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I'm just curious to know what made you choose your personal avatar?

And why? Obviously there are a lot of 'Cure' related avatars.. some are not.

Does it have a special meaning or representation of your character?

my avatar is from 'The End Of The World' video. From the Cure 2004 album.

i did originally start off with another avatar, but this one i identify more with, as it looks a bit obscure, and a little bit hiding Robert's face, expression with hands instead..   ;)

I often think should I change it, but... then I wouldn't be able to find myself!!!
:smth036 :smth037 :smth042

Mine is a photo I took In Paris LA FNAC 1996 10 15.

I randomly switch mine according to my mood and/or who I'm currently obsessing over.

Right now it is a picture of the girls from Strawberry Switchblade, whom I find very gorgeous and delectible!  :-D

Plus, I have a thing for woman with hair like that... ;)

I don't mind risking the fact that people might enterperet me as a female because of my female-oriented avatars, because that doesn't really bother me as long as I come across a nice person. I'm not uncomfortable with my masculinity, so I don't worry to much about how people perceive my "MACHISMO".

If it upsets anyone, I will change it no problem. :) I just like to express my interests as much as possible.

I also notice Karma point knocked down, is that because of my avatar? I will change if wanted.

hey CV.. love your changing avatar!! ( ididn't know who the new one was!!  :oops:)

don't worry about people thinking u r a chick... people assume I am a guy with mine!! hehe  :-D

ps.. incoming..

Quote from: scatcat on February 23, 2008, 19:32:17
hey CV.. love your changing avatar!! ( ididn't know who the new one was!!  :oops:)

Thanks, that cheered me up a bunch!  :)

Plus, wasn't androgeny something that rock stars strived for back when? lol  :D

Quote from: Carnage Visor on February 23, 2008, 19:42:08
Plus, wasn't androgeny something that rock stars strived for back when? lol  :D

isn't pink your fav colour?.. mine is blue. there you go!!  :smth023

yes.. androgeny.. love David Bowie and the Ziggy Stardust era.. Annie Lennox.. just to mention a few..  :D

Well, red and black, but yeah (I have strong gothic tendencies)  8)

I should probably shush, I'm straying from the subject of this board!  :P

Peace!

I am a big fan of Simon Gallup. And I use this avatar in every forum I register to (not necesarily music related). I don't think I will ever change it...

Hmm...well, I've had quite a few... the first one I think was of my two little dogs playing, but it looked like the bigger one was about to eat the little one ( he probably wanted to, because as a pup, the little one gave the other a hard time,hanging off his ears, legs and willy)  so, I used that and put " come too close and I will eat you", as that's how I was feeling at the time. I mellowed and started putting pics of around town, the silos, beach front etc... the one I have now is a pic taken in Adelaide, after the show... thought I'd better put a Cure related piccie in for a change!! I like changing them, and will probably do so again soon.. Some of the avatars are brilliant!!

My advatar was made for me by someone at another Cure forum many years ago.  It's taken from the interview out-takes section of the Trilogy DVD and it's the part where Simon answered my Sid question. :-D

I often change my avatar, but I like very much this pic, 'cos it's unusual, fascinating and one of the few images where Robert doesn't dress in black! :-D

I've had a few, i cant remember them all but i think the first was my now deceased squirrel, then i think it was a drawing of some knives by Faris Rotter because i like knives and Faris...
Now its Alice in Wonderland because its my favourite book and i suppose i can relate to it because inside my head is like wonderland sometimes.
I was thinking of changing mine to Joshua Third because he's yummy. I might try it and change it back.

Quote from: dsanchez on February 23, 2008, 22:40:00
I am a big fan of Simon Gallup. And I use this avatar in every forum I register to (not necesarily music related). I don't think I will ever change it...

yours is one of those avatars which i simply couldn't imagine ever got changed - i almost picture you as simon with the hat already! :P caley's avatar is one of those has-to-be-permanent ones too, imo. i couldn't consider changing mine either. it's not something that goes with the mood.


