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rfmcdonaldAt the beginning of the week on Livejournal, first Keith R.A. Decandido then Steve Roby took part in an interesting meme. What are my Livejournal userpics, and what are their backstories?
This, my default icon was posting, is a crudely grayscaled version of a photo originally taken of me by Bill Pusztai in January 2005. We were just outside the CIBC branch at 90 Danforth Avenue when I got a phone call from some telemarketers I was working for part-time, telling me that my week-long trial was over and I was done with them.
This icon, used for my [FORUM] posts, is drawn from a photo was taken by my ex, G., as I was leaning back against his balcony on a warm summer night.
This photo, which I use for my [PHOTO] posts, was a selfie, taken as I was standing in front of the shiny gold-impregnated windows of the South Tower of the Royal Bank Plaza complex.
My [CAT] icon is taken from a photo I took of Shakespeare when he was young, barely more than a year old, swiping at my visiting mother's leg.
I do not use my [OBSCURA] icon much any more. It's a shame, since there's so much photography I see on my Flickr feed that I would like to highlight, but not such a shame, since to my embarrassment I can't remember where I got this photo of a vintage 19th century camera. I hope it was from the Wikimedia Commons.
obscura forget where
This, my default icon was posting, is a crudely grayscaled version of a photo originally taken of me by Bill Pusztai in January 2005. We were just outside the CIBC branch at 90 Danforth Avenue when I got a phone call from some telemarketers I was working for part-time, telling me that my week-long trial was over and I was done with them.
This icon, used for my [FORUM] posts, is drawn from a photo was taken by my ex, G., as I was leaning back against his balcony on a warm summer night.
This photo, which I use for my [PHOTO] posts, was a selfie, taken as I was standing in front of the shiny gold-impregnated windows of the South Tower of the Royal Bank Plaza complex.
My [CAT] icon is taken from a photo I took of Shakespeare when he was young, barely more than a year old, swiping at my visiting mother's leg.
I do not use my [OBSCURA] icon much any more. It's a shame, since there's so much photography I see on my Flickr feed that I would like to highlight, but not such a shame, since to my embarrassment I can't remember where I got this photo of a vintage 19th century camera. I hope it was from the Wikimedia Commons.
obscura forget where
