r.w. = rainn wilson!Joined: 21 Mar 2008Posts: 1078Location: NOT FUCKING ENGLAND
How did everyone feel about last year's venue 9 Million in Unmarked Bills? This year, the planning committee has been rather distracted. This should happen Thursday the 9th, which means a week to pull this bullshit off. We need volunteers, to make spoke cards, to procure supplies, to build trophies, to generally plan this dumbshit event. I can try to lock down 9 Million again, but a few other options exist. They were pretty awesome last year for donating all the fries and shit, letting us take over the whole bar, and cool with all the street puking. Ideas, go.
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kristen
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 9:28 am
yeah, sploosh.Joined: 19 Jul 2009Posts: 503Location: the parched hellscape of SF
my weekend went from completely occupied to almost completely open. i'd be happy to help with the crafty stuff. if you have an idea for the spoke cards, i'd be happy to make them. this also gives me an idea: would anyone be interested in a combination brunch / spoke card creating / any other sort of business / movie-watching party at my house on either saturday or sunday? i'd make the food and mimosas (and possibly irish coffees).
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the dreaded ben
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 9:33 am
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dunno if this is still the thang, but early summer derrick was talking about doing it picnic style.
with cash & carry hotdogs and checkered table clothes in a park somewhere.
langston
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 9:41 am
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kristen wrote:
my weekend went from completely occupied to almost completely open. i'd be happy to help with the crafty stuff. if you have an idea for the spoke cards, i'd be happy to make them. this also gives me an idea: would anyone be interested in a combination brunch / spoke card creating / any other sort of business / movie-watching party at my house on either saturday or sunday? i'd make the food and mimosas (and possibly irish coffees).
Sunday, yes or Sat Brunch. Saturday pm is busy with the Husky Football: Screaming @ Television lolz.
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derrickito
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:18 am
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i can barely fuckinh type. ryan. set up whatever venue you want. 9 mil was awesome to us and if they are down again lets do it. ill call you later today
i can make trophies. will ghet supplies, might neet help painting and cutting. we can do that sat?
kristen. manhandle the cards. go! make at least 60ish?
planning. mostly done
Chip McShoulder
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 11:51 am
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Kristen, I'm not sure if you've even made spoke cards before; if you have, I'm sorry for the following pedantry. Anyway, my first batch came out kind of wonky, and here are the strategies I've found effective since:
Make the image at home (obviously) with photoshop or whatever, and then tile them into a new 8.5x11" image such that there is 1/4'' to 1/2" of space between them. This is so once you cut them out, and put them on a 8.5x11" lamination sheet, there is plenty of plastic between the cards to get a good seal and prevent bubbles.
Save as a .png or whatever; highest possible settings.
I then thumb-drive the image and print mine out at Kinko's; the computer time plus the printing costs maybe $5 -10 (depending on the size of the batch, obviously).
A paper cutter is much more effective than scissors at liberating the individual cards pre-lamination. Again, another advantage of Kinko's.
Kinko's also has self-serve lamination. They will explain its use in case you haven't used one before. I recommend running them through the machine twice, turning the sheet upside down (front -> back, not top -> bottom) for the second run. And make sure you use the cardboard sleeve!
Here comes the part where it is helpul to have a gang of people; go home, buy beer, find a few friends with scissors, and have them get cutting. Again, make sure you leave enough plastic around the edge that they remain watertight.
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Also: if you're going for 2-sided spoke cards and using the 8.5x11 lamination technique, print the image on both sides of a single sheet of paper.
Do not try to print one side on one sheet and the other on another, and stick two sheets in the sheet of laminate. This will seem to work, until you try cutting the individual spoke cards and realize they all fall apart because the laminate sticks pretty well to the outer side of the paper, but the two sheets of paper do not magically get fused to each other.
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the dreaded ben
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:40 pm
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gsbarnes wrote:
Also: if you're going for 2-sided spoke cards and using the 8.5x11 lamination technique, print the image on both sides of a single sheet of paper.
Do not try to print one side on one sheet and the other on another, and stick two sheets in the sheet of laminate. This will seem to work, until you try cutting the individual spoke cards and realize they all fall apart because the laminate sticks pretty well to the outer side of the paper, but the two sheets of paper do not magically get fused to each other.
please tell me you figured this out beforehand.
derrickito
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:56 pm
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hey. someone come up with a design that doesnt suck balls, and send me a psd?? my typing sucks, much less being able to photoshop right now.
i can help kristen get these done on saturday.
its easy to use the cutter at kinkos to do the final laminate chop too.
kristen
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 2:03 pm
yeah, sploosh.Joined: 19 Jul 2009Posts: 503Location: the parched hellscape of SF
cool, thanks. i'll help you with painting and cutting for the trophies, if you'd like.
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derrickito
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 2:09 pm
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puuuurfect
lantius
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 2:26 pm
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derrickito wrote:
puuuurfect
so. creepy.
gsbarnes
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:16 pm
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the dreaded ben wrote:
please tell me you figured this out beforehand.
I believe I had to learn this lesson twice.
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Chip McShoulder
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 6:43 pm
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Predictable and derivative? Yes. I can send a .psd (with real transparency) to anyone who might care.
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Gettin' alot of math done down there eh?
MikeOD
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 11:49 pm
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Practicing his decimals I guess.
Chip McShoulder
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 11:53 pm
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fatasian wrote:
Gettin' alot of math done down there eh?
Yuss. That's how you can tell: the lack of me caring about a spoke card I'll never get is pretty clearly indicated. I took a McDonald's fry carton, brushed out the "M", recolored the .83 logo, resized and pasted.
Math didn't lose too much in the process.
Yet! I will never lose the shame required to create something mediocre in order to compel someone else to make something better.
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tehschkott
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 11:53 pm
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Kristen, get with me about double sided spoke cards. I've got the whizbang worked out.
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kristen
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:39 am
yeah, sploosh.Joined: 19 Jul 2009Posts: 503Location: the parched hellscape of SF
after a conversation with robin last night, i think i might have great idea, and i hope one of you clever, creative people can help me out with this. can someone figure out a spoke card that depicts a fry mosque on ground zero? because i think that would be hilarious.
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langston
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 2:22 pm
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in unrelated news that coincidentally happens on Thursday, I have two tix to the Sounders vs Salt Lake. $16 face value, make me an offer
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jeff
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 2:25 pm
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langston wrote:
in unrelated news that coincidentally happens on Thursday, I have two tix to the Sounders vs Salt Lake. $16 face value, make me an offer
Why would some one pay to fall asleep for 2 hours?
langston
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 2:33 pm
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jeff wrote:
vs Salt Lake. $16 face value, make me an offer
Why would some one pay to fall asleep for 2 hours?[/quote]
people still come to summer babe shows... good question.
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dennyt
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 2:41 pm
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langston wrote:
jeff wrote:
Why would some one pay to fall asleep for 2 hours?
people still come to summer babe shows... good question.
He shoots HE SCORES!
fatasian
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 2:43 pm
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