How to handle a web head shot:

[Y]ou, Internet person, are left with two options: Just pick a photo and go for it, or go the arty/ironic route. It's not as if you can stay hidden forever. Eventually someone will upload you to Flickr or tag you in a wedding pic wearing an unflattering, unchosen color. My own half-solution: I took a photo and ran it through something called the Face Transformer that created a manga version of myself. It's me, but it's not really me. That's kind of how it feels to be online.

"Get a new head shot" has been on my list of things to do for, oh, about two years now. The idea of having one iconic image of yourself seems so forced to me. I'm tempted to go to Glamor Shots and get a truly ridiculous photo done -- something where I'm all made up, the focus is entirely too soft, and I'm smiling lovingly at the camera.
Jul. 15, '08
design, social networks, social technologies