For my first post, here are some images I’ve chosen over the years to represent myself on the web: as avatars, icons, profile pics, desktop decorations and the like – either to reveal or conceal myself!
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- My idol Lisa Simpson. I imagine she is saying, “Knowledge is Power!”
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- Ahhh Music – not me, but this is how I feel when I listen to my new Beats headphones (Xmas gift)!
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- I am a bibliophile like Snoopy.
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- Uglydoll Ice Bat – everyone in my family has an Uglydoll and I chose this one to represent me!
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- Ramones – my all-time favourite band!
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- Keith Haring – a pop artist whose work makes me oh-so-happy
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- Didn’t know Warhol had ever painted cats. Kawaii!
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- Juicy lips from an album cover by Dax Riggs. So much prettier than the Rocky Horror lips – but I like those, too!
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- Strawberries – another local fresh fruit I adore
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- This “flaming chalice” represents my un-churchy UU church.
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- Local cultivated blueberries growing in my hometown – shortly to ripen and be made into wine!
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- MiniFig Me: a space pirate!
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- A Gundam – what an impressive warrior (if you like that kind of thing)
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- Scott Pilgrim has a local connection: http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/pilgrim-and-a-plumtree/Content?oid=1768763
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- This glowing Super Mario Mushroom is not the 8-bit version I remember. My video game talents have not evolved much beyond the original NES.
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- Macha from .hack//SIGN. I cosplayed this character at an anime convention. I was chaperoning my kid and thought I should get into the spirit.
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- Studio Ghibli – the favourite family movies at our house – seen ’em all!
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- I like this struggling little fir shoot. Someday you will be a mighty tree!
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- I used to imagine I looked like this (see current photo!)
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- What I look like. Is what you look like who you are?
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What a wonderful first post, and it deserves some actual comments, even if they are several years late! I love all of your avatars, it’s like “the many faces of Dar” or something. 🙂
I am flattered you commented here! I’m not sure what I’d choose now for an avatar – probably a robot, because I’m fond of them!
I agree – what an interesting way to present you and your first blog!
It really does make you think – is the image we present to the world, whether quite deliberate and thought out or simply “as we roll” – truly who we are. We all make assumptions based on initial appearances only to be quite startled when we find out more about that person.
I am middle-aged, dress quite conservatively and speak well – but colleagues & acquaintances have often expressed surprise and even shock at some of my interests (fantasy literature/Buffy & Angel TV/riding a motorcycle/having a tattoo – while at the same time loving museums & galleries/European travel/speaking Gaelic & listening to classical music) – it’s as though our outer appearance should define our interests and people find it quite disconcerting when it doesn’t always fit together.
Congrats on your 500th post – always find your posts to be so very interesting.
Hi Margie, I thought about that a lot when I first started to create an online presence – it was so hard to know what to reveal and what to obscure! It seems easier now, as if we’ve sorted out the ground rules. I share with you looking on the conservative side ( in my case I would say plain or modest) and one thing I love about getting older is caring so much less about what other people think.