EXPLAIN YOUR AVATAR THREAD

bleak. · Post by **bleak.** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:32 pm

hungry_manweaselbeast wrote:
bleak. wrote:a showl?! oh mexicola...!

mine is mr benn.
Absolutely loved that programme

I think that's where my obsession with becoming a spacemen when I grew up stemmed from

a spaceman! aww haha! i loved the intro, and still do now. especially when it's all wobbly and grainy like this clip -

turquoise70 · Post by **turquoise70** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:42 pm

man this thread hasn't been poked in a while!

methinks y'all have been cheating and explaining your avatars in other threads!!

mexicola i love the hell out of your footy signature. i wish the whole world was pixels.

Infinite E · Post by **Infinite E** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 5:23 pm

Ivor Cutler

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 5:27 pm

turquoise70 wrote:mexicola i love the hell out of your footy signature. i wish the whole world was pixels.

For those who don't know, it was taken from the 1970 World Cup final in Mexico. Brazil beat Italy 4-1 with arguably the greatest football team in history. They didn't so much win it as take the p@#s out of everyone else in the tournament.

This goal is regularly voted the greatest goal of all time and was scored by Carlos Alberto, Brazils captain. The original BBC footage is fantastic, complete with early 70's style commentary, delivered down a cruddy telephone line, just as foreign sports commentary should be. All this digital broadcasting today is very clever, but something about the crappy, hissy compressed vocal sound just takes me way back.

Enjoy. The forth Brazil goal is about 4 mins into the footage.

PS - my new avatar is the old BBC television test card circa late 70's early 80's. Back in the day when TV in the UK had 3 channels and only started at around 4pm, this image used to be played through the daytime hours, with music playing over the top.

SallyBear · Post by **SallyBear** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:01 pm

Mine is just a pic of me at my brothers birthday night out in Bristol couple of years ago taken with my Lomography Coloursplash camera, bit fed up of it.....might change it i think

SallyBear · Post by **SallyBear** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:10 pm

Now I've changed it my last post won't really make sense

Old picture =

New pic =

BrandNewRetro · Post by **BrandNewRetro** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:11 pm

Mexicola wrote:
turquoise70 wrote:mexicola i love the hell out of your footy signature. i wish the whole world was pixels.
PS - my new avatar is the old BBC television test card circa late 70's early 80's. Back in the day when TV in the UK had 3 channels and only started at around 4pm, this image used to be played through the daytime hours, with music playing over the top.

Very 'Sensible Soccer', love it!

harpoon dodger · Post by **harpoon dodger** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:43 pm

It's a frame from a Fringe video

Post by **Aesthetics** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:53 pm

<-- my son holding my finger

Skytree · Post by **Skytree** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:38 pm

My avatar is a snowflake forming in the laboratory, with an odd little flickery bit in the animation. The colors range from white to an icey blue. Note that the snowflake has six points of symmetry about its axis. Coincidence? Yes.

meat like product · Post by **meat like product** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 12:04 am

mine is me on halloween dressed as a republican.

braaains

novayshun · Post by **novayshun** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 1:51 am

it's majik, or is it?

ninetyoneplus · Post by **ninetyoneplus** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:04 am

Mine's a a big ol' rock in the ocean near my house that i took a picture of, then polarized all the colors.

CoBoC · Post by **CoBoC** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:38 am

Everyone was doing owls at the time. I'm lazy. Me still have owl.

CoBoC · Post by **CoBoC** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:40 am

Skytree wrote:My avatar is a snowflake forming in the laboratory, with an odd little flickery bit in the animation. The colors range from white to an icey blue. Note that the snowflake has six points of symmetry about its axis. Coincidence? Yes.

I'm glad you took the time to explain all that, as I am both colorblind and blind.

saturdayindex · Post by **saturdayindex** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:08 pm

CoBoC wrote:
Skytree wrote:My avatar is a snowflake forming in the laboratory, with an odd little flickery bit in the animation. The colors range from white to an icey blue. Note that the snowflake has six points of symmetry about its axis. Coincidence? Yes.
I'm glad you took the time to explain all that, as I am both colorblind and blind.

lol coboc, you crack me the hell up

Skytree · Post by **Skytree** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:55 pm

CoBoC wrote:
Skytree wrote:My avatar is a snowflake forming in the laboratory, with an odd little flickery bit in the animation. The colors range from white to an icey blue. Note that the snowflake has six points of symmetry about its axis. Coincidence? Yes.
I'm glad you took the time to explain all that, as I am both colorblind and blind.

You're very welcome, CoBoC. However, I am sorry to hear of your condition, and thus your inability to differentiate between "white" and "icey blue". They really are quite lovely colors, when combined.

hungry_manweaselbeast · Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:40 pm

my face, crudely Photoshopped

88marquis · Post by **88marquis** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 3:21 pm

bleak. · Post by **bleak.** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 3:23 pm

88marquis wrote: