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Octothorpe
Published: 2014-06-05 01:11:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 8165; Favourites: 685; Downloads: 91
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Before it was a ‘hashtag’ on digital devices...before it was the ‘pound sign’ on the phone...
it existed on typewriters — it was called the ‘octothorpe’.
...and this is why older generations were cooler than ours.
This poster, made for screen printing, is both an experiment and a gift: experiment with designing images that can still look cool when printed off-register; a gift for local Twin Cities art gallery, The Abstracted. (www.facebook.com/TheAbstracted…
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This is way cool. Do you have this available on a vinyl sticker? Hoping for about 3" across.
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If not, I'd like to order a few using Sticker Mule if you are ok with that.
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If it works as an icon at a small size -- feel free to use it.
And thank you for asking
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Thank you!!! 
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Daily Deviation... wheeeeeeeeeee -- nice -- been a while since I got one of those
This is a good opportunity, then, to plug the screen printing of this piece that I just finished.
The results are on Instagram (name: PseudoManitou).
Have a look and let me know if $30 is too much to pay for a three-color 18x24-inch poster of this critter-mark!
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Congratulations on your well-deserved DD!!!
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Neat riff on an old favourite - I'm glad I saw it on DAily Deviations, as it led me to the rest of your gallery... Wowow! Fantastic art and commentary!
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It goes by many names, and yes it is also used in sheet music ( I forgot what for now tho 
It is an old symbol, so every language got its own name for it, or more than one 
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it's used to make a note sound lower by half a note. (I hope I could explain it so that it would make sense, if not please seek the explanation somewhere else...)
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In music, the "Octothorpe" (lol) is also called a "Sharp" sign. It is used to denote pitch a "half-step" higher on staff paper; what you were thinking of was a "Flat" sign, which is used to indicate the pitch on paper a "half-step" lower, marked by a lower-case "b".
Source: Just go read any basic music theory lesson, or better yet, go to www.musictheory.net/ to see (if you're interested!) how music theory works.
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Whoops, I really accidentally switched them! Thank you for the correction, giving out wrong information was really not what I wanted to do here... ^v^'
I should get back to playing an instrument, I mean, look at how rusty I got with music theory... OTL
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You accidentally switched the... "accidentals"!
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PFFFFFT!
Great, now I can't stop laughing XD
You made my day and it's only 3:20 am in my place...
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A sharp? Doesn't that have a slant to it?
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This one has as well, has it not? #
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Thank you for teaching me something I had not known. "Octothorpe" sounds wonderful; and the graphic design is a delight to the eyes. Congratulations on the prompt DD.
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What a hoot; I l♥ve visual puns, and this one is so perfectly executed. "...and this is why older generations were cooler than ours." (* snerk! *) Hell, kid, I'm not that much older... oh, wait, I guess I am...
What next, an amper... sand? Through an hourglass?
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From now on I will refer to it as an octothorpe. Thank you for sharing that with me.
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Congrats on the DD!
I always liked that name for it.
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I always new older generations were much cooler then we like to believe!
Thanks for proving it once again.
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