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!
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.
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.
I find many avatars are hard to see. so I used a photo of some “manly” (as in tim taylor grunt, grunt) art that I thought looked ok in low res, feel free to guess what it is if you like.
I joined this forum almost a year ago and never saw this thread before now, but I can see there were no post for a long time , maybe why I never saw it b4.
My avatar is the current motorcycle I have ( Yamaha Royal Star Venture). I will change it if I ever get another bike but this one will be around for years to come.
I been riding since I was 5 years old (I’m 53 now and started out on a little blue Honda 50 trail bike) I have never lost the love of riding and the sense of freedom it gives me to just go get on my bike and take off , with no certain destination and no particular direction in mind many times.
It is good that the wife loves to hop on and go with me also 90% of the time (if she is home from work when I leave) or if it is the weekend, so she never complains about me riding too much. :bigsmile:
I used to have my standard avatar for facebook (a climbing photo) as I had nothing better. I switched when reviewing board layers on OSH Park after uploaded a 20mm slave board I had made. When I saw this layer, I just had to use it. It’s an internal layer for this board:
Just replaced mine, I got sick of this looking at me :bigsmile:
Nothing special, just photo’s of birds that I have taken at some time or another.
The new one is a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo and yeah it is watching us as well, just with smaller eyes and a bigger beak
Chose my avatar because humorous S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fan art is golden, given how deathly serious the setting is. And I love the series probably as much as RC loves Resident Evil; that is to say, love it to death.
Picture’s of a dude dressed as a stalker, probably a loner, minding his own business. Here’s a bigger crop:
art that I thought looked ok in low res, feel free to guess what it is if you like.
looking at me :bigsmile:
