Avatar Contest
Avatar Contest
From the movie "Avatar".
Being a bit bored, I thought I would go through the NT membership list to see how many members we have, and although I arrived at 1052 I know that some have passed away and others have gone completely inactive, although their memberships were not deleted so their user names and avatars remain on the list. What I noticed is that there were a lot of the standard hat avatars, indicating those who have never taken the effort to create and post a unique avatar. If fact, there were 430 standard hat avatars. I also noted that there were 41 avatars with pictures of dogs in them, but only 29 with domestic cats.
What I did take note of is that there were a lot of unique, creative and interesting avatars, and it crossed my mind, why not have an avatar contest, voting for what each of us considers the most unique, creative and interesting avatar. There is no prize, other than glory, but let's try to do it. Go through the membership list - click on the word "Members" on the list at the top of the page. There are 43 pages of 24 member names/avatars each, and a final 44th page that could vary, but when I saw it there were 20 on that page. Choose the one you think should be the winner, and post the user name and avatar of your choice - please choose ONLY ONE , although I know it will be difficult with so many unique, creative and interesting avatars. To post the avatar, you may have to click on the avatar to go to the member's page, and then there will be a large avatar that you should be able to copy and post to your vote comment. If you have trouble copying and pasting it, just post the user name and I will see if I can post the avatar on your comment.
Of course , the avatar with the greatest number of votes will be the winner. Let's leave this contest open until after the weekend, then I'll tally it up and announce the winner.
It may take you a little while to go through them, and probably more than once, but this is just for fun, so take a break from the Front Page bantering and do something relaxing and fun instead.
To get this off the ground, here is my choice as the most creative, unique and interesting avatar. It is CM's avatar:
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Have some fun and give it a shot.
Buzz: Thank you so much, only you and JR could get me online tonight., I will also include Sixpick and Petrie, actually, you're all good guys..
I've looked everywhere on the Internet and the only avatar or picture I've found that is like CM's is the one she has here on NT. You say her daughter made it for her. She was obviously very creative. I guess dealing with all the musical personalities over the years, you were drawn to this one because it is original, although it is a combination of two pictures, very creative, all the same. It's not who sings the song, plays the song. It's the person who wrote the song, although many people may sound a lot better than the original author, creativity is the only way the song every existed in the first place.
I would vote for CM's avatar as being the most original on the site as well. There are others that are really good as well, but you can find where they got theirs, with the exception of photos of themselves or other things or places they created.
CM's avatar like some of the others sends a message as soon as you see them.
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Not that I ever see her here, but I like this Avatar:
Please post the user name as well.
That's Gee Gee 64
Sorry, my mistake.....one of those busy mornings.
I have always liked this avatar, Nona62 also used this on another site and for some reason it affected me in a calming manner.
Nona's avatar would be at the top of my list as well. I like the message I feel when I look at it. There are a lot of places you can find this one on the Internet, but it was a great choice and from my experience and observation of Nona, it fits her perfectly.
One thing I bet most people who have been on this site don't realize about Nona is she has put up multiples of articles most on here would have put under "Politics and News", but she chose to put them under "Other" instead. I couldn't believe how many articles Nona has put on this site over the years, screen after screen with 99% of the articles by Nona going back 4 years, which seems to be about as far back as the site has saved articles.
Very inspiring avatar and at the top of my choices as well.
Nona also makes great contributions of photos on the Creative Arts group.
Doesn't this one win "by default"? lol
LOL. The winner is not going to be the number of members USING it, but the number of members VOTING for it in this contest.
Kavika's - Best overall as it instills peace and calm for me.
After posting realized that's a big bad wolf...don't know how to make smaller, LOL!!
No problem - I fixed it for you.
Thanks Buzz! My editing skills are...well they aren't
If I had only one word to describe what Kavika's avatar says to me, I would look to the Indian culture and traditions, the word would be "guardian".
Very good Buzz....
Guardian or Ogichidaa...One who stands between evil and the people.
The title of this work is ''Wolf Warrior'' or Ogichidaa.
All the more reason this image speak to me. The strength of the wolf, it's loyalty, protector of family and stealthy watching has characteristics I relate to.
To the Ojibwe the wolf is a very important part of our existence and our history.
Thank you for your kind words re the wolf.
Buzz, if I can't vote for the one I used of Donald Trump in a strait-jacket, I will vote for the same one you did, CM's. It is very cool.
I wish CM would come back here by the way.
I think the contest should be for existing avatars only, John. By the way, I had a conversation with CM a few months ago, when I complimented her on her avatar. She told me her daughter designed it.
