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mdlbear How it works: reply with "Oh! Shiny" and I'll choose three of your
icons. Tell me about them: where they came from, what they mean to you,
and/or when you deploy them. Drop a link here to your post in your own
journal. Spread it around.
(Not sure how long it will take me, if there's a deluge of responses.)
"My fandom predates TV"
A stylized, multicolor line drawing of a propeller beanie. The outlined gores are colored (left to right) red, purple, and blue; there are white spaces between them. The propeller is a green infinity sign.
I got this from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
lysana; it looks like
it was made by her artist husband blackfyr. It has fallen out of use recently; I used it 26
times, between 2004 and 2011, for posts about science fiction fandom or
conventions.
The icon isn't completely accurate; Science fiction fandom as we know it today dates back only to 1929. Philo Farnsworth demonstrated the first electronic television, using his image dissector tube, in 1928, and mechanical versions existed before then. Television broadcasting, however, only started in the late 1930s.
"hacker traveling"
The background is a 3x3 grid of black lines on a white background; five black circles make a "glider", instantly familiar to anyone who knows about Conway's Game of Life. Against this background a picture of an old guy in a tweed cap moves counter-clockwise in a circle centered somewhere in the lower right-hand corner.
This icon was made by snobahr, in
2007; the moving image came from the cover of my CD, Coffee, Computers and Song, which was in production at
the time. It was first used in this post, the
second of two posts from OSCon 2007. It was used a total of 30 times in
2007 and 2008, once in 2009, and once in 2012, mostly for posts about
software-related conventions.
Consonance
On a purple background, the word "CONSONANCE", in black. The letters are compressed
toward the top, and the two "N"'s are the support towers of the Golden
Gate Bridge.
This is the logo of Consonance - The SF Bay Area Filk Convention. Colleen and I attended all of them until 2012, when we moved to Seattle, and a few after that; our last one was in 2015. This icon appears to have been used only once, in this post, live-blogged from the Interfilk concert.
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Date: 2019-01-24 10:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-24 11:32 pm (UTC)liberty/justice
tiger balm
music
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Date: 2019-01-24 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-25 03:01 am (UTC)routercat
mic
above clouds
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Date: 2019-01-25 03:51 am (UTC)The picture was from when my husband and I had a small software business in our home, and a really complicated system of two sort-of-interconnected LANs of personal and business-related computers. Loki liked to perch like that on top of the router. I took a picture, which later wound up becoming an icon. I use it for cat-related conversations, or when it's appropriate to a computer discussion.
Mic - When I started working in radio in 1967 or thereabouts, many stations still used microphones like that one, and I spoke into quite a few of them. This one I use when I'm discussing radio, and my experiences in it.
Above Clouds: Above the clouds is the place I most like being. And I wanted something that conveyed that idea in a somewhat cheerful way. Bright moonlight gleaming off the tops of fluffy cumulus clouds fit the mood I was trying to create. I use it to raise people's spirits, including my own.
Icon Meme
Date: 2019-01-25 04:57 am (UTC)...not that I have a lot of icons to choose from..
Re: Icon Meme
Date: 2019-01-25 05:16 am (UTC)Chris
Wolf Mom
Shorty. P-con
Nifty
Date: 2019-01-26 12:44 am (UTC)I wish we could make CDs with GIFs, although they might generate a lot of heat all stacked together.
How big an event is Consonance? I was a musician in an earlier life and I regret not filking when I was capable. Making music together is The Best.
(Theoretically it's never too late but I don't know how to accept that I used to be a passable guitar player and singer and now I can't play nor sing for more than 10 minutes. Weirdest of all is that when I got sick I lost my sense of pitch. Also acquired dyscalculia. That's probably related.)
Re: Nifty
Date: 2019-01-26 04:21 am (UTC)Consonance is somewhere between one and two hundred people; it's been a while and I don't think I ever got an exact number. Smaller than OVFF, but bigger than Conflikt. Sorry about your loss; that must be a difficult thing to live with. Still, 10 minutes is long enough for a song, and there's always rap or talking blues, and percussion.