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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 05:51
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:


A faux "Roger Dean" painting I did when I was 17
You did that?! ... Wow ... you've done the shining lights very well! Amazing. I'm impressed. Thumbs Up
Originally posted by Ady Cardiac Ady Cardiac wrote:

i think i've only ever seen one other person apart from myself..... a lady here .....use their own picture.......never seen anyone else use a photo of themselves....its the same with some other places i go on......not sure why people want to shy away from using their own photo and instead put up photos of other stuff.
Yeah, I also forgot to mention that I've never really had or known any reason for uploading some images of myself for the avatar. I'd probably be a pretentious creep in a velvet graduation robe, playing my Yamaha, giving a creepy-ass smile a la Jack Nicholson ... or like a jackass. Or I might just as well upload a graduation photo of myself ... or when I was seven-eight years old with my mom.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 06:00
Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:


A faux "Roger Dean" painting I did when I was 17
You did that?! ... Wow ... you've done the shining lights very well! Amazing. I'm impressed. Thumbs Up
Embarrassed Thank you. It was painted on the reverse side of a sheet of glass using car touch-up aerosol paint, the shining lights is the easy part, the rest was more difficult.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 06:02
My one and only:

Stolen from some web site, but I love it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 06:48
Hmmm.... I change mine so regularly this is like a mission impossible but here goes some of em ....
Most are UFO based

Before this site I used


On Progarchives...First I had this



Then this



and the 
Latest is this

Latest is 


others previous include the Gabrielle Drake collection from UFO 














I had this in tribute to the late Gerry Anderson too

Thats only a few,,,,,, I change em monthly usually.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 08:02
I think my first avatar when I joined was this, a simplistic drawing I made during a time when I was rendering Frank Zappa song titles in graphic form.  This one is "Tryin' to Grow a Chin":



Much later, after I became more regular on the forums, I focused on Jerney Kaagman, the voluptuous singer from the old Dutch band Earth & Fire:





I still bring Jerney in and out of my avatar rotation, I think she's my "default" avatar choice, cause she's awesome.

I've also gone through a brief Eleanor Friedberger phase (from contemporary weird indie band Fiery Furnaces):



...........My beloved cat Ruthie:



.... occasionally me playing with my band on stage:



... and reclusive outsider musician Jandek:



... and currently using one of my personal "sleeveface" photos, me posing behind a Descendents album cover:




Edited by HolyMoly - March 08 2013 at 08:10
My other avatar is a Porsche

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 08:58
I love your drawing SteveLOL So obvious and naive, I think Frankie-boy would've loved it.

For some reason I do tend to associate you with Jenny, I don't know what that says about me, - or you for that matterLOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 10:23

 1.                 2.                  3.   



4.      


They're the ones that have lasted more than 10 minutes. 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 10:28
I remember you as a circle.

(Sounds like a brain fart taken directly out of Phil's nonsensical tangent threadLOL)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 10:32
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

I remember you as a circle.

(Sounds like a brain fart taken directly out of Phil's nonsensical tangent threadLOL)

That it does. LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 10:48
I've never had one but with Agent Cooper Smile

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 16:06
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 18:50
Not all of mine are saved, apparently.  I started with a few typical Zappa pics, then veered off into the world of webcomics, usually if they were musically oriented:



And then of course, the infamous Pantera Bread logo: 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 18:54
hohoh i remember a lot of these avatars too!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 19:10

I've only ever used the one though in reference to no one ever using a picture of themselves, this one . . . kind of is.  I asked a buddy of mine to draw a picture of me . . . as a catfish.  Amusingly enough, I had the white turtle neck and black jacket combo on just yesterday.

I have often considered changing the background, replacing the blue with various pictures, maybe cool locations like Wal-Mart or Sunocco,  A picture of The Catfish Man in the Moon.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 19:41
Why do you change your avatars all the time? Is it really important? I'm not trying to be snotty here, it's a serious question, what have I missed?
How often do you recommend people to change their avatars?

No, I'm not that serious. Smile But still...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 19:52
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 20:04
Only this one so far:

I'm planning on changing it to a photo mosaic of myself made up of prog album covers. Just have to find a good picture of myself. 
Could take a while... LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2013 at 20:11
Originally posted by silverpot silverpot wrote:

Why do you change your avatars all the time? Is it really important? I'm not trying to be snotty here, it's a serious question, what have I missed?
How often do you recommend people to change their avatars?

No, I'm not that serious. Smile But still...
I've considered this question a lot myself.  I was a regular on a prior forum for several years, and through that whole time, I had just one avatar - a picture of Charlie Brown looking sad.  After a while I became inseparable from that avatar, and had had it so long I didn't feel right changing it, because that's how everyone knew me.   So when I came here, I decided to see what it would be like if I didn't tie myself down to any one avatar, so that I could freely move from one to the other and hopefully people would still "recognize" me independently of my avatar.  It's worked out pretty well, I think, and I've enjoyed changing it up every few weeks depending on my whims.  Either way is fine (one avatar or many), but I decided to keep it loose and flexible here.
My other avatar is a Porsche

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 30 2013 at 03:21
Nice thread - reminds me of some of the golden avatars from way back
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 02 2013 at 11:04
God, I'm boring - only ever used the one:



Even on other forums, it's the same... still, makes it easier to find your posts when skipping through threads

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