what made you you chose your avatar?

[cacian]

another getting to know you thread:smile5:

I chose this avatar because I like the movie
To Wong Foo'


http://img.soundtrackcollector.com/cd/large/To_Wong_Foo_MCAD_11132.jpg

[Kingbob]

I chose this avatar because I love my girlfriend，as her name is somthing to do with fish，a footloose fish~

[Varenne Rodin]

I don't see an avatar for you, Kingbob.

I chose the avatar I have because I'm a self-promoting narcissist. I also like color blocking and sun glasses.

[SilentMute]

My avatar is my favorite character, Diana from "V" the original 1983 series.

[Paulclem]

:biggrin5:I wanted a more handsome picture than the reality.

[Charles Darnay]

I chose the avatar I have because I'm a self-promoting narcissist. I also like color blocking and sun glasses.

I think it's wonderful, Varenne.

My current avatar is an homage to that wonderful deity, Dionysus, bringer of theatre and wine, two passions of mine.

[Veho]

:biggrin5:I wanted a more handsome picture than the reality.

Oh well, you chose a right stud. I go for the misunderstood monster type though.

[Helga]

I don't really know why I still have this one. When I first came here I found it fit me cause its a very sad girl. then for some reason I lost it and for a while I had the moon but then I found it again and it still fit me. it really doesn't anymore, I'm not a sad girl but I just like it and can't imagine my name here on lit net without it.

[cacian]

I don't see an avatar for you, Kingbob.

I chose the avatar I have because I'm a self-promoting narcissist. I also like color blocking and sun glasses.

is that you in the avatar?
and what a self-promoting narcissist?
By color blocking you mean black and white right?


Oh well, you chose a right stud. I go for the misunderstood monster type though.

Hi Veho
What is your avatar about?

[Veho]

Hi Veho
What is your avatar about?

Hi cacian. It's a painting that took my fancy, it was on the front cover of a book I like also. Thanks for asking :)

[Varenne Rodin]

I think it's wonderful, Varenne.

My current avatar is an homage to that wonderful deity, Dionysus, bringer of theatre and wine, two passions of mine.

Thank you, Charles! I like your avatar too. Theatre and wine are excellent.


is that you in the avatar?
and what a self-promoting narcissist?
By color blocking you mean black and white right?

Yes, it's me. I'm self involved and probably overly ambitious. There are bits of color in the picture, in the glasses and my lips. The rest has been removed or blocked. :)

[stlukesguild]

There's a bit of a drawn out story behind mine. A friend and fellow teacher who posted on one of the art sites I frequented used the image of the vicious Roman Emperor, Caracalla, as his avatar:

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/moore/sites/laits.utexas.edu.moore/files/images/0003140005_1024.preview.jpg

His personality was anything but similar to Caracalla and I loved the irony of his putting forth this image as his on-line personae.

Around the same time I was using the lovely portrait of Susanna Fourment (the artist's Sister-in-Law) by Rubens.

http://jerryandmartha.com/yourdailyart/images/rubens-susannafourment.jpg

As a result of this avatar, I had any number of members here (and elsewhere) assume that I was female.

I decided to change to a male avatar, and quite liked the way the classical sculptures read when shrunk down. I stumbled upon Antinoös, the pretty boy of the Roman Emperor, Hadrian, and I couldn't help but laugh... recognizing that Antinoös is about as far from me as Caracalla was from my friend.

http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt219/JBosch27/Sculptures/Antinous1.jpg

:sosp:

[Delta40]

I change my avatar as the mood takes me. I liked this fellow as soon as I saw him but I was told later that a sock puppet is actually a member of a forum that creates 'sock puppet' identities of themselves using different names, usually so they can praise their own work - but I assure you I'm not one of them! :biggrinjester:

[hawthorns]

Three reasons:

1. Proust is one of my favorite writers
2. His portrait by Jacques Emile Blanche is a painting I admire
3. The Musee D'Orsay moved it into storage before my trip to Paris and now I'll never get to see it.

Story of my life...

[Darcy88]

I love your avatar St Lukes. And Varenne, yours is sexy, I remember I first thought it was of some film star. Mine is of Albert Camus and is from the cover of a biography of his I read last summer.

I chose it partly because Camus is among my top favourite writers, but mostly because I just really fancy the expression on his face. I don't like the cigarette though, as I'm trying to quit. In almost every photograph taken of him as a man he has a cig hanging out of his mouth.

[Delta40]

In almost every photograph taken of him as a man he has a cig hanging out of his mouth.

