Self-Portriats (my friends, this is a challenge)

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2005-01-08 09:25am

jmac wrote: No, that chick is not me, that's Chantal Kreviazuk, who my BF has an unhealthy facination with. I'd hit him, but that would be hypocritical since I have a thing for her husband.

I'd gladly offer to occupy her time to keep your boyfriend out of the loop, but I'm currently obsessing over another girl at the moment...

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2005-01-08 10:44am

Blah! I originally just threw this in the Testing forum for fun, but I like it and it qualifies as a self portrait:

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2005-01-08 01:42pm

shit, look at the guns on walper! what do you curl?

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2005-01-08 02:41pm

Robert Walper wrote:Blah! I originally just threw this in the Testing forum for fun, but I like it and it qualifies as a self portrait:

Mine's bigger.

Dead_Ghost looks spookily (ha!) like a friend of mine. I'd dig up the picture, but I'm too lazy. I might edit this later if I do.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2005-01-08 03:43pm

Robert Walper wrote:Blah! I originally just threw this in the Testing forum for fun, but I like it and it qualifies as a self portrait:

http://img131.exs.cx/img131/7672/svi00065ek.jpg

Cut your hair shorter and you can tell people you're Kurt Russell's nephew or something.

Tinkerbell · Post by **Tinkerbell** » 2005-01-08 05:13pm

Myself and my darling sister. She refused to smile for the camera, I helped out a little bit.

Dead_Ghost · Post by **Dead_Ghost** » 2005-01-08 07:23pm

xBlackFlash wrote:Myself and my darling sister. She refused to smile for the camera, I helped out a little bit.

It's not easy to, is it? To smile without a motive to the lens. Unless, of course, you have some experience in theatre

or someone makes something funny, prompting a smile or a laugh even, which is what I always do... And you as well in this case, no? By touching her cheeks, forcing her muscles to smile, you actually made her smile, which makes the photo even more beautiful...
But I'm digressing already. Very nice photo, I liked it a lot. Very... lovely kinship...
Am I the only one here who finds your sister's smile more attention-captivating than yours? (no offence intended) I don't know, but it seems to me that she's the focus of the photo, that's all...

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2005-01-09 01:33am

Col. Crackpot wrote:shit, look at the guns on walper! what do you curl?

I fiddle around with 35 pound dumbbells. Kinda lazy though, I'm really slacking in the workout department.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2005-01-09 07:39am

Jesus, Walper! For a Borg-loving Trekkie and self-proclaimed Fan Whore, you sure look like you can butcher a fucking walrus!

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2005-01-09 07:50am

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Jesus, Walper! For a Borg-loving Trekkie and self-proclaimed Fan Whore, you sure look like you can butcher a fucking walrus!

He does look manly with a "I don't take no shit from nobody!" look in that photo. The knife helps with that impression.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2005-01-09 08:40am

Sorta like a hybrid between Arnold, Rambo and Jay Leno

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2005-01-09 10:20am

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Jesus, Walper! For a Borg-loving Trekkie and self-proclaimed Fan Whore, you sure look like you can butcher a fucking walrus!

Well, like I've said before, no one thinks I'm a Trekkie or sci fi geek when they meet me. I don't fit the typical image that comes to mind. Neither do I rant about sci fi either except at good ole SDN.

But thanks for the compliment.

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2005-01-09 10:22am

Stofsk wrote:
Shroom Man 777 wrote:Jesus, Walper! For a Borg-loving Trekkie and self-proclaimed Fan Whore, you sure look like you can butcher a fucking walrus!
He does look manly with a "I don't take no shit from nobody!" look in that photo. The knife helps with that impression.

I did take my glasses off for that photo (I think I've taken them off for every photo for SDN. I don't like the way they make me look).

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2005-01-09 10:23am

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Sorta like a hybrid between Arnold, Rambo and Jay Leno

The Jay Leno part hurts...

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2005-01-09 01:31pm

Despite the fact that I think Spoofe cornered the market in bizarre looking long exposure shots a dozen odd pages ago, this one I quite like. Can't honestly say whether it was me who took it as it was new year and we were all a little pissed at the time. But I believe I was definately in the vicinity.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2005-01-09 02:07pm

My picture doesn't work anymore. Now I'm pissed. That was at painted over.com so now I just give up.

Tinkerbell · Post by **Tinkerbell** » 2005-01-10 08:16pm

I'll admit it. I'm a Photoshop whore. Here's the latest...

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2005-01-10 08:47pm

Well, I just got my cable fixed so I don't have to rely on the family computer anymore. Here's the last, from New Year's:

Yes, I was intoxicated. Very, very intoxicated. Very.

Post by **Zaia** » 2005-01-10 09:12pm

SPOOFE wrote:Well, I just got my cable fixed so I don't have to rely on the family computer anymore. Here's the last, from New Year's:

<snip pic>

Yes, I was intoxicated. Very, very intoxicated. Very.

Perhaps it's the red hair, or the drunken expression, or the fact that you took that on New Year's, but you really remind me of my friend Eric in that photo.

Tinkerbell · Post by **Tinkerbell** » 2005-01-10 09:17pm

SPOOFE wrote:Well, I just got my cable fixed so I don't have to rely on the family computer anymore. Here's the last, from New Year's:

Yes, I was intoxicated. Very, very intoxicated. Very.

Hey man, at least you look happy :-p

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2005-01-10 09:55pm

I don't look happy. I look drunk. That's after something like four shots of Patron, four Rum 'n Coke's, and six glasses of sangria. And, uh, multiple bowls. Of "substance". Yeah.

Dead_Ghost · Post by **Dead_Ghost** » 2005-01-11 05:48am

xBlackFlash wrote:I'll admit it. I'm a Photoshop whore. Here's the latest...

The first is awesome... It actually looks ALMOST like a hand-draw. *thumbs up*

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2005-01-11 06:57am

Robert Walper wrote:
Col. Crackpot wrote:shit, look at the guns on walper! what do you curl?
I fiddle around with 35 pound dumbbells. Kinda lazy though, I'm really slacking in the workout department.

How many do you do? say per day, and how many days a week?

Still stuck on doing just ten in a row per arm with a pair of 30lbs dumbbells and trying todo them every day, I guess I should do more.
I just get bored, though many times I just stop and do 3-5 just like that when I pass them by and then continue what I'm doing.

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2005-01-11 11:12am

His Divine Shadow wrote:
Robert Walper wrote: I fiddle around with 35 pound dumbbells. Kinda lazy though, I'm really slacking in the workout department.
How many do you do? say per day, and how many days a week?

Like I said, I've been really lazy with them since I bought the set (a year ago now I think). For the last week I've been trying to get into it again. About 20-30 reps per arm, with a few other workouts alongside (situps, etc).

Still stuck on doing just ten in a row per arm with a pair of 30lbs dumbbells and trying todo them every day, I guess I should do more.
I just get bored, though many times I just stop and do 3-5 just like that when I pass them by and then continue what I'm doing.

Actually, I'm really lucky. I have a natural build like that. I know that if I really applied myself, I could get a really sweet looking build. But there's that, as I mentioned before, laziness thing.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-01-11 01:52pm

Robert Walper wrote:I did take my glasses off for that photo (I think I've taken them off for every photo for SDN. I don't like the way they make me look).

I'll give you a hint, if you don't like look with glasses you'll need to get a new pair. When you got a right kind glasses people won't even notice them it just seem so natural (and just for the record, I have had glasses since I was 14 (I'm 22 now) and had very poor self esteem back then.)