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Matt Graves Special user Huntsville, Alabama (USA) 504 Posts |
My Aunt Cyndi took the picture for my avatar. We've had it on the computer for a long time. I must have been 14 years old when it was taken. I'm out behind my Granny's grapevines with my cat, Miss Candy (she's alive and well, and I'm still working on pulling her out of a hat ). I never thought it would be anything related to magic, but now I use it because it sort of represents what I thought was a "magical" time in my life. Plus, I don't really have any other good pictures of myself on the computer - just my senior pictures, and they look _terrible_!
You've got to admit, though, that is one beautiful cat. I could make a new illusion - the Cat in the Hat . . . |
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Salguod Nairb Room 101 0 Posts |
Interesting thread tho a lot of posters have since changed their avatars.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness...
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
I bought my LOGO from Scott Evans a cartoon artist from England. Scott's web address is http://www.lookcreativestudio.co.uk/ Most people say it looks just like me.
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
Eventually I need to update my Avatar to one that looks like me. For now, it's pretty obvious that's me and Carrot Top after his show at the Luxor.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
Critter
I know carrot top has flaming red hair, but which one of those teeny tiny guys has red hair?
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
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Jimeh Inner circle Ottawa, Ontario 1399 Posts |
I use to have a cartoon-type avatar of my head where every week I would be wearing a different hat (back when I was called 'agent61')
Anyone remember that? People use to enjoy them I think. If the Café ever gets back to being less acidic I might bring'em back. |
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Dreadnought Special user Athens, Georgia 836 Posts |
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On 2002-07-25 13:27, BroDavid wrote: That happened to me a couple of weeks ago. We were on stage after a show, shooting some publicity shots and I pulled out the ol ****** "Fire and the person shooting the photo was saying hold the pose... a little more to the right... okay just a few more..." After a couple of minutes, I just replied, "Um, these things are getting hot." My avatar was from one of my playbills. Peace and Godspeed.
Peace
"Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus tecum..." Scott Would you do anything for the person you love? |
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Jim Sparx Inner circle Far Out, Texas 1144 Posts |
Mine is from a beauty contest. I won first prize.
Et tu, Spartacus?
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/chispadeelpaso.html |
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
Spartacus
I'll bet all the ladies at the home voted for you.
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
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PaulPacific Special user Yes, I used my toes to type all of my 907 Posts |
People have often asked me why I am barefoot all the time. I have addressed this before on various forums on the net but for the curious, here is my response.
First of all, I wish to make it perfectly clear that I have NEVER ever performed my stage mentalism concert barefoot. I can assure you, I dress in a sharp suit at all times when I am on the stage. In fact there is a signature piece I do in which a spectator's thought of card is predicted inside my sock! I joke with the audience that "the amazing thing is not that I predicted the card, but rather the fact that I am wearing shoes and socks in the FIRST place!" The barefoot thing is not nearly as mysterious as some people seem to think. No, I do not have a foot fetish (unless it means having a fetish for my OWN feet.) The two simple reasons I am barefoot most of the time are comfort and appearance. I feel better with nothing on my feet and I like the way they look as well. When I was a boy, I would often be sent to school wearing shoes and socks and come home without the socks. I always preferred being barefoot. (If forced, I'd rather wear shoes than socks but I prefer neither). All thru school my friends called me Barefoot Boy and it stuck ever since. At the Psychic Fairs I would often be spotted barefoot in my booth giving readings to clients so the other Psychics began to call me the Barefoot Prophet! (As a variation of the term used to describe the famous Edgar Casey who would slip into a sleep-like state to give predictions under the name "The Sleeping Prophet") I believe I may have recounted the story on one of the forums about when I was working at the magic shop at the theme park and I was chastised for wearing dress slacks and dress shoes with no socks. I simply visited the painted T-shirt booth exhibit and had them spray paint my ankles black! Problem Solved! Now, with the help of the internet, the whole "Paul Pacific barefoot thing" has blown right into this whole "gimmick" with me. I wear finger rings with footprints on them, my key chain has feet on them, my car has a small foot hanging under the mirror, I wear tshirts with footprints on them... indeed, I even have life-sized stone foot sculpture bookends in my library. Simple answer is, I like how my feet look and I prefer how it feels to be barefoot. Weird, maybe... but that's me!
Blessings on thee, little man,
barefoot boy with cheeks of tan... Outward sunshine; inward joy, Blessings on thee, barefoot boy! :-D |
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Marlin1894 Special user 559 Posts |
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On 2012-09-05 08:40, Jimeh wrote: I do rememeber those! Some of them were very funny. |
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
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On 2012-09-05 08:37, Al Angello wrote: The one with the Lance Burton hat.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
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EsnRedshirt Special user Newark, CA 895 Posts |
Salgado- good point. Hmm. Thread necromancy.
I pulled my avatar after some Internet stalker type posted my picture from here on a different forum. Now that that whole brough ha ha has died down, I may repost the old one or a new one. But I'm lazy, so don't hold your breath.
Self-proclaimed Jack-of-all-trades and google expert*.
* = Take any advice from this person with a grain of salt. |
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magicalaurie Inner circle Ontario, Canada 2962 Posts |
http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/searc......=7671326
I found out on Sunday that I actually CAN SWIM! Before this summer I hadn't tried to swim for probably more than 20 years, because I didn't think I could. I didn't seem to get past kick off and a sudden feeling I wasn't getting anywhere and would shortly sink headlong despite frantic kicking and paddling, then, an abrupt planting of feet on the bottom. On Sunday, with the encouragement of the Scary Librarian, I kept going! It took awhile for me to be convinced I was actually making forward progress through the water, but once I was convinced I was ecstatic- I CAN swim! I took a self portrait of a happy magicalaurie with some pirate seagulls who decided to make it an action shot! |
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EsnRedshirt Special user Newark, CA 895 Posts |
Salguod, my apologies. I'm on an iPad, and forgot to turn off auto-correct. Blame Apple, they hate your name
Self-proclaimed Jack-of-all-trades and google expert*.
* = Take any advice from this person with a grain of salt. |
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
I've had several avatars. One was the only digital picture I had of myself at the time... unfortunately, it was from the 80's!
A later picture was me conferring with a bendy rabbit magician figure. For awhile, I had a picture of myself "Simpsonized" so that I looked like a Simpsons character. For awhile, THAT picture had an animated GIF of a ball floating up and down. This avatar came from Walt Disney World. I found a women's boutique in Downtown Disney (the shopping area) that had a Jumbo card motif in the window. I had my kid take a picture of me posing with a fan with the four aces pulled out. (The aces don't really show up that well.) Short of something really spectacular happening to me that I happen to get a picture of... this will be my avatar for the foreseeable future.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Bill Hilly Elite user 449 Posts |
I put a lot of thought and effort into mine. I don't know whether to be flattered or upset that so many have copied it.
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts |
Mine is a publicity shot GIMPed onto an old Warren Publishing horror comic, of which I was an avid reader.
Author of: GARROTE ESCAPES
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. - Albert Camus |
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Andre Hagen Inner circle 1432 Posts |
This was taken in performance. Though you can't tell from looking..I'm holding a Malini Egg Bag with both hands.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one - Albert Einstein
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