#FREE stamp

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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen created Free Stamp, the 70,000 pound sculpture, pictured above, in 1985.

Cleveland Historical, which has detailed numerous historical sites in the city, provides a detailed history of the sculpture. They also have an app to simplify exploring the city.

Below is a section from their website about Free Stamp–

…Commissioned by the Amoco Company in 1982, the Stamp was designed and fabricated in 1985. At the time, Amoco owned Sohio (Standard Oil of Ohio) and the building now known as 200 Public Square, and the piece was intended to reside in front of the building. But in 1986, before installation could happen, Amoco, Sohio and the building were acquired by BP America. The new owners refused to mount the sculpture—perhaps believing that “Free Stamp” was a metaphoric aspersion. Art historian Edward J. Olszewski has also noted that, in England, Pop Art is viewed more cynically and politically than in the United States, where it is considered primarily whimsical. Oldenburg is on record as saying that “free,” references the emancipation of American slaves during and after the Civil War—a plausible explanation given the piece’s planned proximity to the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument.

So instead of adorning Public Square, the Free Stamp was denied its freedom: imprisoned instead in a warehouse in Illinois. There it gathered dust for five years before then-mayor George Voinovich invited Oldenburg and van Bruggen to Cleveland in hopes of selecting another site.

It eventually was decided that the Stamp should be located in Willard Park on Lakeside Avenue just west of East 9th Street; and BP agreed to gift it to the city of Cleveland with all installation and maintenance expenses covered. However, disagreements arose about how the sculpture would be positioned. The original intent was for the Stamp to stand face down on Public Square. However, Cleveland city planners felt that this approach was not right for Willard Park and the Stamp ultimately was mounted angularly, with the faux-rubber “FREE” proudly visible. According to Oldenburg, it was as if “a giant hand picked up the Free Stamp and angrily hurled it several blocks to its current location at Willard Park.” Not surprisingly, the Stamp—formally dedicated on November 15, 1991—aims directly at 200 Public Square “It’s pointed on a diagonal to the 23rd floor, which were [BP’s] corporate offices,” notes Olszewski. “It leads the viewer back to the original site.”

[zegalba]

[frog-juice]

made these for funsies, if anyone would like to use them :>

[lycanthrop-ee-art]

brief multi-media zine about lycanthropy and depersonalization <33

printable version under the cut !

[heuldoch7b]

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ freakin STAMPS. use however u want wherever u want!!

first set can be found here

[banana-dawg]

₊˚♡ Dialtown userboxes + stamps! All f2u, credit not needed but highly appreciated // requests open! stamps and userboxes ^_^

Stamps below vv

These are a little old so apologies if they aren't that good (these were reposted to toyhouse and deviantart)

blinkies coming later :]

[stat--ic]

actually becoming obsessed with making stamps i need to make more

[doybyke]

may i pleeease request animated stamps of the riddler (2022 batman movie version) :3 ur blog is so so awesome... (⁠*⁠´⁠ω⁠｀⁠*⁠)

yes of course !! :D and THANK UU AAGH... that means so much (>_<) i hope these will do !!

[furby-swag]

some (mostly) silly bill cipher stamps!

[prosekaiuwu]

Literally me whenever I pull on a gacha banner:

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

Vaggie: So.

*casually takes the jacket off Charlie and wraps it around her own waist*

Vaggie: Can you dance?

Charlie: Oh I dance pretty girl- pr-pretty gay. Pretty good! Good! Dance good, pretty good girl- I DANCE PRETTY GOOD!!!

[zegalba]

Free Palestine

[thisdastampdoesnotexist]

palestine

[bookmark-beast]

how to make gif stamps

you ever wanted to make your own stamps with gifs like this and have no idea how the fuck to do that?

it's really easy and all you need is a gif of your choice and the stamp base. all stamps are 99 x 56px as a tip for normal stamps.

during these steps i am pressing the buttons below every edited image so its easier to navigate.

step 1.

head over to the website ezgif.com. i use it for a lot of gif related things too and its really damn useful.

step 2.

head over to the resize tab and toss in your gif.

make sure the width is 93 pixels and the height is 49 pixels, dont worry about it being stretched since it resizes it down and some a little bit of cropping.

and if you want it to cover a specific area just go to the crop tab and make a selection around the area that's about the shape of the stamp, doesn't need to be perfect. and then head back to resize and do the resizing.

step 3.

head over to overlay in the effects

make sure to press the blue button under the gi that says "extend canvas size" its really important you do this so the actual stamp part doesn't get cut off. and add your overlay image aka the stamp base

and heres the base:

step 4:

adjust the overlay by putting 43 to the left and 22 to the top so it lines up like its shown here.

step 5.

and finally go to crop and scroll down and enable the checkbox that says "trim transparent pixels around the image" and hit crop image.

and there you go, you just made an animated stamp. and heres the finish product on the one i made.

hopefully this helps out in someway and that the steps were easy to understand, let me know if you have any issues or questions.

[bypatia]

friendly reminder that India didn’t even have diplomatic relations with Israel till the 90s and had previously denied them visas. supplying them with drones in 2020s is a frighteningly short time for our government to change the fabric of our state.

[egobrain]

hi doroheads i made some stamps and i want to share them with da world