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:: dog and bird/Splat/FISHING FOR/Vaudeville ::

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therealbrenni -- Nice. Pontiki.

moonroof at May 15, 2006 11:33 AM

I swear I commented on this earlier... but it's not here.. hmmm. Anyhow, this is what I posted:

Great finish, Mechanical Soul! =)

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And I will add something else - the title of this one is great.

Crucibelle at May 15, 2006 12:08 PM

oooh - I love this - definately a fav

Quackling at May 15, 2006 2:57 PM

How do you solve a problem like the wood grain?
How do you Fresh a Prince and pin it down?
How do you find a word that means complex texture?
A Poopin Child! A paper clip! Some cards!

Jessica at May 15, 2006 3:54 PM

Nice corpse- I like how it comes out at you- weird spatial effect.
mechanical Soul- beautiful ending.
Just noticed the 'splat' key - I wihs I had one of those!
:)

AndyFromJava at May 15, 2006 5:46 PM

Here is my slice of the story. I did not intend for my “Splat” to become related to excrement. :)

Unfortunately, when you combine the title “Dog and Bird / Splat” with the next slice, which includes the text, “Poopin’ Child,” well, I think you can sniff where that wind is blowing.

My “Splat” was intended to come from the Macintosh keyboard that I was given as my starter strip. It is obviously a Macintosh keyboard because you can see the Apple logo along with the famous Apple “command-key” symbol, affectionately referred to as the “splat.”

Therefore, I decided that the most appropriate approach would be to use the “splat” as a design motif. However, I made the beginner’s mistake of not giving any good clues or visual cues to my successor. Sorry about that. However, I was challenged by the fact that I had received essentially a fairly complex photograph to make a transition with. I thought that passing on a minimalist strip would perhaps add some simplicity to balance out an assumed busy photographic image. Also, I decided to use some photographic imagery myself to promote the overall flow.

The Apple “splat” (or, “clover”) symbol has an interesting history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key

Here’s an excerpt from the above URL:

'The clover symbol has no official name, but is often given nicknames like '"splat", "butterfly", "beanie", "flower" or "shamrock." Some believe the symbol to be named the "infinite loop", which is also the address for Apple world headquarters: 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014. Unicode standards documents call it the Place of Interest Sign. It is identical to the Saint Hannes cross, which is sometimes found in Scandinavia as an ornament on viking artifacts. It is used in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden as a symbol of "sites of historical or touristic interest", e.g. church ruins, museums, interesting natural formations, etc. In Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Estonia, it is used as a roadsign at such places.

The [clover symbol] came into the Macintosh project at a late stage. The development team originally went for their old Apple key, but Steve Jobs found it frustrating when apples filled up the Mac’s menus next to the key commands. Since Jobs felt that this was an over-use of the company logo, he opted for a different key symbol. With only a few days left before deadline, the team’s bitmap artist Susan Kare started researching for the apple’s successor. She was browsing through a symbol dictionary when she came across the cloverleaf-like symbol, used in Sweden for "attractions on a campground". When she showed it to the rest of the team, everyone liked it, and so it became the symbol of the 1984 Macintosh command key.'

Ctrl-Alt-Delvis
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Ctrl-Alt-Delvis at May 15, 2006 10:03 PM

I do what I can. Although I must say something like this was a little strange to work with. But I simply just did what popped in my head.

Mechanical Soul at May 15, 2006 11:16 PM

very nice with the meta-slice, jima.

unapologetic at May 16, 2006 10:02 AM

Doesn't seem to be any fresh prince here. Quite an exceptionally smooth transition all the way through - congrats to the new guy :) - cntrl alt delvis I do agree it is unfortunate about where the splat went - but hopefully it was not an editorial comment, from the collective unconciousupon, on this forum. It really isn't all splat all the time :)

lilah at May 16, 2006 7:15 PM

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