery | November 26, 2009 5:40 PM

This is so cool! I definitely want one.

http://jasonfebery.wordpress.com/

#21

Posted by: wheelbrain | November 26, 2009 5:48 PM

Wowbagger, I think you mean Bill Nighy. Bill Nye has never, to my knowledge, taken anyone on a distracting tour of the UK, although I haven't seen all of his television work to date.

#22

Posted by: daveau | November 26, 2009 7:00 PM

Looks nothing like me

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

#23

Posted by: DLC | November 26, 2009 7:36 PM

the new World of Warcraft race . . . Squid-Goblins!

#24

Posted by: Finback | November 26, 2009 8:32 PM

DLC, #23. Iunno, the Draenei already have squidbeards!

And in reply to #21. Now I want to see Bill Nighy vs Bill Nye. TWO MEN ENTER, ONE MAN LEAVES. Both are armed with a cephalopod of their choice.

#25

Posted by: mythusmage | November 26, 2009 8:51 PM

It's phylum mixing, run for your lives!

#26

Posted by: F | November 26, 2009 9:27 PM

Looks like Cthulhu's alarm clock has sounded.

#27

Posted by: Janet Holmes | November 26, 2009 9:30 PM

Aaawww, it's sooo cute!

#28

Posted by: Russell Blackford | November 26, 2009 9:41 PM

That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death can die.

#29

Posted by: Wowbagger, Man-Hating Man of Pharyngula | November 26, 2009 10:03 PM

Wheelbrain wrote:

Wowbagger, I think you mean Bill Nighy. Bill Nye has never, to my knowledge, taken anyone on a distracting tour of the UK, although I haven't seen all of his television work to date.

You are entirely correct. Hilariously enough, I don't actually know who Bill Nye is apart from what I've learned about him from coming here - he's never (to my knowledge) been on Australian television. I'm not sure why I substituted that spelling for the appropriate one. Some kind of Old One inspired madness no doubt.

#30

Posted by: Susannah | November 26, 2009 10:17 PM

Where's the crocoduck tie?

#31

Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline. | November 26, 2009 11:14 PM

I really want a figurine of that guy. It would be awesome.

Ask for one, then.

#32

Posted by: Rewarp | November 26, 2009 11:23 PM

Very cute. It looks exactly like you.

#33

Posted by: Peter G. | November 26, 2009 11:38 PM

Are you sure that, at least, you didn't serve as model for the hands?

#34

Posted by: DLC | November 27, 2009 2:46 AM

Finback : So it's a half gnome-half -draenei ?
perhaps a transitional form . . .

#35

Posted by: JJR | November 27, 2009 9:33 AM

This looks like what in Japanese Anime is referred to as "Chibi" style...so this is a Chibi Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean...(distorted, child-like version of the regular character).

#36

Posted by: Felipe Budinich | December 4, 2009 12:17 PM

Hello Mr. Myers I'm a big fan of your blog, but i got to say that i'm a bigger fan of Tiago Hoisel (and i think that it would be a nice gesture to name the author. I know the image is linked, but citing the source is important)

I think that there's great potential in art to combat religious nuts, I wonder why there is no book illustrated like this:

http://motleypete.cgsociety.org/gallery/828709/

anyway, keep up the good work!