For reasons that remain upsettingly unclear, photojournalist Ben Garvin of the St. Paul Pioneer Press was compelled to shave off his majestic facial hair.

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In accordance with the manly maxim "never let a good beard go to waste," he decided to film a stop-motion ode to his "magic beard" before sealing its fate.

He writes:

I built this stop motion video over time, lots of time. I originally thought I’d sit down and shave my beard and make a video but, as I quickly realized, stop motion videos can’t be made quickly. And I had more and more ideas as to how to make it fun, which made it take even longer. Shot mostly in my dining room, I set up my iPhone 5 on a little tripod and took a photo every 5 to 10 seconds.

When I showed it to my 7-year-old son he laughed so hard a small puddle appeared at his feet afterwards–a high bar!

[H/T: Laughing Squid]