Avatar Admiration

[TheStudDuck]

Okay, I've been seeing people's avatars around Chez Tremblay and some of them I am quite curious to know what their significance is.  I mean, I can usually tell the Brokeback Mountain ones very easily... or the personal "head shots" of our Tremblayan friends.  But others I'm just like, "hey, what's that?"

So... please just take a second to... um... explain to us why you chose what you chose as your avatar -- and if it needs to be explained as to what it is, do that as well.

And here I go explaining mine...

To your left, you can see one of my all time favorite paintings, Starry Night, by my most favorite painter, Vincent Van Gogh.  Isn't it beautiful?  I love just getting to look at it every time I post.  I just get this rush of joy and this thrill of unfathomable beauty.  It just takes my breath away. 

I may actually start changing it weekly to a favorite work of art of mine -- because I have so many paintings that I am just so unbelievably in love with.  My second favorite (and possibly tied for first favorite) painting of Van Gogh's is this wonderful painting that he did around the same time called Olive Orchard and I think that will be the next one that I have as my avatar.  So keep a lookout for my "artwork I love" of the week avatar.  You can share in the flutter of my heart when my page loads and right next to my post is one of the greatest paintings to ever be composed!

This is Olive Orchard if you are curious as to what avatar is in store for you next week:


Okay, now everyone else can tell me about their avatars!

[delalluvia]

I'm with you studs, I'll probably be changing my avatar as I go too, there are SOOOOOOO many beautiful images out there to share.

I just decided to start with my girl Angie in her one of her best incarnations as Commander Franky Cook (her 2nd best incarnation is Olympias in 'Alexander'.  She is both devastatingly maternal, beautiful and scary!)

[newyearsday]

I don't really know how to thumbnail, but as for reducing images in an easy way in Paint, go into "Image" and click on Stretch/Skew. then where it says the percentage of the picture in height and width, change it to like, 50% each on H and W. So you are actually shrinking it by 50%. that should work, and save it as whatever file name you want and then upload that.

It worked for my photo last night.

[TheStudDuck]

I know how to do that... but I don't think you can upload images into a post... you can only upload them as your avatar.  And I did that with my Starry Night one, reduced it before I uploaded it.

I've seen people thumbnailing... but I don't know how they did it!

[TheStudDuck]

I'm seeing a lot of people viewing this thread... and not a lot of people posting...

What's wrong with you?  Take pride in your avatar!

[Überlibran]

Lol, alright StudDuck, but there's really no need to explain my avatar. Since you insist though  , I snagged it from Livejournal by a guy who goes by the name of Turi, and he does great animated icons. As a matter of fact, this one's animated, but I can't figure out how to get the sucker to work. 

[montferrat]

here's another frame from that avatar.

[montferrat]

I also think this one is cute too.

[montferrat]

here's  another frame from that "turi" icon and also one other lifted from Livejournal.

[Überlibran]

Those are adorable, montferrat. Wish I could get the animation to work in my icon . Maybe I'll check with Phillip to see if he has any bright ideas.