Where is this from? Who is this guy?

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Kapka

·Oct 5, 2020

To me it looks like a typical character from Italian comics Dylan Dog ...but good luck with your research 😀
I bet there is a dark story behind that avatar and maybe that is why your student don't want you to know what crazy thing are popping through his head

 

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Dor_42

·Oct 5, 2020

This is like that bird/hawk/gryphon/griffin all over again!

 

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TasMike

·Oct 5, 2020

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Ask your son “where is the math below” 😉

It's in the trees; it's in the turbulence of the water; it's in the atmosphere... it's everywhere in nature.

 

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Foo2rama

·Oct 5, 2020·Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...

Style is late 70's early 80's ... I was going to guess Crumb, but I do not think it is him.

 

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rob#1

·Oct 5, 2020

I’m sue I’ve seen him somewhere before...

I think perhaps he was wearing a watch with a logo that looked something like this:

 

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RonJ

·Oct 5, 2020

I asked my son if maybe it was a character out of a video game.
He said he didn't recognize it.

I modified the picture a little bit so that only the face was in it.

A google image search on this modified image says it might be Street Art of some kind.

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Edited: Oct 5, 2020

 

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BlackTalon

·Oct 5, 2020·This Space for Rent

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Ask your son “where is the math below” 😉

1 fisherman + 3 crocodiles = 3 happy crocodiles

 

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schoolboy

·Oct 5, 2020

Marsimaxam

When in doubt I ask my kids...
Youngest says the image is from a Japanese manga, basically a comic book or graphic novel.
My eldest a phd candidate in mathematics, specializing in analysis and number theory, looked at the image and said..."I have no idea." However, he wholeheartedly agrees that math is indeed everywhere... just consider the golden ratio, also known as the golden mean or the divine proportion.

Does your kid remember the name of the Japanese manga?

PhD in math huh? Your son deserved a lot of respect. Higher level math classes are difficult to say the least. I have a master of science degree in Math. Never took number theory classes, but I took up to Abstract Algebra 2 (Algebra) and Measure Theory (Analysis).

Learned beautiful things, but it was very tough for me.

 

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Dan S

·Oct 5, 2020

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Ask your son “where is the math below” 😉

One thing that comes to mind is the velocity profile that requires you to mend your line as the fly drifts downstream. 😀

 

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ahsposo

·Oct 5, 2020·Most fun screen name at ΩF

My kwestion is:

Why do we care?

 

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rcs914

·Oct 5, 2020

schoolboy

Does your kid remember the name of the Japanese manga?

I was going to say manga as well from the style. Considering the hundreds of thousands of choices there I'd say it's likely the proverbial needle in a haystack. And if it is from one of the more racy ones, could be why he doesn't want to say.

 

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Dor_42

·Oct 5, 2020

You'll probably see more success in reddit.

 

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Professor

·Oct 5, 2020

I think this is from a political cartoon, some thing to do with Venezuela. maybe Hugo Chavez.

 

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JwRosenthal

·Oct 5, 2020

Got the answer- it is Japanese Hentai- basically this is animated porn. This student might as well have used John Holmes as his avatar
This is the full image

 

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Foo2rama

·Oct 5, 2020·Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...

JwRosenthal

Got the answer- it is Japanese Hentai- basically this is animated porn. This student might as well have used John Holmes as his avatar
This is the full image

How did you know?

 

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JwRosenthal

·Oct 5, 2020

Foo2rama

How did you know?

I asked someone young who then posted the question on social media and got an answer.

 

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JwRosenthal

·Oct 5, 2020

Iceter

I wonder if your student knows that there is an infinite supply of real porn on the internet. I am less concerned that his avatar is porn-related and more concerned that his tastes run towards cartoon drawings of sweaty fat men.

It's a thing- there is a a whole cult of people, young and old, who follow this type of anime. I remember art house theaters in San Francisco back in the early 90's featuring Japanese anime. A friend dragged me to one and I was really disturbed by it- it wasn't the porn aspect that troubled me (not a prude) but it was violent and gory- almost like a snuff film- very dark stuff.

 

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LesXL

·Oct 5, 2020

Marsimaxam

When in doubt I ask my kids...
Youngest says the image is from a Japanese manga, basically a comic book or graphic novel.
My eldest a phd candidate in mathematics, specializing in analysis and number theory, looked at the image and said..."I have no idea." However, he wholeheartedly agrees that math is indeed everywhere... just consider the golden ratio, also known as the golden mean or the divine proportion.

I also believe it is from a manga cartoon... It looks familiar to me, so probably from around the 90's when I was watching some of them.

 

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arturo7

·Oct 5, 2020

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Ask your son “where is the math below” 😉

Fractals

 

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BlackTalon

·Oct 5, 2020·This Space for Rent

JwRosenthal

Got the answer- it is Japanese Hentai- basically this is animated porn. This student might as well have used John Holmes as his avatar
This is the full image

You gubmint types always seem to have the inside line on porn 😁