AW: [sw-l] Happy Easter from Somerset, England :)

[Sandy Fleming]

Ah, so there's something wrong, if you can't read it!

I did find it difficult to think of how to make the sign for "Easter"
clear. it's simply the left fist held in the floor plane while the right
thumb draws a cross on it in two strokes (I think it represents a
hot-cross bun - don't know if you have those in Germany!).

I know that strictly speaking the thumb should be detached in the right
hand rather than having a bar for the floor plane, but since it's a
graphic design I thought it better to show the floor plane in the same
way in both hands. I also filled the circles because I wanted plenty of
yellow in the design  :)

If you have any suggestions for improvement, I'll make the changes.

Sandy

Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:

>Hi Sandy
>the first sign happy - like clapping hands while moving great circles --- I
>like that
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>hm - the second sign for Easter ? Can you explain ? or give some description
>??
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>Stefan ;-)
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>Von: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>[mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] Im Auftrag von Sandy Fleming
>Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. März 2005 10:18
>An: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>Betreff: [sw-l] Happy Easter from Somerset, England :)
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>Hi List!
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>Here's my Easter card in British Sign Language:
>http://bsltext.org/easter/happy_easter.jpg
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>It's a photo of my village in Somerset. A bit dull as this is England
>:)  Yes, I had to photoshop the sky and the duck pond cos the were just
>grey  :)
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>The quality of the symbols have deteriorated in the conversion to jpg
>but if you have the Adobe SVG viewer installed you can view the original
>in all its mathematical perfection at:
>http://bsltext.org/easter/happyeaster.svg
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>To can download the Adobe SVG viewer plugin from http://www.adobe.com/svg/
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>This will allow you to view SVG from withing your browser - it works
>with IE, NS and Mozilla but unfortunately not with Firefox yet. If you
>hold down the alt key you can use the mouse to drag the picture around,
>if you hold down control or control-shift you can use the mouse to zoom
>in or out respectively. The SignWriting remains perfectly sharp no
>matter how large or small you make it :)
>
>Of course if you know XML you can download my SVG file and play around
>with it until you break it!
>
>Sandy
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