We finally got a sign for the company.
My pop ran some nice wood through the CNC machine at his work to “cut out” our logo. We then stained and mounted it up with plexiglass, hardware and chains. Just in time for our 10th anniversary!
Matches the website fairly well all things considered.

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A client of ours in NYC, Ultrabland, produces some amazing spots/trailers and teasers for some of the cables networks. They have always impressed me with there “ultra-editing” chops — but this takes the cake.
Watch the award winning Cinemax “Sounds Good” Spot.

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Great blog post from “The Man In Blue” with thoughts and comparison on some great typographers; their fonts and their handwriting.
There’s a couple in here which I love; and would use as fonts themselves!
“The handwriting of typographers intrigues me because it raises so many questions, big and small: Do typographers exert some extraordinary control of [...]

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The lack of blog posts/tweets and sleep over the past couple weeks has been due to us racing to get out the Fantasia 2008 site.
Trying to improve it every year and thankfully we have the process down — in order to run through close to 1000 images (films and graphics) in a week. Whew** [...]

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Hoping Warren is having a great time in Chicago; this looks like such a cool event — right up his alley.
“Warren is attending the SEED3 conference in Chicago
Our fearless leader is off today in Chicago attending the 3rd SEED CONFERENCE.
He’s one of a lucky 270 people listening to and discussing the topic “Learn about taking [...]

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Breakfast of Champions
My Friday guilty pleasure.

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A site that we did a while back has received a facelift courtesy of our team.
The www.citizenvoices.gg.ca is aimed at a younger audience; and is to be an outreach from the Governor General to those around her (in a way that her official canadian gov site can’t do - we don’t work on that [...]

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I love our office — somehow Nancy captures the way it feels.

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I’ve been storing some information in my Entourage notes which should really be kept secured behind a password; I had tried out some of the shareware apps that let you keep passwords/records/notes in a secure fashion — but they always seems clunky/slow and not 100% trustworthy.
I recently found out that my mac already has an [...]

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Second Update: The latest MBP firmware seems to have solved my problems completely. Ars Technica ‘officially’ details the problem — too bad Apple won’t give more details on what this latest update fixes. Let me know if this update solves your issues also.

Update: The work around below did not work. Further reading and investigation leads [...]

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the shark strikes
We had a great time playing pool with the Plank team last night and drinking a few beers. Great shot of Allen by Nancy.

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Snowy scene by the church
Snow started fluttering down around lunch today and kept at it ’til 8pm or so.
Some in our office have said their goodbyes to winter; so this came as a cold-wet-downer.

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helistevey
Plank is tough place to work - especially when you’re playing with remote controlled helicopters (thanks Mitch!!).
Dueling Mini R/C Copters

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Some action items Canadians can follow to help support Tibet;
“An important message from the Canada Tibet Committee:
As the world has witnessed the atrocities and repression being systematically carried out by Chinese military authorities against peaceful demonstrations in Tibet, more and more of you have asked how you can help and what you can do.”
Read the [...]

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Finally Safari 3.1 (released on 08/03/18) is offering some built in web developer tools that are accessible through a checkbox in the advanced prefs.
I’m not a huge active developer like I used to be, but I still know my way around HTML/CSS and some JS and this will [...]

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