interesting student project, aimed at quantifying fonts by their ink usage, of course we have to assume that they applied the ink in a consistent manner to measure it accurately, or perhaps is just a ‘blog friendly’ idea… (tip via the ‘bright’ blog)
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kinga (a.k.a. el mas santo)
this impressive looking little chap (with underpants full of love) arrived in a cardboard box yesterday, he’s a mexican wrestler all the way from poznan in poland…
i sometimes get asked to take part in these weird and wonderful typically ‘web 2.0 / crowdsource / why not?’ sort of projects and this one is the brainchild of kinga
The luchadores figurines will also appear in other cities, for instance in Warsaw, Paris, Mexico City, New York, delivered by our friends, to spread the worship of El mas Santo. Every figurine has an attached note containing request to take a picture of the object and send it to El mas Santo Internet gallery. This enables the recipients of the project to create the history of El mas Santo as well.
now i just need to decide where the chap in the tights wants his picture taken… send her a mail and i’m sure she’d be delighted to send you one too…
a book about…
…innocent "on that first day we sold twenty-four bottles…"
i just stumbled upon this new penguin book release online, sounds interesting…
a sober memory
quoted from the ‘eye magazine’ blog
Late in September last year, Phil Baines was commissioned to contribute typography for the permanent memorial to the victims of the 7 July 2005 London bombings, which opens on the fourth anniversary of the attack.
rollercoaster ride
a while back photographer ‘paul d scott’ told me about his plan to get strapped into several rollercoaster rides with his camera and record what people look like experiencing unnatural g-force… well here they are, the fella below looks a bit like he’s having a poo, if you ask me…
