Comments on: Avatar, Schmavatar!

By: bloglily

bloglily — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:12:23 +0000

Hello Maureen — I’m sorry about the erasure of your post! I hate it when that happens and I’m impressed that you perservered to leave another. Anyway, I’m also glad to hear that you’ll be back — I’d love to hear more of what you have to say. As for clipart — I hope you found what you’re looking for. And nice to meet you too. Don’t be a stranger. All the best, Lily

By: Maureen Anderson

Maureen Anderson — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:48:59 +0000

Hi. my first post was erased because i did not enter the entire email address. I thought i wrote a clever one too! Anyway, I love your blog and plan to come back! Others love it too, it seems. I am a speech pathologist, hence i was looking for clipart for communication devices. Nice to “meet” you.

By: mandarine

mandarine — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:36:08 +0000

You just gave me an idea: why not have closeups of our eyes as avatars so that we can ‘actually see into the eyes of the people to whom [we] are speaking’ — sort of. Or maybe just one eye (these avatar things are so small).

By: Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:24:05 +0000

PS – I would not claim to be either a writer or a reader, but I am most definitely a drinker of tea. My camelia of choice at the moment is a mixture of Chai and Roibosh, which is manages to be both mild and strong.

By: Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:21:14 +0000

Great blog, great conversation.

Bloglily, my Ma and I used the Tenniel illustration of a tigerlily to identify one in our garden; having seen it again I doubt it is what you are looking for but you never know:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=alice+tigerlily&btnG=Search

By: Jana Bouc

Jana Bouc — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 07:45:21 +0000

Great conversation here. I’ve actually had conversations with people, asking them “If you were going to be a punctuation mark, what would you be?” And my answer has always been the question mark. I’ve been using a tiny picture of a quick self-portrait I painted as an avatar on other sites, so I suppose I could use it on WordPress too, but I’m getting tired of it. I think it’s time to make a new one with my new square green glasses. If you’d like a hand drawn one from a photo of you, I’d be happy to give it a try, though no guarantees it would actually look like you!

By: dr. gonzo

dr. gonzo — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 06:26:19 +0000

It strikes me that a lily seems highly appropriate. While not a big avatar guru, I chose one because WordPress seemed to be beckoning me to, maybe I am too easily influenced by headless weirdos in cyberspace though.

By: Kerryn

Kerryn — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:18:01 +0000

I spent way too long deciding on an avatar. The question mark appealed until I realised that nearly everyone else would be represented by one. I wanted to be different. I thought about a simple photo of myself and finally decided that what would best represent me, and my blog, was what I have uploaded — me, gazing at my shoes. The uploading was a breeze. Deciding how I wanted to be represented, not so much.

By: bloglily

bloglily — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:39:37 +0000

Eoin, Fencer’s was the very first blog I came across in my search for sites I’d like to emulate. He’s such a fine writer and nice guy. And now, I have to go look at HIS avatar. You’re right, it’s really fun to check out peoples’ choices and see how they create a visual identity to go with their textual one.

By: eoinpurcell

eoinpurcell — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:17:48 +0000

BL,
Yes I was fortunate. The person in question knows me very well and has a way with these things! I did the uploading though which I managed tolerably well!

I am finding the avatar business quite the buzz. I hve added at least one site to my blogroll purely on the basis of the avatar. I mean the blogger is called Fencer and the avatar is a fencer! Slick! I was sold straight away!

Eoin

By: bloglily

bloglily — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:55:22 +0000

Yess! Singing Librarian, that’s absolutely one of my favorite strategies for dealing with new things that scare me, I pretend like they don’t exist. In fact, until it was recently brought to my attention, I was under the impression that Bill Clinton was still our president.

Eoin, wow, how lucky is that to have someone figure it out for you. (Upthread, Genie, of the beautiful tomatoes has made such an offer and I am going to take her up on it pronto.)

Welcome Matt — That’s good — Better to smile than cry, is our motto around here. In a moment, I’m going to go & see what avatar you’ve chosen. (I’m back from that. Ahhhh– I see it’s actually okay just to post one’s picture. Now why didn’t I think of that?? When I was in college, you were supposed to send in a picture for the freshman book, and if you didn’t, they put in a picture of John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever, which was an inspired choice. Still, one’s own face — and I’m assuming that’s yours — is a perfectly good, simple, straightforward icon.)

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:20:50 +0000

This made me smile.

By: eoinpurcell

eoinpurcell — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:46:34 +0000

Thanks BL,
Truth be told it is not my work at all but a gift from someone else!
I think it is great and captures me pretty well! I’m just too busy sometimes!
Eoin

By: Singing Librarian

Singing Librarian — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:06:39 +0000

It really is a dilemma isn’t it? I haven’t come up with a solution yet, but I think I shall just pretend the avatars don’t exist, in the hope that the question mark goes away.

By: bloglily

bloglily — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 05:56:19 +0000

You’re right, that did the trick. Until I looked at your wonderful blog and saw that you’ve just recently STOPPED POSTING! At least I’ve got some back issues to read….