why i chose mine:
well, the song 'the end of the world' had something special to do with me originally joining here, it's a complicated tale that's based on all kinds of really remote and subtle connections and i'm afraid impossible to explain so that it would really make any sense after all so i'll skip the details. i'm afraid it's similarly difficult to explain why it had to be the apple-grabbing image, but it just had to be. i never even considered anything else, i just knew that that would have to be it. all i can say it's connected to one day back in 2004 when i first saw the video. this was a very bright sunny afternoon on one of those rare "very good days" that you sometimes have, even when you didn't do anything special or didn't go anywhere or meet anybody etc.  just a perfect day somehow. 
i remember seeing the video for 'the end of the world' for the first time and being absolutely impressed by it. i had been away from the active cure-circles for a while before that, but seeing this video kind of woke me up again. and although i didn't really like the album 'the cure', the video sort of managed to convince me that there was still magic there, underneath it. all these animated objects in the video... this was the world of the cure as i always pictured it in my head, something slightly weird...
maybe that makes no sense. anyway. i still think it's one of the best videos i've seen, it's not too clever in a conscious kind of way but has genuine imagination behind it. i also think the choice of color palette used in it is really precise and shows someone behind it had a really good eye/taste.

in the earlier days of the forum i used to have a similar kind of non-animated avatar, robert's hand grabbing the apple. i still have this on some other forums which have size limits for avatars.


by the way, i was once asked if i chose my avatar because i'm known mac user(!), just to hint something with it... but no, this is not the case, not at all. i really had/have better reasons that that... and i never even realized the connection until someone pointed it out to me!

mine is the symbol of a band called snakeskin... it's a sideproject of the mastermind of lacrimosa, which is the reason for my screenname... hehe! everything related!

I keep changing mine. But I'm really stuck on my current one.
It's from Trilogy. I wish I knew what they were talking about. :P

my avtar is just a Christian death  cover album ("sex & drugs & jesus christ") and i choose it maybe because i'm atheist and it was obvious a Cure avatar, and i think i'm not an obvious person :-D

Quote from: psichonaut on March 03, 2008, 01:22:36
my avtar is just a Christian death  cover album ("sex & drugs & jesus christ") and i choose it maybe because i'm atheist and it was obvious a Cure avatar, and i think i'm not an obvious person :-D

And you're in luck...I'm absolutely obsessed with Christian Death!
(Rozz Williams era, although Atrocities was an okay album!)
Nice pick!

Quote from: Carnage Visor on March 03, 2008, 22:58:51

Quote from: psichonaut on March 03, 2008, 01:22:36
my avtar is just a Christian death  cover album ("sex & drugs & jesus christ") and i choose it maybe because i'm atheist and it was obvious a Cure avatar, and i think i'm not an obvious person :-D

And you're in luck...I'm absolutely obsessed with Christian Death!
(Rozz Williams era, although Atrocities was an okay album!)
Nice pick!

:smth023 ....i hate Valor and his fuckin' "death metal" genre :smth011 and i still listen to their older stuff :-D

well. I have had a few different avatars since joining this forum.
my current one is of course Saruman, from Lord Of The Rings.

Tolkien fan till death!!  :smth023

I've always loved punk and one of my favorites growing up was The Exploited.  The lead singer is about 7 feet tall...3.5 feet to the top of his head and another 3.5 feet in mohawk.  My avatar is their skull from the cover of their album "Beat the Bastards".

 :-D  J   kinda like punks not dead?

I would have trouble recognising you on this forum without his avatar. Funny hey?
I think ur avatar is original and recognisable. I like it a lot.  :smth023

I choose my avatar, because I love The Prayer Tour and all 1989 cure year  :smth023

My avatar belongs to the 1989 era with Simon using a hat. I choosed it because I am a big fan of Simon :D

I use this avatar in every forum a sign to and I will never change it 8)

Mine is Eldritch himself in a screen capture from the Wake video (Body & Soul IIRC).

For me it is an iconic image & really immediately screams "Sisters Of Mercy" before they turned into tribute band.
This is how I like to remember them.
On other places I may use a Dalek as an avatar.

Quote from: Steve on March 27, 2008, 17:30:06
Mine is Eldritch himself in a screen capture from the Wake video (Body & Soul IIRC).

For me it is an iconic image & really immediately screams "Sisters Of Mercy" before they turned into tribute band.
This is how I like to remember them.
On other places I may use a Dalek as an avatar.

:-D i really don't know waht you are talking about, but i will endeaver to find out.

