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BLAG Magazine: Adventures in sign painting craft, community, and culture.

The world's only print and online publication dedicated to sign painting.

Inside you'll find #signpainting #signwriting #lettering #ghostsigns #signpainters #signwriters

Toots are from Sam, a Londoner living in Sant Pere de Ribes, Catalonia.

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blag, to calligraphy
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BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 04 is set to be a marathon with 18 sessions across 11 hours on Saturday, 2 March.

Visit https://bl.ag/meet for details of this online event.

It's all offered free of charge to broaden access, but for those that can, a suggested $10 contribution to the running costs is appreciated: https://bl.ag/tip.

Please to help reach more people that might like to indulge in these adventures in sign painting.

andrew_chou, to random
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In Berlin next month (May 19-26). anyone to meet, things to see, places to eat?? 👀

blag,
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@andrew_chou Do you like old signs, lettering, and type? Then the Buchstabenmuseum could be for you...

Some photos here from my trip a while back: https://bl.ag/berlins-buchstabenmuseum/

18+ AimeeMaroux, to web
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I'm testing anonymous, non-tracking on my website just to see which articles are popular. Does anyone have any experience with @plausible ?

blag,
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@AimeeMaroux I have the web version which I pay for.

presstype, to random
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folks, is there an additive for lettering enamel to make it reflective?

blag,
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@presstype My hunch is that you'll need to work with a speciality paint but can put some feelers out.

blag,
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@presstype I posted this question about reflective paint to the BLAG Forum and Jill Strong replied, see attached.

She also shared a link to a manufacturer of the microbeads: https://www.tenroadsglass.com/products/ks-standard-micro-glass-beads.html

I'd love to know if you give it a try, and to see any results achieved, and lessons learned.

cc @Luke

blag,
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@presstype It's not something I've heard of. What's the project?

blag, to random
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What is the maximum number of national borders that you can cross without crossing the same border twice?

Share a map for bonus points and a ⭐️

Clarification: Crossing from Spain to France on the Atlantic side is distinct to doing so on the Mediterranean side, and so you get four crossings as follows: Spain — France — Andorra — Spain — France.

Please to help find an answer to this question posed by my eldest daughter (8) as we set off on holiday, which involves crossing one border.

blag, to random Spanish
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I used @birb to create a mastodon feed from the RSS on my site, and it worked a treat: https://rss-parrot.net/u/bl.ag/status/1704986166432686488

blag, to fediverse
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Is there a place in the where you can create a closed/private community with discussion boards/forums, etc?

I'm thinking of something that would have the functionality of things like Facebook groups, Circle, and Telegram groups.

It would be for members/subscribers to my magazine as a place to share and discuss various sign painting themes, a lot of which currently happens in Facebook groups.

cc @feditips

blag, to Typography
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Does anyone have a nice landscape photo of some lead type, in a drawer or set for printing, that I could use in an article at bl.ag about lead-based paints?

My email is sam@bl.ag, or I can download from a reply on here if Mastodon doesn't compress things too much...

rzeta0, to Typography
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what are the best accounts to follow on ?

i do miss the ones I followed on twitter

blag,
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@rzeta0 I would recommend browsing the local timeline at typo.social where you'll find plenty of good stuff, and no doubt familiar faces from twitter: https://typo.social/public/local

Also follow hashtags like etc

Moorknipser, to photography German
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Sowas mag ich!

blag,
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@Moorknipser @fembot This cartoon is by Richard Jolley (http://rgjcartoonist.co.uk/about/) and appeared in Private Eye magazine.

I also got to reproduce it for Issue 02 of BLAG (https://bl.ag/02) alongside an idiosyncratic piece about whether measurements for artworks are given Width x Height, or vice versa.

Infrogmation, to NewOrleans
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New Orleans signs: Gators edition (volume II).

