Because it's about the pretty icons

[goddessdster]

It's the all-powerful icon meme of DOOM!
Rules:
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!

ETA: You don't have to play if you don't want.

Comments

[dr_tectonic]

Whaddaya talkin about, bad cropping? Your kissing coppers icon is excellent.

I went to my friend Tom's Greek Orthodox church a couple times when I was a kid and stayed over the weekend, and I love the insane ornateness of your religion, too.

I'll play! I may or may not post, but I'll at least comment.

It occurs to me that it is very hard to pick only 6

[goddessdster]

They...I could have done a better job getting it more close-up. But I do love the full-body shot and its intimacy. It is a lovely icon, now that I think about it. Thanks!

Okay, so I know these are all you, and I'm used to seeing certain ones associated with certain posts, so I guess my curiosity lies in wondering if any of these were taken specifically to make icons? And what the situations behind some of them are. And stuff.

1. Mr. Cranky-pants (my ultimate all-time favorite icon above all icons ever)
2. Peculiar Wedding Moustache
3. A-ha!
4. Dream of bingo
5. Safety Mustache
6. GOGGLES MAKE AWESOME
7. (extra because just reading the post doesn't convey enough the awesomeness of) Simon & Me

Sorry for the edit :(

Mister Cranky-pants

[dr_tectonic]

This one was, indeed, taken to be an icon. I was like, "I need a grumpy icon!" so I put my camera on timer and set it on the windowsill in my old office and took pics until I got a good one.

I use it for when I'm cranky. Because sometimes I am straightforward like that.

It is the favorite icon of many, many people. Sadly, I'm not actually cranky all that often, so I sometimes look for excuses to use it, because I know that a bunch of people will squee. :)

Re: Mister Cranky-pants

[goddessdster]

Well, now I feel unspecial.

Hang on...I have to go pick a new favorite icon!

Re: Mister Cranky-pants

[dr_tectonic]

Oh, but nobody likes it quite as much as you do. I can tell.

Re: Mister Cranky-pants

[goddessdster]

see icon

peculiar wedding moustache

[dr_tectonic]

This was taken when I was a groomsman at my friends Neal & Rhonda's wedding. The photographer was fascinated with my moustache, and took a number of pics just of me. It's a pretty dapper-looking photo, despite my somewhat goofy expression, so I thought it would make a good icon.

Aside: I have been in a LOT of weddings. It's probably a good thing that me & my boys will likely never have a formal ceremony, but just jump straight to a major anniversary at some point, because (aside from the fact that the other three would all break out in hives having a Big Public Thing like that focused on them) I would have to have, like, fifteen groomspeople at the absolute minimum.

I mostly use this icon for comments on Miss Manners-y kinds of things, though sometimes it comes into play for commenting on the 'tache.

A-ha!

[dr_tectonic]

You might think that this is another picture what I took for making an icon, and that I photoshopped it, but no! That is the natural aura of me having an idea. You just have to make sure your camera is on the right setting to capture the flash reflecting off of inspiration particles as they are emitted.

In this case, I was taking my usual bi-monthly self-portrait for posterity and the benefit of my future biographers, and I had just had the realization that if I took a picture of the ideational halo, it would make a good icon, when suddenly the flash went off.

So that worked out pretty well.

Re: A-ha!

[goddessdster]

:D I really needed to read this today.

I find it fascinating your ideation pops out of your head just above your ear. That looks like it might hurt.