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1. I was born to a poor tobacco farmer ,we didn't have indoor plumbing till I was eight.We lost every thing we owned to a hurricaine in the early fifties in Baton Rouge,La,..there was no fema to help. 2. I spent what spare time I had between chores on the family farm drawing on notebook paper...

Kinda reminds me of the old days when we had to paint billboards down in South Carolina swamps and Northern Georgia swamps along I-95,..We had a saying tacked up on the dispatchers wall stating how hard it was to keep the best interests of the company and their stockholders in mind at all times...

Having just enrolled in a course of study in web development and internet technology I find it very interesting and enlightening,...I always realized the processes were there, yet this individual has a very logical way of presenting them and their possibilities with insight . Thank you for the link

Never claimed to be a great journalist here ,...I guess the reason I kept adding the "hand" before lettering was the fact that the only place I've seen any info on letterforms and basic layout was in hand lettering books,....anyone out there have any good books on typography that addresses the...

The only appology I have made is for the harshness of the scenerio I put forth to make my point,.... as for backpeddling my intention was not so stupid to think everyone needed to know how to hand letter so much as they need to learn the basics of lettering,..never was it my intention that I...

Its not my fault some perceive this as a look at me I can do what you can't,... that's theirs,......As for trying to be holier than thou it was not my intention,..if some feel that way that's their insecurities coming out not mine,...I was only trying to point out how simple and possibly...

I am not pissed,..I am not disgruntled,.I have profited vastly over the years from this trade. I also cut vinyl and sell wraps and install digital prints,.. I was just trying to present a scenario that would emphacize the validity of my point,and start an intelligent discussion,.... seems to me...

I cannot understand why some one in the sign trade would not at the very least want to understand the basics of lettering,..signs are messages and messages are made up of words,...Words are made of letters and that my young friends is the very basic fundamental element of the trade you have...

My dad taught me a long long time ago to never argue with an idiot,.,..,.,people watching may not know the difference,....

Pat no one asked you to judge,...there other ways of producing signs without a brush that do not need electricity,silkscreening and dimentional work comes to mind,..one could hand cut the letters,..My question was and still is how many have the skills once the "grid goes down" and or are you a...

Personally I wouldn't put too much faith in insurance companies,...several went under here after Hugo and left alot of folks hanging,....myself included,.... from personal experience they are the first to respond and the last to actually fess up to their responsibilty and pay up

In another thread someone asked if the power went down and you had no electricity would your business last three months. Well I am posing the question here,,....if the electrical grid went down for whatever reason,..storm damage, (I can recall hurricaine hugo in the Carolina's we lost it for...

Oops never mind you posted the pic just as I asked the question,.,,,

I'm with Briankb here,...after all this work,exactly how much of the design is going to be visable once the boat is in the water?

ISign I often tell my buddies when I walk into a public place,...hell I'd act like I know ya anywhere,...even if it does embarrass you sometimes,.,,,hahahahahahaha

Seems Gregg made a post in the heat of emotion on another post to defend me and his message was lost in context here on another post,...that said,..and from what I understand of his post it may and or may not be condescending to those of us who may or may not have insecurities about our...

unless you have some sort of miracle potion Tomence you too will be "an old timer" sooner than you think,.,,if you last that long in the business,....I accomplished more on this business in ten years of my fourty years than most do in a lifetime,.,its been good to me and I am thankful,..raised...

There is only one pie (your market) that pie can only be sliced into so many pieces before it gets to the point that the slices are so thin they aren't sufficient to be called a slice. There was time when one had to be able to produce artwork by hand that had to meet a certain standard,and or...

Patrick46,...down south we call those guys "fender lizards" all they wanna do is drop by so they can tell their buddies the "cool" stuff they saw and brag on the fact that they are our personal buddies and can hang out all they want,..lots of times they even bring their buddies with them makeing...

if you intend to do a banner the words. "Greater Love Hath No Man" come to mind here,....