Icon squee

[altivo]

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your userpics.
2. Make a post and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee.

These are the ones aerofox picked for me:

This one is, of course, THE Altivo whose name I stole. From the Dreamworks animated film, The Road to El Dorado, in which he upstages both his human costars. Actually, the name is a Spanish name almost as typical for a stallion as "Rover" or "Fido" might be for a dog. It means "proud" or "elevated" (or "conceited" but we won't talk about that.) I still love the original character, though I don't usually RP his sort of personality. I use this icon particularly for "Oh Really?" kinds of comments or posts.

The next one is from a commissioned drawing by Kaijima Frostfang, and shows me as an inflatable toy. The original drawing is much larger and also features goldenstallion as an inflatable pegasus, since he and I were long time playmates on Tapestries. I use this one when I'm being pompous or preachy, in case you hadn't noticed. ;p

I made this one by doctoring up an actual photo of an angry Clydesdale. The original appeared on the cover of one of my horse training magazines, and had a lot of text plastered all over it, so I unplastered it with The GIMP (open source program similar to Photoshop.) The meaning is obvious, I hope: rage, great irritation, vengefulness. I don't use it a lot, but when I do, I mean it.

Gift art from miktar, who, sadly, has abandoned both his LJ and his FA accounts. He's a good artist, a good writer, and a good dragotaur whom I am proud to call a friend, at least in the electronic sense. I hope to meet him in person some day. I use this one when I'm feeling old and greymuzzly, but I'm actually quite fond of it. I think it captures me in many different senses.

This one and another one depict me as a plush toy, which is an aspect I've been known to RP at times. I'm not always a passive person, but I can be. As it happens, this photo was a replacement provided by songcoyote for a less attractive version I had been using. It's special to me because it was a gift, but it also represents mirth and gentle amusement. I guess the rockers look like smiles to me or something silly like that.

Comments

[typographer.livejournal.com]

My first thought was, "But my icons are all either boring or self-explanatory."

But that's just my opinion...

Well, actually...

[altivo.livejournal.com]

As a total non-watcher of television who rarely even sees a Hollywood film, more than half of your icons are well-nigh incomprehensible to me. Even so, the ones I choose here are probably not from that context:

Re: Well, actually...

[typographer.livejournal.com]

Interesting... answers posted in my journal.

Only 11 of my 38 user pics have anything to do with TV or movies... 13 if you add the too pop bands.

I had thought more than half my user pics were actual pictures of me... but it's only 10 of the 38, and one of those is me rendered in the style of the Simpson's cartoon.

Re: Well, actually...

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes, the ones that are pictures of you I do recognize. ;p

The childhood one, though, begs for a recollection of the scene and occasion.