The story behind your avatar

[greennui]

What is it?

Mine's a still from the experimental short film Brutal Ardour, can be seen around 14:30:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkk8wr

[Umbugbene]

Mine is a Pilzkiosk (mushroom kiosk) or Milchpilz (milk mushroom) in a park by the train station in Regensburg, Germany. It's a kiosk selling milkshakes and/or other drinks. In the 1950s there were around 50 of these throughout Europe, but now there are only a few left (I've seen 3). I chose it because I thought it was cute, and it fit nicely into an avatar. The choice predates any revelations by Stormy Daniels; it has nothing to do with politics or movies.

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Mine comes from an Aleksandr Rou movie called Po shchuchemu veleniyu or, roughly I guess, Wish upon a Pike or the Magic Fish. I just thought the look seemed appropriate for the old man I am, and I wanted to leave my old avatars, from Lubitsch's The Doll on Mubi and the Muppet Mr Johnson on Tapatalk, to be specific to those sites. Gotta change things up for new digs.

[wba]

Mine (what was it again?...) is currently a publicity(?) still of James Cagney in a bathtub.
Let me see if I can find the full picture...

Here it is:



and here's some more pics of Cagney in a tub which I didn't choose (yet).

[pabs]

My avatar pic once belonged to rischka. I liked it so much, I asked her if I could use it once she tired of it.

It's from a (1960s?) Mexican film and I'm ashamed to say I forgot its title, even though rischka wrote it down for me when she handed it over.

[brian d]

mine's just robert walser

[wba]

^
a hot looking guy! Always thought that was you, brian!!
I guess I'm an idiot and easily fooled.

[flip]

<-- flip trotsky

not sure it needs explain

[rischka]

My avatar pic once belonged to rischka. I liked it so much, I asked her if I could use it once she tired of it.

It's from a (1960s?) Mexican film and I'm ashamed to say I forgot its title, even though rischka wrote it down for me when she handed it over.

that's pedro armendariz in flor silvestre? i think. 1943

mine is from gance's la roue (1923) if i remember right

[sally]

mine's just robert walser

but you've had it so long, like apursansar and baudelaire, if that isn't actually you by now, nothing makes sense. i mean most of the photos of walser barely look like that, so it's more you than him

[Curtis, baby]

Mines a picture of Pavel Bure, former hockey player

[MrCarmady]

hey my name is pavel! i got mine from the larry david nyt lockdown profile:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/styl ... s-psa.html

might change it, though.

[Holymanm]

mine's a picture illustrating the futility of war, from mobile suit gundam

[Silga]

I have the great Sea Captain as my avatar, because The Simpsons is the best thing ever and Sea Captain whose real name's Horatio McCallister is one of best recurring characters in the show.

[thoxans]

no good story. just an image included on a youtube video of a song i got stuck listening to for a while. found it perfectly representational of the standard static ennui i've grown accustomed to over the years - not to mention how it might come across as enigmatic cuz other peeps might be like 'ohhh i wonder what that's from' - but mostly i was just tired of my last avatar tbh, which i'd had much longer than any other avatar i've had thus far in my illustrious forum-perusing career. prior avatar was a picture of a picture of harriet andersson holding a dachshund; 'twas from ingberg's a lesson in love, even though i'm not a fan of bergman, but harriet will 5ever be a super champ babe-of-all-time, plus i also have a wiener dachshund irl. other past avatars are too numerous to mention, but include a cartoon drawing of hayao miyazaki, a composite of christopher reid (of kid 'n play fame) as eraserhead, numerous pics and gifs of erika jayne, and a shot of tom selleck as magnum pi showing off his chest hair

[grabmymask]

mine's from a promotional poster for multiple maniacs

[greennui]

Mines a picture of Pavel Bure, former hockey player

I've seen how you look irl but I still can't stop picturing you as Bure.

[liquidnature]

think I came across the image on tumblr about a decade ago, and thought it was a near-perfect representation of my personality and taste. Child-like fantasy, wonder, nostalgia, magic, stars, etc with a number of tie-ins including Virginia Astley's song 'Tree Top Club', children's show Arthur treehouse scenes, the Magic Tree House book series, and more. It's basically all the vibes that comfort me in one image.

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Mine is a Pilzkiosk (mushroom kiosk) or Milchpilz (milk mushroom) in a park by the train station in Regensburg, Germany. It's a kiosk selling milkshakes and/or other drinks. In the 1950s there were around 50 of these throughout Europe, but now there are only a few left (I've seen 3). I chose it because I thought it was cute, and it fit nicely into an avatar. The choice predates any revelations by Stormy Daniels; it has nothing to do with politics or movies.

That's great, I never realized what it was. I've seen something similar only once... on the Al Quds University campus in Palestine. I used to get my lunchtime smoothies there.

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Oh... and mine is Jan Svankmajer's Virile Games

[ofrene]

Mine comes from Happy Hour (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

[Umbugbene]

I've seen something similar only once... on the Al Quds University campus in Palestine. I used to get my lunchtime smoothies there.

I love it. Just looking at that orange makes me thirsty.

[Roscoe]

Mine's Buster Keaton, it's my favorite picture of him.

[MatiasAlbertotti]

no good story. just an image included on a youtube video of a song i got stuck listening to for a while.

I thought it was from Evangelion, but it could well be from a different 90s anime. It has that 90s anime style.

Mine is from Julio Medem's "Los amantes del circulo polar", back in my teenage years I watched that movie and it got me interested on european film, as opposed to always trying to rent films that I thought might be fun and have female nudity in them. To me this movie is very dear because it changed the way that I looked at movies and made me realize that there were other things there to be watched.

[jal90]

Mine is from the ending credis of Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight, a semi-forgotten gem of 00s TV anime. The character featured is called Mika. Here is the video for better context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMVcAAgTjkI

She's there at 0:32.

As a random curiosity I knew a while after watching the show, it was apparently known on the internet because its disc sales barely broke even, and so people half-jokingly started to refer to a concept called "Manabi line", to indicate the number of copies a show needs to sell to be profitable.

[niminy-piminy]

i was using this avatar in various corners of the interweb for ages.
it's from "House of Horrors" (Jean Yarbrough, 1946) also known as "Joan Medford is Missing"...
https://letterboxd.com/film/house-of-horrors/

An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named “The Creeper” from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics. (Feeling empowered by the friendship of the acromegalic sociopath, De Lange tasks him with murdering the critics who have pilloried him in print.)

i did so not due to affinity to the film (i didn't see it yet), but i just liked what the still displays.
i.e. one guy trying to destroy the portrait, the other trying to prevent him from doing so (two antagonistic forces of icon-maker & icon-smasher).
since there is October and October pastime is going on here, i guess time is ripe to watch this film and finaly..

MEET…THE CREEPER!

[greennui]

Not sure where else to put this but...I've always seen Brotherdeacon's avatar on here and lboxd as a monk folding his hands in prayer but on closer inspection I noticed that it's actually a very long beard.

[Searchlike]

It's a scene from Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia. It was also my avatar on the previous incarnation of this forum, I decided to keep it because of the name change from FGNRSY to Searchlike. Whatever embarrassing thing I may have said on the last place will haunt me forever as a shadow and I'm fine with that.

At the time I felt Rossellini was the greatest filmmaker and found this scene to be a pretty good summary of his filmography. I'm not sure whether I still consider him my favorite director, but he's definitely my favorite Roberto.

[FLABREZU]

i never bothered to upload one

[thoxans]

never bothered

i can vouch for this guy