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Wolpertinger_Records's avatar caught my eye this morning. It looks like a cartoon version of Frumpy - Life Without Pain.
So my question is: did you draw that yourself? It's pretty cool.

And maybe there are some other interesting avatars out there which could follow-on in this thread?

An avatar of mine is the sheet cover of a Vietnamese song based on an Eurovision winning hit Après Toi.

The sheet cover star is Thanh Lan, who was well known for singing French songs.

I was going to change mine to "Keep Calm And Keep 2 Metres Away" but like most things I probably won't get round to it.

Thao8382
The sheet cover star is Thanh Lan, who was well known for singing French songs.

A new name to me. I am going to check out some of her recordings...

The_Beatles.
I was going to change mine to "Keep Calm And Keep 2 Metres Away" but like most things I probably won't get round to it.

or Keep Calm and Drive to Durham ;-)

F104G
Keep Calm and Drive to Durham

Calm Down, I Carried Onto The Keep!

Edit: Apologies to none UK users who will find that meaningless.

thinking of using mine for a tattoo

drinkmyh2o
thinking of using mine for a tattoo

Did you design it yourself?

no just a random pic off the net

I change mine quite often. It is currently a piss-take of the disease situation and been in place since before lockdown.
Previously, it was a record with "Vinyl is killing the MP3 industry".

Apologies to Roger Whittaker and for being off topic but I couldn't resist.

I'm gonna drive up to Durham town,
I'm gonna drive up to Durham town.
I'm gonna drive up to Durham town,
And that drivings gonna make you frown.

Woke up with my eyes feeling oh so sore,
I remember Daddy telling me he had a cure.
Jump in the car son and foot to the floor, he was, telling, telling,
telling, telling, telling me.

I'm gonna drive up to Durham town,
I'm gonna drive up to Durham town.
I'm gonna drive up to Durham town,
And that drivings gonna make you frown.

Took the family to visit Barnyard Castle,
Can't believe it's caused all this hassle.
Your protestations are all rather facile, they're not believing,
believing, believing, believing, believing me.

I'm Gonna drive up to Durham town,
I'm Gonna drive up to Durham town.
I'm Gonna drive up to Durham town,
And that drivings gonna make you frown.

Had to listen to Boris bollocking away,
Dickhead, Dom, was all he'd say.
However he's clueless so I get to stay, so I'm never leaving,
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving.

I'm Gonna drive up to Durham town,
I'm Gonna drive up to Durham town.
I'm Gonna drive up to Durham town,
And the drivings gonna make you frown.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52046893

Don't take me by the hand, just lead me through the streets of London
I've got the virus but I'm prob'ly fine to drive

Mine is a Buddha box:
Throbbing Gristle - Gristleism

I like how it looks symbolic of something but actually means nothing (aside from liking TG).

My avatar is the image from my website header. I've blogged as Post-Punk Monk for a decade now. It's an etching from the 14th century that I obviously added wraparound "visor" shades and an Aztec Energy Dome® to in homage to The Rezillos and DEVO.

Mine is a picture of a T Shirt I used to have from the 70's. Had a little pin of it too which is long since lost. It's a logo from an old bar, Fagan's In The Flats, in an area known in town as The Flats down at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River where it empties into Lake Erie. It has the light house on Whiskey Island which is a major Cleveland landmark. We tried to reshape the thinking of our area by calling it "The North Coast".

Part of the re imaging that helped us to get the RRHOF located here.

A giant Garfield was delivered to the place where I worked. Wrapped in plastic it sat on the sofa for a few months while we decided what to do with it. I wanted to take a shitload lot of drugs, put it on a trolley, parade it around town and then set fire to it on the beach. Other people decided to give it to a children's hospital instead. Before it left the building I took a photo of it with someone who worked in the place, can't remember his name.

Bradx
I wanted to . . . put it on a trolley, parade it around town and then set fire to it on the beach.

Even though it didn’t happen, just having the idea makes you a legend in my mind!

