SCN: Re: WEB: Re: Thanks for your input

Thu Sep 20 08:18:14 PDT 2001

Rod,

Thank you for pointing that out. I fixed it right away.

Patrick
--- Rod Clark <bb615 at scn.org> wrote:
> Patrick Fisher wrote:
> 
> > Seattle Community Access
> > http://www.scn.org
> > "Empowering the Community with Technology"
> 
> Patrick, 
> 
>    Please be a bit careful with the name. The "Seattle Community
> Access Network" is Channel 77 cable access TV. SCN is "Seattle
> Community Network." People might not realize that there's no
> connection.
> 
>    There was some discussion about using the word "empowering"
> in the slogan, as a result of which the word "empowering" was
> banished for life to the wastes of Siberia. The slogan is
> "Powering our communities with technology."
> 
>    Below is what I sent you last month about the stamp logo vs.
> the yuppie-runner logo, when Studio30 included the latter in a
> set of six logo designs, with one other very similar "runner"
> design and four simpler geometrical designs.
> 
>    In the list below of things that the stamp logo represents,
> tell me how many of them your friend's yuppie-runner logo
> evokes:
> 
> -----
> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:00:41 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rod Clark <bb615 at scn.org>
> To: patrick <clariun at yahoo.com>
> cc: Melissa Guest <mguest at sccd.ctc.edu>, hugh at studio30.com
> Subject: Re: Fwd: fun with (SCN) logos
> 
> > Here are some ideas for logos that Hugh created.
> 
> Patrick, 
> 
>    Thanks for sending me these design sketches. Hugh has a fine
> site with quite a few nice projects shown on it. It's evident
> that a lot of work went into the two sample SCN logos. Here are
> my first impressions.
> 
>    Upper left: 
>       Fun Run elf meets detergent packaging. 
> 
>    Center left:
>       Marathon runner bathes in Sun God Yellow while carrying
>       torch or caduceus.
> 
>    The rest are there just to display more than one approach.
> 
>    The one design element that has survived four completely
> different site designs over six years is the stamp logo. To me
> it represents at least these things:
> 
> - communications from people to people (the stamp) 
> 
> - free of cost (the stamp's printed denomination)
> 
> - something about SCN's purposes (the generosity of Mercury
>   stretching out a hand to someone unseen)
> 
> - Seattle (the clearly recognizable Space Needle)
> 
> - electronic transmissions (the lightning zaps)
> 
> - folk humor (the Space Needle uprooted)
> 
> - a spirit of amateur effort and informality (non-slick design)
> 
> - a large scale idea with oversize intentions (the giant scale
>   of the figure)
> 
> - people-centered (the Mercury figure seemingly powering the
>   entire process from something within)
> 
> [...]
> 
> Rod Clark
> 
> -----
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:45:35 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rod Clark <bb615 at scn.org>
> To: patrick <clariun at yahoo.com>
> cc: Melissa Guest <mguest at sccd.ctc.edu>, hugh at studio30.com
> Subject: Re: Fwd: fun with (SCN) logos
> 
> Patrick, Hugh and Mel, 
> 
>    This is another try at saying something about why the stamp
> logo seems to be so appealing to at least many of the older
> volunteers.
> 
>    The scene in the logo is funny because Mercury trades in
> using shoe leather for a relaxing on a convenient perch and
> using e-mail to deliver his appointed messages. Having first
> strode over to downtown Pugetopolis and uprooted the Space
> Needle (we don't actually see the citizens fleeing in terror a
> la Godzilla, but just think of the scene there), he plays hooky
> from his ancient role of pounding the dirt roads of the
> universe, and casually reposes on a handy local hill to use the
> earthlings' architectural toy as an antenna for his new
> technology.
> 
>    At the same time, trading winged shoes for e-mail is symbolic
> of a real change in the world of communications, even for
> ordinary people. It probably was more so in 1994 than now, when
> everyone is so used to the Internet. This sort of thing is like
> what happened 140 years ago this fall, in 1861, when the Pony
> Express was rendered obsolete by the first transcontinental
> telegraph line from the East to California, and was shut down.
> It's funny in the same way as seeing, let's say a cartoon of a
> Pony Express rider carrying a telegraph pole on his shoulder,
> with insulators and wires and sparks flying out behind him as he
> rides. It's absurd but it combines humor and symbolism in a
> visual pun.
> 
> Rod Clark
> 
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