Does an Avatar affect your perception of the poster?

[bhodges]

I liked John's listening faces, too--many were quite hilarious.  But Schoenberg seems to have shut down that process?   

Hope he comes back, too.   Seems like a nice chap.

--Bruce

[Bogey]

Thanks, Bill!  I'm just a very visually-oriented guy in general.  Love some of the opera posters designed by Polish artists floating around, although many of them don't look so good when reduced to a postage-stamp size.

And I'll repeat some of those you mentioned!  That tube lamp was one of the most interesting products I've seen in awhile (and at $225, not super-expensive, either).  PS, here's the website of the designer, Nik Willmore:

http://www.e-dot.com/

--Bruce

This is a beauty:

[bhodges]

Sorry to digress from the topic...but...

Yes, that's the lamp!  Very much evokes old tube amplifiers...

--Bruce

[Scarpia]

This is a beauty:

Interesting, there was an article in the NY times about the trend of using old fashioned light bulbs in fancy restaurants and clubs, despite the fact that they are much less efficient than conventional incandescent bulbs, never-mind fluorescent lamps.

Pretty, though.

[MN Dave]

MN Dave is a special case: his avatar is the constantly changing avatar. A breed unto himself.

I'm visually oriented, I guess, and get bored with my avatars rather quickly. Having said that, I've kept this Mesopotamian kittykat for quite a while now, maybe because I haven't been posting here so much.

[Sergeant Rock]

...maybe because I haven't been posting here so much.

We've noticed 

Sarge

[MN Dave]

We've noticed 

Sarge

You may be the only person upset by this news, Sarge. 

[Brian]

When my roommate used to read GMG constantly, after I alerted him of its existence, he knew users by their avatars, to the point where he didn't even know their names. We occasionally would have conversations about some recent thread and the arguments people had been making, and our discussion would be in terms of "what the lumberjack guy said" or "the Haydn guy," with the exceptions of users whose names matched their avatars, like "Sarge" and "Bogey." It was very interesting for me that my roommate was such a visual associator of identity with picture, where I had always just considered the avatar to be a garnish, a little aesthetic touch to make the post look nicer, like parsley or something. Very cool how different people react to avatars. 

And I've missed Dave, too, although I haven't been posting up to my usual rate either.

[springrite]

You may be the only person upset by this news, Sarge. 

Others more upset have stopped posting as well, which is why we haven't heard from them.

[MN Dave]

Others more upset have stopped posting as well, which is why we haven't heard from them.

Gee, I hope no one's offed themselves. 

[Brahmsian]

Sometimes I get confused between Que and myself. 

The shark avatar suited M Forever perfectly.

Unfortunately, I have fallen victim to having a false perception of a poster, based on their avatar.

Todd is a memorable example (not you Keemun), when he had the Gene Wilder avatar, struck me as cocky and arrogant, but I obviously do not perceive him that way anymore, and not just because he switched his avatar. 

I find James avatar of Bach with sunglasses also exudes a certain degree of cockiness, but that's just me.

[Sergeant Rock]

I find James avatar of Bach with sunglasses also exudes a certain degree of cockiness, but that's just me.

No. that's James. 

Sarge

[karlhenning]

You may be the only person upset by this news, Sarge. 

Lies.

[Renfield]

No. that's James. 

Sarge

Quoted for truth.

[Bogey]

Gee, I hope no one's offed themselves. 

I miss the ol' zombie head you had many moons ago.

[MN Dave]

I miss the ol' zombie head you had many moons ago.

This one?

[greg]

"Hello, inferiors!"

[sospiro]

It certainly affects my perception and I once made a basic error. On another site, an avatar depicting a young modern-day woman made me assume the poster was female. But the poster was male.

I should do that study. To begin with, I should change my avatar from Kimi to Confucius and see if people take me more seriously.

This person confuses me. Is Kimi springrite's child? Is springrite male or female?  I can't relate to a person whose sex I don't know.

This is the only Kimi I know.


I know this makes me seem shallow but if the avatar is a composer I don't like, I will pre-judge the content of the post & may not even read it.

Not sure if you all know the story, but my Avatar is a photo of me on a very special day-- Dec 26, 2004, when we were visiting Thailand. (My son is next to me) We were inland and pretty much out of touch, and this picture was probably taken about 5 hours after the Tsunami hit.  It wasn't until we were heading back that evening that my nephew-in-law started picking up all of these frantic calls on his cell phone trying to see if we were okay.

Another friend of my wife's panicked, and so  we were listed amount the missing on the CNN website for a couple of days, which required a lot of emails just to let pretty much everyone I knew that I was not dead.  That didn't stop Fox news from dispatching a camera crew to my neighborhood to interview my neighbors about our grisly deaths.

I must admit I'm tempted to use the Repin portrait of Mussorgsky, but I don't seem able to replace this one.  Yet.

What a fabulous story! You should keep that avatar!

The first time I went to Barcelona (1995) I came upon the Palau de la Música Catalana by accident & I fell in love with it. I thought it was like something from a fairytale. I try to attend a concert whenever I visit the city.

[Antoine Marchand]

This person confuses me. Is Kimi springrite's child? Is springrite male or female?  I can't relate to a person whose sex I don't know.

Hi, Annie. Kimi's story is beautiful and full of emotion. You can read about Kimi here:

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,7521.0.html

Maybe it would be interesting to tell the origin of our nicknames (mine is almost a joke); although it should already exist a thread about that. For example, every time when I see name "sospiro", it produces a refreshing effect on me, probably stressed for your signature, which being a diminutive sounds kind, homey.

BTW, I recall Jens, for example, is against the nicknames or, at least, he consider them like a practice of the web hard to understand.

[Opus106]

Maybe it would be interesting to tell the origin of our nicknames (mine is almost a joke); although it should already exist a thread about that. For example, every time when I see name "sospiro", it produces a refreshing effect on me, probably stressed for your signature, which being a diminutive sounds kind, homey.

BTW, I recall Jens, for example, is against the nicknames or, at least, he consider them like a practice of the web hard to understand.

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