Mine is an alien lobster creature committing hari kari after being dishonored, while a robot chef looks on.
It's a social commentary on the state of crustaceous affairs.

djcarbines
Previously, it was a record with "Vinyl is killing the MP3 industry".

Yes, I remember that one :-D

The_Beatles.
Barnyard Castle,
all this hassle.

To my East Anglian ears that doesn't rhyme at all.
I spend quite a lot of time in Goole though, so I read it again with a Yorkshire accent - perfect!

viandy
(aside from liking TG).

Excellent! I took a trip to Hull when they had the city of kulture event to see the Coum Transmissions exhibition. Funny how the people who were described as the wreckers of civilisation are now being lauded as one of Hull's greatest exports :-D

kurts.ear.candy
Mine is a picture of a T Shirt I used to have from the 70's.

Yeah, that's a cool-looking T-shirt.

Bradx
A giant Garfield was delivered to the place where I worked. Wrapped in plastic it sat on the sofa for a few months while we decided what to do with it. I wanted to take a shitload lot of drugs, put it on a trolley, parade it around town and then set fire to it on the beach. Other people decided to give it to a children's hospital instead. Before it left the building I took a photo of it with someone who worked in the place, can't remember his name.

Brilliant! This is the type of stuff I want to hear! :-D

kurts.ear.candy
Cleveland landmark. We tried to reshape the thinking of our area by calling it "The North Coast".

Funnily enough, Cleveland is also one of the very few places in England with north-facing coast.

A great music city and region, not far from Motown. Hope to see it sometime.

mine is a picture of some shadows I took at my sisters place.

Mine is a design that I made for a painting.

A photo of the Lakshman-Jhula Bridge, one of the two bridges over the Ganges River in the city of Rishikesh, India.

Hoping to visit there as soon as the damn bug is out of here...

brunorepublic
Mine is a design that I made for a painting.

Someone ripped off your design for my childhood living room wallpaper. Or the curtains. It was a long time ago.

mine indicates I am listening...
and: I change colour with every season

The_Beatles.
Someone ripped off your design for my childhood living room wallpaper. Or the curtains. It was a long time ago.

It was Verner Panton. It's a shame he invented a time machine but rather than cash in on that, he instead used it to travel decades into the future to steal my ideas and improve on them. It makes me look like a feeble imitator.

Mine is a photo I took at the Egyptian museum in Munich, Germany. It shows a piece by German artist Isolde Frepoli.

Mine has taken on a rather contemporary significance!

Anyway, it's the iconic dust mask as worn by the legendary oldschool rave act Altern 8.

A very cropped down screen capture from the movie Underworld. (or maybe it was the second one?). Because I really like those movies and I thought it went decently well with my nickname.
(In the beginning it was a typo, but it accidentally worked out anyway, and now I can claim it's a hint towards hardware/software instead.)

Silvermo
mine is a picture of some shadows I took at my sisters place.

I think I've met your sister ;-)

The seeing ear.
Front cover of the fantastic album Soma - The Inner Cinema.
I like it when music creates images in my head. ^^

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Means: Every one of you looks exactly the same to me. ;)
In other words: The power of equality!

loukash
Means: Every one of you looks exactly the same to me. ;)

Haha. Then why do you have a profile image then? And actually, what is its significance?


F104G - you haven’t explained your image yet. What is that patch from?

I have a picture of a street sign 'Mancunian Way'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancunian_Way

Someone changed Way to Always, so it's Always Mancunian, just a homage to where I come from originally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiLXFvACVuY

Gravity falls is my favourite show. Thought it was a funny picture. i would love a gravity falls vinyl one day! Yellow with black splatter~

dubfunkoustic
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52046893

Don't take me by the hand, just lead me through the streets of London
I've got the virus but I'm prob'ly fine to drive

Take a sixty mile round trip to a local beauty spot just to be sure.

BTW Barnard Castle is slang for pathetic excuse. Irony eh ;)

Pablo Picasso's 1910 painting Jeune Fille À La Mandoline (Fanny Tellier).

Because it is beatiful.
Because it is music related.

