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Post by dertodesking on Jan 6, 2011 11:58:18 GMT -8
Hey All, Can anyone help me??? I have a jpeg image stored on the hard-drive of my PC which I want to use as my Avatar. I don't understand what the reference to "http/url" on the modify profile page refers to???  I'm a real Luddite when it comes to computers so in VERY SIMPLE TERMS - what do I need to do to get my desired image as my Avatar? (do I need to upload to a photo hosting site such as Imageshack???) Thanks in advance, Simon (confused by computers!) |
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Post by admin on Jan 6, 2011 12:17:15 GMT -8
Yes. The image must be hosted somewhere on the web. Anywhere. Then you enter the full image URL into your profile. An image URL ends with the image file name itself. It most not end with 'htm' or 'html'.
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Post by dertodesking on Jan 6, 2011 12:42:08 GMT -8
Yay Clark!!! It worked - thanks! Simon  |
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Post by admin on Jan 6, 2011 17:54:47 GMT -8
What are we looking at here? Is that a piece of jewelry?
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Post by dertodesking on Jan 7, 2011 13:23:19 GMT -8
What are we looking at here? Is that a piece of jewelry? Hey Clark, No, it's not jewellery! Back in the day (God I feel old typing that but we are talking 15-20 years ago!) I was a MASSIVE fan of horror movies (not the Hollywood type teens-in-peril rubbish but "classics" such as the Hammer Horrors, Italian murder msyteries from the 50s/60s/70s, Japanese gore and worldwide underground oddities etc etc). I used to travel around attending film retrospectives/fan events etc and amassed a collection of about 3500 VHS cassettes and 2500 DVDs (I collected quite seriously up until a couple of years ago) plus several hundred reference works on worlwide film wierdness. Anyway, for a period of time one of my favourite films was a film called "Der Todesking" ("The Death-King); hence my forum name. The film, by the German director Jorg Buttgereit, is a collection of seven episodes about suicide (!!!). Running throughout the film is a child drawing a picture of the "Death King" and that picture is my avatar. The film makes grim viewing but contains absolutely no gore whatsoever; it the build up to the suicides (all committed off screen from memory - it's years since I've seen it) and the general atmosphere of the film that makes it what it is. Probably his most (in)famous movie is "Nekromantik" about a female necromantik who attempts to "cure" herself by starting a relationship with a living man rather than a corpse  When that doesn't work she beheads him in rather graphic detail. Apparently the print of the film was escorted out of the UK by police when it was submitted for classification (which was denied). Perhaps suprisingly, Buttgereit has gone on to work directing a number of "hit" US shows including the series "Lexx". So no...not jewellery!!! Simon |
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Post by admin on Jan 13, 2011 6:50:08 GMT -8
Have you ever seen the horror movie 'Hostel'? That was really disturbing.
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Post by nomihoudai on Jan 13, 2011 7:31:44 GMT -8
;D I had to laugh now clark, hostel is a "childrens birthday party" compared to what he speaks of.
... I once downloaded Guinea pig series but did not watch more than 5 minutes ...
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Post by admin on Jan 13, 2011 8:02:28 GMT -8
OMG!
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Post by dertodesking on Jan 16, 2011 13:05:53 GMT -8
;D I had to laugh now clark, hostel is a "childrens birthday party" compared to what he speaks of. ... I once downloaded Guinea pig series but did not watch more than 5 minutes ... Hi Clarke, Yes - I've seen "Hostel". I quite liked the plotline (rich people paying to be able make their own personal snuff movies!) but I thought the film was "so-so". As Claude says, it's not quite up there with the likes of Nekromantik which, as well as some absolutely GRUESOME effects has an interesting storyline! Claude - I've got all the Guinea Pig movies on a nice DVD boxset from Germany. The first few are okay but the later ones in the series are..."yawn". The Japanese certainly make some crazy and weird movies...and there are certainly lots out there much more offensive than Guinea Pig! What was it that made you turn it off? Simon |
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Post by nusferatus369 on Jan 18, 2011 15:57:42 GMT -8
If you want to see disturbing movie just look of the italien movie Cannibal holocaust. Some time during the movie you ask your self if is real or not.
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Post by dertodesking on Jan 18, 2011 16:09:10 GMT -8
If you want to see disturbing movie just look of the italien movie Cannibal holocaust. Some time during the movie you ask your self if is real or not. "Holocaust" is "so-so" imho - sure it's a classic of the Italian Cannibal Movie sub-genre but give me Umberto Lenzi's mighty "Cannibal Ferox" (aka "Make Them Die Slowly") anyday!!! I met Ruggero Deodato, who directed "Cannibal Holocaust" many years ago at a film festival here in the UK and got him to sign various things (DVD, video, film posters, books etc). A genuinely nice guy and you'd never think to look at him that he directed movies like he did  Simon |
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Post by nomihoudai on Jan 19, 2011 0:58:07 GMT -8
I have seen that movie too, at the end I was like " BULL###, you can't pull people into pieces that easily " ... for guinea pig, it's just not really my genre, I like more the 80's horror movies like Evil dead, Basket case,... little blood but those awesome stop motion sequences of the monsters they don't do anymore today.
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 24, 2011 6:20:56 GMT -8
"Scream" was too hardcore for me ...
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Post by bobw on Jan 24, 2011 6:25:25 GMT -8
"Scream" was too hardcore for me ... "The Sound of Music" was too hardcore for me! |
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Post by dertodesking on Jan 24, 2011 12:59:10 GMT -8
"Scream" was too hardcore for me ... "The Sound of Music" was too hardcore for me! Bob, LOL - the best post of the thread! ;D ;D ;D Simon |
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When that doesn't work she beheads him in rather graphic detail. Apparently the print of the film was escorted out of the UK by police when it was submitted for classification (which was denied).