I associated your avatar with some dark-johnny Depp- secret window/ cowboy/ spooky/
mysterious personality!!   ;)
when I first stumbled across curefans.com, I thought it was a pic of you!!  :oops:

The dalek's cool, but i think i prefer this one you have here.. Mr.Mysterious!!  :lol:

Quote from: scatcat on March 27, 2008, 18:11:23

Quote from: Steve on March 27, 2008, 17:30:06
Mine is Eldritch himself in a screen capture from the Wake video (Body & Soul IIRC).

For me it is an iconic image & really immediately screams "Sisters Of Mercy" before they turned into tribute band.
This is how I like to remember them.
On other places I may use a Dalek as an avatar.

:-D i really don't know waht you are talking about, but i will endeaver to find out.

I associated your avatar with some dark-johnny Depp- secret window/ cowboy/ spooky/
mysterious personality!!   ;)
when I first stumbled across curefans.com, I thought it was a pic of you!!  :oops:

The dalek's cool, but i think i prefer this one you have here.. Mr.Mysterious!!  :lol:

Steve's avatar reminds me of a Bono's image from the "Joshua Tree Tour" in 1988!!! :-D

Ehy scatcat, I know you won't appreciate this, sorry!!! :oops: ;)

Quote from: Lady on March 27, 2008, 20:43:42

Steve's avatar reminds me of a Bono's image from the "Joshua Tree Tour" in 1988!!! :-D

Ehy scatcat, I know you won't appreciate this, sorry!!! :oops: ;)

:D :-D :) ;) who is Bono ?   

Quote from: scatcat on March 28, 2008, 05:10:27

Quote from: Lady on March 27, 2008, 20:43:42

Steve's avatar reminds me of a Bono's image from the "Joshua Tree Tour" in 1988!!! :-D

Ehy scatcat, I know you won't appreciate this, sorry!!! :oops: ;)

:D :-D :) ;) who is Bono ?   

It's the name of a dog food isn't it? :-D

Quote from: Steve on March 28, 2008, 09:12:36

Quote from: scatcat on March 28, 2008, 05:10:27

Quote from: Lady on March 27, 2008, 20:43:42

Steve's avatar reminds me of a Bono's image from the "Joshua Tree Tour" in 1988!!! :-D

Ehy scatcat, I know you won't appreciate this, sorry!!! :oops: ;)

:D :-D :) ;) who is Bono ?   

It's the name of a dog food isn't it? :-D

:shock: :smth073 :smth043 ;)

I really dug the colors in this photo, and although this isn't their best musical era, that video is so hilarious to me! Him and Lol dancing around like total dorks, I love it.


...and i love Roberts look in this era, those lips and hair! mmmmmm     :smth060

japanesebaby avatar, mmm...

Well, I chose my avatar because of the colors, Robert's obvious picturesque qualities, and because he's lying on a bed of flowers looking at me and.. :oops:..so forth. Oh how predictable I am.

Thinking of switching to something more personal, or at least original. Would be fun. Probably end up stealing something though...perhaps this (not that into fairies, more of a dragon person, but pretty it is. Made in Sweden, and she did let me share it...):

@Poe  the avatar you use, i have as a background on my screen, although it is not as brightly coloured.. i love it!!!

Quote from: Lady on March 28, 2008, 17:00:17

:D :-D :) ;) who is Bono ?   

It's the name of a dog food isn't it? :-D
:shock: :smth073 :smth043 ;)

yes, we are here as a slap-stick team, just to make you giggle lady

hehehehe  :D

Quote from: scatcat on March 30, 2008, 16:05:52

Quote from: Lady on March 28, 2008, 17:00:17

:D :-D :) ;) who is Bono ?   

It's the name of a dog food isn't it? :-D
:shock: :smth073 :smth043 ;)

yes, we are here as a slap-stick team, just to make you giggle lady

hehehehe  :D

Oh...ok ok!!!!! :D
But making me giggle with something about Bono is a risk for you all, 'cos then I could start talking about U2, defending Bono and bla bla bla... mmm...I could become "boring" as him, don't you think?? ;)

Quote from: scatcat on March 30, 2008, 15:55:07
@Poe  the avatar you use, i have as a background on my screen, although it is not as brightly coloured.. i love it!!!

So, you have it on your screen, poe has it as avatar and I have the pin....it's easy to see we love this picture!!!! :-D
Thanks for posting it, scatcat! :smth023

mine means: thanks god i'm atheist
any more explications?  :-D
a big fight in me deciding if this one or a asroma avatar!

