Describe your forum profile's cover image
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Hi, some time ago I work a lot in the 3D software Blender.
My avatar is part of a series about nature and technology.
Here is another one.
Cheers
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My cover image is concept art from Portal 2 depicting a damaged GLaDOS. Portal 2 is one of my favourite games ever, having originally played it and the first game in 2014; the writing, its characters, music, visual identity, and the gameplay of course, left a very strong impression on me back then. Since then, I've been using this particular image almost everywhere online as my cover image.
I have other images of concept art from Portal 2 in my computer, but this one is my favourite of the bunch. In fact, I also use these as wallpapers on my computer's many virtual desktops, where I can witness them in their entirety while no apps are open.
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@jane-n
A very nice idea, just ask for it.I like Pablo Picasso.
One of his most impressive paintings is, for me, his work 'Guernica'.It was created after the bombing of the completely defenseless Basque town of Guernica by the German Nazi 'Condor Legion' in the Spanish Civil War to "support" Franco.
The painting hangs today in the UNESCO building, in the entrance to the plenary hall, in New York.
I have been using his 'Temple of Peace' since the Russian government invaded Ukraine.
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@Ayespy said in Describe your forum profile's cover image:
I'll probably just keep doing it, as long as I'm able. Too much?
Oh, no, not too much.
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Now I just noticed that I didn't have a cover image yet - just added it.
It is a house wall facing a courtyard and is made of old clinker brick around the turn of the century 1899/1900.I love those old walls, be it as a house wall or as a solely standig wall in the environment and where masonry plants like sedum can grow. Even bumblebees or wasps can breed there, if they do so.
Those walls can remain, unless they are not deliberately torn off or unlovingly painted over, for centuries. -
The background image on my homepage was taken on a plane in 2003. At the time I was sitting in a very favourable seat.
My profile picture is a potted orange that my mum grew. She's been gone for three years now and I miss her so much. I love you, Mom!
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Profile pictures often have something very personal.
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i have my linux kde plasma virtual desktop wallpaper set to randomly change each 7'. my image for my v profile simply happens to be a screenshot segment of that wallpaper which by pure happenstance was active at the time. thus, in fact, it could have been almost anything, with almost any dominant colour, even p...
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Mine is currently a photo of the lake, Bjørnsjøen, north of Oslo, that I took this photo of shortly before going for a swim in it on my birthday back in 2020 (there was not much opportunity for traditional birthday gatherings in that year...).
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This is a scene in the community where I live. Now I use it for my covers.
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@DaveBowman
Welcome here!Enjoy the browser, the forum and 'Mastodon' social.vivaldi.net.
"2001: A Space Odyssey", a very beautiful, inspiring film.
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Used to have a fairly generic black and white forest scene as mine, but decided to use one of my personal photos as one. Narrowed it down to 5 pictures and ended up with this one:
It is a photo from a few years ago of the entrance to the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market. Lots of cool stuff to see there from all over the world. If you happen to be in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA in July, it is worth stopping by.
The other contenders, might switch it up every once and awhile:
- Ski Portillo, Chile (Stayed in the Inca Lodge; nice place, but getting to it and leaving was a challenge. Ended up needing to hitchhike on a semi-truck to get on into Argentina afterward.)
- Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, New Mexico, USA
- Some mountain Northern New Mexico, USA (or maybe Colorado)
- Some bus or train station in New York, USA
- A dock on Lake Amatitlán, Guatemala
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Mine is just an old vacation snap, taken on a beach somewhere with cheap and nasty swim goggles that I lost years ago.. I can't even remember when it was taken. I would guess somewhere around 2010?
Maybe it's time for a change.
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My avatar is an iris photographed by me in my grandparent’s garden. The story behind the flower is that a small plant was thrown to the garbage by our neighbors and I “saved” it and put it in the ground in our own garden. It survived and developed over the years in a large bush with many flowers. All this from a simple plant the size of a finger. Years have passed and I became a doctor and then a psychiatrist. I keep “saving” people that have been “thrown away” or deemed to have no future. And this avatar has remained with me for decades; it will probably stay with me until my end.
My banner is a sunset over Germany which I photographed on the plane while returning to my homeland of Romania. The banner symbolizes my inability to have roots somewhere in the Western world (I’m in the air) and my longing to return there someday. The sunset is over Germany because I enjoyed so much those lands that I started learning the language when I was 40 years old. To no avail. -
@jane-n Well Jane, I was hiking at Browns' Ranch when I spied this thing slithering across the trail on Friday, April 22, 2022. It's a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake.
EDIT: It's length was about one meter, plus or minus a few inches. A very serendipitous event. It crawled to the other side of the trail and disappeared in the brush. The weather was getting warmer so it had crawled out of its winter den and went exploring. I continued along on my merry way. -
@MoonDawg
Thank you for your explanation.
And your fine art in your Vivaldi blog.
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There will certainly be a few more descriptions here.
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I would like to bring up this thought again.
There are many new avatars.
Maybe someone just wants to do it.
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Cover and profile pictures: are the same images from slightly different perspectives. It is a raven in motion. I like crows and ravens and I still don't know why I am attracted to them. Each time a raven intercepts my path, I would like to think that it is a message and it is good. I wish I could give image credit but I don't remember where I grabbed it. I typed 'raven' in my search engine and found these ones.
name: Nothing so dramatic and sexy really. As far as I remember when I created this account, there were tabs that were open at the time and one of them was Wikipedia page something about indigenous Inuits. I needed a name and I grabbed this one, a place of many fish a city in Nunavut territory.
