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marrog has tasked me to explain seven of my icons (yes, yes, it's a meme) - here goes:
This has a similar explanation to icon 3 - insofar as it's a picture where the lens flare threatens to overwhelm the image, which I think looks cool. It's me, of course. With lots of hair. In fact, the icon is mostly hair, nose and glasses, which sums up that particular look for me rather well...
I think I stole this from
drjon, but in any case I've had it for a few years. I love the idea of a word leaping out at you. There's a moment in the track "Eyes of a Stranger" (I think) where four different bits of music are weaving in and out of each other and suddenly the babble stops with the word "Revolution" - and I think of this icon as being like that. When used deliberately it's there for posts that I want people to pay attention to.
This is Lilian's cat "Java". Believe it or not, the cat was already called Cookie when she got it. Renaming the other one Java was entirely her choice though, and manyh people strangely don't believe that the references aren't geeky in nature. I like the way the cat's white chest fades into the background, and the washed out over-exposed look it has.
I assume there are people out there who haven't seen the list of Star Wars quotes improved by replacing a word with "Pants". It's
here. Some of my favourites are "Chewie and me got into a lot of pants more heavily guarded than this.", "You came in those pants? You're braver than I thought.", "In his pants you will find a new definition of pain and suffering" and of course "These aren't the pants you're looking for." I'm not sure the icon needs any more explanation than that.
This isn't even my icon! Well, kinda it is, because I do use it occasionally. It's my old friend Neil, who had a cool photo online that he wanted as an icon, so I grabbed it and iconised it. It's such a great pic though - and he never posts any more, to the extent that I can't remember his LJ username. So I use it occasionally.
This one does, indeed, deserve an explanation. Sadly, said explanation is in a SomethingAwful thread that has been archived, and I'm darned if I'm paying just to go get it. It's from
Latawnya, the Naughty horse, Learns to Say "No" to Drugs, in which the aofrementioned title becomes, magically, the plot. BoingBoing has a scan of the page that this icon is from
here, wherein you can see
multiple horses smoking, should the need take you. It's just the kind of ridiculous thing I expect to see on the internet, and thus was almost certainly forwarded to me by
octopoid_horror, who acts as my Something-Awful-filter.
Occasionally, I'm stuck for inspiration, ability and self-control all at the same time. In this case I'd bumped into a
speech bubble constructor, the kind of thing that fills my heart with joy at the thought of using it for inappropriate ends and then immortalising the result in an icon. However, I was first completely incapable of thinking of something to turn into a speech bubble, and then having thought of something that wasn't actually witty I didn't actually know what the french for Speech Bubble was. I'm vaguely hopeful that the phrase is correct, but if someone wants to tell me I'm wrong then I'll fix it. It is, of course, a play on Rene Magritte's famous "The Treachery of Images", which you can find a scan of
here. I think of it as a good try, but ultimately unsuccessful, as it's not smart enough for people that get the joke, opaque to many, and no bugger has ever told me they like it.
In other news, first five people to ask, that I feel I know at all well, and have an interesting selection of icons to choose from, get asked this in return.
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