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:: Thursday, May 15, 2008 ::

Type Art

From my friend Keira,

"Hello !
Hope you're very well...all of you.
I wanted to share with you my latest (very short) film , where I typed a picture of Bournemouth Pier using my old typewriter. I recently showed this, and the picture/s at Aruba, the bar situated on Bournemouth Pier approach as part of an event called Muse Platform, you can see footage of this event here.
I will be doing more typing at events soon so please check my website for news.
Thanks!
Keira"

Labels: Art, Film, Typography

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Flogo
Originally uploaded by RLabay.

Over on LiveScience we learn that a new company has started using "a mixture of soap-based foams and lighter-than-air gases such as helium" to create "floating ads and messages" in the sky.
Unfortunately dubbed Flogos, these floating logos can be made – or printed, really – every 15 seconds by "re-purposed snow machines," thus "flooding the air with foamy peace signs or whatever shape a client desires. Renting the machine for a day starts out at a cost of about $2,500."
[via bldg blog]

Labels: Environment, Flickr, Typography

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the GateWay
Originally uploaded by gusset.

Top: Sign for "the GateWay" – Alpha Course Centre, Yeovil. Font: Baker Signet
Bottom: Sign for "the GateWay" using an Albertus derivative font, as used in "The Village" in "The Prisoner"

Labels: Flickr, Fonts, Religion, Sci-Fi, Typography

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I've collected up a lot of links that I have little to add to recently, so here's a link dump of things you might find interesting, useful or humorous:

The definitive Lorem Ipsum resource

Microsoft error messages in haiku form

The blog of "unnecessary" quotation marks

Vector Magic: image to vector converter

The 88 Fast Food Items Most Likely To Kill You
U.S. centric. I've never heard of most of these chains. And wtf is this at #54: "Jack in the Box Sausage Biscuit"? The mind boggles.
[via slashfood]

The Honeypot, West St, Bedminster

[via hijack]

For the musicians:
Octavcat remix competition
Expired Two Loan Swordsmen remix competition, but you can still grab samples if you want them. (Of course, you then shouldn’t use them.)
Virtual cct bent speak & spell

Labels: Electronic Music, Food, graphics, Humour, Literature, Typography

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