making sense of webwit avatar
- matt3o
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Can... you... see it?!
- webwit
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My avatars are just random black blobs. What you see in them is just a personal reflection of your soul.
- fohat
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- Muirium
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When I first got a half decent telephoto lens, I went birding and found that some images of flying birds look more "right" to us than others. The odd ones are like this:
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I think it's a bit like that famous early "video" capture of a galloping horse (actually filmed by a whole sequence of still cameras) to settle a bet. We don't like to believe the fleeting moments we cannot see.
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I think it's a bit like that famous early "video" capture of a galloping horse (actually filmed by a whole sequence of still cameras) to settle a bet. We don't like to believe the fleeting moments we cannot see.
- webwit
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To make sense of my avavars - I have posted this before I think, but in case you haven't seen it the origin of the duck comes from my IBM keyboard fascination in combination with this:
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm10 ... ducks.html
http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18618011/
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm10 ... ducks.html
http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18618011/
- matt3o
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no, no, no and no.... t-rex!
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That's a great shot of that bird Mu!
- Muirium
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Heh, not my shot though! I just DuckDucked for "birds in flight" and went through a couple of pages of shots chosen for "looking right" until finally I found a nice one of that pose, which, like horses having all four legs off the ground at once, we seem to find unaesthetic to our slow old eyes!
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Who wouldn't like ducks? I once watched a little yellow duck running after bugs. He was like a hyper wind-up toy. It was hard to believe such a little creature had so much energy. He looked sort of like this guy:
I plan on eventually getting a small farm and I'll definitely get a few ducks. (as friends, not food)
I'll also get some pet sheep. Sheep are awesome. Look at the skill this guy has:
(take out the legs, then finish the job)
I plan on eventually getting a small farm and I'll definitely get a few ducks. (as friends, not food)
I'll also get some pet sheep. Sheep are awesome. Look at the skill this guy has:
(take out the legs, then finish the job)
I didn't have to go "birding" to find birds. Some doves decided to nest in my Christmas wreath, right out my front door. They stayed there for weeks.Muirium wrote: ↑When I first got a half decent telephoto lens, I went birding..
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You sure that's not a kid? That's the sort of thing goats do.mr_a500 wrote: ↑I'll also get some pet sheep. Sheep are awesome. Look at the skill this guy has …
If we could only train webwit to do this:
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Had doves nest on the balcony when I was a kid. Not fun to clean up afterwards.mr_a500 wrote: ↑I didn't have to go "birding" to find birds. Some doves decided to nest in my Christmas wreath, right out my front door. They stayed there for weeks.