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Hey guys, Long Time No See
samuelk
The Unstoppable Mr. 'K'
So I don't know if anyone remembers me, but I was here in the beginning. Hey, guys!
I haven't visisted in a long time, but wanted to stop by and post this story
Way back during the good-natured "GREEN" vs "PURPLE" debates, I ended up creating a green aardvark avatar, which some of you may recognize:
That became my avatar across many forums. The original artwork did not have the boxing gloves or rocket pack; I added those later in response to what happened next.
Fast-forward a few years....during the production of Babylon 5: The Lost Tales, the direct-to-DVD B5 project, one of the FX crew who was working on the show--and who was also a member of the Firstones forums--asked for artwork submissions from forum members that he could use for Starfury "wing art". I submitted rocket-powered aardvark, as I thought it fit pretty well with the fighter squadron art theme.
Eventually, the FX artist e-mailed me to let me know that he ended up using my aardvark in The Lost Tales on a Starfury (it shows up during Sheridan's dream sequence). Here's the screenshot he sent me:
That was back in 2007, and many of the older FirstOnes.com forum members know about this.
Fast forward again to 2015.
I have become a board game fan, and over the last few years, have begun frequenting boardgamegeek.com, BGG has its own forums, and while browsing those forums earlier this year, I spied my familiar Aardvark avatar being used by another forum member. I PM'd him and asked him where he found it. This was his response:
How insane is that?
Anyway, just wanted to pop in and say "hi", and share with you guys something that started out on FirstOnes.com and ended up on TV and then on someone's arm.
Cheers!
samuelk
I haven't visisted in a long time, but wanted to stop by and post this story
Way back during the good-natured "GREEN" vs "PURPLE" debates, I ended up creating a green aardvark avatar, which some of you may recognize:
That became my avatar across many forums. The original artwork did not have the boxing gloves or rocket pack; I added those later in response to what happened next.
Fast-forward a few years....during the production of Babylon 5: The Lost Tales, the direct-to-DVD B5 project, one of the FX crew who was working on the show--and who was also a member of the Firstones forums--asked for artwork submissions from forum members that he could use for Starfury "wing art". I submitted rocket-powered aardvark, as I thought it fit pretty well with the fighter squadron art theme.
Eventually, the FX artist e-mailed me to let me know that he ended up using my aardvark in The Lost Tales on a Starfury (it shows up during Sheridan's dream sequence). Here's the screenshot he sent me:
That was back in 2007, and many of the older FirstOnes.com forum members know about this.
Fast forward again to 2015.
I have become a board game fan, and over the last few years, have begun frequenting boardgamegeek.com, BGG has its own forums, and while browsing those forums earlier this year, I spied my familiar Aardvark avatar being used by another forum member. I PM'd him and asked him where he found it. This was his response:
I've used this image since highschool (prolly ~2002) and have used KillerArdvark as my callsign/gamertag since as well. Always shortened Aardvark to Ardvark because #1 two A's is just pointless, and #2 most of the time I have to shorten it due to character limits anyways. All the way down to KllrRdvrk sometimes.And then, just this morning, I noticed that I had a couple of new PMs on the BGG forum. Here's the picture he sent me:
I don't recall where I first saw it, but some time ago I set out to find where it was from. I was looking into getting a tattoo and your image was in the running. I ended up going for the skull Boba Fett has on the side of his armor. But your image is still in the running for a future one.
I did end up finding the FirstOnes forum and was excited to see that it was a "nerdy" image and was even in an intro for Babylon 5. So maybe in the future, with your blessing of course, I may sport it in ink!
How insane is that?
Anyway, just wanted to pop in and say "hi", and share with you guys something that started out on FirstOnes.com and ended up on TV and then on someone's arm.
Cheers!
samuelk
Comments
Haha that's awesome! A pretty sweet looking tattoo too!
Funny old world, isn't it?
I remember how good it was to see a Firstone's wingart in the Lost Tales
Now I'm wondering what a b5 board game (or board game mod) could look like.....