EvolveFISH Bumper Sticker Contest

[6_bleen_7]

I just found out last night that EvolveFISH is holding a design contest for T-shirts, bumper stickers and posters. Well, I've dabbled in making left-wing bumper stickers for some time now; I couldn't possibly resist sending in some of my stuff. The trick is to figure out what might be well received by the general (liberal) populace

Comments

[chillyrodent]

I'm embarassed to admit I'm unclear on the second. Is it a Klan robe we're seeing, or does it refer to something else?

[samwibatt]

Looks like Abu Ghraib man to me.

[chillyrodent]

Okay, so a victim of torture there?

That's one problem with having no TV. My retinas aren't seared by pop images that I should know to be good at Trivial Pursuit. And now, I'll be stopping motorists to ask them about their bumperstickers.

[samwibatt]

Heh.

I never actually saw that picture or any of the rest of the cache on TV, just on the 'net. I'm a pure escapist as far as TV viewing goes. I'd put our viewing at about half animation, half sci-fi, half comedy.

To keep the bad-with-fractions theme going that I saw floating around here on the LJ scene and here in the title bar.

[jedibl]

I also didn't get the reference in the second, and thought it was some sort of Klan thing... which really didn't make any sense.

But as an aside: I LOVE Canvas. But the sad thing is that Canvas 3.5 actually can do a lot more than Canvas 9 or whatever the current version is... and it no longer can talk in a useful way to Word or PowerPoint. So my group finally this year switched from using Canvas 3.5 for all our figures to using Illustrator for all our figures. I miss Canvas (except for the Word glitches.)

[6_bleen_7]

Woohoo, I used Canvas 3.5 all through graduate school. I really liked it because it wasn't over-featured like professional drawing/paint programs are now. I had similar portability problems to the ones you mention: drawing items copied from Canvas to PowerPoint (or other poster-making software), although they looked okay on the screen, carried along a bit of code that completely crashed the printers available in the mid-90s for printing posters. Canvas 5.0 didn't have those issues; and I wound up spending a couple of stressful evenings converting all my poster graphics and other stuff from Canvas 3.5 to Canvas 5.0 format so they'd print.

I'm currently using Canvas 7 at home; haven't seen any problems of that type, but I haven't actually used it for work, either. I've also been using Illustrator for editing graphs, and it's like using depth carges to drill out a cavity.

Someday I'll upload the picture of Seattle I drew using Canvas while I was winding down in the evenings from my postdoc. I'm rather proud of it.

[samwibatt]

Was Canvas the program that would output the big black rectangle, a little black rectangle, and the Evil?

[6_bleen_7]

Yes-that was my advisor's ancient Mac II, which couldn't run Canvas at its full potential. The default document template contained a tiny squiggle of uncertain origin; and thus it would appear automatically in every document. I named it "the Evil," and it stuck. He tried to open my Salt Lake Sunset picture (which I created at home on my Mac IIci), and we saw nothing but the big black rectangle, the little black rectangle, and the Evil. (That's when we finally got fed up, hunted around on his hard drive, found the Canvas black-document template and exorcised the Evil.)

[6_bleen_7]

I've not seen the first sticker exactly, but EvolveFISH has a variation that isn't too far off; that was my "what the hell, might as well send it in 'cause it's already ready to go" entry. Originality is one of the judging criteria for the first round.

Thanks! Abu Ghr-egg would be way too specialized-don't think that very many papers carry the Eggers-and would probably cause legal trouble with Lori Lee Industries. If there was a poster division I'd submit the Idiotic Table (with legend added) without question.