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I don't mean to be a poop about it, but did anybody else pick up on the irony that the reason Mr. Meyer left the BB was because of too many non-sign related posts, and then he is directly involved in a long non-sign related post?
Ooops!
-------------------- Brian Oliver Paxton Signs Fort Collins, CO paxton@peakpeak.com www.paxtonsignsofcolorado.com Posts: 237 | From: ft. collins, colorado,usa | Registered: Mar 2001
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Mike Meyer...travel...coookies.... I'm confused - is this some secret code for that flying biscuit cult?
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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Quote: "Sorry, we do not permit the following HTML tag or attribute: COOKIE" How come others are allowed to say that word????? I had to spell it wrong. It's a conspiracy!!!!!!
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-------------------- “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” -Winnie the Pooh & A.A. Milne
Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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While I didn't get to spend a lot of time getting to know our friend Mike at my Dixie meet experience, ...between all my running around tryin' not to miss too much... I saw him working on several impressive sign panels... upon his arrival & before he left I was also greeted with his characteristic welcoming that makes a new attendee feel like part of the clan. Catch you at my next meet Mike. I'm also glad to hear you found your way back to what seemed like a place that was pratically part of your identity.
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Here, let's put this post back on the topic of signs.
I sold one of the other compositions from that same cookie photoshoot as part of an advertising campaign which is to include POP signs, a vehicle wrap and window signs. The image was sold through another party so I'm not actually doing the work but I know the company handling it will do it well.
So there you go, cookie photos used to enhance sign work. It may not be the traditional handcraftsmanship but it shows that cookie photos and signs are not that far apart, and the same goes for all the other photos I've posted.
Come on, I wouldn't be posting my photos if they weren't related to my sign/design business in some way. Yeah there's a passion that drives me to spend the time to set up lighting, cameras, reflectors, backgrounds, subjects, props, etc. but any time I post a photo on this site there's a profit motive behind that photo.
I hope others who see my photos here, especially those that have jumped into the digital printing world, take a second to stop and think how they might be able to incorporate photography into their own businesses and put it to work for them, bringing in more income, like I have. Or maybe they see a difficult subject that I have photographed and managed to show all the detail in it, which inspires them to figure out (or ask me) how to get the best shots of their sign work for their own portfolios.
-------------------- "If I share all my wisdom I won't have any left for myself."
Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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I had a very nice visit with Mike at Fred's meet in Oklahoma City a couple of years ago. I've always been impressed with Mike's talent, passion for the craft, and ability to get away and travel so much while still running a business.
The graphics field is continually widening. Whatever I'm exposed to in the way of techniques enhances my skills as a designer and gives me ideas for future reference and use. I've taken my shop foreman to trade shows completely unrelated to the sign industry so that we could study materials and processes used in other fields and find ways to apply them in what we do.
Although I've been in the sign industry for 36 years, I cannot hand letter worth a flip. That doesn't mean I don't observe and take mental notes while watching at Letterhead meets. I go home and practice various brush strokes outside the eyes of the experts. Although I'll never be a sign painter, some sort of brush competence comes in handy with the types of work that we do. I also learn many other things unrelated to brush work at the Letterheads gatherings.
I have sold some of my Big Bend photos to the Houston Chronicle and I've also used some in signs that I have produced digitally. As the vernacular goes: "It's all good."
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5084 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Mike Pipes, your photos are top notch, I take my hat off to you. I know photography is tied into signs. all I trying to do is keep this board to have some sign info we can all share and use. My good friends from Lincoln Illinois, Adam and Sara May, run a Photography Studio and do signs as well......They have given me a huge respect for Photography! I have respect for you and the pictures.
I think this board is alot of fun and it really helps alot of people out.....I want to keep it that way....Mike Pipes, If I post pictures of food, I'm just giving you s**t...have some fun!
Keep um coming!
Mr. Harding, I hope to make Fred's again, but nothing 100% yet...I fso, we can letter all day and all night!!!!!
-------------------- Mike Meyer Sign Painter 189 1st Ave n P.O. Box 3 Mazeppa, Mn 55956
We are not selling, we are staying here in Mazeppa....we cannot re-create what we have here....not in another lifetime! SO Here we are!!!!!!!
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Doug Allen, I ditto what you said, I didnt get to spend alot of time with Mike, or with you for that matter, I myself was busy watching, then running over to the stripers corner and working on my stuff trying to make it look good.
But I can say this..... Mike, you are they type of person that motivates people, your personality, your passion and your ability that I saw at Dixie is still what brings me out here into my garage every night whether I have work or not......painting letters, painting lines.
I have been using a brush for just about 20 years, and I am better at it now then I have ever been. 3 months can make difference and I thank you, all of you for the motivation to be a better sign painter.
Time for dinner now, and I think wife made some cookies for dessert.
-------------------- Sharing the WORD one sign at a time!! Joe Golden Signage 721 Oak ST, Madisonville KY, 42431 270-871-0454 Posts: 270 | From: Madisonville, Kentucky | Registered: Oct 2006
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So Mike, ....C'mon buddy- lets see some pics of what you've been working on while you've been away!- presumably you've got to re-sign your shop ( How great is that!!- what are ya gonna come up with???)
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Of course you're right, Meyer. I spent my entire working life with signs and carvings, but now I'm retired. This was the one place for me to ramble a bit, but far be it from me to burden you with my bull$#!% You belong here. I don't. Adios.
P
-------------------- Pierre St.Marie Stmariegraphics Kalispell,Mt www.stmariegraphics.com ------------------ Plan on knowing everything before I die and time's running out! Posts: 4223 | From: Kalispell,Mt 59903 | Registered: Mar 2000
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Hey Pierre, you belong here too buddy. I enjoy your stories.
