Whitechapel - S.P.I.T in the ides of March (March 2012 self portrait image thread)

S.P.I.T in the ides of March (March 2012 self portrait image thread)

2012-03-03T09:21:19-08:00

This is a place to keep photographic evidence of ourselves so we can see how we change over the years (and in my case, what horrible fashion faux pas I commit)

So go ahead, show us your face, your spirit, your life White Chapel.

To start us off, here's a video i did originally for Valentine's Day that I've only now been able to get onto the Internet. I'll post a recent picture shortly.

Beard Comb

Edited to add:
To post a youtube.com video, use the "link" button, and paste the video URL into the dialogue box. Anything between the 'a' brackets will show up just under the video.

S.P.I.T in the ides of March (March 2012 self portrait image thread)

2012-03-03T09:46:38-08:00

And, for those who "snuck in the back door of the old thread" here's Steve Toase

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2012-03-03T09:47:16-08:00

And Allana

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2012-03-03T09:51:26-08:00

Cheers Phil!

S.P.I.T in the ides of March (March 2012 self portrait image thread)

2012-03-03T10:00:22-08:00

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2012-03-03T11:17:46-08:00

@Steve You're welcome!

@Oldhat

O rly?

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2012-03-03T12:33:08-08:00

I'm not sure about you two...

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2012-03-03T12:33:41-08:00

S.P.I.T in the ides of March (March 2012 self portrait image thread)

2012-03-03T20:08:21-08:00

S.P.I.T in the ides of March (March 2012 self portrait image thread)

2012-03-04T07:51:51-08:00

It's like @Dorkmuffin is looking up, contemplating the weird-awesome above her and thinking, ". . .Huh."

S.P.I.T in the ides of March (March 2012 self portrait image thread)

2012-03-04T08:44:21-08:00

I'm so very normal compared to all of you! It sucks!! Bringing back my mustache. I like shaving the top of it off ala Tony Stark:

S.P.I.T in the ides of March (March 2012 self portrait image thread)

2012-03-04T10:49:38-08:00

@Anchorbeard, Alastair and Sonny
Your Mustaches are awesome

@Sonny
Whenever I have to look normal, I think of the phrase, "Be more than you seem." To me, looking "normal" is another way to walk that path.

S.P.I.T in the ides of March (March 2012 self portrait image thread)

2012-03-05T04:40:47-08:00

Video! Um, I think you all know the story, but it was brought up on facebook and Magnulus hadn't been aware, so I explained my appearance in Transmet:

http://vimeo.com/37793815

S.P.I.T in the ides of March (March 2012 self portrait image thread)

2012-03-05T10:10:24-08:00

Does this count as a self portrait?

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2012-03-05T11:23:12-08:00

^^Hey, I just got a mold taken today for my crown. It's my second root canal/crown so far. Stupid bad teeth genetics T____T I floss regularly, even. ANYWAY, I'll do a march SPIT soon.

S.P.I.T in the ides of March (March 2012 self portrait image thread)

2012-03-05T11:32:11-08:00

Getting ready to go up on the roof and take shots at Dirty Harry with a sniper's rifle

PS in case you haven't guessed I love my new sunglasses!

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2012-03-05T19:20:41-08:00

Haven't been here in a while . . . sorry, life has been a bit crazy!

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2012-03-06T11:22:26-08:00

NIce edit @thewaltonsare! I am so stealing that!

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2012-03-06T19:19:14-08:00

Thanks :)

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2012-03-07T08:44:59-08:00

Yay! TheWaltonsAre is back! Hopefully calmer times, now, then?

@Argos Please do.

@Everyone
Pictures of y'all awesome people are what keeps me going some months.

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2012-03-07T12:41:56-08:00

Adding to the beard porn!
My beard has gotten rather pointier than I noticed.

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2012-03-08T15:49:47-08:00

My beautiful husband (and my new glasses)

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2012-03-08T19:35:14-08:00

Not sleeping all night + missing train because the fucking Underground broke down + an extremely cold Paris and you get:

And allow me to cheat a bit so I can post this pic Will Ellwood took in front of ancient Roman baths:

Here's the link to the whole set on Flickr.

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2012-03-08T19:44:42-08:00

I am jealous of all the whitechapelers you met on your trip. Good photos Andre!

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2012-03-08T23:07:58-08:00

well, at least now I can forget about sleeping soundly for the next little while, or ever.

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2012-03-09T07:00:05-08:00

@andre Great googley moogely that shot of you at the Roman Bath houses is SO CRISP. You look photoshopped in, your edges are so sharp! (I'm sure you've mentioned, but what's your camera??)

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2012-03-09T09:26:32-08:00

For those wondering what City Creed's talking about. As I've said very often since I met him, I envy his skull. If I had it I'd never bother with hair. I will later digitally ink the silhouette of his head and draw diagrams so you can all fully comprehend it. (No I won't, Creed, just kidding.) (Still wondering about the mantelpiece, though.)