Quote from: erpomata on April 01, 2008, 11:57:32
a big fight in me deciding if this one or a asroma avatar!

Better this one...I don't wanna throw up watching your avatar!!!!! :smth078  :lol: ;)

ok i take care of your health...i'll change it with a nice grifone perugino !  :-D

Quote from: erpomata on April 02, 2008, 09:13:46
ok i take care of your health...i'll change it with a nice grifone perugino !  :-D

Yes...for disintegration's happiness!!! :lol:

By the way, why don't I see anyone around here with any of these avatars, hm?

(http://www.picturesofyou.us/photos/83-84/84-6-oor-holland-interview-3%20close-up.jpg)

(http://www.picturesofyou.us/photos/83-84/84-2-23-bravo-Ihr%20Bob%20Ist%20Robert%20Der%20Punk-robert.jpg)

Good ol' Picturesofyou.us...

...Or how about this one, after you've cropped it a bit:

(http://www.picturesofyou.us/postcards/pc-85-italy-newspro-1985.jpg)

Aaah, that smile! "Burst grin giggle bliss skip jump sing and shout"!

Quote from: Steve on March 27, 2008, 17:30:06
Mine is Eldritch himself in a screen capture from the Wake video (Body & Soul IIRC).

For me it is an iconic image & really immediately screams "Sisters Of Mercy" before they turned into tribute band.
This is how I like to remember them.
On other places I may use a Dalek as an avatar.

Your avatar could also be Bono from any U2 show in 1987.

Really, there's no difference.  :lol:

a spitting image indeed. i also always thought it was bono on rattle&hum...

Quote from: Lady on March 27, 2008, 20:43:42

Quote from: scatcat on March 27, 2008, 18:11:23

Quote from: Steve on March 27, 2008, 17:30:06
Mine is Eldritch himself in a screen capture from the Wake video (Body & Soul IIRC).

For me it is an iconic image & really immediately screams "Sisters Of Mercy" before they turned into tribute band.
This is how I like to remember them.
On other places I may use a Dalek as an avatar.

:-D i really don't know waht you are talking about, but i will endeaver to find out.

I associated your avatar with some dark-johnny Depp- secret window/ cowboy/ spooky/
mysterious personality!!   ;)
when I first stumbled across curefans.com, I thought it was a pic of you!!  :oops:

The dalek's cool, but i think i prefer this one you have here.. Mr.Mysterious!!  :lol:

Steve's avatar reminds me of a Bono's image from the "Joshua Tree Tour" in 1988!!! :-D

Ehy scatcat, I know you won't appreciate this, sorry!!! :oops: ;)

So I'm not the only one!!!! :lol:
Even if I must say that...no one can be like Bono!!!! :-D

Quote from: Lady on April 18, 2008, 12:34:15

Even if I must say that...no one can be like Bono!!!! :-D

:lol: does the world need another?  ;)

Quote from: scatcat on April 18, 2008, 17:38:42

Quote from: Lady on April 18, 2008, 12:34:15

Even if I must say that...no one can be like Bono!!!! :-D

:lol: does the world need another?  ;)

no at all!!! ;)

I have no idea where my current avatar comes from, I hardly recognized Robert the first time I saw it. I found it on another Cure forum on a crazy fangirl (mostly girls I guess) thread crammed with pictures of Rob, hehe. If anyone has any info on this picture, and the one below from the same photo session, I'd love to hear it.

Now do I really need to explain why I picked this one?

(http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v257/105/46/640237354/n640237354_618877_1898.jpg)

Hope it breaks down in front of my house... (http://www.cureconnections.com/forum/images/smiles/eusa_pray.gif)

Quote from: Poe on May 13, 2008, 01:09:25
Hope it breaks down in front of my house...

Aww, you make me laugh!!  Thanks poe!!

P.S.  Promise to call me if it happens, ok?

Quote from: sues777 on May 13, 2008, 14:36:02
Aww, you make me laugh!!  Thanks poe!!

P.S.  Promise to call me if it happens, ok?

Sure thing sues777! I'll throw a party when it happens, everyone's invited! (http://www.cureconnections.com/images/smilies/t/djparty.gif)  Hihi.

No idea where the picture comes from by the way... :smth017