Best Procrastination Ever

GemSimpson
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Watching famous people become Simpsons characters always made me fantasise about having my own caricature made! So, when I saw Mel's entry today I was inspired to make my own self portrait at last.

Obviously (I'm holding a DVD and a remote), I have to have some kind of relationship with Comic Book Guy. Or with my side hair parting, I might be related to Dolph...

I'm thinking of my thesis too: there is an obvious connection to be drawn here with the potential motivations of some film-induced tourists - is drawing yourself as a Simpsons character similar to taking a photograph of yourself at a film location site? As James Preston has written about film-induced tourists:

"these tourists effectively integrate themselves into stories which already have collective capital, recognition, and understanding among their peer group and beyond. They in a way become a part of the film or television programme by visiting the locations where the film has been shot."

Both film-induced tourism and becoming a Simpsons character seem to represent ways of incorporating the spectator into the visual spectacle (and the narrative) of the moving image.