Just a boring simple pic of me, taken in Hong Kong.
Nothing exciting, but I am not going to hide behind a comedy avatar.
The number of times I have been in a record store in China, and have a major language barrier. I will pull out my tablet and open Discogs to show them what I am seeking or to see if a version is in my collection. The store owner has seen this and produced What they consider their hidden treasures from the back room. I don’t think they would do that if my avatar was Homer Simpson.

Have never figured out why In Asia little vinyl stores have a secret back room full of what they consider special items, rather than have them on display. One store in the Manila must have around 50,000 albums downstairs, but only on my 3rd visit was I invited into the upstairs Rooms.

baldorr
why do you have a profile image then?

Biznis. Others do see it, right?

baldorr
what is its significance?

My logo since 2001.
And yeah, the initial inspiration came from a vinyl record, in combination with the Scandinavian character Ø which has some significance to me and used to be my logo for a while.

Mines just my stupid little cat Winstan hiding in a crate. Doesn't fit in there anymore!

syntaxfreeform
Mines just my stupid little cat Winstan hiding in a crate. Doesn't fit in there anymore!

The internet would be a very empty place without cats.

baldorr
What is that patch from?

A photo of the patch on the sleeve of my jacket.
Alongside music, my other obsession is aeroplanes. Back in the 80s there was a display team from the German Navy called The Vikings. They flew a brace of Starfighters (my username) from MFG2 (Marinefliegergeschwader 2 = Naval Air Squadron 2).
And, of course, it all ties-in with one of the greatest albums ever made, Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters.

steve.fletcher
The store owner has seen this and produced What they consider their hidden treasures from the back room. I don’t think they would do that if my avatar was Homer Simpson.

Maybe some Budweiser? Perhaps a Miller? A Stella if you're lucky.

What's that you say? A Duff?

$20 per can, Mr. Simpson.

F104G
Starfighters

but the G is for Germany!

Mine was drawn just a bit of fun, nothing more.

panoptikon
G is for Germany!

it'll go well on the plane, we could do a logo around it and it would look very tasty up in the clouds.

panoptikon
just a bit of fun, nothing more.

they certainly look like they're having fun :-D

Mine is of a New World Samurai but a Redneck none the less...

Gir, non-confronting

Cover from The Waterboys - The Big Music.

Because I like The Waterboys. And I like The Big Music. That's all.....

payin the cost to be the boss

A black square, a pic of the surface of a record actually

David Lynch is the coolest.

Mine is ME! Head x-ray showing the fact that I have an extra ("super-numerary") wisdom tooth. I asked, and the surgeon confirmed in a very roundabout way that, yes, I am lower on the evolutionary totem pole.

ksdfjsldfj
A black square, a pic of the surface of a record actually

How much more black could this be?
...and the answer is none. None more black.

DukeDev
Mine is ME! Head x-ray

Now that is cool!

DukeDev
yes, I am lower on the evolutionary totem pole.

As the resident forum anthropologist I can confirm this. What we can see of your brow does indicate some hope though.

Mine's just a snapshot I took in St. Peters Basilica. (Not sure where, may have been near the tomb of Pope Alexander VII considering the motif.)

Mine is a cartoon version of myself, made by Henry Romkes for our band 'Umupop'/'AMeHOELA' in 2004.
He made a cartoon of every band member and I still like the drawing so I use it at several places as an avatar.

Stand to attention. Gen. Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett has entered the room.

I would surmise that only British users know this chap. A high toll will be paid by the Flanders pigeon murderer!

My current one is an illustration made by Madeline Yale Wynne. I think it's cool and inspiring.

Avatar?,
that is my Face.

I just liked the artwork for Another Green World, and when cropped, it almost looks like one guy giving another guy a record. Almost.

Peter Brotzmann, he never surrendered.

The Man's been here and gone.

Mine is one of the two logos used by my favourite band of 27 years, Cardiacs. Entirely worthy of laudation.

My avatar is a photo of me posing next to a large cactus sculpture I made (paper mache over a wood and chicken wire frame), shot during a Wyoming sunset many years ago.