Did he used to be a woman? :hat:

[Varenne Rodin]

I love your avatar St Lukes. And Varenne, yours is sexy, I remember I first thought it was of some film star. Mine is of Albert Camus and is from the cover of a biography of his I read last summer.

I chose it partly because Camus is among my top favourite writers, but mostly because I just really fancy the expression on his face. I don't like the cigarette though, as I'm trying to quit. In almost every photograph taken of him as a man he has a cig hanging out of his mouth.

Thank you, Darcy. You may remember that I adore yours as well. It's amazing to know that the fellow behind it is as handsome as his avatar; more so.

St Lukes, your avatars are extraordinary. Delta's sock puppet is adorable. Cacian, I didn't realize that picture was from the movie until you told the story here. Hawthorns and Veho, lovely paintings. I hope you'll get to see that likeness of Proust in person one day, Hawthorns.

Great thread, Cacian.

[papayahed]

It's saturday it must be...


erm, nevermind. I thought I was snoopy. I usually go with a snoopy or muppet avatar, I don't know why. Unless it's baseball season, or I feel like being a girl with big glasses.

oh, or star wars.

[JuniperWoolf]

Mine's my favorite comic, the one where Swamp Thing meets the werewolf chick.

[cacian]

Hi cacian. It's a painting that took my fancy, it was on the front cover of a book I like also. Thanks for asking :)

It is a very nice picture some kind of knigthood..may I ask what the book is called?

[cacian]

Thank you, Charles! I like your avatar too. Theatre and wine are excellent.



Yes, it's me. I'm self involved and probably overly ambitious. There are bits of color in the picture, in the glasses and my lips. The rest has been removed or blocked. :)

It is a very nice picture/painting. How do you call this kind of drawing..sorry I hope you do not mind me asking again :smile5:

[qimissung]

Mine is Cossette from Les Miserable. Initially I only knew it from the musical, but the picture is actually taken from the novel when it was first published.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables

Anyway, I love it. I think it is beautiful and it speaks to something in me. Something I've hopefully grown beyond, but I still love it.

[cacian]

Three reasons:

1. Proust is one of my favorite writers
2. His portrait by Jacques Emile Blanche is a painting I admire
3. The Musee D'Orsay moved it into storage before my trip to Paris and now I'll never get to see it.

Story of my life...

I am so sorry to hear about the Musee D'Orsay. I never knew a musee can go into storage.:frown5:

[cacian]

Mine is Cossette from Les Miserable. Initially I only knew it from the musical, but the picture is actually taken from the novel when it was first published.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables

Anyway, I love it. I think it is beautiful and it speaks to something in me. Something I've hopefully grown beyond, but I still love it.

Hi qimissung I grew up hearing of Cossette and Les Miserables.
I got taken to the musical in London to see Les Miserables and I still don't remember a thing of it.
I remember Buddy Holly though much more flamboyant in style.

[cacian]

There's a bit of a drawn out story behind mine. A friend and fellow teacher who posted on one of the art sites I frequented used the image of the vicious Roman Emperor, Caracalla, as his avatar:

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/moore/sites/laits.utexas.edu.moore/files/images/0003140005_1024.preview.jpg

His personality was anything but similar to Caracalla and I loved the irony of his putting forth this image as his on-line personae.

Around the same time I was using the lovely portrait of Susanna Fourment (the artist's Sister-in-Law) by Rubens.

http://jerryandmartha.com/yourdailyart/images/rubens-susannafourment.jpg

As a result of this avatar, I had any number of members here (and elsewhere) assume that I was female.

I decided to change to a male avatar, and quite liked the way the classical sculptures read when shrunk down. I stumbled upon Antinoös, the pretty boy of the Roman Emperor, Hadrian, and I couldn't help but laugh... recognizing that Antinoös is about as far from me as Caracalla was from my friend.

http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt219/JBosch27/Sculptures/Antinous1.jpg

:sosp:

Hi stlukesguild can I ask whether you are a He or SHe?
Also I liked your story about the roman avatars, interesting in that it shows the two extremes and I never heard of Antinoös.
Why has it got two dots on his the O?

[Kingbob]

Haha，thanks for your reminding！Because I made a mistake，considering the profile picture as my avater~

[Veho]

Thank you, Darcy. You may remember that I adore yours as well. It's amazing to know that the fellow behind it is as handsome as his avatar; more so.

St Lukes, your avatars are extraordinary. Delta's sock puppet is adorable. Cacian, I didn't realize that picture was from the movie until you told the story here. Hawthorns and Veho, lovely paintings. I hope you'll get to see that likeness of Proust in person one day, Hawthorns.