Argos - Thanks! They are all amazing people.

Phill - Sony DSC-HX5V. Will used flash, and I processed it a bit.

S.P.I.T in the ides of March (March 2012 self portrait image thread)

2012-03-09T10:35:58-08:00

I just wanted to say that I finally saw Phill_Sea's video and I LOVE IT. I will be doing a video SPIT soon. When I'm not looking like I just rolled out of bed because I went straight to the couch to play Mass Effect all day. >___>

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2012-03-09T12:01:40-08:00

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2012-03-09T14:42:06-08:00

@Dextra; Bugger! You've out-gingered me!

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2012-03-09T15:18:29-08:00

@J.Brennan - I've got a bad habit of that. Sad thing is, I had to put a warming filter on the photo so as not to blind people with my face. Me and flashes are a dangerous combination.

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2012-03-10T07:35:34-08:00

tired.

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2012-03-10T14:39:27-08:00

Now I have a shaved head to go with the pencil-stache. Starting to look dangerous...

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2012-03-10T16:47:51-08:00

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2012-03-11T15:23:08-07:00

I loves me the Batman

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2012-03-12T04:34:49-07:00

layouts layouts layouts layabout

S.P.I.T in the ides of March (March 2012 self portrait image thread)

2012-03-12T14:15:06-07:00

I think Phil Sea could be my rolemodel, if I hadn't already been implicitly barred from having head tattoos at work.

My mum saw me for the first time in a year last weekend. She declared me to be Earl Hickey.

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2012-03-12T21:27:04-07:00

JAMMIE DODGERS.

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2012-03-13T02:19:23-07:00

I left the house at 3am. Got to my destination at 4am, just as the bars were closing. I was stuffed in a car with seven others, let off at a random spot in an industrial part of Brooklyn, and after walking down an alley way and over some precarious wooden planks, I found myself at a dance party on a tugboat til far past dawn.

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2012-03-13T07:54:01-07:00

@Vertigo Jones Credit where credit's due: Steave Taose is the gent with the head tattoos. I moved his picture from last month's thread to this one, is all.

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2012-03-13T11:25:00-07:00

Great thing about head tattoos? You can grow your hair. This is me at 18 after I had the first one done. Somewhere along the way I expanded!

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2012-03-13T12:22:29-07:00

I want a head tattoo! I know what I want visually, but working out the details. I want some kind of strip that follows the curve of my mohawk.

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2012-03-13T17:34:54-07:00

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2012-03-13T18:06:16-07:00

@oldhat - prettttttty!

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2012-03-13T19:52:41-07:00

@oldhat You have amazing eyes.

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2012-03-14T04:02:43-07:00

@Argos Go for it. I love my head tats. If i need to look formal I can grow my hair a bit and you can't see them. Then if I feel like it I can shave and there they are. Gives you a bit of a headache when they're done though.
The wild boar is an old Pictish design, but fits quite well as you find the boar on the crest of the Bentley Grange style of Anglo Saxon helmet.

Better view here

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2012-03-14T09:03:05-07:00

@Toase I your tattoos are awesome.

I shaved my mustache off, since today is my birthday, and I want to go swimming again, but holy heavens doing laps with water dripping mustache to mouth was gross.

I'll post another SPI Friday, and then back away from the thread slowly until the 28th, when I will show off the outline of my next, last, tattoo.

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2012-03-14T19:19:42-07:00

So, still not actually by me.

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2012-03-14T20:04:40-07:00

Not even gonna explain this. Those who can appreciate it will know.

Edit: also I seem very interested in dorkmuffin's chin.

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2012-03-15T10:49:14-07:00

Rachael & Swampyankee: Heh. Thanks. Kind of happy with that one.

This isn't a self portrait, but a photo of me I found on the Toronto Life blog talking about a new bar I go to.

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2012-03-15T12:15:41-07:00

@SteadyUP: This is the darkest timeline

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2012-03-15T20:45:45-07:00

I went outside today! Where the sun is! And I didn't explode or anything!

S.P.I.T in the ides of March (March 2012 self portrait image thread)

2012-03-17T12:02:47-07:00

I got a new hat!

I got a blue hat!

and I have got eyes, honest!

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2012-03-17T14:03:31-07:00

@nelzbub: You're a poet and you didn't even know it! Also, nice hat.

I will have to get a recent picture of myself. Until then, you are all beautiful people! (I suppose you'll still be beautiful when I do get the picture...)

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2012-03-17T18:39:57-07:00

Nelzbub -- Your new hat reminds me of the one that Steven Tyler wore in an episode of Two and a Half Men...

