Saturday, March 26, 2016

Some "ads" I made in InDesign

As you can tell, it's been a month since I was last on this blog.  Frankly, this is because I have run out of new ideas to put on it.

I created two new episodes of BMN Celebrity Superfan: New Orleans, which would have taken it until Feb. 21, but then hit a writer's block after that.  I can tell you that when I stopped the competition, there were four contestants left: Sadie Robertson, Shawn Michaels, Bethany Hamilton, and Brooke Liptrap.  Fortunately, I have a weeklong break coming up, so maybe I will finish the season then.  Of course, I will post all the results.

In the meantime, I have some "advertisements" to show you.  All of these are from an event program I created about the Pink Barefoot reunion, which is actually a personal InDesign file.  In case you've forgotten, I've inserted Buddy Wayne and all of the associated characters into the real-life pedigree of Miles Vinson "Pink" Barefoot and hundreds of descendants would come to Meadow, NC, for a reunion in every year that ends in an odd number.

Meadow is an unincorporated township in Johnston County and the U.S. Postal Service has placed it within three different ZIP codes.  For the program, I saluted the three communities with those codes.

The center of the area, officially called Peacocks Crossroads, as well as the Meadow Lights seasonal attraction, is in ZIP code 27504.  Also in this ZIP code is Benson, located in Johnston County.  In this small town of about 3,500 people, B.W. lived for the first 18 years of his life, then returned after a brief period of time overseas.  Here's the ad, which spotlights its two major annual events.

The Pink Barefoot cemetery, which will become the site of the family reunion in the time to come as prophesied in the Book of Revelation, is in the southwest part of the township and shares the ZIP code of 28334 with the small city of Dunn, population 15,000, in Harnett County.  This ad recognizes the two times it has won the "All-American City" award.

The farm house is in the southeast portion and shares ZIP code 28366 with Newton Grove.  Only about 1,100 people live in this small town at the northern edge of Sampson County.  In recent years, the town has seen an influx of Mexican immigrants, as evidenced by a Catholic church and ethnic restaurant/market located in the center of town.  Here is the ad I made for it; unfortunately, the website was down the day I tried to visit it and the town's Facebook page hasn't been updated since June 24 of last year.