Type Matters! by Jim Williams (2012)
☛ Merrell: Type Matters! by Jim Williams, New York: Merrell, 2012, 160 pp. Amazon (with preview), Google Books (no preview). From the publisher website: Once upon a time, only typesetters needed to know about kerning, leading, ligatures and hanging punctuation. Today, however, most of us work on computers, with access to hundreds of fonts, and [...]
From The Lively Morgue: “The Winged Victory of Samothrace” (c. 190 BC)
☛ The Lively Morgue: “The Winged Victory of Samothrace, another great achievement of the ancient Greek sculptors, packed for removal in accordance with plans for its protection formulated far in advance of the war.” photo by The New York Times (unknown author), November 12, 1939. The photo shows the famous Greek sculpture while it’s been [...]
“The Human Condition” by Duane Michals (1969)
☛ Carnegie Museum of Art: “The Human Condition” by Duane Michals, 6 gelatin silver prints with hand-applied text, 5 x 7 inches, edition 22/25, © Duane Michals. Source of hi-res reproduction. This sequence of photos was first published in 1970 in the book Sequences (Duane Michals, New York: Doubleday; Amazon). Duane Michals is an American [...]
Philip K. Dick, garage philosopher
Dick is evidently not an academic or professional philosopher, but an amateur, or perhaps that most splendid of things, what Erik Davis calls a garage philosopher. As someone who gets paid to teach philosophy for a living, I find Dick compelling as a philosopher because, whatever he lacks in scholarly rigor, he more than makes [...]
“Sci-fi v Literary Fiction” by Tom Gauld, March 2011
☛ Tom Gauld photostream on Flickr: “Sci-fi v Literary Fiction”, no. 240, cartoon for the Guardian (Saturday Review letters page). Original drawing, ballpen and whiteout on paper, appr. 8 x 13 cm. Uploaded on March 3, 2011. © Tom Gauld, 2012. Here’s an excerpt from a recent interview he did with Rob Fred Parker for [...]