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2012-03-18T14:08:09-07:00

cheers folks, I'm very proud of it, was half price from a shop here in Amsterdam called The English Hatter. A man can never have too many hats!
@-Ampersand. A friend posted this on fb in reply to my rhyming announcement:

Your hat is new. Your hat is blue.
We wonder what it's going to do.
Will it be warm? Will it be cold?
Your hat that was for half price sold.
Will it make you look tall?
Will it make you look short?
We really do not think it ought.
Will it make you look good? No doubt about that!
Your half price, so nice, new blue hat.

Seussy genius, so she is!

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2012-03-18T18:27:38-07:00

Haircut. Shorter than I hoped, but when you cut curly hair, 2 inches off looks like 4 inches off. (My hair is no longer as heavy so it feels like it can SPROING up to its heart's content)

That said, I'm in love with the cut.

(added a second picture because I took it and went "OH MAN that is an OLDHAT FACE!")

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2012-03-18T19:02:16-07:00

Hahaha oh my god it is.

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2012-03-23T06:47:22-07:00

Look at that magnificent hog! Also, Porco Rosso!

This is me at Belgian Comic Strip Center.

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2012-03-23T07:03:55-07:00

Magnificent, Vorn! Also, Dorkmuffin: You move me.

(Also! Hello again!)

EDIT:
Oh! I would be remiss if I didn't also add a picture of myself... Hang on... Uh... Oh yes! Here's me as Mowgli! (Who met a very nice cat in the jungle. His mother doesn't like the company he's keeping, but he's very happy)

(I have more if you want)

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2012-03-23T10:43:11-07:00

puffy-face, bed-head pics every morning on instagram: joanneleah

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2012-03-23T15:46:31-07:00

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2012-03-23T19:50:36-07:00

Off Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London. The Murder City Devils and a pack of Turkish cocoa cookies are the best friends a guy can have walking around Dalston at night...

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2012-03-23T19:53:09-07:00

@Magnulus, WELCOME BACK! I have no idea what you mean by what you said but ... thanks?

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2012-03-24T16:06:58-07:00

Getting some writing done on the train to work, with one of Sizers WE station idents as my new background.
And I got a new hat.

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2012-03-24T16:09:11-07:00

Ha! Thanks, that's great Ash.

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2012-03-24T16:10:56-07:00

@Dorkmuffin I mean you set my loins aflame. Your face. It's sex with a y.
That is all.

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2012-03-24T16:46:44-07:00

@Paul Sizer Thank you, since I put it on I've got some good headway on a new story I've been working on.

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2012-03-24T17:17:58-07:00

Aaaahahaha any attempts at flirtation and/or flattery will be completely lost on me. FOR I AM....

OBLIVIOUS GIRL

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2012-03-26T08:16:06-07:00

Testing the light and the camera settings for a photo shoot. I was one of the photographers, so this counts as a self-portrait.

Taken with a Canon 5D Mark II, which I'll be soon marrying.

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2012-03-26T09:34:10-07:00

Cross-post from the photo thread, this is me dangling precariously at 6000 ft off a paraglider in Nepal. We'd just gone through a cloud. I was damp.

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2012-03-26T09:42:01-07:00

^^Too awesome!!

I meant to post this one about a week ago when I took it. I was trying out a new lip color, inspired by Jack from ME and Lara Croft. My hair is much shorter now, I'll try and get a good photo of that later.

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2012-03-26T09:48:15-07:00

@Argos: "Screw you, ma'am!"

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2012-03-26T14:05:24-07:00

It's a lovely cold, sunny day here in Oregon. Just pedaled home for a quick lunch.

It always brightens my day to see your lovely selves here.

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2012-03-26T14:47:44-07:00

@Argos. Love the hair. Not enough shaved sides these days!

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2012-03-26T22:09:44-07:00

felt photogenic.

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2012-03-26T22:15:49-07:00

How is the weather in Innsmouth, DK?

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2012-03-27T13:20:37-07:00

Oh, here's a photo I grabbed of myself as I was getting ready for Halloween 2011. One person in a group of nearly 30 got it.

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2012-03-27T14:01:51-07:00

Man alive. Magnus, when you dress up, you dress up.

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2012-03-27T14:40:25-07:00

With every new photo I realize what a fucking tragedy it was that I couldn't meet Magnulus when I was in Scotland. You're not evading me next time, you bastard.

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2012-03-27T22:30:42-07:00

It's a deal, ye donkey bollock. :D

I hate making a half a job of a dress-up occasion, and I hate the cheap and cheap-looking costumes you get in shops, so I tend to not dress up at all because I don't have the time or money to do it properly. So when I do dress I up, I make sure I do it well. For the party I went to as Mowgli, the original plan was The Mask, for which I would have made fake, massive teeth and had my face painted green. However, it got too complicated and expensive and then I found some red scraps in the wardrobe department as well as a discarded wig. Suddenly, I went from 60-70 quid for what would probably not look all that good to 0 quid for what is arguably my best costume yet.