My avatar is explains itself, found it a while ago on a south african innersleeve. After it matches my opinion i have to use it :)

cactuscowboy
My avatar is a photo of me posing next to a large cactus sculpture I made (paper mache over a wood and chicken wire frame), shot during a Wyoming sunset many years ago.

Excellent! Was the cactus made for a particular reason or just for fun?

Mine is a picture of Guitar Wolf (2), because I love them and use GW pics as avatars everywhere, even at work

RihanaB
no avatar - no story:D

Did you just create an account to post here?

I'm very very lazy & I haven't found a picture I want to use (yet)

dolphyfan
Peter Brotzmann, he never surrendered.

Listening to his duets with Uuskyla right now, coincidentally.

Pic of a random sound wave. My moniker is a Middle Dutch word for sound.

F104G
cactuscowboyMy avatar is a photo of me posing next to a large cactus sculpture I made (paper mache over a wood and chicken wire frame), shot during a Wyoming sunset many years ago.
Excellent! Was the cactus made for a particular reason or just for fun?

Just for fun. In addition to record collecting, I also have a lot of cacti & succulents.

tamama, from the sgt frog manga/anime.
he is my favorite.

The_Beatles.
DukeDevyes, I am lower on the evolutionary totem pole.
As the resident forum anthropologist I can confirm this. What we can see of your brow does indicate some hope though.

Ha!

clanc
Pic of a random sound wave. My moniker is a Middle Dutch word for sound.

This and the buddha box - remind me of New Order and Joy Division covers. Of course, as a post-modernist, I think they are beautiful . . . .

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I call the above piece 'Untitled . . . with 3 dots.

Re-drawn (by myself) KLF "pyramid blaster" incorporating my store name.

Thank you for asking! I love my avatar. Marlon Brando with guitar from The Fugitive Kind, a film I HIGHLY recommend.

denizen
Mine is a picture of Guitar Wolf (2), because I love them and use GW pics as avatars everywhere, even at work

Alays thought it was Johnny Ramone

TwinPowerForce
denizenMine is a picture of Guitar Wolf (2), because I love them and use GW pics as avatars everywhere, even at work

Alays thought it was Johnny Ramone

Basically the same thing. Guitar Wolf always come up on stage while playing Rocket To Russia's first 4 songs over the speakers. They've been doing it for 25 years.

Nice thread F104G, a few here I've wondered about.

Mine is the purple and green silhouette of Pam Grier from the opening credits sequence of Foxy Brown.

i just noticed this

https://img.discogs.com/ow0tqGkGgRGuNla21Epq7gdS1OU=/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):quality(40)/discogs-avatars/U-890614-1461810931.png.jpg

a raw-pixeled-lego-ministeck dj smurf wearing a white ninja outfit

electrophonic
a raw-pixeled-lego-ministeck dj smurf wearing a white ninja outfit

Looks more like Mr Bump to me :-D

F104G
electrophonica raw-pixeled-lego-ministeck dj smurf wearing a white ninja outfit

Looks more like Mr Bump to me :-D

Ha, just gewgled that

Dupe post, sorry.

Changed it again to the most iconic image of my generation.

A little figurine of a coffee cup I have. It defines my general attitude and source of lifeblood.

dolphyfan
Peter Brotzmann, he never surrendered

I always just assumed this was you. Very suave !

I've loved the film "Animal House" since it came out. Bonus points because the "College" sweatshirt was made by a now-defunct t-shirt store that at the time was located in the same small college town that Belushi's brother Jim was then living at/attending. ;)

it's Pit Pat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uco5Ed-5y2U

siquqome
just fun :) i listen bad music and will be punished

Is that you in the photo?

Mine is 'Frank' the robot from Queen's NOTW 40th Anniversary art print.
I change to whatever is my musical 'Joie De Vivre' at that moment...it's been NOTW for a while now until something else pops up ;-)

siquqome
just fun :) i listen bad music and will be punished

Encouraging violence . . .

siquqome
just fun :) i listen bad music and will be punished

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