Click, I guess. Filched from "Ancient Alphabet" from Purple Onion Designs; an art studio which specializes in the medium of red rubber stamps. I think it's a very handsome typeface, very authentically 18th Century, almost no retro-straying from something you might have seen on a broadside in London or Boston in 1750. If I filch any more from it, I'll pay the artiste michelle some money. She's probably pissed off already that I'm copying & pasting with MSPaint rather than using her alphabet as the rubber stamps she intended. I know some rubber stamp artists and they can get really cranky and offended about computer media.Purple Onion Designs' michele e-mails:
Bob,
The font was something I had found several years ago by Jeff Lee. He was the one who created the font. This is what I have on my site about the font:
It is based upon two nearly identical typefaces of 17th century English Printers. Jeff Lee who designed the font used both typefaces to create it. The font is similar to those used in England from the late 1500's through the 1700's.
Michele
I've been thinking a lot lately about the Legacy of George W. Bush. Soon he won't be President of the United States anymore, so all he'll have is his Legacy. What, exactly, will it be? I'll be making some good guesses.
Meanwhile, if you're a visual artist (like me, for example, the Drunken Driver of Visual Art), or if you do your thing with Text & Words, feel very free to let this graphic inspire you and toss me whatever you think will be part of George Bush's Legacy. Let's start shaping his Legacy now. He doesn't own it, you know, it's sort of a very Public thing, and every human being on Earth who's had to endure him and suffer because of him and flee from him for the last seven years has the right to take a whack at informing his Legacy. So crank out something and we can start assembling his Legacy right here on Vleeptron.
We're also accepting rough sketches for the Iraq & Afghanistan War Memorial in Washington DC. Let's face it: It's coming sooner or later. What should it look like? Sketch something now, or write a short (or long) description of what you think it should be. President Bush will still be Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces until January 2009, with the unilateral power to declare war on any member of the Axis of Evil he wants, so there's an excellent chance you may have to fold in the Iran War Memorial too. Plan ahead. Forewarned is forarmed. What's past is prologue. Bring it on. Let's rock n roll.
Here's a good place to start. For a president to have a Legacy, he (or she, who knows what lies ahead, the future's not ours to see, que sera, sera) needs to have made great speeches and said very memorable things -- like Abraham Lincoln or John F. Kennedy. So what has George W. Bush said out loud, on purpose, that's worth carving into marble or granite? Anything. A word, a phrase, a clause, a sentence, a paragraph. What is George W. Bush's oratorical Legacy? What were his classics? What fell out of his mouth that will resonate for centuries?
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here is my favourite quote, of all the silly things the man has ever said over the last 8 years this is one that defines him and his actions
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we
Thank God they never let The Criminal In Chief be the Commissioner of Baseball.
I hope he is put on trial for Crimes Against Humanity, and he spends the rest of his life in prison.
Hold onto that thought and write your letter to Speaker of the House Pelosi this week. She seems to have forgotten that her party was elected to the majority in Congress to DO something about Bush, Cheney, etc.
Speaker Pelosi has received several letters from me. Real letters, written on actual paper, with an envelope and a stamp. And I was even sort of polite.
I have never heard back from her.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country.
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