New Icon, preparing to switch back to a basic LJ account.

[capri0mni]

I'm tired of giving LJ money; so, come February 11th, I'll go back to having 6 icons, instead of 71. Therefore, I decided today that my "default icon" should, in fact, be a broad umbrella -- capable of conveying myself in as wide a variety of moods as possible.

So here's a portrait I drew of myself while sitting in front of the bathroom mirror last August. After I finished the "objective," outside version of myself in pencil (as objective as one can be, while mirror-gazing), I went over it with water color pencils and a wet paintbrush to overlay colors that represented all the different facets of me that exist on the inside.

And "looking closely at myself, and trying to convey what I see to the world" is basically what my journal is for, after all, so. There you go.

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I just wish there were a way to mass-download all my art from my LJ picture gallery back to my computer, rather than doing it one-by-one. Which will be tedius in the extreme.

Comments

[badbookworm]

Ooh, now I want to see a photo of you.

[capri0mni]

I'll have to pester my aide, to see if she still has the picture of me she took back in July -- or I could find a picture from years and years ago...

[badbookworm]

Either would be lovely. My default icon is me even though I'm a bit shy about sharing photos of myself, and I like to see what people look like. You know? It's more like meeting in person, somehow.

[capri0mni]

I just remembered: there's a photo of me on my DW profile. I took it off my LJ profile when LJ started linking to FaceBook of Privacy!Fail!, and I was starting to get swamped with Russian phishing 'bots (I wish there were a way to make your lj profile invisible to 'bots). But I kept it up on my DW page, which I'd imported from LJ...

I think the photo was taken back in '08...

[jesse_the_k]

Neat colors, and I appreciate how your eyes are gazing right at me.

[capri0mni]

That's the thing about mirrors: when you gaze straight at them, the reflection gazes straight back. :-)

[jekesta]

You can download quickly from scrapbook in firefox, I don't know how to do it in any other browser, but I'm sure there are equivalent type things to these. You need greasemonkey (if you don't know what that is, just ask, it's really simple) and you need to install a script that makes the urls in scrapbook point to pictures, rather than pages, I use Fotobilder downloader.

And then you can use an addon called DownThemAll! to download an entire page at once.

I *think* you can set your scrapbook account to show everything in a gallery on one page as well, to make that even quicker. (When downThemAll opens you have to tell it to download the links, not the pictures, or you'll just end up with thumbnails.)

[capri0mni]

*head...spinning*

Sorry... Maybe I'll understand all this tomorrow.

[jekesta]

Yes, I can see that my comment is a bit head spinny, I didn't want to explain it all too much if you already understood it, you know? If in the morning it still makes no sense just say and I'll re-write it with EASY HAPPY BULLET POINTS.

[pebblerocker]

I like the colours! And that's a good choice for representing yourself.