Canvai Databank

The Federal Highway Administration granted Clearview interim approval in 2004, meaning that individual states are free to begin using it in all their road signs. More than 20 states have already adopted the typeface, replacing existing signs one by one as old ones wear out. Some places have been quicker to make the switch — much of Route I-80 in western Pennsylvania is marked by signs in Clearview, as are the roads around Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport — but it will very likely take decades for the rest of the country to finish the roadside makeover. It is a slow, almost imperceptible process. But eventually the entire country could be looking at Clearview.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/magazine/12fonts-t.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=5b5486eee4ea630c&ex=1344571200&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Such feelings can arise from an imagined or actual inferiority in the afflicted person. It is often subconscious, and is thought to drive afflicted individuals to overcompensate, resulting either in spectacular achievement or extreme antisocial behavior, or both.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferiority_complex

A cartoonist isn’t like a writer. Writing requires a special kind of focus. Your mind must be utterly devoted to the task at hand. When I’m breaking down a strip or hammering out dialogue, I’m using that writer’s focus. But drawing and inking are different. They use different parts of the brain. I often find that when I’m drawing, only half my mind is on the work — watching proportions, balancing compositions, eliminating unnecessary details.The other half is free to wander. Usually, it’s off in a reverie, visiting the past, picking over old hurts, or recalling that sense of being somewhere specific — at a lake during childhood, or in a nightclub years ago. These reveries are extremely important to the work, and they often find their way into whatever strip I’m working on at the time. Sometimes I wander off so far I surprise myself and laugh out loud. Once or twice, I’ve become so sad that I actually broke down and cried right there at the drawing table. So I tell those young artists that if they want to be cartoonists, the most important relationship they are going to have in their lives is with themselves.

http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2008.09–the-quiet-art-of-cartooning-seth-comic-book-cartoons/

Munchausen syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which those affected fake disease, illness, or psychological trauma in order to draw attention or sympathy to themselves. It is in a class of disorders known as factitious disorders which involve “illnesses” whose symptoms are either self-induced or falsified by the patient.

Munchausen at Work

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121960882331467103.html?mod=rss_Today%27s_Most_Popular

Flump is a tiny Adobe AIR app. for downloading photos from Flickr.You supply a Flickr ID (it could be your own or someone else’s) and the tool will download all the public photos from that Flickr account to your hard drive.

http://www.labnol.org/internet/pictures/export-flickr-photos/4174/

Forward to Schulz And Peanuts: A Biography By David Michaelis, written by Bill Watterson.

Lucy, for all her domineering and insensitivity, is ultimately a tragic, vulnerable figure in her pursuit of Schroeder. Schroeder’s commitment to Beethoven makes her love irrelevant to his life. Schroeder is oblivious not only to her attentions but also to the fact that his musical genius is performed on a child’s toy (not unlike a serious artist drawing a comic strip). Schroeder’s fanaticism is ludicrous, and Lucy’s love is wasted. Schulz illustrates the conflict in his life, not in a self-justifying or vengeful manner but with a larger human understanding that implicates himself in the sad comedy. I think that’s a wonderfully sane way to process a hurtful world. Of course, his readers connected to precisely this emotional depth in the strip, without ever knowing the intimate sources of certain themes. Whatever his failings as a person, Schulz’s cartoons had real heart.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119214690326956694.html

Rorohiko develops useful plug-ins for InDesign. Especially useful is the TextExporter. It will export all of your stories in an InDesign document into a single file.

http://www.rorohiko.com/textexporter.html
http://www.rorohiko.com/

To see both Date and time on OSX’s menu bar.

www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13297

Easy copy and paste for a file’s path location.

www.bergenstreetsoftware.com/

Miss OS 9’s easy print window solution? This is a must have, though more complicated, also more powerful.

http://www.searchwaresolutions.com/