a r b o : I'm an advertising creative and I make fonts (typefaces!) I'm an overseer of typography and architecture articles at Wikipedia, and I do interviews with type designers & other artists.

j a m e s : art director, copy writer, branding & identity, branding communications, typeface design, detail specialist, audio engineering, women, marx brothers, running gags, second-hand nails, whiskey, some selling done.

About flickr group pools

* I don't join so-called "awards" groups that require members to post comments on several pictures of other members in the pool, bestow meaningless awards or invite more members into the group. We're not doing that.

* I rarely join *any kind* of flickr group pools, because almost all flickr groups suck

To have any chance of persuading me to join your group pool or add any of my items to it, here is what I deem reasonable qualification---

1) Before leaving invites on pictures in my stream, *make social contact with me first*. Post some comments on some of my pictures and chat with me so we can get a feel for one another. The alternative is if I've met you in somebody else's stream then pop the question in conversation and I'll check out your group first before I make a decision.

2) If you only fave my pictures and never leave any comments on them---not even one---then forget it, you've Buckley's and no chance of endearing me to you or your group(s), mmkay?

3) In the rare event I actually join your group(s) * please don't post any awards glittery tat or froth in my stream. Things like gold Oscar statuettes are a form of visual pollution I don't want. Face it: neither you nor I nor any of the people in your group are famous Hollywood actors or academy members at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion sipping Dom Perrier and all that jazz and golden glittery razamatazz. The truth is *if you're running a flickr awards group you're a microbe*, and you've insulated yourself with a crowd of other microbes who conflate high viewing stats and the ability to post worms on the internet with being famous.

Other stuff

* Dick me around or engage me in nonsensical conversation(s) in my stream and I'll give you a game of verbal hardball before I block you. Often I don't even bother blocking and prefer to go on torturing you verbally, *because I really enjoy debating and arguing*, especially moral debates, since I'm a moral philosopher and I'm real good at it.

* I'm 55, so please don't talk to me like I'm a 16 year old

* I'm a male Alien and I yoosta be married to an Earth woman, but that's old news now.