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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 08:04

I like cartoons, and Asterix is one of my favourite cartoon heroes.

My last avatar before Asterix was a painting by Paul Whitehead, the guy who did early Genesis sleeves.

Earlier on I used album sleeves I like, from Anthony Phillips, Eddie Jobson and Traffic. I started out with a Mondriaan painting (my first avatar).

I just like to use images I like, and have to do with music or art that I like.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 09:44
I'm a big Magma fan, but other posters use or have used variants of their famous logo. My avatar is the cover of Christian Vander's solo album Wurdah Itah, which is a Magma album in all but name. It's also the second movement of the Theusz Hamtaahk (Time of Hatred) trilogy - Wurdah Itah means Dead Earth (as in the planet).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 09:50
I've got mine 'cause it's so stupid ...not saying that I am.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 10:07

coz its nearing christmas

 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 10:10
My favourite band is Ozric Tentacles and my avatar is from their album "Live at the Pongmaster's Ball" because it has a really psychedelic cover.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 11:44

I'm a HUGE motorsport fan and my avatar is of the Aston Martin DBR9 that won the Tourist Trophy at Silverstone in May (driven by David Brabham and Darren Turner).

I was at the race and took the picture as the car came round the Abby hairpin bend.

Gorgeous car

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 12:09

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To Watch The Storms...apart from being a superb album by the incredible Mr Steve Hackett,watching the storms seemed pretty apt for a moderator!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 12:16

another moderator centric avatar

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 12:25

or maybe..

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 12:36
I was told to get an xmas avatar. and I did!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 13:11
something related to space...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 13:50

Originally posted by Bob Greece Bob Greece wrote:

My favourite band is Ozric Tentacles and my avatar is from their album "Live at the Pongmaster's Ball" because it has a really psychedelic cover.

most of their covers are great, psychedelic and weird

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 13:55
I love Sci-Fi and fantasy and my avatars reflect that usually
Originally posted by darkshade:

Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 13:59

Originally posted by horza horza wrote:

I love Sci-Fi and fantasy and my avatars reflect that usually

LOOKS LIKE GIGGER ART, DOESN'T IT ?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:01
I just changed mine from a marvelous picture of the great Karl Jenkins to Klaus Schulze's album X, by far one of the best eletronic albums I have heard to date.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:08
Originally posted by aapatsos aapatsos wrote:

Originally posted by horza horza wrote:

I love Sci-Fi and fantasy and my avatars reflect that usually


LOOKS LIKE GIGGER ART, DOESN'T IT ?




thats right
Originally posted by darkshade:

Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:14

Mine was a spinning hammer and sickle for awhile ... but it's been a picture of a grave injustice that occured at a football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United for quite some time now

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:20
My avatar is an orange M&M dressed as Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars. My sons bought loads of these while we were on holiday in Florida.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:31
I change my avatar from time to time, sometimes it reflects an album that I am listening to heavily, right now it is a picure of some of my tattoo on my back, that I took over my shoulder through a mirror!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2005 at 14:36
Originally posted by horza horza wrote:

Originally posted by aapatsos aapatsos wrote:

Originally posted by horza horza wrote:

I love Sci-Fi and fantasy and my avatars reflect that usually


LOOKS LIKE GIGGER ART, DOESN'T IT ?




thats right


or rather - it did!!
Originally posted by darkshade:

Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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