What is your avatar?

[SenorKaffee]

Hey - it´s a classic topic in every forum. So why not start it here, too? :hv20-smilie84:

What are that 6400 picture elements under your username supposed to be and why did you choose this special pile of pixels?

[Mal]

Mine is a HV20 camcorder....it's a fairly new cam from Canon!
:)

[Lunchbox]

SenorKaffee.. your avatar shows some Korean characters...

Mine is my cat.. her name is Meow Meow

[Dodgy Nick]

I joked to Mal about being the idiot of the forum. Next thing you know, I googled "Lloyd Christmas" and the rest, as they say, is chemistry. :hv20-smilie81:

[bluegrass]

I joked to Mal about being the idiot of the forum. Next thing you know, I googled "Lloyd Christmas" and the rest, as they say, is chemistry. :hv20-smilie81:

http://www.johnhartford.org/music/misc/accent.wav

OK. I'm with you now. Obviously I'm into bluegrass. I took this photo of my canoe when I floated the Cumberland river near Nashville last year in honor of an old friend who joined me on the float. He is the one in the middle (symbolized) with the hat and banjo. John was a steamboat pilot and musician that had lived on the Cumberland. I took out across from his old house. and that's the rest of the story.

[Mal]

You all have some neat Avatars...I need to change mine...

[Lunchbox]

How come the avatars limit is 80x80 pixel but Spoiler's is larger than that?

[Mal]

I saw that too...mine was 80x80 too.
I changed mine, but I don't see why others' had it bigger already....I have to check permissions and see what's going on...
If memory serves me right (not a high chance), moderators should have larger pic upload ability...

[Mal]

Try now, Taky...

[Lunchbox]

hehehe... coooool

[PWHerman]

Mine is It The Clown from the Stephen King (very long) book & the later (very long) movie.

Ahhh! Scary huh?

[Worley]

Mine is Mr Spoons. We really do look similar, Mr Sppons and I, except my stomach ripples with muscle, and I wear a USB flash drive, not a medallion. It still attracts the ladies, though, but not attractive ladies.

[veg]

Mr. Magoo here!.

[SenorKaffee]

My avatar is based on this cover for Sympathy for Lady Vengeance which I absolutely love.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a250/RikiOhh/Lady%20Vengeance/ad54250d.jpg

It´s a picture of me after some correction in Photoshop. The subtitle means "Sympathy for Senor Kaffee", an MSN contact of a friend of mine translated it.
Red eyeshadow may not be very masculine, but who cares? ^^

[Worley]

That's not Mr Magoo, that's Larry David!

[veg]

Larry David has been impersonating me for years. He is only a lookalike!. See the real vegasarian here....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e6RDaDQ37k&mode=related&search=

[andjar]

Nikolai Cerkasov in Serghei Eisenstein's movie "Ivan The Terrible"(1947).

[mrob7]

mine is me filming in canada with my hv20

[Erik Bien]

I'm the dead guy hanging from the bridge in the lower right, as the kids are spitting/chucking stones at my corpse.

Normally I work in the Art Department, but I was invited to assay a one-line role in a friend's indie feature (I guess I look the part of a child-rapist/lynching-victim!).

[Doogs]

mine is the "Saltire" and the "Lion and Rampart" national flags of my home Country.
But, how do i get the .gif to animate....LOL:hv20-smilie51::hv20-smilie45:

[ToTo]

Mine is me... in cartoon form. I think I look a little more personable in person... and probably not quite this rugged, but close. An artist I met did this illustration for me for only $25... and I'm using it everywhere now.

[Numbox]

Mine is the cover of the best game ever.

[VideJo]

Mine is a part of the logo of our favorite travel-organisation in my country: Djoser. And as my next hobby is travelling, I cut out a part of the logo.

[Goose]

Mine is Guybrush Threepwood, mighty pirate!

[Murrelet]

Thought it was about time to display my feet..... at 1,000'......

[Dodgy Nick]

Mine is Guybrush Threepwood, mighty pirate!

Monkey Island!! I thought that little fella looked familiar... Now where did I put my SCUMM actor's guild membership card...

PS My new avatar is the simpsons version of yours truly

[Goose]

Monkey Island!! I thought that little fella looked familiar... Now where did I put my SCUMM actor's guild membership card...

PS My new avatar is the simpsons version of yours truly

hee hee excellent!

[Dirk Diggler]

I'll tell you when I figure out how to put one up.

[Erik Bien]

Quick, somebody Photoshop Dirk a nude Marky-Mark with a way-larger-than-actual-size HV20 where his, uhm, diggler oughtta be! :hv20-smilie45:

[Murrelet]

Every time I see Erik's avatar I have to laugh.

