Generating a monster I have no control over

Here are some thoughts I walked away with after the tutorial with Paul on Friday 20/02/2009

My issues:
Who to photograph?
As my brief-led project's mock-up showed, photographing a random person and editing his facial features ever so slightly to resemble an animal, don't really have the effect I was after. Even though Eva Lauterleins Ghimeres (my visual inspiration) have the same 'problem'. So, my idea was to photograph either a very well known face (aka celebrities) or myself. Photographing celebrities would create another set of annoying issues, which I don't want. They would bring a different layer of meaning to the project which I am not interested in. Therefore, photographing myself would be the best option. In so, I can better convey the meanings behind the project that I initially had - that of (me) being tired of the big city life and everything it comes with, while loving the life of a metropolis. This dilemma or contradiction seems to be the very centre of this project in both the concept and on the technical part.

Feedback:
Continue with the idea of photographing myself. Not only will this make sure that my dilemma is tied to me and not an overall condition of people living in big cities, but it will also bring more interesting thoughts along.

Now, if I digitally edit and animate my facial features so that they start resembling an animal, I want the different features (the eyes, the ears, the nose, ect) to change constantly and randomly. Once I start the animation, it should be programmed to change randomly, so that I do not have any control over it.

Pauls response:
I am generating a Frankenstain 'monster' of myself, let it go and loose control over it.

To do:
To make sure the aesthetics of the changing animation will work the way I want it to work, I need to find out if it is technically possible.
Go through blogs of technical stuf on Photoshop, Flash, Actionscript and Javascript to find if there is anything on generating random change with using parts of images. Post questions on blogs and discussion groups. Ask technical staff at the uni and other lecturers if they know anyone who could advise me.