Circadian Shift

Same old, same old...

Finally breaking free of the grid for the first time in a few months, I chose to populate this week's board mostly with avatars and buddy icons (little images that users of Instant Messaging applications and bulletin boards or forums use to represent themselves online).

Besides being a convenient source of visual micro-content that I can plunder (no cropping or resizing needed to fit them on the board), I also happen to like avatars because they can say so much in so little space. OK, so there are a lot of avatars out there that are crap -- and why do so many of them have spelling mistakes -- but in theory these little 100x100 pixel (or smaller) squares are personas writ small.

Think about it -- how would you capture yourself in 10,000 pixels? Could you?

(And of course, what does my choice of these images say about me?)

Incidentally, the mood board from two weeks ago and Friday's post also use avatars.

One musical acquisition of note: The album OK Cowboy by Vitalic was added to eMusic's catalog this week, and I snapped it up as soon as I saw it there (I've teetered on the brink of purchasing it from Bleep.com several times over the last six months or so). You can view the video for "My Friend Dario" (Flash, 14.7 MB), a song that's a fantastically catchy slice of electro dance-punk. The video's lots of fun too.