My nephew works in a pizza joint and he’s been having a hard time with his family, the law and just about everything. I stopped in to see him and asked how his job was going. He said it was ok but he needs more hours to pay his bills so he is looking for another job. I suggested he follow his heart and try something related to what he likes. That sounded like adult advice but I was just as confused as he is at that age and everything that I liked didn’t pay worth a darn.
I know I like photographing signs and there is no money in that. I found this one this morning on Culver Road near Clifford. It’s perfect! A big piece of plywood nailed to a tree. Roof’n looks just like it sounds. You want to say it. All caps with a subscript “n” then the masterstroke, black reverse field for the phone number. They intended to center the number but ran out of room and that is so much fun to see in a sign. I don’t think I would ever hire them to roof my house but I love their design sensibility.
I started a data base of my signs last year but got bogged down with constructing php queries. I wanted to have permanent link to pages so I could do an index or link to a certain section instead of always starting at the first page and working your way through. The way my links read they are always changing depending on how many signs I have in the database. I have a hundred or so in there now with another 100 to go but I got way bogged down trying to figure out how to construct these queries and it was getting the way of my day job. Maybe I should trade jobs with my nephew.
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