Your BLF Avatar

Mine is pretty self explanatory. Gay Navy Vietnam veteran who got tired of the closet. Needed a flashlight in there! :wink:

mine is a custom Fusion 1911

We need to keep this thread alive… We’ve got a lot of new members, and a lot of older members have changed their avatar.

Mine is stolen from this photo, found on the web:

If you are an old timer, you recall the squirrel this image is referencing. If you are a newcomer, then it’s probably best to leave past history behind! :wink:

Well, since keltex78 decided this thread needed to be resurrected I’ll tell where I got mine from. :wink:

I made my avatar back a few years ago for some other site, I can’t remember which. (Although, seems it might’ve been facebook) I first took a picture of myself with my cheap webcam. I actually used that picture as my avatar there for a while, but the webcam was not a good one, so the pic was grainy and the lighting was bad. So, I decided to help it a little. I opened up the picture in GIMP and colored over the old pic with blocks of color. I then added the weird, oversized eyes and called it done. My wife can’t stand the avatar, says it’s “creepy”! I like it, so I use it.

Im boring i just took a pic of google to show how much i like my s1 batton copper light.

self explanatory :bigsmile:

My avatar is a ThorFire C8s on moonlight mode. I was quite amazed how good this light is on moonlight. It was my first light ever that had moonlight and until I figure out how to flash the other drivers it will be the only one for now.

It's obvious what my avatar is... but how did I make it?

For starters, I wanted an avatar with as few colors as possible (more on that later.)

I found this image on Google Images.

I cropped out the unimportant parts, then tweaked the image with IrfanView until I had this.

I then shrunk that image and made sixty frames of animation with the following website and IrfanView.

http://ezgif.com/

Here is the end result.

Looks pretty sweet, huh?

The problem is that it's 221 kilobytes, and BLF's avatars must be under 30 kilobytes.

So I shrunk it with this website...

http://www.gifmagic.com/

...and finally got this.

And the only way to have sixty frames of animation of an 85 x 85 pixel gif is to have very few colors.

In fact the end result only has five colors.

What a cool thread! I’m glad it was resurrected since I didn’t know it existed until now. It’s fun to learn the whats and the whys about such an interesting and diverse crowd.

The why for me is just because I thought it would look cool and I wanted something original. It’s based on something my 9 year old son did. The company I work for frequently gives out little trinkets to employees and customers. I talked them into buying 200 SK-68 clones. As part of the deal I offered to install batteries and test every single one. I enlisted my son to help me and while he was doing this he decided to arrange them on the kitchen table. Seeing what he had done and after telling him how awesome it was I asked him if I could steal his idea for my avatar.

My avatar is an arrangement of SK-68s on my kitchen table meant to look like a flashlight made of flashlights and of course my forum name. I stood on a chair and took the picture from above. I guess this is my one chance to see my name in lights! :smiley:
Here is a bigger image:

And here is the original my son did that inspired mine.

Will I change it?
I think I will at some point but not yet.

Never explained my current avatar. I made it especially for BLF, it is an e10 incan lamp from a bicycle in a holder, with coloured lighting around it. I like the slight ray coming out of it. I'm a fan of the good red illumination of incan bulbs and am always on the lookout for leds that can do that too.

I was given the nickname Moose 37 years ago when I started my first job by workmates. Big dopey country boy that moved to the big smoke they said I was.

Mine, is, er, a needle being threaded.

Light painting. I was just having fun, no smart story behind it :bigsmile:

My avatar is a snapshot from the making of my favorite P60 dropin made by bushwhacked.
It’s the XP-G2 R4 5A2 on a 16mm Noctigon, which is driven hard @3.02A in a copper filled pill. :smiley:

Mine is a logo I designed, (on a phone app) simply a lightbulb inside a nut maybe it could mean… Nuts about lights? :bigsmile:

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Mine of deadpool. He’s my idol! LOL

I find many avatars are hard to see. so I used a photo of some “manly” (as in tim taylor grunt, grunt) :slight_smile: art that I thought looked ok in low res, feel free to guess what it is if you like.

To me it looks like a rusted exhaust pipe shot from below.

By Scott Ex Rodgers.

I must have been inspired by something or someone.
Don’t know what or who.
:slight_smile: