Here’s my submission for the Shoemoney System Theme Song:
The Rob Hustle video is pretty good, but this is different and makes a better ‘theme song’ I think. What do you think?
Shoemoney is having a contest for a theme song, and giving the winner $1000 plus a trip to the Playboy Mansion for the Azoogle party. I’m going this year hell or high water. Check out the contest page.
Have you ever wondered why fonts use points, or what that unit of measure is in Photoshop – the Pica? Did you know that pixes and screen fonts are very much related to old school printing? Here’s the place where I can bring it all together for you. First the definitions:
There are 72 points in an inch.
There are 12 points in a Pica.
Standard printing methods use points and picas to measure the size of fonts and paper or other objects on the print. For instance a newspaper may use a 12 point (1 pica) font on a peice of paper. Try dividing a regular 8.5 x 11 peice of paper into thirds. It’s much easier to say 11 inches is 66 picas, so it’d be three 22 pica folds instead of every 3.66 inches.
It’s interesting to see the correlation of old school typesetting when looking at modern day computers. The standard resolution is 72 pixels per inch, which means each pixel is one point. That makes things easy. Did you ever wonder why the largest font size in Word is 72? It’s because that font should be one inch high on you screen – and who would want to go bigger than that?
I just learned all of this from a customer of mine recently. Have anything to add?
Ok everyone, here is part three of the pictures. They’re somewhat out of order from the other posts. Imagine that they go between the two sets. These are from the “missing” memory card that my wife had!
Ok everyone, I misplaced a memory card and I’m waiting for some pictures from others, but I have some pretty good pictures from Tuesday night. When I find the other memory card and get the other pictures, I’ll post a final gallery.
So Affiliate Summit hasn’t officially started yet, but check out some of the cool things Michelle and I have been up to – mostly pics. I’ll be adding captions later, but I need to hurry up and get down to registration.
We’re coming up on shirt.woot.com Derby #37: Greed. They’re offering up $1000.00 for first place in this derby and each derby to follow, thus the theme. I’ve submitted the two shirts you see here, so please stop by and vote on them! Both designs are the result of a hybrid idea that I just couldn’t get to look right. I decided to break the hybrids apart and do them separately. I really like the green on brown look a lot. Please let me know what you think.
In the last derby, I placed 13th, up quite a bit from any progress I made before. I’d like to think I did a decent job, but really I think it was because it was such a tough set of rules to work with. There were some really great shirts, but I don’t think everyone was banging on all cylinders for that one.
How do you think the submissions compare?
EDIT: Both submissions were rejected 
The “Blood Money” submission was rejected for having text (on the bill), and the “Ben Frankibal” submission wasn’t greedy enough.
This week’s Woot.com shirt submission was really hard. The rules are as follows:
My submission is to the right. I haven’t come up with a better idea yet, but this one is gaining some traction. It’s placed higher than any of my submissions previously. Last week, my truck placed 112th, and my tree placed 53rd. This week (as of this post), my design has placed 41st.