LJ icons

[drwex]

http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/41725914/8687905
(Ganked from coffeeem)

I can think of oh, eightyhundred of my friends who would use an image of that sort, at least now and then.

Which brings me to the LJ icons thing. I've been considering ditching or at least adding to my icons set. The default Pogo icon has a lot of meaning to me, but it's not always the most appropriate. All the others have uses and I'm reluctant to jettison them. How sad is it that I'm considering upgrading just so I can have more expressive pictograms? Maybe I should go daub plant dyes on my cave walls, too. Eesh.

Comments and advice welcome.

Comments

[drwex]

I've not found many pictures of myself that were pleasing both to my ego and to my photographer's eye. I'd be happy to see whatever you've got and perhaps make an icon of it. Who knows, maybe that'll tip me over.

To return to your main point, I agree that icons can be decorative, but I try to use them primarily as tonal or expressive elements. Thus my desire for a wider repertoire of images.

[coraline]

mm, my comment about "expressive" and being like clothing wasn't meant to be just about the decorative -- it really is about being expressive to me (both the clothing and the icons). there's not necessarily a verbal message encoded in what i'm wearing, but it just about always says something about how i feel that day -- picking out clothing for me is definitely based on my internal state, and if i have to wear something i don't "feel" like, it feels very weird.

anyways, this was the picture -- it's not quite as amusing as i remembered, but it seemed very appropriate somehow.

http://www.labgoth.net/~johanna/20060507handfasting/medium/m-8594handfasting.jpg

[drwex]

That's cute. Me and my scrunching camera face.

And yes, of course you're right - exression and decoration are inextricably intertwined. I was oversimplifying, sorry.