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Tealin ([personal profile] tealin) wrote2004-12-11 09:24 pm

About this icon...

Since I'm on my LiveJournal honeymoon, I thought I'd explain the odd little image I've chosen as my inaugural icon. It's from a painting by Eugène Galien-Laloue which I'd had as my wallpaper for a while, and this particular figure has always perplexed me.

Here's the whole thing: Clicky!
[warning! Great big image file!]

To me, this has always looked like a little kid wearing a fireman's hemlet and carrying a TV camera on his shoulder. What would someone like this be doing in a turn-of-the-century Paris street scene? Beats me.

[identity profile] ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com 2004-12-12 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
...I wish I'd bought him a monkey...

...in retrospect...

[identity profile] twirlynoodle.livejournal.com 2004-12-12 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
It's almost certainly a monkey. Well, more certainly than it is a TV camera.

[identity profile] ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com 2004-12-12 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Bah. Certainty has nothing to do with our world.