{"id":181,"date":"2003-03-28T19:51:19","date_gmt":"2003-03-29T03:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=181"},"modified":"2006-12-25T13:40:48","modified_gmt":"2006-12-25T21:40:48","slug":"secret-message-7-knot-so-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Secret Message #7: Knot So Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel generous tonight. You already know what the secret message is, and you know it has something to do with <a href=\"\/log\/archives\/00000173.html\" title=\"Celtic Nut\">that other entry<\/a>. So rather than just hide the Cracker Jack prize as an Easter Egg that may or may not be found, I&#8217;m posting this as a free-for-all. If you use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/illustrator\/main.html\" title=\"Adobe\">Illustrator<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/software\/freehand\/\" title=\"Macromedia\">Freehand<\/a>, this one&#8217;s for you:<\/p>\n<p>Illustrator (.ai) files of a few celtic knots that I created when I got bored.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"maincopycat\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/log\/images\/200303-circleknot.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Circle Knot\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" \/><br \/><a href=\"\/log\/images\/circleknot.sit\" title=\"Circle Knot for the Mac\">.sit<\/a> (72k) \/ <a href=\"\/log\/images\/circleknot.zip\" title=\"Circle Knot for the PC\">.zip<\/a> (71k)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/log\/images\/200303-bladeknot.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Blade Knot\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/log\/images\/200303-leatherknot.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Leather Knot\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/log\/images\/200303-sunflowerknot.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sunflower Knot\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" \/><br \/><a href=\"\/log\/images\/bladeknot.sit\" title=\"Blade Knot for the Mac\">.sit<\/a>(38k)\/<a href=\"\/log\/images\/bladeknot.zip\" title=\"Blade Knot for the PC\">.zip<\/a>(41k) | <a href=\"\/log\/images\/leatherknot.sit\" title=\"Leather Knot for the Mac\">.sit<\/a>(47k)\/<a href=\"\/log\/images\/leatherknot.zip\" title=\"Leather Knot for the PC\">.zip<\/a>(51k) | <a href=\"\/log\/images\/sunflowerknot.sit\" title=\"Sunflower Knot for the Mac\">.sit<\/a>(37k)\/<a href=\"\/log\/images\/sunflowerknot.zip\" title=\"Sunflower Knot for the PC\">.zip<\/a>(39k)<\/div>\n<p>Why am I giving these away, original vector-based files and all? Because I&#8217;ve done so many of these now that I can do them in my sleep. These few designs are just a drop in the bucket for me, so dig in. My treat.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you change the fill color to black and the stroke color to white, they make great tattoo designs as well. Play around with them. If you do anything neat with them, let me know. I&#8217;d love to see.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><b>In other news:<\/b> If you&#8217;re a regular visitor at <a href=\"http:\/\/davezilla.com\">Davezilla<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/freaks.davezilla.com\">Freak Watcher&#8217;s Textbook<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/fucked.davezilla.com\">Fucked Weblog<\/a>, you&#8217;ll soon notice that the sites are all down. Dave&#8217;s ISP gave new meaning to incompetence, so he&#8217;s shopping for a new ISP and planning on getting back online in a week. As it happens, <a href=\"http:\/\/nikkihoh.com\">Leaking Brain Fluid<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tamityville.com\">Tamityville<\/a> are down too, since Nikki and Tami Jo were on the same server. So&#8230; Murphy Days abound in Netville. 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You already know what the secret message is, and you know it has something to do with that other entry. So rather than just hide the Cracker Jack prize as an Easter Egg that may or may not be found, I&#8217;m posting this as a free-for-all. If you use Illustrator or Freehand, this one&#8217;s for you: Illustrator (.ai) files of a few celtic knots that I created when I got bored. .sit (72k) \/ .zip (71k)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=181\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}