Written on November 28th, 2005 at 08:11 am by Darren Rowse
ProBlogger Iconized
After seeing the caricature that they did of Steve Rubel I decided to surf over to iconizeme.com to order my own one.
It’s a bit self indulgent but yesterday was my 3 year anniversary of blogging and I thought I deserved a little treat - so I placed my order.
This morning it came in and here it is. I think it’s a pretty good likeness - ‘V’ cracked up when she saw it this morning but I think it’s cool Perhaps my lips are slightly lady like - but it’s a bit of fun and I can think of a few uses for it.
26 Responses to “ProBlogger Iconized”
row1
November 28th, 2005 8:24 am
Looks great, would also look good on your about page. Don’t get the ‘Y’ shapped thing on the end of that squigle, I must be missing something…
ruudik niitmets
November 28th, 2005 8:29 am
Looks indeed good and funny like!Gratz. on the anniversary!
Peter Mount
November 28th, 2005 8:51 am
Now all you need is the sound file to “Slave To The Rhythm” by Grace Jones and the icon will be complete :-)
Have fun
Steve Rubel
November 28th, 2005 9:19 am
Damn! Yours turned out better than mine. Then again, you had a “head” start!
jesse
November 28th, 2005 9:29 am
nice
Ant Onaf
November 28th, 2005 10:36 am
Nice. Now I’ll have to get mine. It looks great!
ChrisH
November 28th, 2005 10:44 am
cool! :D
Lei
November 28th, 2005 12:51 pm
The Chinese believe thick eyebrows are a sign of prosperity and good fortune. Looks like you’ve got a lot of both!
Eric
November 28th, 2005 1:27 pm
haha… I want one. I’ve never heard of Iconize me… thanks for the link.
Darren Rowse
November 28th, 2005 1:33 pm
I notice something very similar about both yours and mine Steve…a lack of covering on top. We should start a blog network for bald (ish) bloggers….
Steve Rubel
November 28th, 2005 2:00 pm
Darren, better get a lot of bandwidth for that one.
ChrisH
November 28th, 2005 4:35 pm
Hmmm.. Is the opposite of hirsute, astute?
gary
November 28th, 2005 5:37 pm
Both yours and Steve’s looks like it was done by the same guy. I don’t particularly like his style. There’s kind of a weird look to it. - can’t put my finger on it, but it just looks a little creepy.
MarkB
November 28th, 2005 5:56 pm
Ha! Thats styling :)
Now what’d be cool is if you could get it to be your favicon. Do they do pixelgraphic versions too?
Shweet.
ChrisH
November 28th, 2005 7:22 pm
row1, that’s an electrical terminal lug - not unlike how your car battery is connected. The wire runs from the lug to the pencil, thus cleverly implying both the wired and writing elements of what Darren does.
RC
November 29th, 2005 3:37 am
I know it’s not nice to leave comments like “cool” but I must say :
cool !:DD
Rose Tacher
November 29th, 2005 4:00 am
ChrisH, it could also be just an old fashioned screw gone loose…
Dee
November 29th, 2005 4:13 am
I really like that. And the lip color I think balances out the red eraser back and that other red thing floating behind your head, so it balances the pic.
wayne sutton
November 29th, 2005 5:31 am
Hey great icon, I’ve been putting it off for about 2 months now, but I’m going to go ahead and get mine done now.
I’m curious about how much more business they will receive now since you have had one done. Could you follow up with them in the next couple of weeks?
I feel like you are becoming the Oprah of web blog, if you do it, then everybody will follow and along with your stats, they will probably have more business than ever.
Wayne
Thomas
November 29th, 2005 6:03 am
I ordered one and if I like it I’m going to order a second one of my girlfriend. I’m planning to get it printed just like a poster, should be a nice gift for Christmas :)
HART (1-800-HART)
November 29th, 2005 7:53 am
I have no clue about these guys, but the likeness on both of you is pretty good! I’ve always recommend caricatures .. I’ve been using them online for years and we have one wall in our back room filled with original art! In case anybody’s interested.. here’s mine (btw - it was done at DisneyLand, California 2001)
HART’s Caricature
I’ve got about 6 more around my personal blogsite of different poses, including one of us and our pets. They’re great on T-Shirts too :-) We also converted the ones on the heading of our site into Medieval Flags for our wedding.
adamsb
November 29th, 2005 12:36 pm
Thomas, brilliant idea. And I really like Jose’s style. Looking over Shalimar’s samples, haven’t I seen this same style in Wired Magazine? Hm, maybe-
Peter Cooper
November 29th, 2005 11:30 pm
You seriously look like Steve Jobs in that one! :)
The Business Catalyst
November 30th, 2005 9:38 pm
I love this! I have been trying to find a good caricature artist to have one done for my small business startup site.
Thanks for sharing.
David
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March 28th, 2006 8:41 pm
[...] I know at least 2 real life bloggers who made their portrait caricatures here - Darren Rowse at Problogger and Steve Rubel at Micropersuasion. Maybe I will get a caricature of myself when I am famous enough! [...]
ilker
February 18th, 2007 5:43 am
Your new logo? =)
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