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Post by rikita on Jun 22, 2009 15:28:32 GMT
not sure how old i was, i guess five maybe?
i was supposed to nap, but i never could fall asleep so i got bored and made a costume out of all the socks i found in my parents drawers (since i loved dressing up)...
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Post by tillystar on Jun 22, 2009 16:22:12 GMT
I love that picture, you look great in your sock outfit ;D
Definately the Princess of Socks!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2009 16:54:27 GMT
So it's true that life behind the Iron Curtain was all in black and white? That's what they taught us in school, more or less.
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Post by imec on Jun 22, 2009 20:13:00 GMT
And what about screen names? Mine is simply my initials.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2009 20:27:01 GMT
My name is not one of an idol, simply someone who seems to have been as lost as I am. Nevertheless, I have been to the grave in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Post by spindrift on Jun 22, 2009 20:50:38 GMT
Au fond we are all lost.....
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 22, 2009 20:58:19 GMT
As long as we're 'splaining ............ Spindrift, I am so intrigued by that dog. He does look so much like the boy who played Frodo in the film. I thought you only had a cat.
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Post by rikita on Jun 27, 2009 20:28:11 GMT
oh, life wasn't all black and white, sometimes there were little bits of colour. like, the scarf the black-and-white young pioneers were wearing were blue or red, depending on their age.
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Post by spindrift on Jun 28, 2009 15:15:11 GMT
True, I only have a cat....but Frodo is a lurcher living with friends in the Dordogne, near Bergerac. This photo was taken last year when I was staying there. Reminds me - it's time I was invited again!
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Post by imec on Jul 27, 2009 3:13:00 GMT
BTW, it would appear all hell broke loose in the avatar department during my absence - even kerouac got rid of that lame starfish. Did someone put forth a challenge? An edict? A dare?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2009 10:50:04 GMT
See what happens when you leave? It was quite the revolution,you missed it.
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Post by imec on Jul 27, 2009 14:13:43 GMT
So my ships are totally out of fashion I guess.... I'll see what I can do.
(I see the minimalist look is already taken...)
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 27, 2009 15:12:44 GMT
Imec, pretty much the second your back was turned, a thrilling new selection of avatars was made available at Any Port. This started a refreshing frenzy of avatar changing amongst those in Port.
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 27, 2009 23:26:59 GMT
My name is basically my age with traveler. Nothing very original. You will find that I like variety, so my avatar will probably change again. I might even put a picture of myself, if I ever find one I like.!!! ;D
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Post by imec on Jul 28, 2009 1:00:49 GMT
Ah ha! So you've found the key to immortality! Create a username with your age and hope the board never closes down... I should have come up with a username with my height and added a few inches. Oh!! Or maybe...
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Post by lola on Jul 31, 2009 21:38:36 GMT
My avatar was one of the quick n easy ones available when I signed on for this cruise. I paint a little sometimes, and my husband is a birder, and it wasn't too cutesy, so I nabbed it and have stuck with it out of laziness.
I do appreciate all of your creative avatar efforts. My daughter was reading over my shoulder the other day and really likes the childhood photo theme.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2009 3:23:04 GMT
I've just put up a new avatar. I get bored easily, and keep changing them. This one I took on the highway on the way back from Montreal. I like the way the camera captured the sun, peaking through the window
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Post by cigalechanta on Aug 1, 2009 3:47:37 GMT
K2 did you really go to Lowell? I would rollar skate there in a rink in Jack's time
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2009 4:53:34 GMT
Yes, I did visit Lowell.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2009 5:25:55 GMT
Speaking of avatars, I just came across this little cutie:
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Post by Jazz on Aug 5, 2009 19:59:47 GMT
It did take me six months to come up with an avatar and it will probably change. Here is 'Pere Tanguy' in all his glory, painted by Van Gogh....I was disappointed that the details fade and are grainy in the avatar. This painting is in the Rodin museum in Paris. This was the first time that I had ever seen it (even in books) and I loved him. There is little written about Pere Tanguy, but he owned a small paint supply shop in Montmartre and was kind and encouraging to the 'avant guard' artists of the day...Van Gogh, Renoir, Seurat, Monet, Pissaro etc. ' The young couple, accustomed to hardship of all kinds, left Sain-Brieuc for Paris in 1860. After various vicissitudes the man became a colour grinder in the house of Edouard, rue Clauzel. The position was meagre. The Tanguys moved up the social scale by accepting the job of concierge, somewhere on the Butte, Montmartre. This gave Pere Tanguy his liberty, his wife looking after the house. He went into business on his own account, vending colours in the quartier and in the suburbs. They, the avant gard artists, patronised the honest, pleasant pedlar of colours and brushes, and when they didn't have the money, he trusted them.'
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2009 21:01:40 GMT
Interesting to see the Japanese paintings behind him!
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 5, 2009 21:12:27 GMT
Jazz, I think your avatar looks great, especially considering how much detail in the painting had to be reduced so much. To ride my hobby horse for a moment ~~ when you start using the tools to reduce, crop, adjust color, etc., you will find ways of getting exactly what you want from a picture. There are easy ways to deepen the color of the full-sized picture, for instance, so that it shows up better as an avatar. You can also crop the picture any way you wish. Two pictures cropped from the above: and Pictures were cropped and edited on Microsoft Office Picture Manager, then hosted on ImageShack.
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Post by Jazz on Aug 5, 2009 21:23:29 GMT
ummm... Thanks Bixa, I am very bad at ignoring the picture posting thread and I have to discipline myself to 'get over it'.
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Post by Jazz on Aug 5, 2009 21:45:03 GMT
Interesting to see the Japanese paintings behind him! This was painted in 1887. The emerging painters of the time were influenced by Japonisme in the 70's and 80's of the 18th century in France, especially by the woodblock prints. The term Japonisme was created by the French journalist and art critic, Philippe Burty in an article in 1876 to describe the craze for all things Japanese. Van Gogh was fascinated by the works of ukiyo-e.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2009 18:32:33 GMT
It really is quite beautiful Jazz. I like looking at the close up and studying it.
Spindrift,why is your lovely image skewed in some posts and not in others? Or is it my computer? It's weird.
imec,you appear much more intimidating in your photo (that is you,right?) then you do in posting life. Reminds me of my older brother when I would try to sneak into the house past curfew. He'd always catch me,with his arms folded like that.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 11, 2009 2:02:04 GMT
Spindrift has made 2,000 (quality!) posts, so now has revolving avatars. One is her in all her loveliness with the handsome Frodo & one is cartoon Spindrift & Frodo.
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