In West Van there is a train overpass that crosses Marine Drive. Back in the late 50's I was a young teenager working at Woodward's Park Royal and snitched a floor dummy. A bunch of us dressed it up, put ketchup in big runny swatches, and made a noose. We then took it down to the said overpass around Halloween and waited. As responsible teenagers we had one rule, only one car, and no oncomings. It was quite a lot of fun, and as people back then tended to drive much slower, the brake screeches, the swerving, the honking of horns, made for a fun night.

The finale of the night was a big white convertible caddy. It came weaving along the road, top down, going real slow. It was a cold clear night and the various street lamps lit the car as it passed from one to another. We all got kind of concerned as the car would jump and slow, weave and then correct. John had it, he yelled "Holy crap, drunk driver!", so we hauled 'Ralph' back up to the railing. As the caddy got closer we could see the driver had yellow frizzy hair like Harpo, and so when the lights hit the overpass we dropped Ralph. The car went into the other lane, brakes screeched, then the car took off again towards us.

So help me, the caddy went by under the overpass and the overused caricature of the ubiquitous, bleached blonde, middle aged woman, mouth wide open, cruised by, just staring up at Ralph. We ran over to the other railing in time to see her continue on, head completely bent backwards over the seat. The caddy just kinda coasted slowly to the middle of the road, and stopped a ways up the hill. We grabbed Ralph and headed off the overpass only to hear sirens, way off in the distance.

Fred took off for the caddy as we dumped Ralph in the trunk of the Morris. We got the Morris going and started to leave when Fred pounded on the door. He jumped in and we took off towards Horseshoe Bay.

Fred, it transpired, was worried the woman had had a heart attack (his uncle had just had one). When he got to the car she was snoring her lungs out. So he put the caddy in Park and put on a turn signal, which to this day I thought was just about the smartest thing Fred's ever done. But he had also struck the mother load. Fred had a full case of Old Style and half a pack of Matinee's. I can still remember getting violently ill on a bottle of beer and a few puffs on a cigarette. Of course it did nothing for my peer reputation, as it was soon all over school, and from then on I was known as a cheap date, I still am...

We still talk and laugh about that night, reliving and embellishing the tale, and all of us wonder what ever happened to that woman when the cops finally arrived. I mean, what would she say? Would she even remember. Did she end up in the drunk tank? Did she wake up and drive off? My personal favourite? She thought it was her divorced husband, and it served him right for dumping her for his secretary. Ahh, but it's such a cliche.

Thanks Erik.

[hvheinz]

:hv20-smilie09::hv20-smilie09::hv20-smilie09:
...ha.ha....
proud to show you my avatar finally
..sun..fun..and nothing to do...
:hv20-smilie138:

[Erik Bien]

Murrelet,

Completely hysterical ... and shucks, I'm glad to bring a giggle your way, no matter how convoluted the means!

(Remembering how I howled when you posted your PowerPoint illustration from the NTSB investigation of the "crash site" ...)

Reminds me of one of my all-time favorite riddles:

Q: What's the last thing you hear before a redneck dies?
A: "Hey, y'all: watch this!"

:hv20-smilie81:

[Murrelet]

Well you should have been up with me the other day, it was a rough one, really got my ashes hauled. I expected the wind to drop and swing (according to the forecast), but instead, I was up when a NW came howling down the channel to smash into the SE I was ridge soaring in.

The two systems meeting caused the NW to start rotating in a big 10 mile wide cycloney kinda thingy that caused me to leave pucker marks all over my harness seat. Of course the lift turned ugly as the two systems decided they couldn't push each other aside, so the NW decided to ride up over the SE, which started turning it into a big black cumnimb. From the time I saw them come together, to scary monster, it took about 5 minutes, and me floating around up there at about 1,000' in a cloth bag full of air...."Hey, y'all: watch this".

So much lift I couldn't get down, so I headed out to sea to get out of it, then snuck back over the field at about 500' and sat above the bluffs on full speed bar and big ears (you pull the wing tips down, it reduces the wing area) until I sunk onto the deck. Then I had to collapse my glider, jump on it, and tuck it up under me, as the wind wanted to take it away, bouncing me on my head, repeatedly, just for good measure I'm sure.

I got it packed up in the lea of the roses and hiked up to my truck just as it started to pour. Man did it rain. The 10 minute drive home was a wonder. I passed cyclist after cyclist caught out in it with black, muddy streaks up their backsides, freezing and soaked to the bone.

By the time I got home the NW had won, the sun was out, and my truck was almost dry. The fab miss "T" had a steak on the BBQ and a handful of fresh caught prawns :hv20-smilie71: and I'm still a cheap date....

[twoneil]

my avatar will be changing face occasionally...according to my mood or the mood I force upon my avatar with.

[hvheinz]

Oh dear........
winter coming soon ?

[duketh]

just trying one out so this is the best place for it

[Terfyn]

Its where I live and I like the view.
Apparently this picture may have some value in 9 years time! Global warming will mean that Snowdon will never have any snow - or so the experts say.
(Expert:- X (an unknown quantity) spurt (a large drip))

[timecodebandit]

...is that 'techno-bling' Worley...?

