Meme!

[beckyh2112]

Because if I talked about training, I'd probably wind up discussing various ways to commit check-fraud. While I think that's useful information, it's not something I want to discuss in a blog entry.

Reply with "Icons!" in the comments and I'll pick six of yours for you to talk about. :D

Icons chosen by dark_puck.

The problem with me doing these is my explanations are either rambling and incoherent or come down to "it was pretty!".

1.

cleolinda does Movies in Fifteen Minutes (m15m). She usually makes icons to accompany them, because she's awesome like that. She's also a major user of the Silkscreen font. This particular bit is from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in Fifteen Minutes".

2.

This is another of cleolinda's. In this one's case, I went "pretty!" and snagged it.

3.

I made this! For an icon contest! I even won! Lyrics from "Holding Out for a Hero". It's kind of my 'in a bad place' icon when it's not my icon for talking about The Matrix.

4.

A while back, some guy was reading the Harry Potter series because people insisted he should. He was quite critical. Someone else made icons of some of the more memorable lines. I picked up the ones I liked.

Can't actually remember who said this originally, of course, because I have a memory like a sieve for names.

5.

PRETTY.

6.

So, my buddy suzukiblu does request-memes fairly often. I think that's pretty cool. She usually has some minimal rules for how to make the requests. Usually, there are a couple of people who FAIL UTTERLY WITH READING DIRECTIONS.

They drive me crazy. I had to make an icon to vent.

Comments

[negaduck9.livejournal.com]

Xposted from my LJ...


I don't remember who first pointed out this joke to me. It was in real life, so it's safe to say it was a fellow female. One day I decided I wanted to make it into a userpic, so I Googled up an image and made this based on a photo I found. I also watermarked it, because I knew it'd be "borrowed," and I wanted to see how far it spread.


This is an illustration by Jon Neill from L. Frank Baum's The Tin Woodman of Oz. In the books the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman are bestest friends, and sometimes it comes across as more than that, as the Woodman can be very.... effusive. I personally liked the "bromance" angle, so I wrote a story in which it was a major factor. (More news to come on that, hopefully soon.) In this pic they are looking at a map carried by Woot the Wanderer, but I cropped the kid out.


This is from the DOOM comic (http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/). Ahh, DOOM, the '90s game that revolutionized the FPS genre. I still have it installed on my computer. In '96 someone published a 16-page comic book based on it, and it was amazingly, hilariously bad. In fact, I'd guess that the writer had to have had his tongue in his cheek, especially when the Doom Guy falls in love with the BFG. I have a soft spot in my heart for classic DOOM, so I made an icon.


Some years ago a friend was doing a project which I would call an animated MST3K. I was one of the voice actors, and this was my character. Her name was "Blitter." I did some basic doodles and sketchington (the producer of said effort) refined it into this design. Her voice was a bit Hexadecimal-ish. The project never came to fruition, ah well.


Katamari Damacy! The King of All Cosmos may have acted light in the loafers, but his wife knows he's all man. I ripped the movies from the game and made this icon. It has also spread across the LJ-verse, and the proof I made it is the watermark across the king's sash, though you have to blow it up to about 300% to see it.


Ever notice that chopstick wrappers all have the same directions, with varying typos and degrees of blurriness on the images? I scanned the most messed-up chopstick wrapper I found and made this. I typed the directions myself, but the typos and font changes are exactly as they appear on the wrapper.