icon meme

[lobelia321]

Pick your favourite of my icons and tell me why. Pick one that confuses you or that you don't like and tell me why.

I caved in to the navel meme.
Icons past and present are here.

Comments

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

I love your beautiful, exotic ones best: Kajol, Firdausi, Desert Torso, in no particular order.

Even though you've had "My Ned" for ages, I do find it disturbing, although I can't put a finger on it. Maybe it's just that I don't find it very aesthetically pleasing, although the sky is beautiful. Maybe there is some deeper, darker reason. I need your therapist!

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[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

You're onto something here. I like the picture a lot because the head is empty, it has the sky in it, it has the Australian bush in it, it is Ned as bush, as landscape, as dreamscape, as Australian myth. And it's beautifully painted. And sort of funny.

However: why pick it as an icon? I think I am hiding myself a bit in this icon. It's stern and inscrutable, and it's not giving anything away. Also, admittedly, other people have said they identified me with it so my picking it is also a craving for recognition.

[crazybutsound]

My favorite icons of yours are the Dom fish one (because duh, it's Dom, and because among all the available pics of Dom you chose one of the less widely used, and that's so very you) and the Ned one, for exactly the reason you've explained in your answer to natasha1805. Plus I am one of those people who instantly identify it as you.

The one I like less out of all your icons is the Karl hula one, simply because I don't like Karl much, for one, and because it's mostly a blur and not a very eye-pleasing icon in my opinion, lol. But mostly, it's Karl, lol.

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[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Karl hula was picked for its sheer cheesiness, and that is what I associate with Karl: my Karl is a dag! *giggles* And it's the one I use when feeling absurd. (And it's not fanon-Karl!)

Thanks for replying.

[jayest.livejournal.com]

I would have to say that I'm confused by Ned. But I don't know the story behind it, so...
I'm guessing its the armour that they wore? or something.
Did you say above that it was a painting?

Wet for weta: Love this. Richard Taylor = lovely sexy man. Weta = ubercool.

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[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, my Weta icon... Some day that will be revived. :-) I like yours too! Hilarious!

Ned Kelly is painted by the Australian painter Sidney Nolan whom I like very much, especially his Kelly series. Notes and fic here: http://www.geocities.com/lobelia321/history.html (scroll down for the pic that the icon is taken from)

[blythely.livejournal.com]

kajol, because i tend to think of her as YOU, i dunno why. there's some resemblacne there.

as for not liking? anything with karl, nuff said.

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[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Kajol looks like me?????????

*gulp*

*is totally and utterly speechless*

Because she is the most beautiful woman in the universe.

*totters off in state of amazement*

*forgives even Karl comments*

[cinzia.livejournal.com]

Icon I love:

because 'Karl whoa' says it all. ♥

This one:

used to puzzle me (btw, Ned Kelly never arrived in Italy, sigh) but now I read your reply to natasha1805 I see what you meant to say with it, and I like it, too! ;)

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[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Karl whoa, *giggles* Yep, that's my Karl. (Or not, because he doesn't look like himself there!)

Ned Kelly appeared in Cambridge for all of one week so I missed it. But now it's out on DVD but I haven't seen it. So I had to do substitute Kelly love via Sidney Nolan, heh.

[dawntreader717.livejournal.com]

Shahrukh of course!

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[dawntreader717.livejournal.com]

Oops, I didn't say why. Although do I need to? Isn't it obvious? ;-)

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[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

I take it that Shahrukh is the one you like and not the one that puzzles or offends...? Buwahah.

Hey, fancy meeting you here.

[mcee.livejournal.com]

fave:


love the colours, the tone, the expression on his face. (he's pointing at ME! saying "how you doin'", no doubt.)


i never got that one. what is it? :)

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[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Ned is Ned Kelly, painted by Sidney Nolan, picked out of sheer frustration at having no access to the Kelly film. And because I lived in Australia.

Fic and notes here: http://www.geocities.com/lobelia321/history.html (scroll down for pic from which the icon is taken)

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

putting aside my bias towards Orli, i think kajol is my favourite since i think you are fun and interesting and lovely as she looks.

i think the ned kelly one confuses me - i know the picture, but i don't get the bit of sky where the eye slit is.

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[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

putting aside my bias towards Orli
I know that it must sadden you every time you ponder the disappearance of Orli from my icon list. I used to be 8/10 Orlando! Ah, those were the days...

And so happy you like Kajol. She is *gorgeous*, and the picture is gorgeous. And sometimes it's nice to have a feminine icon, I discovered! :-)

Ned Kelly, the slit: I love the slit. It's as if he's not really there; a myth; just a figment of our imagination. And the slit is filled not with his head but with the Australian bush: he's an Australian myth. And if you see the slit as revealing Ned's inner thoughts, his dreams (rather than his outer appearance, his eyes), then it's beautiful as well, because his inner life is the bush. But also empty and hence a bit sad and poignant. He's not really *there*. Which is why, as I said above, I use this icon a bit to hide behind, not to reveal all of me.

And also it just looks so interesting and wonderful in the painting.