WLD42
Debutant
- Joined
- Sep 14, 2013
- Posts
- 124
- Reaction score
- 233
- Location
- New York, USA
- AFL Club
- St Kilda
- Other Teams
- New York Rangers, Phoenix Coyotes
Hi, everybody!
Thrilled to have found this great forum, and I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone. I'll fill out a few of the more relevant pieces of info from the stickied post, just for fun, but I'd like to introduce myself in paragraph form first.
My real name's Duncan, and as you can see, I'm from the US of A. I'm 23 and just out of university, with a degree in theatre arts. I spent a month in Perth as an exchange student back in 2007, which is when I discovered and fell in love with this great sport, although I'd vacationed to Australia a few times before with my family, and definitely hope to do so again someday.
I picked the Saints as my team back then for the somewhat silly reason that my high school used the same team nickname, but whatever the initial reason, once you've aligned yourself and made that emotional investment, that's where you stay! I also have a soft spot for the Tigers, seeing as my hometown is Richmond, Virginia, and for the Dockers, since I was obligated to choose between them and the Eagles during my stay in Perth, and they were the first team I had the chance to see play live. (Also, purple's my favorite color.) (Also, my host family were Eagles fans, and I wasn't as fond of them as I was of most of the other people I met during my stay, so picking the Dockers was a bit of a screw you to them.) Here in the States, I've grown up with ice hockey as the sport of choice in my family, following the New York Rangers and the Phoenix Coyotes.
The main reason I discovered the BigFooty boards and decided to join is actually the Graphic Design sub-forum. I don't have the skill level (or the technology) of a professional designer, but I'm a devoted hobbyist who enjoys a bit of jumper design now and then. Once I've reached the necessary 25 posts, I actually have a portfolio of National Hockey League team crossover jumpers that I'd love to share, and some ideas for a crossover going the other way as well, AFL teams to hockey jerseys. But while I expect to be found in that sub-forum most often, I'm also looking forward to the boards being a way to keep up with the footy news and follow the AFL more closely, which hasn't been the easiest thing to do during the past half-decade. Anyways, It's great to be here, and I'll see everybody around!
Real Name: Duncan
Age: 23
Location: New York, USA
Occupation: Theatre Artist / Writer (well, aspiring)
Team: St Kilda (secondarily, Freo and Richmond)
Other Sports: Ice Hockey (NY Rangers, Phoenix Coyotes)
Bad Habits: Procrastination... I'll fill in the rest later.
Biggest Fear/Phobia: Insects
Have You Any Piercings Or Tattoos?: Left ear pierced (pretty boring in this day and age)
Hobbies: Sports design, meteorology, cartography, science (as in reading about it, because I'm nowhere near skilled enough to actually do it)
3 Famous People I've Met: (Outside Football...)
Dream Job: Artistic Director of a theatre company
Favourite Board Games: HUGE board game geek. In no particular order, Scrabble, Apples to Apples and similar games, Fluxx, Scattergories
Favourite Video Games: RollerCoaster Tycoon series, turn-based RPGs (don't quite have the world's greatest reflexes for those fancy fighting/shooting games), most any sports or racing game
Top 5 Songs (In No Particular Order...): Too hard to pick songs, but top 5 artists are The Beatles, Queen, Billy Joel, Frank Sinatra, and Coldplay. Also, classical music. I love me some Strauss and Tchaikovsky.
Thrilled to have found this great forum, and I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone. I'll fill out a few of the more relevant pieces of info from the stickied post, just for fun, but I'd like to introduce myself in paragraph form first.
My real name's Duncan, and as you can see, I'm from the US of A. I'm 23 and just out of university, with a degree in theatre arts. I spent a month in Perth as an exchange student back in 2007, which is when I discovered and fell in love with this great sport, although I'd vacationed to Australia a few times before with my family, and definitely hope to do so again someday.
I picked the Saints as my team back then for the somewhat silly reason that my high school used the same team nickname, but whatever the initial reason, once you've aligned yourself and made that emotional investment, that's where you stay! I also have a soft spot for the Tigers, seeing as my hometown is Richmond, Virginia, and for the Dockers, since I was obligated to choose between them and the Eagles during my stay in Perth, and they were the first team I had the chance to see play live. (Also, purple's my favorite color.) (Also, my host family were Eagles fans, and I wasn't as fond of them as I was of most of the other people I met during my stay, so picking the Dockers was a bit of a screw you to them.) Here in the States, I've grown up with ice hockey as the sport of choice in my family, following the New York Rangers and the Phoenix Coyotes.
The main reason I discovered the BigFooty boards and decided to join is actually the Graphic Design sub-forum. I don't have the skill level (or the technology) of a professional designer, but I'm a devoted hobbyist who enjoys a bit of jumper design now and then. Once I've reached the necessary 25 posts, I actually have a portfolio of National Hockey League team crossover jumpers that I'd love to share, and some ideas for a crossover going the other way as well, AFL teams to hockey jerseys. But while I expect to be found in that sub-forum most often, I'm also looking forward to the boards being a way to keep up with the footy news and follow the AFL more closely, which hasn't been the easiest thing to do during the past half-decade. Anyways, It's great to be here, and I'll see everybody around!
Real Name: Duncan
Age: 23
Location: New York, USA
Occupation: Theatre Artist / Writer (well, aspiring)
Team: St Kilda (secondarily, Freo and Richmond)
Other Sports: Ice Hockey (NY Rangers, Phoenix Coyotes)
Bad Habits: Procrastination... I'll fill in the rest later.
Biggest Fear/Phobia: Insects
Have You Any Piercings Or Tattoos?: Left ear pierced (pretty boring in this day and age)
Hobbies: Sports design, meteorology, cartography, science (as in reading about it, because I'm nowhere near skilled enough to actually do it)
3 Famous People I've Met: (Outside Football...)
Dream Job: Artistic Director of a theatre company
Favourite Board Games: HUGE board game geek. In no particular order, Scrabble, Apples to Apples and similar games, Fluxx, Scattergories
Favourite Video Games: RollerCoaster Tycoon series, turn-based RPGs (don't quite have the world's greatest reflexes for those fancy fighting/shooting games), most any sports or racing game
Top 5 Songs (In No Particular Order...): Too hard to pick songs, but top 5 artists are The Beatles, Queen, Billy Joel, Frank Sinatra, and Coldplay. Also, classical music. I love me some Strauss and Tchaikovsky.
