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Gentle Giant In A Glass House album cover
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My avatar is, of course, a detail from Gentle Giant's "Octopus" album, one of my all time favourite albums.
 
It's not taken from the album though, but from my limited edition silk screen print (1 of 50) that I bought directly from Roger Dean.
 
Roger wasn't happy with the octopus eye detail on all of the prints, and so he hand painted all 50 of the screen prints, so the eye detail that I focus on is an original Roger Dean touch.
 
It was great meeting Roger, and he kindly spent time drawing an original octopus sketch on the bottom of my print which made it extra special.
 
The avatar reminds me of a great album, but also of meeting Roger Dean and his kindness in creating an original drawing for me, which is very special to me.
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Mine is obviously meant to portray a subliminal, radically subversive political statement.
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Mine has changed, and likely will again.
On the account I was forced to create (@http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=63577), the avatar is of my late cat Rocky.
Sometimes, I use a gif of Rocky, the cat fresh from a toilet dive (my current avatar), and a picture or two of myself interspersed. Although, it goes way too fast.
I need to get that one reigned in and under control...
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I just like looking at pictures of attractive ladies I guess, and at my age it doesn't really matter if they're pictures of real people or cartoon images, 'cos looking at 'em is as about as far as I'm ever likely to get these days!   
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It's a cocuyo, basically a click beetle that glows. Here in the Caribbean people love to put these in jars and make their own natural lantern with them. I use it as my avatar in my other sites too and even have it tattooed on my left breast. Cocuyos are great :)
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I changed mine recently so now my old description several pages back no longer makes sense. Therefore I must do this again. I saw this cartoon somewhere, but the album cover was non-descript so I made it very descript, and added glasses and facial hair to the guy to make him look a heck of a lot like me.
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Cropped image of the Holy Trinity from Canada 
“War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.”

― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four



"Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart
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Cropped image from Miles Davis' record "A Tribute to Jack Johnson" longbox LP edition.

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021
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Mine comes from one of the most intriguing rock art panels (Native American) I've ever seen near Moab, UT. I took a photo and modified/coloredit a bit for my prog radio show "Rock Art" (at KZMU Moab in 2012).

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Edited by zwordser - May 13 2018 at 18:36
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It's a dog.
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My 2016 experimental rock/jazz rock release
New album!
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I'm a fish out of water, which is probably why I dig Aquacadia's music. Every song on YouTube has something to do with water. Definitely born under the right sign. 🐟
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Originally posted by AreYouHuman AreYouHuman wrote:

Mine is a frame from “The Secret of NIMH”, still IMO one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, traditionally-animated film ever.  I thought it would provide something of an ironic counterpoint to my username. The accompanying caption I found appropriate for some individuals on this forum and on the web in general.


Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Friede and I use the same avatar, the cover of the first album of our band Bald Angels, "The Goat and the Donkey". it was produced in a limited edition of 500 copies only which we sold at our restaurant. the cover shows the two of us depicted by a befriended artist with Friede on the left and me on the right.

the cover of our second album "It's a Dog's Life", also in a limited edition of 500 copies, is extremely daring, so we chose not to use that one
That must be the one on the “Most provocative lyrics” thread which I just happened to bump a few days ago.

It is indeed.


BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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The band will probably continue, and I have restored my avatar. The allegation of right-wing friends of our guitarist turned out to be a misunderstanding. He has no right-wing friends (I confused the project of his former bandmates with something else); and certainly, he himself is not a rightist either, and that's what matters here. Yet, there are still some open issues in our band relating to the pace of progress, but all of us are of the opinion that these can be settled. We all want to continue!



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... brought to you by the Weeping Elf

"What does Elvish rock music sound like?" - "Yes."
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Mine is a frame from “The Secret of NIMH”, still IMO one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, traditionally-animated film ever.  I thought it would provide something of an ironic counterpoint to my username. The accompanying caption I found appropriate for some individuals on this forum and on the web in general.


Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Friede and I use the same avatar, the cover of the first album of our band Bald Angels, "The Goat and the Donkey". it was produced in a limited edition of 500 copies only which we sold at our restaurant. the cover shows the two of us depicted by a befriended artist with Friede on the left and me on the right.

the cover of our second album "It's a Dog's Life", also in a limited edition of 500 copies, is extremely daring, so we chose not to use that one
That must be the one on the “Most provocative lyrics” thread which I just happened to bump a few days ago.
Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously.

Silly human race! Yes is for everybody!
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Originally posted by WeepingElf WeepingElf wrote:

As you will have seen, I have deleted my avatar - because the band has broken up. It had been sabotaged by our lead guitarist who had been hiding his hard-right leanings (myself, I am rather a green liberal) - but eventually, I was frustrated by the lack of progress and called for a break, and when I found out about his political stance and his Nazi friends (also, he is professionally involved in the recent car exhaust scandal), I turned that into a permanent quit.

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Better to run away from those extremists indeed !  They function like drug addicts.

I can only wish good luck with any possible next project
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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

we actually use our lack of hair to advertise for our restaurant. Our slogan is "the restaurant where you can be certain no hair is in the soup"

(Reading this as I'd just bumped into some lyrics with a line about "becoming a wise hair that renounces to [falling into] soup"...)

Anyone name any other restaurant that can afford this slogan !
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Ian, I hadn't even noticed the blurred mammaries on the AHM LOL

Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

My avatar is vacuum.


You, lady, owe me author's rights...

My lawyer will contact yoursTongue

Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:



this calendar has the advantage that the same date will fall on the same weekday every year. what's more, every month starts with the same weekday, so calculating which weekday a certain date falls on is totally easy


How do you manage with the 29th of February??ConfusedOuchWink

In leap years we have a leap day which follows immediately after New Year's Day and does also not belong to any month or week.


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