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How it works: reply with "Oh! Shiny" and I'll choose three of your
icons. Tell me about them: where they came from, what they mean to you,
and/or when you deploy them. Drop a link here to your post in your own
journal. Spread it around.
(Not sure how long it will take me, if there's a deluge of responses.)
"My fandom predates TV"
A stylized, multicolor line drawing of a propeller beanie. The outlined gores are colored (left to right) red, purple, and blue; there are white spaces between them. The propeller is a green infinity sign.
I got this from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
lysana; it looks like
it was made by her artist husband blackfyr. It has fallen out of use recently; I used it 26
times, between 2004 and 2011, for posts about science fiction fandom or
conventions.
The icon isn't completely accurate; Science fiction fandom as we know it today dates back only to 1929. Philo Farnsworth demonstrated the first electronic television, using his image dissector tube, in 1928, and mechanical versions existed before then. Television broadcasting, however, only started in the late 1930s.
"hacker traveling"
The background is a 3x3 grid of black lines on a white background; five black circles make a "glider", instantly familiar to anyone who knows about Conway's Game of Life. Against this background a picture of an old guy in a tweed cap moves counter-clockwise in a circle centered somewhere in the lower right-hand corner.
This icon was made by snobahr, in
2007; the moving image came from the cover of my CD, Coffee, Computers and Song, which was in production at
the time. It was first used in this post, the
second of two posts from OSCon 2007. It was used a total of 30 times in
2007 and 2008, once in 2009, and once in 2012, mostly for posts about
software-related conventions.
Consonance
On a purple background, the word "CONSONANCE", in black. The letters are compressed
toward the top, and the two "N"'s are the support towers of the Golden
Gate Bridge.
This is the logo of Consonance - The SF Bay Area Filk Convention. Colleen and I attended all of them until 2012, when we moved to Seattle, and a few after that; our last one was in 2015. This icon appears to have been used only once, in this post, live-blogged from the Interfilk concert.
