So, what’s with all the ghost images wandering around the site? You’ve probably noticed them in the comments. They look like this:
They’re called gravatars, and you can set one up here. Here’s how it works: you plug in your email, and you upload a picture, and then every time you make a comment, the site will automagically insert your gravatar next to your comment.
Now, people can tell at a glance that the 18 paragraph thesis relating Cézanne’s conception of the human form in art to Foucault’s sign-object deconstruction was written by Stick, and not by Leoskeo. (Well, aside from the fact that Leoskeo thinks Cézanne’s work is symptomatic of the larger changes in representational art, and tooootally overblown in terms of its real significance, so he would never write that comment, obviously).
So, dear reader, what does this mean to you? If you’re a commenter, and you want your picture (or a picture) to show up next to your comments, just go to the Gravatar site and sign up. It’s run by the same people who write WordPress - good people, good company, no privacy concerns about giving them your email.
Then, every time you leave a comment using that same email address that you signed up with, your photo gets dropped in.
If you are an author for this site, please go sign up for a Gravatar. The next incarnation of our site design will be using Gravatars as author images next to the posts, so if you don’t want the anonymous ghost image showing up, you’ll need to setup a Gravatar image. Please make sure you sign up for it using the same email address that you used when you registered here at Addison Road.
Pictures! Color! Happiness and Joy! Mmmmm, delicious!
Gravitar me!
Cezanne? Isn’t that like a salad you get in a fancy restaurant? You know, like Applebee’s?
Hey, cool. Did it work?
I’m an intellectual midget unicorn.
I’m not sure if mine is working. And actually, my face doesn’t really fit into an 80×80px format. My head is too tall and skinny. Which means I have to choose whether the world assumes that my forehead goes all the way up to the sky (like a great white beanstalk) or if my gotee grows to my toes (like the Shel Silverstein poem). Maybe I’ll go for idea #3 and just put a picture of my thumb on there or something…
By the way, I don’t usually keep glamour shots of myself on my computer, but I now have an ongoing column in Taylor Guitars’ quarterly publication and they forced me to shoot (and reshoot, and reshoot, and reshoot and heavily photoshop) my own mug. I have to say, I can think of very little that could be less damaging to my self-image than setting up a tripod and trying to take a humongous picture of my head. Holy crap. It. cut. me. deep.
And now I’ll probably post less since I know that my words of wisdom (wait- what?) will be accompanied by the floating corey face.
I’d like to have a goatee like a Shel Silverstein poem.
corey, make sure you use the same email address that you used to register your account here. it’s the dognmoon one.
NOW did it work?
Curses. I’m going to go work now, where I figure out performance on our portfolios with only the power of my mind. It’s VERY complicated.
the gravatar image for the comments made by the post author will now have a cool orange halo around it.
Am I gravatared? Or just gravaretarded?
Gravaretarded.
UPDATE DATABASE!!!! UPDATE NOW!!!!
I dunno, chad. We all seemed to figure it out just fine. Maybe you’re just not that smart?
I didn’t, and I’m VERY advanced. It just magically sorted itself out. Did you do something, Mike?
I’d love to possess enough talent for an ongoing column in Taylor Guitars’ quarterly publication.
I did the Gravatar thing. I promise.
When I was a kid at the fair we would go on the Gravitron until we were sick (think middle school). But that’s probably something different.
Aly, what is that?!
“Pictures! Color! Happiness and Joy! Mmmmm, delicious!” is one of my personal mottos.
Sharolyn said, “Aly, what is that?!”
What? You don’t think furious skull and crossbones doodle is, like, totally me?
the checklist:
* make sure you received the confirmation email from gravatar, and clicked the link to activate your account.
* make sure you used the same email address that you used when you registered here at the site.
* the whole email address needs to be in lowercase letters.
* if that fails, the gravatar site has a “test my account” section where you can make sure that the email you entered in actually has a photo associated with it. Click here to check it.
Got it.
