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21st Aug 2013

Video: This guy’s ‘Magic Beard’ is pretty damn magic

We’ve found yet another reason as to why beards are epic: you can make cool stop-motion videos with them...

Oisin Collins

We’ve found yet another reason as to why beards are epic: you can make cool stop-motion videos with them…

The photographer Ben Garvin thought it was time to shave his majestic, manly beard, but he decided to have a little fun first with a stop-motion app for the iPhone.

It’s a pretty cool video (but an even cooler beard) and it just goes to show that with a little time, effort and video editing skills you can hide a whole cucumber in your face-fro.

Here’s a look at what Ben had to say on YouTube: “I knew this video was a hit when I showed it to my 7-year-old son for the first time. He laughed so hard a small puddle appeared at his feet afterwards–a high bar!

“I built this stop motion video over time–lots of time–with an iPhone app called Stop Motion Studio (there are similar apps for Android). I edited it further in Adobe Premiere Pro on my PC by syncing it to music.”

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