Icon meme
Yanked from thepouncer who got it from somebody else:
Icon meme:
1. Reply to this post and I will pick five of your icons
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose if you damn well feel like it.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
Answering thepouncer's picks from my icon collection:
buckle_up
A while back I decided I needed an "uhoh" or "oh noes!" icon and wanted to make my own.
That's the "fasten seatbelts" sign from inside a United 757. Since we were supposed to have our seatbelts fastened, I had to set my camera on "continuous", hold it up, zoom in and then take about 20 shots so I might have one decent one that wasn't too blurry. I like it because it has pretty widely recognized meaning: "Uhoh, better sit down and strap yourself in, things are about to get a bit rough".
drowned_city
I took this in March 2007 when I was in Venice. I took a lot of other pics on that trip that show things like gondolas and high-water-marks and so on, but that's the one that is still recognizable as something when reduced to LJ icon size. I use it sometimes as a travel icon, but also as a global warming/climate change kind of thing because Venice is drowning. It doesn't just flood a lot, but is also slowly sinking into to the water. Operationally, it's an interesting study in how(not) to deal with what a lot of coastal areas around the world are going to be dealing with in the next few decades.
aramadiiru
That's "Armadillo" in (I think) Kanji(maybe Katakana, I'm sure one of my Nippon-o-phile readers will let me know which). A friend who lived and worked in Japan for a couple years made it for me while she was there. I use it when I'm feeling either hackerish or ninja-coder / Hiro Protagonist kind of like and don't want to use the keyboard icon. If I were to go to Japan and post here, I'd probably use it then too.
alt-dillos, art, artistic, dillos
That was like my second userpic ever. I forget who I ganked it from. I use it whenever I'm posting about something artistic and/or creative and it doesn't involve code or electronics. It doesn't get used for criticism or media review kind of stuff. I have separate icons for that.
Icon meme:
1. Reply to this post and I will pick five of your icons
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose if you damn well feel like it.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
Answering thepouncer's picks from my icon collection:
buckle_up
A while back I decided I needed an "uhoh" or "oh noes!" icon and wanted to make my own.
That's the "fasten seatbelts" sign from inside a United 757. Since we were supposed to have our seatbelts fastened, I had to set my camera on "continuous", hold it up, zoom in and then take about 20 shots so I might have one decent one that wasn't too blurry. I like it because it has pretty widely recognized meaning: "Uhoh, better sit down and strap yourself in, things are about to get a bit rough".
drowned_city
I took this in March 2007 when I was in Venice. I took a lot of other pics on that trip that show things like gondolas and high-water-marks and so on, but that's the one that is still recognizable as something when reduced to LJ icon size. I use it sometimes as a travel icon, but also as a global warming/climate change kind of thing because Venice is drowning. It doesn't just flood a lot, but is also slowly sinking into to the water. Operationally, it's an interesting study in how(not) to deal with what a lot of coastal areas around the world are going to be dealing with in the next few decades.
aramadiiru
That's "Armadillo" in (I think) Kanji(maybe Katakana, I'm sure one of my Nippon-o-phile readers will let me know which). A friend who lived and worked in Japan for a couple years made it for me while she was there. I use it when I'm feeling either hackerish or ninja-coder / Hiro Protagonist kind of like and don't want to use the keyboard icon. If I were to go to Japan and post here, I'd probably use it then too.
alt-dillos, art, artistic, dillos
That was like my second userpic ever. I forget who I ganked it from. I use it whenever I'm posting about something artistic and/or creative and it doesn't involve code or electronics. It doesn't get used for criticism or media review kind of stuff. I have separate icons for that.