Typorgrapher.org dishes it out to NTT DoCoMo like NTT DoCoMo’s blocking the way to the tacqueria:
So, it appears our brand specialist has been drinking one too many Châteauneuf-du-Pape and has gone into a drunken overdrive during a meeting with DoCoMo… oh, sorry, I meant docomo:
“The new logo’s color is red, which symbolizes the company’s energy [...]
Category Archives: for those that like this sort of thing
In which the typographic business is given, good and hard
May 14, 2008 – 9:59 am
Slippery slope, indeed
February 27, 2008 – 3:45 pm
David Levy:
…the first place to legalize marriage with robots will be Massachusetts, where liberal jurisdiction and high-tech meet.
Heck, I predict we’ll even legalize marriage with gay robots!
(I leave the inevitable riffs on Azimov as an exercise to the reader)
Indomitable?
February 1, 2008 – 3:25 pm
With the loose change found under the couch cushions of a third-tier Hollywood producer, France has launched its most expensive movie - sorry, “film” - ever: Asterix at the Olympic Games. TIME magazine tells us:
A Gallic national treasure, Asterix is revered and adored by the French far more than even Mickey Mouse is by Americans. [...]
Janek Schaefer performances
December 27, 2007 – 6:50 pm
English sound artist / composer Janek Schaefer offers downloadable MP3s of two of his performances for sale: the recent The Sporting Guide to The Speed of Sound and the slightly older Recital in the old library. I’m not much for writing music reviews, but this guy got to attend the performance of TSGTTSOS and had [...]
52,000 lessons in composition
December 10, 2007 – 6:57 pm
1000 Frames of Hitchcock: 52 movies storyboarded by screencap. Awesome!
John Carter animation 1936
December 9, 2007 – 11:28 pm
(original here)
In Frazetta - Painting with Fire, it is pointed out that Frank Frazetta really transformed the way we imagine heroic fantasy, which had previously been dressed in classical Roman garb. Interesting to see some suggestion of that here.
(via)
Jim! / What is it, Bones? / They’ve stolen Spock’s brain!
December 7, 2007 – 12:06 pm
A great song by I, Ludicrous - check it out.
(only been listened to 140 times!)
UPDATE: noticed and fixed the typo in the headline… D’Oh!
Telepathic nurses?
November 6, 2007 – 1:10 am
So, this afternoon I spent some time sitting in a waiting room at Lahey Clinic, reading a book while waiting for my apppointment. It occurred to me that I started reading the book in the same waiting room, three weeks previous. I was a little chagrined that it was taking me so long to get [...]
A masterpiece in 150 words
November 1, 2007 – 2:35 pm
From Alan Moore, of course - who else?
THIS WARN YOU
Docs after in oldspeak. Untruth, make-ups only. Make-ups make THOUGHTCRIME. Careful. Supervisor rank or not read. This warn you. THOUGHTCRIME in docs after. SEXCRIME in docs after. Careful. If self excited, report. If other excited, report. Everything report. Withhold accurate report is INFOCRIME. This warn you. [...]
Fry & Laurie
October 28, 2007 – 6:42 pm
(updated to a crappier version - youtube must be playing copyright whack-a-mole)
Things I didn’t know (the day before) yesterday
October 23, 2007 – 2:11 pm
God & Gold, p. 123:
Thomas Cochrane, the tenth Earl of Dundonald, was a British admiral whose adventures Patrick O’Brian used as a partial model for his Aubrey/Maturin novels. Temporarily dropped from the British naval list after attempting to make money in the financial markets by abusing his naval position to spread false rumors about the [...]
IVs
October 4, 2007 – 2:32 am
Well, we knew we were getting an Indiana Jones, and now I see we’re getting a John Rambo. Still nothing terribly definitive on a Max Rockatansky, though…
While speculation of the film’s tentative pre-production remain uncorroborated industry and internet hearsay, in December of 2006, an article on movies.com [4] added speculation to the potential casting of [...]
Inky comic goodness
September 19, 2007 – 5:06 pm
Thoughts on some comics:
I noticed Becky Cloonan’s work a while back, while trawling around on DeviantArt. It took some hunting, but I eventually found myself a copy of East Coast Rising - her story about pirates off the Jersey shore after the sea level has risen enough to drown most of what is currently coastal [...]
“Letters are things, not pictures of things”
August 22, 2007 – 1:24 am
Man, that’s some beautiful type!
My typography prof worked for a company (boutique might be a better word) that did very cool limited edition books on letterpress. I disagree with Kristensen - I don’t think this sort of thing is going away, no matter how good digital delivery of large amounts of text gets.
(TJIC, we should [...]
They fused, somehow
August 8, 2007 – 2:45 pm
From Peter, who writes:
My roomate Max loves to make films for the You Tube. He made one about me. It’s only half true, tho.
Which half, I couldn’t shouldn’t say.