Wanted items. A short list.
Geography.
Here I mean country maps, state maps, the globe, etc.
If you're going to submit something in this category, I will
only accept EPS files - I don't need someone to send me a
photostatic copy of a map of Greenland. If you want to create
an outline of a land mass with your favorite vector drawing
program, the way to do it is to use a government map,
because that's public domain.
Lines, borders, dots, geometrics, etc.
Just interesting specimens that
could be used in a variety of ways. If someone wants to
scan a Hostess cupcake, for example, I'll make an EPS
file out of the icing design, even though I've already got
something very similar up for grabs. If the icing isn't
copyrighted, of course. It probably is. Anyway, things like
that. Hand-drawn and released to public domain or pre-1938
(with source information).
A spiral.
Here I mean the classic "hypno-disc" spiral, where
the black line is as thick as the white line. I would
need this in EPS form, created out of a small set of curves -
not out of ten thousand little lines (as I've done in the
past by writing a very cheap and dirty Postscript program).
One of these days I'll sit down and do the calculations to
generate one. But I'd rather not if there's one floating out
there, secretly hypnotizing us all. A hypno-disc spiral
would come in handy for anyone interested in
this page,
for example.
A sign in Chicago.
There is a sign that appears in the Ginger Creek subdivision of a
Chicago suburb named Oak Brook. It is an ideogram of a person
vomitting into a trash can. I would like a picture of it. Here I would
need (at best) a straight-on shot, second-best would be a picture
with one degree of freedom (say, standing directly in front of the sign
but shooting upward), etc. This makes it easier to convert to a
usable vector format.
A sign near the US/Mexico border.
Though I have tried, many times, to get a good shot of the
"CAUTION: ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS RUNNING FOR THEIR LIVES" sign that appears
near major highways next to the US/Mexico border, I have failed. See
my anal-retentive guidelines for shooting pictures in the previous entry.