Kinsey Sign Update

Bidding has ended on the kinsey Sign, nearly doubling
in the last six hours after not moving in six days.
bigups! to the winner "texfrance"

11/14/05 - 9:15am - $270.50
11/14/05 - 9:30am - $355.00
11/14/05 - 3:00pm - $760.00
11/20/05 - 3:50pm - $760.00
11/20/05 - 10:00pm - $1,325.00

Sign of the Week: 7

Will work for food? That's what the real world is all about right? Earn a descent wage, give half to Uncle Sam, pay your bills, and buy a can of soup with what you have left.
It's a good thing for kids to learn if you ask me. Maybe someone will hire her, and she'll see how much better it is to earn a little cash after school than run in circles.


thanks:ross
via:boingbiong

Kinsy Institute Sign for Sale on Ebay

from boingboing

according to the seller...

This is the original outdoor sign used by Kinsey's Institute for Sex Research when they moved to Indiana University's Jordan Hall in 1955. This is a one of a kind item and I have no idea where this auction will go so I have started with a low opening bid and no reserve. The sign is metal with plenty of surface rust and dirt. I have not tried to clean it and will leave any restoration effort up to the winning bidder. The sign weighs 15 lbs. and measures 20" high and 30" wide.

I'm going to follow the bidding until the final sale. It's already going up at a rate of one dollar per min.
11/14/05 - 9:15am - $270.50
11/14/05 - 9:30am - $355.00
11/14/05 - 3:00pm - $760.00

thanks Pesco

Sign of the Week: 6

I found these "Don't Drink and Drive" signs at Billboardom, the newest addition to my blog roll.
Ilya Vedrashko is an MIT advertising grad student who is not only responsible for collecting all of the great images at Billboardom, but is involved in three other blogs dealing with different aspects of advertising.
MIT Advertising Lab
The Branding Cultures Lab
Creative Industries

Kangaroo warning sign maker collides - with a roo

CANBERRA: An Australian man who works for a company that makes road signs warning motorists of kangaroos has been involved in a motorbike accident - with a kangaroo.

"I was riding my motorbike with my mate when the kangaroo jumped straight into it," Australia's Herald Sun newspaper on Friday quoted John Fleming as saying.

"Of course I've got a bit of flak from my mates calling me Skippy, and the guys from work sent me a get well card that's a warning sign for a kangaroo."

Skippy was the kangaroo star of an Australian television series.

Australia's population of kangaroos is conservatively estimated at more than 57 million and pose the biggest animal risk to motorists, accounting for more than 70 percent of animal related accidents in 2004.

Las Vegas Mayor wants to cut off your thumbs

Oscar "Acrotomophilia" Goodman, former "lawyer to the mob" has proposed cutting off the thumbs of persons convicted of grafitti crimes.
In response Wooster Collective is accepting pictures of thumbs to send the mayor's office.


update:
Wooster posted my thumb picture submission.

Redhook Sign by Joseph O. Holmes

Joseph O. Holmes takes pictures of New York...lots of them.
Signage is one of the most important aspects of the NYC urban landscape, and Joe captures that perfectly. Please take a few minuets to flip through the photo pages on his site.

Other great NY photoblogs:
Satan's Laundromat
BlueJake
Rion
My Life 2 Live

P.S. If you're in New York drop by the Christie Street Gallery for the
NYC Photobloggers Show. It ends november 19th.

Take Down that Sign!

Last week I blogged about concerned LA citizens that had 50 cent's movie billboards removed.
Here's another one. A lady from the mid west is upset about her daughters seeing a billboard that advertises "Sex in the City" near their home. Not because it is a lousy TV show with poorly written scenarios, but because "It portrays a promiscuous lifestyle."
What I want to know is why are her elementary-school aged daughters driving?
...and NY Mayor Bloomberg is mad about a Dewar's whisky billboard ad that makes fun of how rich he is.

previous:
50 Cent

Drumhead Decal

I needed to make a two color decal for one of the drummers my band. The best way to layer two different colors of vinyl is to use a light table. I don't have a light table, but I do have a glass-topped picnic table in my back yard.
Here is a step by step slidshow that shows how I used it to align the two-color graphic.

Sign of the Week: 5

You can now see the famous Hollywood sign in a movie of it's own, as if you were falling toward it from space.
Learn more about the 45'x 450' land mark from this
NPR piece by Ren'ee Montagne, complete with audio and timeline.

The Bubble Project

Here's another fun way to deal with the advertising that's shoved in our faces everyday.
check out the website, buy the book, download the templates, slap up the stickers, and see what happens.