  1. Carrollton
  2. Central Business District
  3. Bayou St. John
  4. Lakeview

Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

Interior of a supermarket. Shelf with local spices and cooking supplies has large chalkboard sign. Text: "Shop ROUSES For Your CAJUN Cooking Needs". Multicolor chalk cartoon of an alligator stirring a large cooking pot. A colorful parasol is above the gator's head; the gator smiles broadly with rows of sharp teeth. Text on the cooking pot: "Laissez les Bon Temps Roulez!" (Louisiana French for "Let the Good Times Roll".)
Bayou body of water with grassy banks, houses seen in background on far shore. In center is a square metal sign, black text and artwork on bright yellow. Text: "ALLIGATORS IN THE XIUHMOPOILLI". The text surrounds round artwork, copied from the center of the famous Aztec Sun Stone, depicting a stylized human face with tongue sticking out surrounded with Aztec glyphs in the form of reptile heads and an outer circle with points sticking out, a mythological depiction of the Sun. The pole holding up the sign has been decorated with ceramic artwork, at top and bottom of pole simple round discs, between them a ceramic depiction of a small alligator.
Display in small garden space, wooden fence in background, green shrubs in soil bed. Halloween plastic skeletons lie at left, one human form the other alligator. Sign in form of fake tombstone drawings of a pair of alligators at top with a fleur-de-lis in the center. Below is text: "RIP DUMPSTER GATOR 2021". At bottom is artwork depicting the tip of the tail of an alligator sticking up from the ground. Note: Reference is to a large dead alligator seen sticking out of a dumpster in an urban section of New Orleans after Hurricane Ida in 2021, with no one seeming to know how it got there.

blag,
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@Infrogmation @noladon Not New Orleans, but you might like this one: https://botsin.space/@oldroadside/112302397044116283

markstos, to fediverse
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is beginning development for Ghost, while also still figuring out exactly which features they want to implement.

They have a form here for feedback, particularly for Ghost blog managers:
https://tally.so/r/m67X4P

blag,
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@markstos @liaizon Horray! There are a few of us that have been asking for this in the forum so it's great to see it moving ahead in some form 🎉

blag, to mathematics
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Question for @mathematics

Why is the triangle shown in this diagram an isosceles?

blag, to random
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New at bl.ag online: 'BLAG's Top Ten for 2023, and Reflections on the Year'

https://bl.ag/blags-top-ten-for-2023-and-reflections-on-the-year/

Round-up of the year's most popular articles from the adventures in sign painting at bl.ag online.

blag, to random
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I miss you Cooper, too much, too young.

I've tried to say a little about the legend that was Dapper Signs here, but it will never be enough.

https://bl.ag/dapper-signs-sign-painter-human-legend/

blag, to mathematics
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Was helping someone with their maths, and this equation had me stumped.

Can anyone explain the steps required to resolve it to the two possible solutions, and is there a name for this type of equation?

blag, to AdobePhotoshop
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What do you recommend using for on ?

Please to harness the wisdom of the crowd...

blag, to Montreal
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New at bl.ag online, 'Meet Claude Dolbec: Montreal's Elusive Sign Painter'

https://bl.ag/meet-claude-dolbec-montreals-elusive-sign-painter/

Short documentary feature about Montreal's most prolific, but elusive sign painters: Claude Dolbec.

blag, to portland
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New at bl.ag online, 'Bringing a Gilded Victorian Transom Window Back to Life'.

Visit https://bl.ag/transom to learn from @ajsignsdorset about the techniques used to create the original sign, and the work he's done to make it just like new again.

#gilding #GoldLeaf #portland #dorset #transom

Short silent video panning from left to right across and then from bottom to top of a gilded Victorian transom window. The ornate Tuscan letters have scrollwork in the centres and give the name of the house, Rosslyn, and the window also has a decorative gilded border.

blag, to random
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“What really drives me crazy is if you go to a truck show and you see a 1950s restored Bedford or something like that, and it’s got computer cut lettering on it!” — Philip Smyth

https://www.tradetrucks.com.au/signwriter-shares-his-thoughts-on-traditional-vs-vinyl-styles-and-mistakes-to-avoid/

blag, to random
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Check out this collection of photos featuring a sign painter posing with his work in Cuba in the 1950s.

They're for sale on ebay and I'd pay something for nice scans if anyone forges ahead and buys the set...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325741946217 (the one shown here)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325741955783

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325741923583

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325741957116

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325741929249

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325741471388

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325741944091

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325741958160

blag, to calligraphy
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My eldest's latest adventures in letters is this self-initiated piece using aquabeads. They're now mounted onto this hand-bound booklet as a gift for her friend, Ona.

If this inspires you for your next creation, then there's more about the environmental disaster that are aquabeads at https://aquabeadsart.com.

blag, to Philippines
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Jeepneys are a popular mode of transport in The Philippines, and last year I profiled the decorative work that adorns them. This includes a wonderful documentary film by Esy Casey.

http://bl.ag/jeepney

Today I found this video about a sign painter that produces the destination and other functional/directional signage for the Jeepneys. It shows the painter at work, including his tools, materials, and techniques.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YWyXVyD1Hdw

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