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Mine's Igor Wakhevitch. One of the two coolest most rockin' musique concrete / electro acoustic composer ever. Just click on the link and listen to Materia Prima from Docteur Faust (then the rest).

I'm a big fan, but I use the image as my avatar because he looks so damn cool sitting there with his hawk.

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Originally posted by UMUR UMUR wrote:

I haven´t really found one I´m sattisfied with yet, so I change it like I change my socks. Right now it´s the cover to one of the filthiest grindcore albums I´ve heard in a while Cretin´s Freakery. Just love that cover artwork. Really damn meanLOL. Reminds me of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre or something like that. And what can I say I´m a giant horror movie fan. ( I might change it later today if I see fit so I´ve pasted the picture in for keepers)
 
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Texas Chain Saw Massacre is great ! I saw the original from 1974 a long time ago. Made me  LOL.
Did you see Deliverance (1972) ? and Wrong Turn (2003) ? I like those American bush movies !
Zombi II (1979) was also very nice.
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Mine's the cover of the album Revival by Al Basim. Thought it looked quite dark and mysterious!
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I'm Canadian. Do I need to explain anything more than that?
Thank you for supporting independently produced music
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Mine is obvious to any fan of The Flower Kings........maybe not to others.

I choose it because it is still my favorite album by anyone related to that band since it was released (2005).  Also, I felt a strong connection to the lyrics.  Plus, I just think it makes for a cool avatar Smile
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i used to have a couple francis bacon paintings up and before that for the longest time was a mathew ritchie painting but now ive got tom waits looking bad ass
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Points: 1594 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2009 at 10:25
That's me with my Gretsch.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2009 at 09:15
I've been trying to find the source files of mine, and failed - I've located parts of it, but can't find the original photograph of me that it is a collage of, but essentially it is a merging of these two images:
What?
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Mine is a drawing I made (though I rarely draw) during a period when I was trying to draw pictures that represented Frank Zappa titles.  This particular one is for "Cruising for Burgers".
 


Edited by HolyMoly - June 12 2009 at 07:40
My other avatar is a Porsche

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Mine's Dr. Zoidberg from Futurama.
With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince.
With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D. and you still have the frog you started with.
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I am the Catfish Man

When I first thought about getting a decent avatar I was very much into Spock's Beard, specifically "The Light" and decided that I should take on the persona of 'The Catfish Man'.

I commissioned an artwork from my buddy Doc.  I asked him to draw a representation of me as a catfish and voila.  I may play around with the background sometime, you know, The Catfish Man in France, The Catfish Man cheering the Penguins on to a Stanley Cup win tonight . . .

For those that are interested, more of his work can be found at

www.killjoycomics.com

under the Martin Molotov heading.

For the record, the cost of a custom made avatar for me . . . a single lunch unit.
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Mine if from my favourite album.Always liked that cover.
"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"

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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2009 at 06:03
I've used mine since about the 3rd month I was on this forum - pure and simple; one of my favorite albums of all time, by one of my favorite guitarists:


Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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Points: 3069 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2009 at 04:52
Damn you got there first Dean, I was writing about the same thing.
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2009 at 04:49
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

Mine is a colorful psychedelic thing made in paint Tongue
Looks more like the cover of Alice In Chains' eponymous 3rd album to me Wink


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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2009 at 04:47
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

Mine is a colorful psychedelic thing made in paint Tongue
Looks more like the cover of Alice In Chains' eponymous 3rd album to me Wink
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Edited by Dean - June 12 2009 at 04:48
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I haven´t really found one I´m sattisfied with yet, so I change it like I change my socks. Right now it´s the cover to one of the filthiest grindcore albums I´ve heard in a while Cretin´s Freakery. Just love that cover artwork. Really damn meanLOL. Reminds me of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre or something like that. And what can I say I´m a giant horror movie fan. ( I might change it later today if I see fit so I´ve pasted the picture in for keepers)
 
Freakery cover (Click to see larger picture)
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Points: 24322 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2009 at 04:42
My avatar is a picture of my cat, Ernie (Löwenherz, Corleone dei Siamesi), here a few months old.


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Points: 3968 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2009 at 04:27
What your avatar means ? Mine is simple. I saw this cover of The Flower Kings album, then started MS Paint and drawed it :- ) so it may be considered as mine interpretation.

Some are easy, covers to albums. Some are logos of bands. Some people even have their photos, but they're minority.

OK, it run thru my mind a little bit that my thread would be off-top, but I wasn't sure and I didn't used search
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Points: 958 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2009 at 04:14
Originally posted by KoS KoS wrote:

I guess #3 fits mine.
Hayden Panettiere is pretty hot, that's about it.
Actual pic:

 
Seconded. Even this knock out I wasn't familiar with. And that's because I hardly watch movies and TV- series. Thanks for posting.
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