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Do what makes you happy . 1/5
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Hace poco decidí hacer lo que me gustaba hacer, una decisión muy difícil de tomar, pero estoy seguro que es la correcta.
Esta serie es inspirada por lo que soñamos ser y tuvimos miedo de serlo, o simplemente nunca sacamos el tiempo para serlo.
Title: Catalog, Theodore Payne, Seedsman and Nurseryman, Los Angeles [back cover]
Repository: California Historical Society
Digital object ID: CHS2013.1326 [b].jpg
Call Number: BUS EPH
Collection: California business ephemera collection
Preferred citation: Catalog, Theodore Payne, Seedsman and Nurseryman, Los Angeles [back cover], California business ephemera collection, courtesy, California Historical Society, CHS2013.1326 [b].jpg.
Online finding aid: www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt7f59s1tv/
From thedailylumenbox.com Adox CMS 20II shot at ISO 12 with Voigtlander (Cosina) 21mm Color Skopar on Leica Ic. Developed in Adox Adotech IV for 10 minutes at 74° F.
So we thought we'd made a good purchase on a couple of ex-UP SD70s. But considering all the emissions requirements and the extra money they'd cost us to operate yearly, and the fact that the Lake States Railway wanted to do some horse trading, we let the 70s go to them in a trade for a couple SD40s. We put them in service upon arrival, but repainting is far down the list of priorities right now. So I came up with a lettering plan to incorporate into the Lake State's blue and grey paint scheme. This is the result and it should work for a while. We've also had many compliments on the layout so everyone's happy until we can eventually break open the IN black and yellow paint cans.
Couldn't get all the lettering in, but the partial wording on the glass partition / sliding doors spell "Brisbane Powerhouse".
Illustrations compiled from Neon Signs and Cold-Cathode Lighting, by Samuel C. Miller, Tubelite Co., 2nd Edition, 1963 (1st Edition, 1935). Collection of Letterform Archive.
I assume this to be the most comprehensive technical manual on neon ever published. Subsequent reprints are easy to track down and it makes a great companion to Neon: A Light History, by Dydia DeLyser and Paul Greenstein, which was just released last month.
Jamais j'aurais pensé prendre un engin arborant le "Speed Lettering" du Southern Pacific sur un train roulant au Québec. Ce fut chose possible grace à la présence de la UP 6236 sur le 'consist" du U714, passant par dessus la rivière Bécancour à Daveluyville. Le train est en direction du triage de Joffre où une autre équipe l'amènera à la raffinerie de Valero à Lévis.
I never thought I would take a machine with the Southern Pacific "Speed Lettering" on a train running in Quebec. This was possible thanks to the presence of UP 6236 on the "consist" of U714, crossing over the Bécancour River at Daveluyville. The train is heading to Joffre yard where another crew will take it to the Valero refinery in Lévis.
Progress shot of just the lettering. You can see my other ideas for letters above it. :)
From left to right I used the following Coloris shades:
4501
4508
4517
4509
4502
4506
Despite the fact that the legal lettering still says Blue Triangle, route 300 moved garages from River Road to Silvertown on 1st October as part of a swap with route 474. I'm no east London expert, and the 300 certainly runs nearer to Silvertown, but the 474 runs straight past its old base. There must be a significant saving on transferring this route as that certainly will not be the case for the 474 at its new garage.
This photo shows ADL Enviro 200 SE46 arriving at Canning Town.
My wife’s great grandfather’s “Lettering for pen and brush” manual, the cover of which is nearly obliterated with “practice” or possibly “accidents”. I’ll be sure to post a shot of the entire cover in the near future. It’s quite the work of art.
With the lettering of its original owner showing through the rust, ITLX #41647 is on home rails as it sits along York Rd. in Bensenville, waiting to continue into CP's Bensenville Yard. Built by P/S in Butler PA. in Aug. 1978, this 4750 cu. ft. car was the MILW #101482.
Lettering I did, cutted out of steel with water! I'ts now for a week on my balcony to let it rust....
Known now as simply “Salamanca,” the lettering originated inside the ancient University of Salamanca, where rites of passage were fiercely honored among Spain’s male intellectual elite. Here, inside the stone walls that formed the country’s oldest university, boys who arrived to study subjects such as law, theology, economics and medicine left as men only when they earned the Vitor, a symbol designed around a large “V” for “victory” that would be written onto a wall along with the student’s name and date of graduation. We were told that students would have their friends stand on one another's shoulders to get as high as possible to paint the symbols and the name as a celebration.
The writing was painted on with bull’s blood – both because a bull, then and now, represents power and dominance in Spain, and also because the dark red liquid stained the porous sandstone walls enough so that the symbols endured. Students and teachers would use blood from the corridas, or bullfights, and local meat shops..
Though the practice of using the font started more than 600 years ago, its presence is still vivid in contemporary Salamanca – primarily on storefronts in the Old City. In fact, as part of a measure to integrate “Salamanca” font into the city’s marketing campaign, store owners in the historic district are now required to use the red lettering.
“When a business is opening, they go to City Hall and there are certain requirements the store owners have to fulfill,” said Salamancan police officer Jesus Martinez Andres. “One of those [requirements] is the lettering of the name of the store. If they don’t use the font, they can be reported.”
If that happens, they’d receive a fine, Andres said, and also have to pay to have their signs redone to comply with the code.