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BGB Group Photo

During commercial breaks in last night’s Tour coverage, I was goofing around with the Simpson’s Movie avatar generator. You can create a character that approximates your appearance by selecting various parts and they are magically lumped together to create what you would look like on the Simpsons. Here’s what I came up with for myself:

If you are up for it, e-mail your creation to – admin at babygotbooks.com. All are welcome. I’ll take all of the submitted characters and Photoshop them into a BGB group photo at some point down the road. I totally stole this idea from Bill Walsh’s Blogslot.

Comedy, On Screen | Tim | July 13, 2007 1:00 pm

By DJ Cayenne, July 13, 2007 @ 3:36 pm

I’ve got four avatars so far. Keep ‘em coming.
By Shaft, July 13, 2007 @ 5:28 pm

Yikes, Mr. DJ — it looks like you’ve been working out since we last had lunch. Or are you wearing your special “avatar shoulder pads” again?
By Beth (The Toronto One), July 14, 2007 @ 10:36 am

I dunno. I made one but it looks worse than the reality. (And I didn’t save it.)
But I am going to sent this link to my son – a rabid Simpson’s fan.
By DJ Cayenne, July 14, 2007 @ 5:56 pm

Beth: We all look ridiculous – send it in. Have you seen the overbite on me above?

All: If you’re having an issue downloading your avatar – as in you can’t download it – here’s a work around. When you’re finished, hit ctrl/print screen. Paste the whole thing into a Word or PowerPoint or whatever document and e-mail the whole thing to me. I’ll hook you up. We’re up to 12 avatars and counting.
By Frank, July 14, 2007 @ 6:08 pm

Mac users: Complete the avatar in your browser, open the Grab program in your Utilities folder, do a capture or “grab” of your browser window and save it to the desktop. (It’ll be a TIFF file.) Then open with Preview, use the crop tool to isolate your avatar / cut away all the extraneous stuff, then save it to the desktop again.
By Shaft, July 14, 2007 @ 9:27 pm

Commodore 64 and Vic 20 users: Get the avatar on your screen, get out your markers, and draw a picture of what you see. Mail it to DJ Cayenne’s home address.
By Beth (The Toronto One), July 14, 2007 @ 11:03 pm

This has taken me forever but I don’t want to wimp out. I’m sending “me” along.

Many thanks to Frank from a Mac user.