Although so many of them fill the requirements of being unique, creative and interesting, I think her avatar excels in all three.
HI John: I am not gone, just taking a break..
How can I see all the Avatars being used? We use to be able to click on "Members" to see all of the members and their Avatars but now it just shows a few in the upper left-hand corner on the home page.
Top right on the home page, "members" .
Thanks, I overlooked it.
Quotation from the article at the top of THIS page:
The one of 58rose is kind of sad.
RIP
I always enjoyed his pictorials of the lake and his companion.
Just noticed you had not posted the avatar for 58rose. Here it is:
I'm going to add Tsula avatar Buzz. For our new members, Tsula was a WWII vet as were his 4 brothers. A gentle man with wonderful photos that he would publish.
Tsula walked on a few years ago and is missed by most of the ''old timers'' on NT.
Wanakiwin niijii (peace my brother)
He was a great photographer.
Great photo of Grandfather Tsula - thanks Kavika.
You beat me to it, Kavika. I have always loved his Avatar. Thank you for posting it. (smile)
I'll vote for Tsula as well, as he was my first choice.
As my favorite choice has already been taken by Kavika, I will vote for my second favorite choice;
WK UsidiAwigina
You could have voted for the same one as Kavika did. The contest winner will be the user's avatar that receives the most votes. Change your vote.
Thanks for the heads up. I see people voting for various others, so I thought I had to vote for someone else.
I will forgo my vote for this one for my vote for Tsula. I misunderstood the rules for voting.
I also, will cast my vote for Tsula.
Thank you. He was one of our most treasured Members here on NT, and still is, even though he has moved on to the next steps of his own eternal journey now.
I can't get the avatar to show. I vote for BeastoftheEast
https://thenewstalkers.com/profile/image/profile_image/2092/xxlarge/_v=1507275152
There ya go!
Thanks RW. You beat me to it by 10 minutes.
You're welcome, Buzz. (grin)
Thank you, Raven, and thank you Buzz for your good intentions.
You're very welcome. Glad I could help. (smile)
I dont care what any of you say, I think that the picture of Waldo D. Basset that I use for my avatar is the the absolute best looking one ever .
For me its a toss up yours or Skrekk's
Maybe we should have a contest limited to avatars with dogs on them - there are over 40 of them.
Ok, if it's dogs then Wiki Warrior Wonder Wiener wins, it's no contest.
LOL. Wiki wins OR ELSE!!!!
The 'eyes' have it, you might say. (grin)
He looks like a sweetie.
Best dog avatar perhaps, not the best of all the avatars
I am just a bit biased I think.i think Waldo is the best in all possible categiries.
Newer picture of Shadow for the contest
So many members have dogs, although I no longer do I think I should do an dog beauty contest article. That should be fun - I would post a photo of the dog I once had for 17 years, and my daughter's two dogs that also passed on.
Between my beautiful Miss Molly the terrierist and Waldo D. Basset my dogs would win hands down .
LOL. You just made me realize that maybe I shouldn't do it. It could lead to some big verbal arguments, and even CoC violations on NT.
Lol....Of course we would all be biased.
This is my new avatar for the contest
A little scary but interesting. What is the significance, with respect to yourself?
Your avatar didn't show up on my screen, so in case anyone else had the same problem, here it is again. kpr37's avatar.
We have a winner!
As I had originally said, the winner would be declared after the weekend. At this point no comments have been posted for two days. On adding up the thumbs-up on the submissions, Nona's avatar has far exceeded any other, as deserving as all are of being prize-winners. Nona's avatar, submitted by Studiusbagus is therefore the winning avatar - chosen to be the most unique, creative and interesting.
Sure as hell I'm going to stay outside of Wiki's reach for a while.
Nona will be very proud!! And she deserves the win.
Perhaps she will explain to us her concept, why she created (or copied?) it, what she wanted it to mean. I have not seen her comments for a while, so I notified her by PN.
She is still around here, she has commented on the Cat Adorers group, and my latest posted creation in Kavika's group. So I know she is still with here, even if she may not comment much.
By Anna Sabotina. There are several versions. I've seen it titled "Winter Beauty Woman" and also "Diamond Girl". Here are a few versions.
Thank you Krishna.
Thank you for choosing my avatar !! I found it on the internet several years ago, and it jumped out at me.. I found it to be extremely pretty and unusual. (plus, blue is my favorite color)
Nona, your avatar is astounding and gives on the feeling of serenity. Congratulations!!!