[um3k]

Mine is nothing. I haven't gotten around to adding one yet.

[Natdiamond]

Mine is supposed to be animated, but it's not moving. It works on other forums and it fits the paramaters of the file size. Any help for a newbie?

[Natdiamond]

Nevermind I got it.
He he.....Fire! Boom!

[lordtangent]

I have no avatar. I do not exist.

[DaFireMedic]

He he.....Fire! Boom!

Hey, mine too.........

[orchidsofwrath]

mine is a self portrait i drew (colors are inverted) of my face being integrated with a machine. (as a metaphor for my love of technology)

[whtnova]

My avatar is a picture of me showing off my 2 pistols. The white patch on my sunglasses is a movie ticket for Hot Fuzz, one of my favorite movies. I took the picture just for fun to participate at the Hot Fuzz website.

[Rich]

Today, my avatar is a picture of Mr. Tucker, my best friend....



Rich

[slc-danza]

Walker, son. Need I say more?

[bytehoven]

Anyone like my Cat Gunner?

[charliebelmont]

Where the hell do I get the option to turn on an avatar? All i can find is in the image below:

It says:

Do not use an avatar
Note: if you have a custom avatar selecting this option will delete it.


And there's no other option... Either I'm drunk at work again or something is wrong. Someone lead the way!

[net]

My avatar is the "Hinden-30" I made which now symbolizes the crashing of the HV30 which I intially wanted - but now am in favor of Canon flash cams...

die mini-DV tapes:hv20-smilie68:!

[charliebelmont]

Blasphemor! But seriously, why cant i get an avatar! Someone! Anyone!!

[Zacatac]

mine is of me and maddie, my beautiful cam

[previdman]

Mine was the result of a free 8x10 'Glamor Shots' coupon that came in the mail. It's not entirely 'as taken' because the studio didn't allow smoking, so I added the cigar later.

The glasses are for up close work.

Anybody who's run on my dark side probably totally agrees with my avatar but I figure if ya' can't laugh at yourself ...

... nobody else should be able to either. :hv20-smilie87:

[CycleWriter]

Anybody who's run on my dark side probably totally agrees with my avatar but I figure if ya' can't laugh at yourself ...

... nobody else should be able to either. :hv20-smilie87:
I laugh at yourself all the time.:hv20-smilie84:

[Mal]

Where the hell do I get the option to turn on an avatar? !

Avatars only become available after a few posts and a few days of being a member. It's to prevent SPAMMERS from [ab]using it.

[bachus]

Mine is our little Boogy when he was a week old. He's a year old now and weighs ~425 lbs. I just want to discourage industrial farming because it is inherently inhumane.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3295/2810486343_ecab7ec200_o.jpg

Wadaya mean "capitalist pig" isn't PC?

[Rikki]

Mine is simple.

Its "H" - 264 :D

[bachus]

Mine is simple.

Its "H" - 264 :D

uh ... negative two to the eighth ? (h=8th letter of the alphabet)

or if h = b(flat) as on the German musical scale and we take that in hexadecimal we have B-264(hex)= -259 =-601(dec)

or if we take h as the symbol of Hydrogen in the perodic table it has an atomic number of 1 so 1-264 = -263

or if we take H as in Christopher Smart's poem Jubilate Agno then H is a spirit and..........

edit continuing

if we take the second result above -601 and subtrack the number of letters in Rikki (5) we get -666 and that combined with the last result above we get a spirit marked by the number of the Beast -- I just love inumerology

[um3k]

Uh, I'm not even sure whether I have an avatar. I can't remember.

EDIT: Oh, guess I do. Well, it's pretty self-explanatory, I'd say.

[MK1MR2]

Flight Lieutenant Stan Edward Miller, Pilot, RAFVR, me Great Uncle. Born In England, trained in the States. KIA with his crew aged twenty, two months before the end of WWII.

Apparently he had a red sportscar during Wartime, and I`ve gotta Red Toyota MR2!. Okay...you can all go to sleep now, thanks for nodding off!:hv20-smilie124:

[Hunterr]

Mine is me like 2 years ago (when I was like 13) holding up my board and a matching shirt that I made, when I used to skate. I gave it all up for filmmaking, lol.

-Hunter

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

Mine is just me. Why would I use anything else to represent me, when a photograph does just that better than anything else?

[Hunterr]

^ Amen.

-Hunter

[drapeama]

What are that 6400 picture elements under your username supposed to be and why did you choose this special pile of pixels?
Old thread here!
Mine is a combination of the Technicolor logo (from my Technicolor CineStyle user preset on my DSLR) and the Canon 24p Cinemode logo from the HV series.
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How about others?

[Timbit]

Mine is me. :P

[Janke]

I'm my own alter ego.

[drapeama]

I'm my own alter ego.
Such one! ;)