Creative Obsession

Filed under: Personal — joy at 8:11 am on Thursday, July 9, 2009

As someone who spent most of yesterday daydreaming how I can make a lamp that says “Read” on it for my living room–and then plotting out with my husband the exact font I would use for the word “Read” and how I could make a grid in Gimp to exactly reproduce the word on the lamp–I naturally love MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage’s speech on obsession. In it, he talks about his quest to reproduce a dodo bird skeleton and then the statue from the movie The Maltese Falcon. Although I don’t have his patience or detail-mindedness, I am totally picking up what Savage is putting down here. (Thanks Justin for the link.)

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Comment by Justin

July 9, 2009 @ 7:00 pm

Glad to see you enjoyed this as much as I did.

Comment by troy vera

July 13, 2009 @ 3:33 pm

hey there, send me a link to the one you saw and i’ll happily id the font for you and for the favor of a jar of some mushroom roux sauce i’ll create the art for you. do you want to overlay it on the fabric as stenciled lettering or create a paper version to cut out and replace the shade entirely? both photoshop and illustrator have nifty tools to render type on an arc in a snap and keep the proportions proper. it’ll be fun and quick for me to whip it up for you.

Comment by JOy

July 14, 2009 @ 8:15 am

Troy that is so sweet! Luckily it’s just going to be printed on a flat surface so I don’t need to take you up on that this time–but maybe we can do a mushroom sauce/art trade sometime in the future.

I will post a picture of the lamp when it’s finished.

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