Wait a minute… I did everything! (sigh)
(No worries, in terms of the visual, you’re not missing much…)
;)
Or, maybe that is me, I’m just in the witness protection program.
Humongous Corey Face Says:
The final step (that I almost forgot) is to then go back into the “manage email addresses” section and assign a gravitar to the specified email address. Maybe that’ll seal the deal for you.
Humongous Corey Face, out.
Sharolyn, when you registered here at addisonrd, you used capital letters in your email address. I fixed it on the post above. Try posting another comment, let’s see if it stays fixed.
Oh, man. How is technology always smarter than me?
ok, I think you need to log out:
http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/wp-login.php?action=logout
then when you leave a comment, you’ll get to enter your info again, and this time use all small-case letters in your email address.
how this?
hooray!! Thanks, Mike.
There goes my secret identity
Like I said, there goes my secret identity… Dramatic music plays in the background
wait for it… wait for it… Now!
ugh
YES!!!
Okay, this is really not about icon pictures, it is just a public declaration that June is a great artist. She did a custom piece for me to give as a gift to a friend and it was awesome. Everyone who saw it said it was awesome. Thanks June!
Wait. June took a picture of you with her mighty talent (undisputed by me) and you’re a dog?
I mean, you’re a very nice-looking dog…
woof… which also means June painted a picture for us and the icon is just me after no shaving for a few days
Well, Leoskeo did tell me to look for a “short, hairy guy” when we were making plans for me to deliver the painting…I didn’t notice his extra two legs though. Guess I was distracted.
Great addition to the site, Mike.
Apparently I’m not nerdy enough to make it work. I still stand by my above statement.
Bobby, get that jaundice looked at. Seriously. Liver disease is no joke.
It’s not jaundice… just gas. Which explains the smile.
Just curious…
Awwww poop. I tested it and everything.
MUST USE ALL LOWERCASE LETTERS FOR EMAIL ADDRESS. Come on guys, Sharolyn is kicking your butt on this one.
I did!
Huh. I guess magical things happen when you open an addisonrd account. Huzzah!
Yup. Men seek your advice and women seek your company. Children burst into song when you approach, and the very earth itself whispers her mysteries in your ear, all because you have an account.
I need to go start a thread just so I can get the cool orange halo around my picture.
Babe, even without the orange, I say you’re the cutest gravatar around. (Of course, your competition is a slightly emo floating Mike head, a creepy yellow smiley head, a black lab, and a shot of Corey who is, come to find out, a tortured artist who died in the early 1950’s, before color film was widely used.) Yep, yer the cutest!
Oh, and some plaid. For the record, you are more attractive than plaid.
I am a chocolate lab which as we all know is a much more manly dog.
In my defense, I used a black/white pic (with a touch of peach duotone) to cover up the otherwise bright and patchy spots in my skin. The wealth of Photoshop filters used on my face are hidden better when the full spectrum isn’t represented. I actually think I even split the RGB channels and just used the green and blue… Full size before I edited the background (also known as my house) can be seen at: http://dognmoon.com/humongousface.jpg
This is the picture I submitted for my John Mayer Fan Club application.
OOooohhh - Is this the same picture that used to be just your nose and mouth (Edward Norton)?
no, but I cheated a little. I used the same nose and mouth for both pictures.
And you think I’m kidding about having to Photoshop the heck out of this thing. I don’t mind sharing the “before” picture…
http://dognmoon.com/humongousfaceB.jpg
Thanks Corey…I have some upper respiratory thing going on and now, after looking at that picture, I think I have full-blown asthma. Caaaan’t…stoooop….laughing…choking…laughing…gasp…
testing….testing…
dude Corey- that humongous face is like the guy from Goonies with a goatee. :)You are a funny funny man.
June- I’m right with you. I was on the couch last night and Beth couldn’t figure out why I was laughing so hard that tears were streaming down my face. And it wasn’t just an explosion laugh, it was an ongoing hysteria. Yes, I am funny. I know it. It’s one of the only two endearing things about me.
List of Endearing Things About Corey:
1. he’s funny
2. everything else