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2012-03-29T06:51:52-07:00

@Argos
SO jealous of your hair. It's freakin' awesome.

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2012-03-29T10:35:25-07:00

Lurking in the Cave, boozing.

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2012-03-29T17:00:33-07:00

@badbear & @Steve Toase - glad you guys like the hair! I love rocking the shaved look, it's so much fun.

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2012-03-30T03:58:26-07:00

Just bought this fucker...such a nerd...

and it does this...

makes the noise too

oh yeah, and this...

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2012-03-30T06:16:50-07:00

@Lazarus99
YOU MUST MAKE YOUTUBE VIDEOS WITH IT. Seriously, you opening doors, you closing doors; sealing doors. People pointing nerf guns at you that don't fire when they pull the trigger (after judicious use of your screwdriver).

PLEEEEEEEEASE?

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2012-03-30T07:40:00-07:00

*not* a self portrait. me, by keith.

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2012-03-30T15:02:40-07:00

@phill

Love to, 'cept I haven't the equipment...or the know-how, for that matter...

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2012-03-30T15:53:20-07:00

I needs me one of them sonic doohickeys... Yeeeessss.

My... Precioussss

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2012-03-30T17:12:01-07:00

It's a standard piece of BBC merchandise. I daresay you can buy it on the BBC website. It only cost thirty bucks, so it shouldn't be too difficult to get...

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2012-03-30T19:20:14-07:00

I have one too. Mine is River's, though. ;)

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2012-03-31T07:01:15-07:00

Please make opening doors movies dextra! pleeeeease!

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2012-03-31T08:59:55-07:00

phill_sea has got the most specific fetish.

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2012-03-31T12:21:20-07:00

>.>

<.<

^_^\m/

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2012-03-31T20:22:55-07:00

I seem to only take self-portraits of my hair these days.

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2012-04-01T01:31:16-07:00

Nomming some of my deliciously home made bread with Norwegian brown cheese brought over by my sister-in-law. Brown cheese is my one thing from Norway that I -have- to have even though I live in Edinburgh now. So good. Especially on home made bread. :D

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2012-04-01T09:51:55-07:00

GJETOST!

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2012-04-01T11:45:46-07:00

You know it, baby! :D

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2012-04-01T16:12:00-07:00

Got all gussied up to go deal poker for a Texas Hold Em tournament.

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2012-04-01T16:59:38-07:00

@Dork, dear lord, you are gorgeous.
@Dex Love your eyeshadow! Beautiful!

Here's me.

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2012-04-01T22:30:33-07:00

There's too much goddamn beauty in this thread right now. Time to balance things out:

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2012-04-01T23:25:16-07:00

This is a screencap from a video I took of myself last year doing one of the things I do. I keep meaning to edit this into a timelapse of the piece coming together, but I keep not having time.

@dorkmuffin - please never stop taking pictures of your hair!

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2012-04-02T11:30:27-07:00

A self-portrait from a couple of days ago. I am desperately in need of some sleep.

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2012-04-03T01:58:11-07:00

Derp! It's April now! I'll delete that photo and bung it up in the April SPIT thread when there is one.

I'll leave my March-related comments here anyway.

@J.Brennan That is some fine beard porn :-D
Yep, it’s official, @Andre Navarro looks adorable in scarves.
@texture You look like you’ve been arrested and no matter how hard they beat you with telephone books you aren’t going to tell them shit :-D
@Rachæl Tyrell I love the purple hair and your current cut :-)
@Magnulus I… you… just… Never change, man. Never. Change. (As a person, I mean. You are not obliged to wear the Mowgli costume at all times. Although…) PS. GJETOST FOR THE WIN! I am addicted to that stuff. It’s like if peanut butter and cheese had a delicious caramel-y baby!

S.P.I.T in the ides of March (March 2012 self portrait image thread)

2012-04-04T14:37:00-07:00

I wanted help picking out a new pair of glasses so I picked my favorite three and a posted a pic with all three options in it to various social media outlets.

In case you were curious (and even if you weren't, I s'pose) the results were:
Option 1: 6
Option 2: 17
Option 3: 8

I went with Option 3, mostly because I liked the thicker part at the top. Do you think I made the right choice, Whitechapel?

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2012-04-04T14:41:08-07:00

I think so. At first glance 2 & 3 looked the same to me, but upon closer examination, I like prefer the thicker part of the sides on 3.

S.P.I.T in the ides of March (March 2012 self portrait image thread)

2012-04-04T14:53:49-07:00

I like option 3

S.P.I.T in the ides of March (March 2012 self portrait image thread)

2012-04-04T15:56:08-07:00

Thanks, guys. Meant to post this in April's though! Someone needs to put this thread down for it's own good. ;)