Identify Your Avatar

Started by George, April 06, 2007, 05:57:16 PM

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knight66

Luke, Perhaps we have the subject of a new thread here...under my windows....I rather think though that I have shot my bolt and would have to be a bystander.

Mike
DavidW: Yeah Mike doesn't get angry, he gets even.
I wasted time: and time wasted me.

lukeottevanger

I'd have to join you, I'm afraid!

knight66

Luke, What is your new Avatar, it looks like one of Tolkin's illustrations, but surely not.....he was an Oxford man!

Mike
DavidW: Yeah Mike doesn't get angry, he gets even.
I wasted time: and time wasted me.

lukeottevanger

Quote from: knight on April 07, 2007, 01:26:36 PM
Luke, What is your new Avatar, it looks like one of Tolkin's illustrations, but surely not.....he was an Oxford man!

LOL!

No, not Tolkien - funny, I'd never thought of it in that light, though now I can see what you mean. It's a tanka (Tibetan religious painting) of Mt Kailash, a sacred mountain (well, the sacred mountain) which is, for some reason, a bit of an obsession of mine ('bit' is an understatement - I've got about 1500 images of it on my computer, just for starters!)

aquablob


vandermolen

"Sleeping Muse" (Head of Orpheus) 1909-10 by Roumanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi.

Brancusi is one of my favourite artists and as Orpheus's head apparently went on singing after it had been cut off, it seemed an appropriate symbol for my membership of the CMG  ;D
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Iago

If I have to identify Arturo Toscanini on a forum of music lovers, the world is in sad shape.
"Good", is NOT good enough, when "better" is expected

knight66

I somehow imagine you to look like your avatar Iago.

Mike
DavidW: Yeah Mike doesn't get angry, he gets even.
I wasted time: and time wasted me.

Iago

I'm about 15 years younger than Toscanini was when that picture was taken.
But I have alot less hair on my head.
"Good", is NOT good enough, when "better" is expected

knight66

Well, I kind of like to think of you as looking like that, distinguished and full of energy...Also Toscanini looks like he could be anywhere between 65 and 80. D minor has removed that photo of himself, I guess as the months proceed the photo stays the same and he drifts away from the likeness.

With my lack of memory, alter the Avatar and I get confused over the identity of the individual. Mind you with one or two posters, even newish ones, I somehow don't need the Avatar to remind me of the persona behind it.

Mike
DavidW: Yeah Mike doesn't get angry, he gets even.
I wasted time: and time wasted me.

AnthonyAthletic

What's your avatar Mike,

I haven't read the whole thread so you may already have said.

I'm guessing its the staircase to your soon to be new abode  ;D

"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying"      (Arthur C. Clarke)

knight66

Quote from: AnthonyAthletic on April 08, 2007, 07:31:11 AM

I'm guessing its the staircase to your soon to be new abode  ;D

Yes, my new abode when I retire from worldly pursuits. It is a spectacular double staircase from The Vatican. Here is another view of it...


My own staircase is slighly more modest, tends to be that way in apartments.
DavidW: Yeah Mike doesn't get angry, he gets even.
I wasted time: and time wasted me.

knight66

That is a lovely staircase, what city is it in? Did you take the photo?

Mike
DavidW: Yeah Mike doesn't get angry, he gets even.
I wasted time: and time wasted me.

Catison

A painting of Morton Feldman by Philip Guston.  If you know Feldman, you know how perfect this painting is.
-Brett

George

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Quote from: Catison on April 08, 2007, 06:00:06 PM
A painting of Morton Feldman by Philip Guston.  If you know Feldman, you know how perfect this painting is.

 

Catison

-Brett

SonicMan46

Below, is a quote from the 'old' avatar request & my response, for those interested -  :D

QuoteBTW - I'm an academic radiologist & look at various images of the human body daily - my specialty is abdominal imaging - thus, the choice - like the 'brightness' of the body (could select a more 'anatomic' image, but don't want to induce vomiting in our sensitive members -  ;D)- 8)

The Mad Hatter

Quote from: Catison on April 08, 2007, 06:06:28 PM
Here is a larger version.



It looks like the Laughing Buddha with a cigarette... >.<

Mine's a famous actor of some sort, who wears a hat better than me.

Bogey

Quote from: The Mad Hatter on April 08, 2007, 07:20:21 PM
It looks like the Laughing Buddha with a cigarette... >.<

Mine's a famous actor of some sort, who wears a hat better than me.



Now where have I seen that avatar before? ;) :D  Very nice call Mad Hatter.
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

carlos

Tall, slim, long arms, his relations with his teacher Flesch
were complicated. Surnamed:Singer.Hungarian born.
Piantale a la leche hermano, que eso arruina el corazón! (from a tango's letter)