As you can see, I’m designing a new avatar - Tab’s TV.
The pictures it displays are okay-ish - I’m trying to capture the things that represent humanity, at the moment being:
Do you have any better ideas for pictures that epitomize the human condition…?
[post em here - and I’ll stick them in the gif.]
oh, i thought you were going to make a youtube channel
Youtube’s banned here, unfortunately.
where?
Turkey.
Okay - iconic photos: Evil
Good:
Any other examples…? Evil is winning… 
Good one, thank you R.
cf. Hofstadter’s Strange Loop
Good one, I might stick that one in actually.
I like the astronaut guy and the strange loop television ones.
if you do, i think you should do it with the tv on his head, not a different tv
here’s a link to a video of the hyperdimensional feedback image… wooo … it’s simply epiphenomenal!!!
Damn - I just tried, but the black in the picture causes transparancy problems. Oh well, thanks anyway Ought.
Actually - thinking maybe to just put the heads of famous people in instead, like the ghandi one:
Who would you recommend…?
old-new
If anyone has suggestions for famous women, for God’s sake post it up.
They’ve gotta be recognisable within 1 second, and not look like the back of a bus.
[size=85][Seriously, Marilyn was the only one you could think of?][/size]
No, I thought of Florence Nightingale, Madam Curie, Simone De Beauvoir, Sylvia Plath, Indira Ghandi, Benazir Bhutto plus a couple of queens and empresses - but they all failed either the ‘recognizable in a second’ test, or the “I’m a total meme” test. Simone was closest.
Same with the above. A case of no idea, no idea, absolutely no idea, and not sure. I mean, I can guess a bit, but I shouldn’t have too.
Anita, you’re not being fair. The only people who would recognize Amelia Earhart would have to be women and old time aviation enthusiasts. And Jane Goodall??? Who the hell reads National Geographic or watches Animal Planet? Who becomes a recognizable icon is decided by the media, and they rarely pick talent and brains. Mother Teresa is one of the few exceptions. You want instant recognition? How about Paris Hilton lathered in foam draped on the hood of a car in the Carls Jr. ad? Or maybe a shot of Britney Spears beaver shot climbing out of her car. It may be sad, but instantly recognizable pics of women are based on woman as sex toys. 
Actually yeah, Mother Terasa is a possibility. I think Shakespeare’s gonna get the boot in favour of Terry.
Incidentally, I like this. A collage of pics depicting good and bad social movements, the best and worst of our ideals… Good stuff. This should be expanded into a Youtube clip? In fact, by picking specific target areas like freedom, or mother love, or nasty stuff like war or torture… maybe a series of clips?