Scott Cramer wrote this.

Early last week I asked known friends and cohorts on +Keith Cramer's stream to submit a scanned signature and/or note that I could edit together into a card for Keith's birthday on March 10th. The Google+ community never ceases to amaze me; in just a couple days I received over thirty-five entries going well beyond my original request.

This was to a limited number of users that +Kristi Fahlsing and I gathered from users who left comments recently on Keith's stream. I could not post public or it would not have been much of a surprise. Otherwise, I am sure I would have been completely inundated with entries to edit together. As it was, I changed my original card idea into a 24" x 36" poster to do justice to all of the wonderful submissions. It took me a couple days solid worth of time to organize, edit, and design.

It was well worth it! One, I got to interact more closely with an amazing group of people. Two, and most importantly, Keith was blown away by the large format color print, dry mounted, and framed. He's done a lot of solids for me over the years; no going half way with this.

Thank you G+ community for being awesome! I wish I could have cast a wider net to catch more of you who I know would have helped me out with this!

Thank you to the following people who are now immortalized as a part of this collage (in alphabetical order):

+AJDA BF
+Aldric Newberry
+Allen Simpson
+Amanda Rachelle Warren
+Annie Yim
+Basil Doeringsfeld
+Caroline Evebetty
+Claudio Ibarra
+Cliff Loresco
+Cliff Roth (Special thanks for doing a speed-paint and providing the centerpiece to the poster! You rock, Cliff!)
+Damian Sanchez
+Doug Savage (Special thanks to Doug! I tagged you into the conversation being somewhat silly and being the stand-up guy that you are, you sent me a personalized Savage Chicken!)
+Dustin Cochran
+Eddie Yasi
+Emilio Boronali (Thanks Emilio, for recognizing my loss in The Death of a Thousand Condiments and through your drawing giving me a chance to give Keith a taste of food on his head!)
+Halfdan Reschat
+Holland Rhodes
+Jacqueline Hodsdon
+Jake Marquart
+Jera Wolfe
+Jim Gomes
+Jun C
+Kari Tedrick
+Kaydie Wells
+Kim Crawford M.D.
+Kristi Fahlsing
+Kristi Forcier
+Lady Fran W
+Lauren Kelly
+matthew rappaport
+Moin Ahmad
+Mz Maau
+Rowan Cota
+Salvio Giglio
+Scot Duke
+Sheila Garl
+Vicki Elam

I made a smaller version of the printed image for you to view. It's still pretty large so you may need to download the original to really get a look at everything. Additional pictures are of the framed picture — which contains Kristi's and my signatures since we signed the actual print.

Oh… and was that #baldguy I saw? 😉

In album Keith Cramer G+ Birthday (8 photos)

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