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Baroque Bloke |
Member Oat_Action_Man’s avatar has long interested me. The peculiar red hat appears to be of academic or religious association: https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...020093294#5020093294 Does anyone know? Later I noticed that other members used that avatar too, so I guessed that it was one of the SIGforum stock avatar offerings but I don’t see it among them. So maybe there’s an ‘avatar’ web site out there. Does anyone know of that? Serious about crackers | ||
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Don't Panic |
Can't speak to its use as avatar, but here is some background on the origin of the image itself. Duke of Urbino Federico da Montefeltro (1422–1482) - Wikipedia | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
^^^^^^^^ Thanks much Joel. Apparently the peculiar red hat was worn by Italian Nobles of that era/area. Serious about crackers | |||
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Yeah, that M14 video guy... |
I remember when is avatar was an animated hamster. Hamtaro maybe? Owner, TonyBen, LLC, Type-07 FFL www.tonybenm14.com (Site under construction). e-mail: tonyben@tonybenm14.com | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
“ Later I noticed that other members used that avatar too, so I guessed that it was one of the SIGforum stock avatar offerings but I don’t see it among them.” It is one of the stock avatars. There are several pages of them to scroll through. It’s on page 7 if I counted correctly. | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
^^^^^^^^ Ah so. I didn’t realize that there were more pages. Thank you. Serious about crackers | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
"Diptych... of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza" So that's where the insult came from. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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