bblakeney How to Choose an Avatar... blog

So I've been trying to figure out what I should use for my avatar. I found it really hard to do - it's kind of like those personality profiles where you're supposed to sum up your entire twenty years of experience into a little subject line. 50 Pixels... That's like ten words, tops! Maybe more like five! So when it came down to it, I really didn't know what I should put there. What tiny image defines me as a person? I swear, nothing's easy in this world. I know this: I like to drive, I like action movies, I like mixed martial arts, but I also like poetry, and paintings, and sensitive crap like that. How can I capture that in a little logo? So I scoured the web using everything that I could think of: cars, girls, music, paintings, art, metal slug gifs, the ace of spades, all of it. Finally, I came up with my brand new avatar, a painting by Roy Lichtenstein called "In The Car". It's pretty awesome; aside from Roy Lichtenstein being one of my favorite artists, I figure the picture is pretty darn close to everything I want to sum up. There's a full-size one here, I'm sure you can figure out what I cropped and edited.