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[elisi]

I found this really cool collage thing looking through a friend's flist - basically it's all my friends' default icons. Behind cut, because very bad for dial-up!

~elisi~

LJ friendsCollage.

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Feeling blah and sick at the moment, so being rather non-commenty... sorry. I'm here, really! Also this week was half term, so I had the children all day, every day. *sigh* They're wonderful of course, but I'm looking forward to monday very, very, very much! Also cheering me up is this pretty icon made by sandy_s. :)

Comments

[elisi]

Oh, I'm looking forward to monday very, very much! :)

And is your icon a picture of you? It's lovely!

[yourlibrarian]

Yep, it is. I recently made one of those Portrait Illustrator icons and found a photo was helpful to match to. It was rather fun doing, I made one for Mike too :>

[elisi]

Well, you're very pretty! :) I doubt my husband would ever let me have one (he's a bit paranoid), but I intend to do a picture spam tomorrow, what with it being Valentines and all.

[yourlibrarian]

*Blushes* I've been told I'm photogenic -- repeatedly. In other words the camera fibs somewhat ;D

Well, your husband does have a point. I'm guessing that's why a lot of folks use the PIM avatars instead of photos, other than the fact that you've just spent an age assembling it and it's fun to use! Mike says it looks a lot like me but I doubt anyone would actually recognize me from it.

Of course for that matter photos can make people less identifiable than one might suppose too. Our school has a big distance education program and as a result created individual bio and photo spaces for all the students for more of a community feel. When I teach I often have photos of about half my students. It does help me learn their names faster given that I'm sitting in a classroom looking at them for an hour. But if I was just trying to recognize them walking around the building some of the photos wouldn't be as helpful.

[elisi]

Well, be glad that you're photogenic! My mother's the opposite - if I was cruel I'd do an evil picture post some day, but luckily for her I'm not. ;)

And I know what you mean about photos not looking like people. Although it does puzzle me why people use *ugly* photos of themselves as icons. Anyway, must run.