Great thread, Cacian.

Thanks Varenne. You look really fabulous in your avatar.

I liked the story behind stlukes. Everyone else's are great also, without exception!

[MANICHAEAN]

On my last project in Qatar with two of the Filipino site nurses (Honey & Wilma either side) & my secretary (Kyra) in front. One of my favourite pictures as we all worked so well together over four years.

M.

[Varenne Rodin]

It is a very nice picture/painting. How do you call this kind of drawing..sorry I hope you do not mind me asking again :smile5:

I don't mind. In this case it's just a photograph with most of the color removed digitally. I have a program that removes some color and leaves the rest.

[qimissung]

Thank you Cacian, for starting this thread. I find the avatars fascinating and how people decide on them and what they choose. I love your avatars, guys! I think papaya's my favorite, especially when she's Snoopy. :)

[Maximilianus]

Some of my avatars along my residence here have been picked by stephofthenight; a sort of friendly ritual between us along the years, picking each other's avatars. Other than that, when it comes to my own choice I recurrently set for Shiryu from the anime Saint Seiya. It's him most of the times, mainly because I always wanted to wear an angry long dark mane, and because I somehow identify myself with dragons.

[BienvenuJDC]

Mark Harmon's cool collected attitude...

[cacian]

Some of my avatars along my residence here have been picked by stephofthenight; a sort of friendly ritual between us along the years, picking each other's avatars. Other than that, when it comes to my own choice I recurrently set for Shiryu from the anime Saint Seiya. It's him most of the times, mainly because I always wanted to wear an angry long dark mane, and because I somehow identify myself with dragons.

why is special about dragons that you identify with?

[cacian]

Mark Harmon's cool collected attitude...

Mark Harmon as in the actor?

[Snowqueen]

Mine is Cossette from Les Miserable. Initially I only knew it from the musical, but the picture is actually taken from the novel when it was first published.

Qimi your avatar is one of my favourites.

Now coming to my avatar, I took this picture and chose it as display picture. Green and white also represent the flag of my country.

Here come the real picture.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=401&pictureid=3502

[The Comedian]

Because Jessie Custer is a literary character that I admire, mucho. And Preacher, the series of comics/graphic novels in which he is featured, is a violent bloodbath of godless awesomeness. And did I mention vampires? The single best depiction of a vampire in all of literature is the character of Cassidy from that same series.

[BienvenuJDC]

Mark Harmon as in the actor?

Yes, it is...based primarily on his character Leroy Jethro Gibbs from NCIS.

[Varenne Rodin]

Because Jessie Custer is a literary character that I admire, mucho. And Preacher, the series of comics/graphic novels in which he is featured, is a violent bloodbath of godless awesomeness. And did I mention vampires? The single best depiction of a vampire in all of literature is the character of Cassidy from that same series.

That sounds awesome!

[OrphanPip]

Mine is Bowie from Labyrinth, and it needs no explanation.

[qimissung]

I love yours, too, SnowQueen. And yours is the best "match" between username and avatar on the forum, imho.

Love yours, too, Comedian. It's cool, much like yourself. :)

And Bowie is the epitome of cool, n'est-ce pas?

[Paulclem]

It's saturday it must be...


erm, nevermind. I thought I was snoopy. I usually go with a snoopy or muppet avatar, I don't know why. Unless it's baseball season, or I feel like being a girl with big glasses.

oh, or star wars.

I remember you had Tim Curry in the Rocky Horror picture Show ages ago.

[Paulclem]

Qimi your avatar is one of my favourites.



I once looked up in the supermarket near to us and in my mind exclaimed - "Oh there's Qimi". I then realised I was looking at a DVD case of Les Miserables which had Qimi's picture on it. (At least I think it was in my head).

The avatars have a funny effect. You really do associate the picture with the online prescence of others. Or is that just me....?

[Veho]

I once looked up in the supermarket near to us and in my mind exclaimed - "Oh there's Qimi". I then realised I was looking at a DVD case of Les Miserables which had Qimi's picture on it. (At least I think it was in my head).

The avatars have a funny effect. You really do associate the picture with the online prescence of others. Or is that just me....?

I think that too. Maybe it's because it must reflect a part of the person's character and personality as they chose the avatar for a reason. Although I don't know what mine really says about me. Maybe that can be another topic - what does your avatar say about you?

