mike mulligan… no mary anne
Yeah, it’s a bit girlie, but I don’t give a lick, T-Mobile can go right to hell. April’s the new Month of Magenta here at No Steam Shovel!
For those of you not in-the-know (my readership of what, 6?), you can check the whole article on how T-Mobile is suing mobile blog Engadget-Mobile for the use of Magenta in it’s blog. This isn’t an April Fools day joke, it’s real, and really stupid. I hope I get a Cease and Desist too.
Ok, I shoot for Miss Maine, sure. This, in and of it’s self, doesn’t mean I actually LIKE pageantry, or the pageantry world. Well, the stereotypes anyway. Because, anyone who’s had words with me on the subject knows very well that I actually DO like pageantry, and will defend it tooth and nail if I have to. Provided that by “pageantry” you talking about Miss America, and not Miss USA, Donald Trump’s… ish…
Enough with the sentence fragments; I like pageantry. That said, I just about shit myself when the executive director of Miss Maine asked me to post the following video on the Miss Maine front page.
“Audrey,” I said, after I got over my slack-jawed terror, “um… this doesn’t really… I don’t… get it.”
“Haha,” comes the voice of reason, “yeah, it’s a joke, they’re trying to make fun of-”
“US!” I exclaimed. “They did a good job, what is this all about?” I inquired, even more confused now than before I had called.
The Great Seal of the State of Maine, in the highest resolution available on the Internet.
And it’s block-color sibling.
Back story:
A few months ago I designed a new header for the Miss Maine Pageant that uses the Maine State seal and the Miss America crown in a way not yet done by the other states, with the seal floating inside of the crown. Even back then I needed a high resolution image of the seal, but settled on a very upscaled version of a small one instead.
This worked for the initial run, as it only made it’s appearances on the Miss Maine website and the Crown Connections newsletter. But now they want t-Shirts… Slightly bigger than a letterhead…
So I searched high and low for a high(ish[er]) resolution image to use on a T-Shirt, and quickly found there there was no such thing… GAH!!!
Well, I take that back, I found high(er) resolution images of the center portion of the image, but not the whole seal. Until, that is, I thought like a child…
So, after several hours of touch-up, here you have it. The highest resolution, full-color Maine State seal on the inter-webs.
Thats right, I sat down in Photoshop with the coloring-book version of the seal (oddly, the largest version of the seal I could find) for a good long while, and this is what I came up with.
It’s mostly correct, and if you want to touch up the textures and burning yourself, I even gave you the block-color version to play with on your own.
So, for those of you with the same needs as I, remember who loves you.
So, yeah. Third week into school and we’re still alive. That’s some thing to be proud of, right?
All the incoming students came in on the first, which was an image straight out of hell if there ever was one. Figure, there are 9 floors, 37 students per floor, with an average of 10 of them being incoming students. Thats not to say that only incoming students came in on the first either… That said, about 130 students arrived in Bell Hall (thats right, I’m only talking about one of three dorms) from 7am to about 11am on the first of September. Now, consider that each student is traditionally accompanied by Mom and Dad and you have tripled the foot traffic. Add another 80 or so for the odd brother, sister, aunt or uncle, and your looking at 400 pairs of feet, accounting for over 1000 trips trough the lobby, and nearly 45 personal attempts at suicide. Per RA. (in case you didn’t get that, that was a joke)
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Yeah, it's a bit girlie, but I don't give a lick, T-Mobile can go right to hell. April's the new Month of Magenta here at No Steam Shovel!
For those of you not in-the-know (my readership of what, 6?), you can check the whole article on how T-Mobile is suing mobile blog Engadget-Mobile for the use of Magenta in it's blog. This isn't an April Fools day joke, it's real, and really stupid. I hope I get a Cease and Desist too.
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