More and more often I’m getting asked “what’s that funny lil favicon your site has?” And now with more and more people seeing it in Firefox as well as other places (Flickr, blogs with Gravatar supported comments, MSN conversations etc) it’s time to introduce the world to Blossom in full-ish size and reveal the secret history Blossom and I actually have…
Yes, it’s Blossom of the Powerpuff Girls and it all started about 3 years ago as a little laugh that spiraled way out of control… Truth is I’m a fan of the Powerpuff Girls cartoon series (and movie), and I found a great image of Blossom on the old PPGWorld.com site and originally used it as my desktop wallpaper…
When I joined o8 – Meaningless + Shallow, I needed a little 32×32 icon for my profile and posts that would set me apart from the rest… And the above picture suited that right down to the ground, except it needed to be suitably cropped, so a 96×96 version was born.
Here is an example of how it looked (circa January/February 2003)… And basically it stuck ever since, I found a site that turns images into favicons and thus it became the favicon of Scam City version 5.1 (as it was known back in those days) and now it lives on as my globally recognised avatar… Though some question my mental stability for keeping it, I think it’s more recognised than me myself… It appears in such a different variety of places and if you see it you’ll instantly know it’s something to do with me. I still get a kick out of seeing it in people’s Bloglines public feed or in people’s contacts list in Flickr and now Haloscan supports Gravatar, so it appears there as well…
It’s me, I’m the crazy guy with Blossom as his gravatar!