[Darcy88]

Here is the photo of Whitman I'd use if I didn't like my Camus avatar so much.

http://www.onthisdeity.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/walt.gif

And here's the pic of Marquez which was my avatar for a short while before I found the Camus one.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tySn4nKHsu8/TM0lGoRKkQI/AAAAAAAAAjk/5Po-lSiKetQ/s1600/Garcia_Marquez.jpg

Anyone who wants a new avatar and likes those writers and the photos here of them should go ahead and use them.

[Charles Darnay]

I love that picture of Whitman. Placed at the start of "Song of Myself" he seems to say "yeah, here's my poem, don't really give a **** whether you like it or not."

[LadyLuck]

Mine makes me think of new beginnings. I once had another I identified with more, but this one I love to. It really personifies my current outlook on life, but I miss my old one.

Here's my old one, or close enough anyway. I do so miss my blood moon.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D8VwTKAphks/Su9aVcmjNII/AAAAAAAALvA/dCpKK8dWWnk/s320/blood+moon.jpg

[qimissung]

I once looked up in the supermarket near to us and in my mind exclaimed - "Oh there's Qimi". I then realised I was looking at a DVD case of Les Miserables which had Qimi's picture on it. (At least I think it was in my head).

The avatars have a funny effect. You really do associate the picture with the online prescence of others. Or is that just me....?

:lol: That's awesome, PaulClem! Love your avy, too. The original Frankenstein is still the best one (although I am fond of the Herman Munster, too).

I loved your blood moon, too, LL. It's beautiful, and very unusual.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Mine is a photograph of the frontispice from my Grandfather's copy of Toilers of the Sea



http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/ToilersoftheSea.jpg

[cacian]

Mine is a photograph of the frontispice from my Grandfather's copy of Toilers of the Sea



http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/ToilersoftheSea.jpg

wow that is a really old book.
This is the first I have heard of this book. Have you read it?

[faithosaurus]

I don't have any major reason except for The Hunger Games is pretty much the biggest obsession of mine at the moment. Seriously...I spent two hours watching the Yahoo Livestream Hollywood premiere.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

wow that is a really old book.
This is the first I have heard of this book. Have you read it?

A copyright date is not indicated, but I believe it falls within the 1880's
Yes, I have read it, in fact this is the first novel I recall reading when I was a young lad of about 12 years old. I have since purchased a new copy in order to preserve the one you see.

[mtpspur]

Being a hiuge comic book fan when I was young I had three favorites all from DC, Batman, Adam Strange and Blackhawk. The Bat of course is very well known and Adam doesn't really have an identifiable symbol but Blackhawk fit perfetcly as a homage to a beloved hero when I was young and to the irony that I had a military career later. When I first laid eyes on an issue #143 I thought they were POLICEMEN -being chaed by a giant dinosaur. Heady times for a 10 year 50 years gone now. I cannot belive its been that long.

[MystyrMystyry]

One of the best Mr Mtspur! And Faithosaurus' appears as a modern interpretation.


Mine obviously needs no explanation

[cacian]

I don't have any major reason except for The Hunger Games is pretty much the biggest obsession of mine at the moment. Seriously...I spent two hours watching the Yahoo Livestream Hollywood premiere.

I can't get into myself to be honest.
What's Yahoo Livestream Hollywood?

[cacian]

One of the best Mr Mtspur! And Faithosaurus' appears as a modern interpretation.


Mine obviously needs no explanation

I don't recognize your painting, who is it by?

[Snowqueen]

I love yours, too, SnowQueen. And yours is the best "match" between username and avatar on the forum, imho.

Oh thank you Qimi!

[Pensive]

My hyper-active, restless and reckless spirit.
It has been almost seven years and I can't find a better representation of myself!

[metal134]

Greatest. Album. Ever. EVER.

[Charles Darnay]

My hyper-active, restless and reckless spirit.
It has been almost seven years and I can't find a better representation of myself!

Never. Your avatar is iconic!

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Mine's also a band reference--Tool. Plus, I've always liked eyes.

[Thomas Novosel]

I chose my "Love" avatar, becuase i simply enjoy and adore all forms of friendship, relationship, and interaction that is presented in a manner that includes both respect and mutual admiration. Plus i thought it was an okay drawing of mine... :)

[cacian]

I chose my "Love" avatar, becuase i simply enjoy and adore all forms of friendship, relationship, and interaction that is presented in a manner that includes both respect and mutual admiration. Plus i thought it was an okay drawing of mine... :)

It is a brilliant drawing Thomas, it is very cool.

[tylerdf]

Its a picture of me. Oh, vanity.