Talk:Doc Hammer

message: Is it up to us to decide which birth defects are 'snazzy' and which are not? I'm going to edit out any personal bias until we can verify from educational or scientific sources that Doc Hammer's birth defect is really 'snazzier' than say, Down's Syndrome. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smith Jones (talk • contribs) 19:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't be a spoilsport. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.112.110.30 (talk • contribs) 01:44, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have a listing of birth defects considered snazzy by FDA. However, I am not going to tell you what they are. --68.164.170.20 (talk) 03:49, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Be quiet. I've just sent a message to Doc asking him if he considers his birth defect "snazzy." If he says it, we can quote him. --Diabolos (talk) 19:55, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Has anyone heard of this hair disorder? Like. What it's called. 'Cause that would be great. I can't find anything about this condition existing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.218.94.148 (talk • contribs) 06:10, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I wouldn't consider his hair to be a "birth defect". Apparently he just has vitiligo of the scalp, causing his hair to grow in two different colors. Who knows, it may not even be that, sometimes peoples' hair just does grow in two different colors. I went to school with a kid who had brown hair with a blonde patch in the front, and recently at my new school, had a class with a girl who had hair like Doc Hammer's (although not dyed black.) Weird stuff happens in genetics...just look at Billy Quizboy! --70.44.54.5 (talk) 18:34, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hair color 

message: I recently created an article about Hammer's current band, Weep. In doing so I ran some searches for freely-licensed images of Hammer that could be used here on Wikipedia, and created a category at Wikimedia Commons to house them: commons:Category:Doc Hammer. I've added an external Commons link at the bottom of this article.
There's been a bit of a brouhaha over at the Weep article over the image of Hammer that I chose to use. You can read that article's talk page for the details, but in a nutshell Hammer complained on Facebook about the photo used to represent him. One of his complaints was that it's not a very flattering photo...unfortunately that's a consequence of us only being able to use freely-licensed images; we have to take whatever people are willing to license for free use, and that usually means less-than-headshot-quality images. The reason I bring this up here is that the photo in this article's infobox is from the same set as the one in the Weep article, and it's not a particularly great photo of him either: He's mid-sentence, with his eyes squinted, so the look on his face is a bit odd, and his face is partly obscured by the microphone. :File:Dochammer2010.jpg was recently uploaded to Commons, and might be a better one to use: his expression is neutral (at least he's not mid-sentence), the mic isn't blocking any part of his face, and you can even see some of his tattoos. It's not as high-res as the one currently in the infobox, but I figured I'd put it up for consideration to see if anyone feels like it's a better shot that could be used for the infobox.
As a related note, in sourcing the Weep article I turned up a rather lengthy interview with Hammer where he discusses his fashion, painting, and band. Here it is:
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This would be a good source to use in expanding this article. If a referenced section about his painting were written, it might be appropriate to illustrate that section with a fair-use image of one of his paintings. As another thought, if some referenced content about his voice work on The Venture Bros. were written (ie. not just which characters he voices, but how he comes up with voices for the characters and how he produces the voices), it might be appropriate to illustrate that using 1 or 2 fair-use audio samples. Just some thoughts. --IllaZilla (talk) 23:04, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: I've been looking for some sources to expand the article. I'm going to save them here as I find them.
*  — talks about joining VB & his painting
--IllaZilla (talk) 20:39, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources