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I have been doing sign and flyer work at my job for a long time now. I enjoy it a lot, as I can express myself creatively and make our library flow better. As a result of my work on signs for our opening, I was rewarded with photoshop at my workstation. I come up with new sign ideas as much as possible and even spend some work time online looking for photoshop tutorials for new tricks.

After designing letter sized signs telling patrons of our closures for the holidays, I looked into getting poster-sized sign holders for our windows and got them approved for purchase, on the condition that I keep them updated. Yay! :)

For my first poster I made a general placeholder sign. I didn't use any templates or steal any ideas - just poked around.

Here's what I came up with.

Yes, I'm a bit proud of it, but the reason I'm posting it is that there's a LoT secret in it. Can you figure out what's in this poster that a swanker might recognize?

Hummmm....


It's not bacon, and it's not red long johns......


But it is.....

ORRR...

I guessed wrong.....:)

mmmm....boobies peaches...

You're all wrong:

Nope, I'm very sorry but I have used advanced computer forensics to conclusively determine....

Very nice work, CP.

I don't get it. I kept looking for hidden Mickeys in the oranges.

Answer:

Yeah, I saw that, but apparently I missed that becoming the official representation of that.

I believe it all started here but be warned: To click is to fall under it's power.

Ok, time's up, I'm impatient. :) The answer is The Shiny.



For Pirate Bill - it's an image we've posted many a time to represent shinyness. It's pretty intoxicating to look at, for a static image.

I inverted it, rotated, messed around with color, and there ya go.

Good luck searching for threads featuring The Shiny, since we mention "shiny" a lot around here.

ETA - too funny about Walt and the orange groves - this is a postcard illustration from 1910 or so, supposed to be sent to those in colder climates, with a bottom caption (that I removed) "You may throw snowballs for me, and I will eat oranges for you."

:D

Shiny....

...while you should have been looking for Tiki gods...

Actually, I did start looking for cat faces, because a couple of those oranges bisected by leaves have a cateye look (and there's one in your pic)

You know CP, you COULD make a practice of putting little hidden images in your posters and when you have kids to deal with, send them to go find them :)

Ah, shiny. To Browncoats everywhere "shiny" has a different origin, but the same meaning I see used here (from what I can see in the many MANY posts that use it here).

Those "oranges" still look like peaches to me. They have the tell-tale peach butt.

Hard to say, they are too fuzzy looking...

A fellow Browncoat! (I have not kowtowed to the "shiny" trend on this board because I was already committed to that one.)

Nice poster, btw, CP.

I love The Shiny! I can't see The Shiny at work. :( Stupid firewalls.

We Browncoats are everywhere...... :)

:snap: Very cool CP!

To further this tangent... has anyone seen this? I saw the folks who did it at a comic con in San Francisco, but I never ordered it. It looks promising...

Nice work, CP!! And, I recognized the shiny right away. :p

I luuuuuurve the shiny!!!! :snap:

Only parts, but not the whole thing. It's on my Christmas wish list. (Although I probably won't be getting it as a gift because I think my wife is boycotting buying me anything Serenity/Firefly related since that's pretty much what my entire wish list consists of. So if I don't get it for Christmas I'll just buy it for myself soon after.)

BTW, I just finished listening to the latest Signal podcast that features an interview with the Persephone Pickers (another item on my wish list).

I like Pirate Bill more and more with each post...

I think I remember you from the days when I lurked on MP

I love Firefly.

And I am very happy to see the actress who plays River will soon be playing a regular hot robochick on the new Terminator series, as advertised in this incredibly hot, disturbing, AWESOME key art.

http://www.movieweb.com/tv/news/57/24457.php

Oh baby! Yes, I'm looking forward to that too. She has also been in The 4400 and The Unit. Jayne is in Chuck.

ETA: And Kaylee (my personal favorite) is in Stargate: Atlantis

And Alan Tudyk (MY personal favorite) seemed to be EVERYWHERE this summer. 3:10 to Yuma... Death at a Funeral... I was very pleased.

Knocked Up (which I was sort of forced into seeing twice so I could get a good seat at the theater that was showing episodes of Firefly every Tuesday night at 10pm :D )

By the way... :blush:

Damn, even in 1910 you SoCal'ers were dicks about the weather.

In 1910 it was even more of a talking point as you were much more likely to be killed or maimed by that stuff you call "weather".