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Thanks go to Mark for finding this ages ago.

The Rasterbator: http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

Here's a new rasterbation I just put up in my room of Lon Chaney.  The original photo was a publicity still for the lost film London After Midnight.  This photo was taken with a flash.  It looks even cooler and much creepier in the dark (which is how my room is 99% of the time).

oh my, you've a tidy room.

Yeah, buy some stuff and throw it around.

Also, who's Lon Chaney?

He's a good friend of Bella Lugosi  ;)

Actually, that's incorrect.  You're thinking of Lon Chaney, Jr.  Lon  Chaney was a silent film actor.  He filmed over 100 films, but many of them were lost because stupid studio people melted them down to recover the silver from the film.  London After Midnight was one of these.

Chaney was known as "the man of a thousand faces" because of his famous ability to morph into any character only with his own box of makeup and great acting ability.  His parents were deaf-mutes, so his life experiences with this probably helped him greatly in acting in silent films.

Chaney died young in 1930.  He had been shooting a movie in the cold Wisconsin winter and came down with (I believe) leukemia.  Chaney's career as perhaps the greatest silent screen actor was already over at this point, though, because talkies had made their way into the mainstream as quickly as they were invented.  Chaney did appear in one talkie as "the man of a hundred voices," but he died soon after.

His son went on to be a famous actor in monster movies: Lon Chaney, Jr.  More people remember this Chaney than his legendary father.  They're missing out.

Here is the original photo I used:

(http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Chaney%20Sr.,%20Lon/Chaney%20Sr.,%20Lon%20(London%20After%20Midnight)_02.jpg)
http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Chaney%20Sr.,%20Lon/Chaney%20Sr.,%20Lon%20(London%20After%20Midnight)_02.jpg

No Lon Chaney is the one I was thinking of, he's the one that did the slient version Phantom of the Opera (at least I think it was him!?)  I thought that Lon Chaney was suppose to play Dracula but died before it was complete so they recast with Lugosi.  As I recall that was about the only role that Lugosi did that was memorable.  But I remember watching and studying that Phantom in a high school film class.

Oops, you are right.  He did play the phantom.  He had many other memorable roles, but for a long time that was his only famous one.  For a long time Chaney was thought of only as a horror actor, but actually was very powerful in a variety of roles.  I mixed things up and was thinking Dracula came out ten years later than it actually did.  The rest of what I said about him still holds true though.  Brilliant actor he was.