I think I've sat down to respond to this thread about 4 times now but never happened to finish it due to food or the fact its not my computer. >_<
As for the sig, as metal said its nothing new, not only have I been making sigs with a style like this for afew months, you could probably see something similar on about 20 forums now.
First I loved the image, the pose, the colors and just the whole thing in general so I scraped the idea for the sig I was going to make and used this. Static yes it looks like a picture, that was the point. =) I didn't want to cut her out and get rid of everything i liked about the image and slap her on abstract render, it would of kind of killed the whole reason of me using this stock over all others. Also no its not candy. Though I like the the tag, if you don't, to be honest i don't really care.
Though it doesn't matter to much, if I lose to Lumix then he will go through the comp and beat all of you, save me some time and abit of work. ;)