Exchanging pictures of ourselves?

[costicina]

Reading this board, I had an idea....

I consider now many of you like  true “friends”, I know a lot about you besides your skills/poblems in the filed of piano playing: your tastes, your character, etc…  
But how do  you look like? I whish I have  a picture of you, a concrete image, instead of an empty, abstract nickname. Maybe this wil help to have at least the illusion of a face-to-face interaction…
I’m not sure if you like my proposal.  Anyway I’ll try to break the ice posting a picture of my daughter Costanza, and  3  pictures of myself (of course, I’ll choose the ones where we look better   )



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[megadodd]

Cool idea, how can I upload a picture from my computer?

[costicina]

 I've learned it just now...
Ok, you have to go to a site like photobucket, upload a picture from your pc, than click to the IMG code you'll find under the picture, copy and paste it in your post...
I hope my explanations are clear...

Margherita

[megadodd]

Couldnt find any recent photos of me on this computer, so a 2 year old one will do. It was taken as a student magazine advertisement something, while I was working as one of the photographers at the magazine.

[costicina]

You are very good looking, and younger than I figured out!!!

Margherita

[birba]

[costicina]

   

You look less alien at the piano; but maybe I'm just envious... I was born in Sardynia, and when I see "chiare, fresche dolci acque" I can't help feeling homesick!!!

[candlelightpiano]

This is really neat, Margherita. Great topic! You and Costanza look really good!

Birba, I didn't know you could scuba dive! You have so many talents! You definitely look less alien at the piano.

Here's a photo taken a few months ago. It's on my blog so it's nothing new. The only difference now is that my hair has grown longer and I weigh a few lbs less, but not because I went on a diet. I live to eat!

[littletune]

You all look really nice! Now I'm embarrassed to post my picture!   

[costicina]

Ho Choo Choo,
I was sure you look as friendly, warm and nice as the person that I had in mind reading your posts!!!
Maybe I'm silly,  but I'll feel more at easy bein able to visualize your smile in our exchange of posts!!!

Don't be shy, Littletune, I'm sure that you too, like Choo Choo, look as nice as we all think you are!!!

[candlelightpiano]

Thanks, Margherita, for all your kind words. It is nice to be able to have a picture of who we're writing to rather than wonder how they look like. Your photos were lovely. Thanks for sharing.

Littletune: There's no need to be shy. But it's up to you. You don't have to post a photo. You could post one like Birba did, with your back to us!! 

[thalbergmad]

Freezing my bits off on a beach in Suffolk in December. The awful Britten Scallop is just out of view.

Thal

[littletune]

Yes I think Birba should post a picture where we can see his face better too!! 

Hi Thal! Nice to see you again! 

Well actually last year I already posted some pictures of me in my toys thread!
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=38648.msg435292#msg435292

but I'lll post one other picture now... and it's specially for Birba cause I know how much he LOVES Hello Kitty!!!  (kidding  ) and I promissed him a long time ago I would post a picture of me in a hello kitty sweater!   

So here: (it's a little funny picture, I think my head is too much into the camera, cause I was trying to get the Hello Kitty in the picture  and my arm was up above my head )

[49410enrique]

... no need to be shy. But it's up to you. You don't have to post a photo. You could post one like Birba did, with your back to us!!  

i'll play.  i figure let's hit bottom really lower the bar by setting pittiful standard, this way anyone can feel good about posting since it can only get better from here.

me playing outside with some other kids.

[fleetfingers]

Here's my back. 

I'm the short one, my husband is one foot taller than me. Can you tell from behind that he is not happy about the cheesy pose?

[49410enrique]

Can you tell from behind that he is not happy about the cheesy pose?

clearly, it's written all over his face

[costicina]

I'm so happy        to "see" you at last! Choo Choo, Littletune, Thal, Enrique, Fleetfingers (the latters only from the rear, but it doesn't matter, at least I know you have a human shape  ).
Thank you, really, my friends!!!

Margherita

[thalbergmad]

You have a considerable likeness to Natasha Kinski.

Thal

[costicina]

Wow, thank you!!!
As for your picture, you look so "simpatico": now I understand the flavour of your humour... and I'm so relieved you are not the skinny, bespectacled, grim person I was afraid you looked like, but the affable, witty and charming kind of person I'm fond of...

Great Thal!!!

P.S. Instead of freezing in that unfriendly beach, why don't you visit my native island, Sardynia, a true earthly paradise? 


 

[thalbergmad]

skinny

That I ain't

[ted]

[thalbergmad]

Agghh, good old Ted. Not an ounce of fat and fit as a fiddle.

But what is that I see??. Does he have some Protein Powder on his shelf?? Is this the secret??

Thal

[pianowolfi]

Well haha, yeah, these are from last year. I'm in a hide-away-phase right now

Littletune you're sweet, Ted you rock!   Costy& Daughter and Fleety&Hubby are cute and Thal you're funny as so often  

Hey Enrique stay here, don't run away. What did you steal?

[ted]

Agghh, good old Ted. Not an ounce of fat and fit as a fiddle.

But what is that I see??. Does he have some Protein Powder on his shelf?? Is this the secret??

Thal

That is an old container of fish oil capsules, Thal, which I started eating two years ago and soon couldn't see the point of as they made no difference whatsoever to my annual blood tests. They're probably all stuck together by now. I did eat protein powder for a while some years ago, but likewise couldn't see that it ever did anything except increase the profit of the local shop. Hard regular training, on the other hand, has worked  wonders, mentally and physically.

[candlelightpiano]

[quote author=littletune link=topic=44631.msg486474#msg486474 date=1326488783
but I'lll post one other picture now... and it's specially for Birba cause I know how much he LOVES Hello Kitty!!!   (kidding   ) and I promissed him a long time ago I would post a picture of me in a hello kitty sweater!    
So here: (it's a little funny picture, I think my head is too much into the camera, cause I was trying to get the Hello Kitty in the picture   and my arm was up above my head )


[/quote]

I love your photo and Birba will love it too! Thanks so much, Littletune. You look just like I thought you would, very sweet and warm with a very kind face and eyes. You're lovely.

[candlelightpiano]

clearly, it's written all over his face

ROFL!

[costicina]

Nice to meet you, Ted, Pianowolfi!!!
You, Ted, are amazingly similar to the image I had in my mind...
aber du, Pianowolfi, bist eine freudige Ueberraschung!!  

I'm very happy to have started this thread,  thanks to all of you for your kind responses...I hope to have still more of them!

Margherita

[williampiano]

here i am! this is me

[costicina]

Where is the wonderful sea you are swimming in?
BTW, you a nice smile!!! 

[birba]

You have a considerable likeness to Natasha Kinski.

Thal

Yes!  Or mariel Hemmingway.

[costicina]

Do you mean Margaux Hemingway?
I'm more and more flattened...In that photo I was a bit younger, but apart some wrinkles   , my look is not changed that much...
Anyway, thank you!!!

[candlelightpiano]

here i am! this is me

YOU ARE ADORABLE, WILLIAMPIANO!

[pianowolfi]

YOU ARE ADORABLE, WILLIAMPIANO!

Yeah and he's a good pianist!

[candlelightpiano]

Yeah and he's a good pianist!

Who? The whale or William? Whales sing very well, I hear!

[littletune]

Thank you Wolfi and  Candlelightpiano! I'm really glad you liked my picture! You two look very nice too! (and everyone else too of course!!) 
And the whale is really cute too!

[ajspiano]

might as well get in on this...

This is really old..  well you know..  about 8 years. Thats a 1/3rd of my life so I think its old.

[candlelightpiano]

might as well get in on this...

This is really old..  well you know..  about 8 years. Thats a 1/3rd of my life so I think its old.

This is cool!! I'm glad you decided to show us how you look, AJ! You look like a rocker! Ha ha ha! You don't look like a classical pianist even though you're a fine one. Thanks!

[ajspiano]

AJ! You look like a rocker! Ha ha ha! You don't look like a classical pianist...

Mostly because at this point I wasnt playing any classical music - I think I'm 16 or 17 here, the photo is from a live-in arts project. 16 musicians lived in a house together for a week with the sole aim of writing original songs. They were mostly adults in the late 20's to early 30's that came from rock/folk type backgrounds..  Though we did play some half assed jazz..  I'll post a recording from it later..

[candlelightpiano]

Look forward to your recording. Once again, you look like nothing I could have imagined! But you definitely rock!

[costicina]

You play rock and jazz too??? I'm soo envious   
Anyway, great picture!!! (I like your cropped gloves; I used them, too, even if I live in a warm country).
As I said, I feel more at easy interacting with somebody having in  mind a concrete image of him/her. That was the purpose of this thread, and it's working!!!
Thanks for sharing

Margherita

[megadodd]

I really thought you where more than 24 years old AJ!

[costicina]

Me too!! I'm impressed....

[unholeee]

haha the hobo gloves

this is a picture of me



and this is a picture of me



playing chop-in

[costicina]

Great pictures !!!!           
Thank you!!!

Margherita

[candlelightpiano]

haha the hobo gloves

this is a picture of me
playing chop-in

Cool! I love your photos and you playing chop-in! That's how I play chop-in! Choppin' Choppin' and Choppin'

[ajspiano]

I really thought you where more than 24 years old AJ!

I tend to give that impression. - you probably shouldnt mistake me for someone older and wiser, I still have a lot to learn.

haha the hobo gloves

They arent the best to play in..  but it was pretty cold in the mornings in that building. - and you can get away with a bit less blistering finger work when you're just part of the rhythm section in a blues jam session

LOL@chop-in. - one of my music teachers used to have a chopin list on her fridge - you know, to write down things she needed like milk or eggs.

[unholeee]

Cool! I love your photos and you playing chop-in! That's how I play chop-in! Chopin' Choppin' and Chopianissississimo'

;p

They arent the best to play in..  but it was pretty cold in the mornings in that building. - and you can get away with a bit less blistering finger work when you're just part of the rhythm section in a blues jam session

LOL@chop-in. - one of my music teachers used to have a chopin list on her fridge - you know, to write down things she needed like milk or eggs.

AHHAH, that is so lame (dad humour) i laughed hard.
I picked up a similar pair of gloves at the army shop, best purchase. I can still shoot people in computer games or play the piano, very versatile / handy.

[candlelightpiano]

[quote author=ajspiano link=topic=44631.msg486959#msg486959 date=1326753727
LOL@chop-in. - one of my music teachers used to have a chopin list on her fridge - you know, to write down things she needed like milk or eggs.
[/quote]

Ha ha ha! I MUST have had too much to drink! I finally figured out what you meant!! 

[piano_vs_science]

here i am! this is me

if the dolphin doesn't have fingers...

 how does he play piano?

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I can't find a legit picture of myself, so I decided to post something that looks like me!  Just like this except my glasses are thick and black.