You know, it's not the off topic stuff that bugs me, it's the condescending bullcrap.
At a live meet, it's not ALL about signs either. (thank goodness)
There is PLENTY of sign stuff on here and it far surpasses Off Topic stuff. Focus on what you want, start what you want, or bow out completely. It's that EZ.
In the meantime, there is plenty to learn from Mike Meyers, Mike Pipes, Pierre, and UMTEEN others on here daily ...if they choose to grace us with their presence
The beauty of this bb is that a lot can be learned by other people's journies, without even leaving your own pajamas!
Speaking of which, I better get out of mine. I've got another full day of MAKING SIGNS!
~nettie
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But, Nettie... It's the PA's of this world that make the ride suck, too. A life of just signs is way too one dimensional for me and seems a bit uppity to me.
I like hearing about people's homes, cars, kids, dogs, cats, etc. It is what makes them the people that they are.
Hey, what do I know? I am just a hapless loser signguy with a "real" job but loving every minute of it. Hahahahahahahaha!
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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haha If this is all you do for retirement Pierre, well, you need to get a life. I'm not always right, ask my wife, I just want to keep it more sign related. I agree with Nettie and Bruce as well.
This board has been a big help to alot of people, hats off to Barb and Steve.
Let's keep it that way!
-------------------- Mike Meyer Sign Painter 189 1st Ave n P.O. Box 3 Mazeppa, Mn 55956
We are not selling, we are staying here in Mazeppa....we cannot re-create what we have here....not in another lifetime! SO Here we are!!!!!!!
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I can often voice Mr. Meyers sentiment that this should just be a sign site. I also appreciate that we can share enough info to actually get to know each other and be community. Sometimes we loose the balance though.
Some of the balance that I hunger for is seeing more high quality lettering that was done without computer assistance, a skill I once knew and feel like mourning the loss of. Remember when we used be amazed by the proportions and interactions of letters and panels before we ever knew keyboards and mice?
Someday, I hope to actually meet Mike Meyers and hope we might find mutual inspiration from that union.
But do we really need to talk hockey????
-------------------- The SignShop Mendocino, California
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6714 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Rick, there are so many times that I agree so much with you, so I made me a little agreement and will ask each of you to keep me accountable with it.
Work or not, I am going to draw, paint and even cut a sign or panel twice a week. Got one in the works right now that I am gonna send someone from this BB.
Here is what I did last night
My kids love to run in here without there shoes on. Wife said I should make a sign, so why not right, I am a sign maker afterall.
Then she got all confused cause it took me 1.5 hours to make, she thought I was going to cut it out of vinyl. Silly isnt it.
So I broke out some scrap magnetic material, cut it to fit my metal shop door, looked at a font or two, the drew away. Had to grab a pair of my daughters shoes to draw a shoes, boy you dont use your brain and it starts to get rusty.
All paint, all drawn by hand and my kids put on shoes before coming out here, everyone wins!! I love Mikes saying..... "Let's paint some SIGNS!!!!"
-------------------- Sharing the WORD one sign at a time!! Joe Golden Signage 721 Oak ST, Madisonville KY, 42431 270-871-0454 Posts: 270 | From: Madisonville, Kentucky | Registered: Oct 2006
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I am a relative newcomer here and only have attended one meet in my whole life, so this doesn't hold much weight, but this is my take on the board...
I have learned and am learning very much from this forum. I have gotten all kinds of ideas, help, design tips, and all types of information here...
However, not even half of the info on here applies to me... like others, I do not handletter signs, handcarve signs, do not own a large router, Gerber or Graphtec product, and don't wet-apply vinyl. So this means probably half the posts have no value whatsoever and are of no interest to me... I simply skip over them or read them if I have time. It would be a little narrow-minded of me to consider all these posts that do not apply to me "Off-topic" and resent their presence in the forum...
Therefore, since I regularly skip over the posts that don't interest me, the ones marked "OT" do not bother me either. They are simply another subject line I don't click on if I don't have time.
Using the scroll bar on my browser does not cost me a penny, and I can scroll right past those subjects very quickly...
But then when I'm not that busy, I enjoy reading the OT posts. Since I have met a lot of you, and consider you my friends, I enjoy your insight into different areas of life beside SIGNS. I then also read the Gerber, router and hand-lettering posts in order to increase my knowledge in those areas.
I guess I'd hate to see the board censored down to only posts that suit any one person's idea of what the topics should be... I'm sure it wouldn't be long before I'd lose interest and disappear back into the fog....
Ok... back to signs and happy birthday posts... (if they're still allowed..)
Edited to add: this was not directed at anyone or any specific person... I very much respect the old-timers and love to learn from them. This is just a case for topic-leniency...
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Jon, I agree, and this thread has opened my eyes alot as well. I apoligize to anyone who was offended, and yes, you can click past anything OT if ya like, and get as much as you want out of this board, just remember, you get OUT what you put IN!
Bring on the cookies, the family toe stubbings, the birthday's the anniversary's the rash on your left leg, oh and even some tips on signs if ya care to!
I can take it.
Rip me, pat me on the back, I really don't care, as long as I can help out a fellow Letterhead.
-------------------- Mike Meyer Sign Painter 189 1st Ave n P.O. Box 3 Mazeppa, Mn 55956
We are not selling, we are staying here in Mazeppa....we cannot re-create what we have here....not in another lifetime! SO Here we are!!!!!!!
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I personally would like to see more posts by the "old timers" in the old ways. You guys are the ones who can keep this craft alive. If for every time you felt like posting a complaint about the other stuff on the forum (which I am sure must be way more often than you do) you posted some of your work - even if it isn't new, it would go a long way to keping the craft alive.
-------------------- “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” -Winnie the Pooh & A.A. Milne
Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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