okay, i tried to do this once before, but i lost the post (that horrible feeling when the pages times out, and you go back only to find all that
you've written is gone

). so, i'll try again. this is my history of avatars.
my first avatar was my really horrendous attempt at drawing a stick figure dj. he was sorta cute. anyway, i'd just started thinking that djs were the
greatest people in existence, and thus paid tribute with my outstanding visual homage to their trade. or something.
this was really cute. i returned to it a few more times - i really like animated things, and it looks very cool.
the most iconic picture of a dj i've ever seen, (it's fatboy slim at brighton beach) taken during one of the best house sets i've ever heard, by one
of my favourite djs/producers.
just a beautiful picture, and somehow it translated quite well into an avatar sized thing.
same as my current one - it's
adbusters' anti-corporate logo. instead of inventing a brand, they invented an anti-brand:
used to cover up brand names and logos of all kinds, and generally dispel the myth of brand-cool.
robert de niro's one of the best actors of all time, this is (perhaps) his best role, and i love martin scorsese. a picture of travis bickel from
taxi driver - plus i sorta like the haircut
i had to, at one stage or another, pay tribute to my childhood heroes - the teenage mutant ninja turtles. tell me they're not the greatest cartoon
superheroes in the history of the world. (don't really.)
this was just nice and macabre, but also a nice, striking design.
and...