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Yearly Archives: 2005
All wrapped up
If you’ve ever been to a professional soccer, football, voetbol, fussball, futbol (take your pick) match, chances are you’ve seen fans sporting a variety of colorful knit scarves. Now, there’s the obvious primary purpose of wearing them to keeping warm… … tell me more
Posted in finished projects
don’t throw your hat up in the air
I don’t follow La Liga much, but I did notice Real Madrid are using a different font for their names and numbers this year: That font just sings to me…in fact, it sings a very specific song:* Who can turn … tell me more
Posted in goofy
Camel City Bomb Squad
Magpie’s design and painting, my slogan. Way the hell back in the day, Camel City Bomb Squad was the name given to a punk collective that’d put on shows and stuff in whatever the all-ages club of the week was … tell me more
Posted in finished projects, revs
How we do it: design and tracing
(No photos for this one, sorry) All the banners we’ve done to date have first been designed on computer, largely in Photoshop. The ones produced for the 2005 season were all developed over the winter 2004-05 offseason, frequently with the … tell me more
Posted in nuts and bolts
nerd alert
This caught my eye in December, and ever since I’ve wondered if it’s the same guy. When asked, the guy who runs Anime on DVD gave a vague answer.
How we do it: sewing
I do all the sewing for the banners. Not very well, if you happen to see the backsides of them, but I’m the one with the sewing machine. It’s easier to do all the sewing, including hardware installation, before painting, … tell me more
Posted in nuts and bolts
How we do it: fabrics
After nylon and fabric paint for the Cartman banner proved way more expensive than we could really justify, part of the off-season was spent testing different fabric and paint combinations to see what would work best. Would a poly-based poplin … tell me more
Posted in nuts and bolts
Release the Hounds
I was inspired to do this one as I saw a woman walking her greyhounds across the street while I was coming back from a paint run for the Cartman banner. If I had to do it again, I’d make … tell me more
Posted in finished projects, nats
Joe-Max Moore tribute
When Joe-Max Moore announced his retirement, the suggestion of doing a tribute banner immediately popped up. I did this one in two hours in March, all with one brush, using a dry brush technique and fabric paint to get the … tell me more
Posted in finished projects, revs