Or AVATAR MISTRESS if the winner is of the distaff side?

I’ve always wanted to be Mistress of something. ;-)

ChrisL

Awwww, Chris, you promised to keep the good photos stashed away!

(At least you haven’t dug out the ones with the whips and handcuffs yet....) :-)

Ms. Creant

silent battle between Satya and Nick Shinn

I made a couple of comments that his avatar is too big (the stipulation is 60 pixels square).
No battle.
It’s cool that he’s inverted mine.
I tried his out for me, but decided I’d stick with mine for several reasons, mostly the animation. I like the way when we’re both posting that the colour cycling isn’t sync’ed.

I’ve always wanted to be Mistress of something. ;-)

But Mistress Linda, thou art already the Separatrix Supreme of Typophile! ;-)

Separatrix? ROFL! Sounds like I should be leading the Parti Quebecois in the election....
;-)

I’d like to propose a moratorium on animated gifs...

I’ll second that emotion.

> Separatrix? ROFL! Sounds like I should be leading the Parti Quebecois > in the election….
> ;-)

... Then we would have a real language police! ;)

...a moratorium on animated gifs…

And I’d like to propose a moratorium on dull, static avatars...

Nick’s avatar was subtle. I didn’t even notice the color change until one day I happened to have stared at one post for too long. Subtle is good. Myspace glittery, flashing text is not.

… Then we would have a real language police! ;)

And way more fun enforcement! ;-)

… Then we would have a real language police! ;)
Like Turkey?
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002584.html

Tim

Whatever Tim! You have some nerve posting on this thread! Do you think you are better than anyone here? 3 years and not even a little monogram????
I think we should give Tim Daly an ultimatum. I had enough!:)

Better even:
=========================================================
AN AVATAR FOR TIM DALY Help UK avatarless people (contest)
Tim please provide brief (this year if possible)
Tim will pick the one he likes
You don’t have to pay to participate ; )
=========================================================

Kristina you’re next baby.

BTW, wasn’t Marcel Duchamp who did that experiment with the pedestrian traffic light? He made the static little man green and the walking one red or something like that and observed people’s confused reaction. The same is happening to me whit Satya and Nick’s exchange of avatar. Weird.

Lore, perhaps you can have pity & make him one. Your work is so nice. Tim, do you accept? Maybe trying to make a match like that is too pushy. If so, - sorry.

What I cannot beleive is that nobody has mentioned Antiphrasis’ icon

http://typophile.com/user/3247

To me - his is the best yet.

You don´t have to pay to participate ; )

Oh, crap, another fake contest.... ;-)

I ain’t cheap though. I’m not sure Tim can afford me :)

Tim can’t afford not to Lore:-P

ChrisL

Cool, I could be the target for venom and bile, I’d like it to reflect a concept I’m not going to tell you about, in my favourite colours which you can guess. I also reserve the right to close the competition at any time and with no appreciation for any hard work that has gone into it.

I ain’t cheap though. I’m not sure Tim can afford me :)

I’m a man of wealth and taste…
…actually you’re probably right:)

I thought I had a rather nice T made out of white squares on a grey background and many others copied me.

Truthfully I’m more anti-avatar/logo (I never buy clothing with the manufacturer’s name printed on it, ‘I bought the t-shirt for me, I don’t want to advertise your x*@!ing brand’),

I had thought about using this

Tim

That’s really nice, Tim: drop it down to 60 x 60 pixels and you’ve got a winner. ;-)

That is a beaut!

ChrisL

Respect! A bit of dissent is always a good thing.
Well done Tim, it saved me a lot of work (and embarrasment)and it saved you a small fortune (arf arf arf)
Serious: it’s lovely.

So how’s the Satya x Nick score at the moment?

But Lore, what is this Avatar I just found on the floor near your desk? Is this what you were making for Tim? It looks strangely familiar. I guess that is the way the cookie crumbles :-)

ChrisL

Actually even a portion of Tim’s piece would be good. Lore, I like your cookie too. What if after 60 seconds or so bit’s of it started to be bitten off? Slowly....

Unfortunately the ambigram really doesn’t work at 60px. I might play with it to simplify it but my powerbook is having a new hard drive put in it by an Apple Genius so I don’t have access to the vector file. In the meantime a really, really zoom view :)

Tim

Utterly brilliant, Tim!

It’s really two black rhinos making love on a night with the new moon, right? ;-)

Don’t get too close, Mrs Rhino’s husband is opening the door after a hard day on the veldt.
The morals of rhinos these days:)
Tim

Patty, Eben, Lore, etc:

TECH TIP

To close crop your avatar on the grey Typophile background:

1. Duplicate layer in Photoshop
2. In top layer, use magic wand to select unwanted area. Delete this selection (its absence shows as “checkerboard” in the layers panel mini-view.)
3. Delete Background layer.

Save as PNG.

HEEE’s BAAACK! The one, the only,

Thanks Nick!

The morals of rhinos these days :)

They can’t be much worse than some hu-mans out there....

Nick (or anyone who can help):

I’ve tried before to upload an avatar with a transparent background, and am still having problems, even with your instructions. The transparent area displays black. (plus I’m shy)

I’ve also tried RGB and Indexed colour spaces, but no difference (I’m a print guy, web is beyond me at the moment).

No no no !!!!

Linda and Kristina stay away from Le Partie Québécois ;)

If you want a transparent background, upload a gif and make sure there’s no background in your avatar.

or

Choose the same gray like here

R 239
G 239
B 239

In my case, this thread might more aptly be named the Avatar Design Challenged. Yep. That’s me. I generally use pictures of my kids as avatars, but figured that wouldn’t be appropriate here. But if you insist....

K.

ChrisL

How about this, Kristina:

(Adapted from an image on this page).

Hehe. Thanks guys.

ChrisL you make me chuckle.

Nice, spire.

...You both did your homework to come up with those, I see. ;)

I will think of something. The pressure’s on!

K.

There you go: when Lore speaks, people obey. : )
Nick, consider it done.

Serious Kristina, what a cutie!

”...when Lore speaks, people obey.”

I wish I had that same power Lore. When I speak, people just groan.

ChrisL

PS: Kristina, you have a lovely child.

He’s rolling his eyes at Chris’s bad puns, right?

(You’re exposing a child that age to this place? Children’s Services will come after you....) ;-)

Nick: “I like the way when we’re both posting that the colour cycling isn’t sync’ed.”

Even I liked the way they were changing their colors.
even now.

All hail, She who must be obeyed

What does it mean when people refer to themselves in the third person? :)

Tim

It means they’re confused.... ;-)

I finally made a friggin avatar.

Thanks for the motivation, Dan.

its really a funny avatar, andrew.

Heh, just a lil sketch from the morning.

Glad it makes you smile. :)

Flaunt!

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Hiro