Comments on: Avertising Cover, Bisect, Cinderella, and so on...

Avertising Cover, Bisect, Cinderella, and so on...

taz — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:01:33 -0800

Dear M E F I, I just love Alphabetilately, and I think you will too! Yours sincerely, taz.

By: taz

taz — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:02:13 -0800

Easy index here.

By: t r a c y

t r a c y — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:41:53 -0800

that's a neat site, thanks taz. i love stamps... not enough to collect them, but i think they're wonderful little works of art and graphic design. i've always been jealous of how many interesting & beautiful stamps the usa and other countries have, but the last few years canada has been getting a bit more adventurous.

By: taz

taz — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:58:34 -0800

Wow! "Year of the Monkey" is gorgeous. Does MoFi know about this?

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:01:41 -0800

Great stuff, iconomy! -whoops, I mean, taz! If the rest of the letter pages are as good as M, E, F and I, this is a terrific site and more than makes up for that annoying cursor trail. Speaking of adventurous, has anybody tried this? I was wondering how much you could get away with - not in terms of obscenity or anything, just in terms of submitting, say, a "photo" of artwork. How far does the category "business and charity logos" extend?

By: iconomy

iconomy — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:10:37 -0800

Well this is much better than the frog and llama stamp sites that I was going to post. Today. *seethes*

By: taz

taz — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:15:44 -0800

Heh. I actually came across that site when I was looking for poscards for your Ask question, ico. But you know how it is - when it comes to stamps, we have to stick together!

By: t r a c y

t r a c y — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:43:47 -0800

Speaking of adventurous, has anybody tried this? I was wondering how much you could get away with my dad bought me personalized stamps thru' canada post a few years ago and i thought they worked out ok (he didn't choose the best photo for such a small item)... but we weren't, erm, pushing the envelope in using a photo of one of my cats. for canadian picture postage you can only use images that you hold the copyright to but they allow artwork, company logos, etc.

By: of strange foe

of strange foe — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:58:28 -0800

More MoFi: Chinese 'Year of the Monkey' stamps through out the years. (The article itself is in Chinese, sorry.) The first Monkey stamp has always been highly sought after (current market value about 1300 RMB, or $156) since its release right after the end of Culture Revolution, because its groundbreaking style was so different from, ur, communist camp.

By: of strange foe

of strange foe — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:08:58 -0800

Here's another charming one.

By: DBAPaul

DBAPaul — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:19:42 -0800

Soyjoy, People got away with enough that Photo.Stamps.com modified their agreement and now severely limits what they will print. You agree to use the PhotoStamps service solely for the following image categories:

Babies or Children that appear to be pre-teenagers;
Pets and Animals;
Business and Charity logos or graphics;
Landscape and Wildlife; and
Vehicles

No images depicting teenage or adult persons will be accepted. See the smoking gun for examples of what they managed to order.

By: taz

taz — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:23:25 -0800

Hey, monkey, monkey, monkey! And this one reminds me very much of the Barrel of Monkeys game I had when I was a kid.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:42:24 -0800

Thanks for the TSG link, DBAPaul. While it seems kind of lame that the Smoking Gun documents in this case were intentionally generated by TSG itself, that's redeemed by this summary. This was just an exercise to point out that the only people truly worthy of stamps are statesmen (George Washington, Benjamin Franklin), civil rights leaders (Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall), and cartoon characters (Wile E. Coyote, Jiminy Cricket). It still seems odd that you can get children on stamps but not adults. So I would not be able to get a sheet of stamps with my father-in-law's picture on 'em, but one of my neighbor's 5-year-old would sail right through... wacky.

By: Orb

Orb — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:13:30 -0800

Very nifty! I like stamps, not enough to collect them, but the artwork on some of them is just fascinating. DBAPaul: For some reason, that seems sort of silly for Photostamps to do. No photos of adults or teens? BUt babies and preteens are ok? Doesn't make sense. I guess that ruins my friend's plan to use her engagement photo as a stamp for their wedding invitations. I'll have to convince her to use a pic of their pets.

By: kindall

kindall — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:14:27 -0800

OK, so who's going to send in pictures of, say, Jon-Benet Ramsey and try to get pictures of children banned too?

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:22:03 -0800

Thought of that. JonBenet falls under "celebrity." I hereby apologize to ~~iconomy~~ taz for dragging the thread off onto this tangent.

By: taz

taz — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 03:05:41 -0800

soyjoy, I'm actually getting a little confused now. I know iconomy loves alphabet-themed collections, and has posted several great ones. Is it that? We also share a fondness for children's books, fairy tales, vintage images, and a lot of other topics, so it would be surprising if we didn't sometimes post similar things... Or are you trying to say something else?

By: t r a c y

t r a c y — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 07:34:10 -0800

yah, colour me confused too. i just assumed it was an inside joke between the three of you...

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 22:11:09 -0800

Yes, taz, you've nailed it: I'm saying that you and iconomy are the same person. You know, just like Miguel and Carlos. No, really, no offense intended whatsoever - it was just a play on my own reaction to the post, which was to immediately assume it was one of iconomy's. And then to play that I still couldn't remember correctly. You have to look at it from inside my head, where saying a post is easily confused with iconomy's is purt near the highest praise imaginable. I hereby apologize to ~~taz~~ ~~iconomy~~ ~~t r a c y~~ everybody for dragging this very worthwhile thread off onto yet another tangent.

By: taz

taz — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:00:45 -0800

Okay! In that case, I'll accept the compliment. And don't worry - sometimes I get confused myself. Whenever this happens, I just remind myself that iconomy's the one who is a freelance hitwoman, and I'm the one who hasn't thought of something clever to put in the "Occupation:" field of my user page yet. That usually clears things up right away.