From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V2 #144 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Thursday, July 31 1997 Volume 02 : Number 144 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: more tshirt rambling [bcohen@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Barbara A Cohen via ] Alloy: more tshirt rambl ["Stephen M. Tilson" > If I am not mistaken, and Barbara - correct me if I am in error, this = > image was scanned complete with text from a somewhat rare publicity = > shot offered during the Wireless era. Any font massaging will have = > to be done by those of us with the facility to cleanly cut and paste = > from the digitized image (PageMaker or some such). Or we could have = > Karen do it for us. > BTW, Barbara, we need a 300dpi scan for the shirt. The preferred = > format is EPS, although JPEG and others would probably be OK. Let me = > know if you can do the EPS, or if not, what you have at hand. No, not at all. I mentioned that I can't take credit for much, because all I did was find a Dolby gif from some web site and slap some text down in Photoshop. It's at a preset resolution, because I didn't do the scanning. Oh that I owned such a rare publicity shot! So it's no prob to change fonts, and I experimented with just that today, but I couldn't come up with a better-looking font. I do so love that art deco! But if everyone wants, I'll do some other sets of words in some other sets of fonts. It's really quite trivial. But, my own preference is to leave the font, as I don't see that it would be a printing problem, any more than any other font, especially a serifed font. Is it really so close together? The actual print area is substantially bigger than the jpg that's in the gallery. *B* Barbara Cohen Cosmochemical Cocktail Mixer, PhD to be ****************************************** Why be difficult when with a little bit of effort you can be impossible? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 03:54:18 -0400 From: "Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Alloy: more tshirt rambl Barbara, Ah, this explains why the image is fuzzy and stair-stepped, but the = font is crystal clear. This image you have procured is not a 300 dpi = scan, judging from what happens when I enlarge it to 8-1/2 x 11 = inches. If we're going to use this picture we must have a 300 dpi scan if we = want a clear image on the shirt. Hmmmm, a little bird told me Brian = Clayton might have this image in his collection . . . You may be quite right in saying that, once we enlarge the image to = shirt-size, the font might be sufficiently large to permit a decent = transfer to fabric. Hmmm again . . . I suppose we might appeal to TMDR for the scan we = need. Thanks for filling in the details, B. Oh, and btw, I think that "Cosmochemical Cocktail Mixer" was Kid = Charlemagne's job title too. Ciao, /\/\iles _____________________________________________________________________ I've been standing in a cloud of plans standing on the shifting sands waiting for an open hand one time --Adrian Belew - --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 16:52:18 +0300 From: Louise.Ulfstedt@nmp.nokia.com (Ulfstedt Louise NMP) Subject: Alloy: Re: project B-day Hell! Ian, I wondered what you were talking about at first, then I checked back through all the mail I haven't had chance to go throgh since the holidays,.. >Do you write? And are you planning to record a song for the Alloy "project >B-day" thang? Put your >dibbs on something quick!! > >---Ian Gifford (flirp/folkie) Well, sure I will,...give me a couple of days to decide what song I'll do,...but obsolutley,...count me in!!! Supa! C U later Y'all, love n kisses, Lissu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:18:41 -0800 From: thomas@headspace.com (Thomas Dolby Robertson) Subject: Alloy: Titanic mystery A little piece of trivia: on closer examination, Morgan Robertson the writer turns out not to have been a relative of mine, although I do have a nephew in England by that name. But I uncovered an interesting fact: my middle name Morgan came from the 'M' in E.M.Forster, author of 'Room with a View' and friend of my family earlier this century! Thomas. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V2 #144 ***************************