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Typography Stroll: The Richmond
My first photo-stroll in a while. This particular one—around the Inner and Mid Richmond district(s)—was was embarked upon with my friend Sterling, and my self-imposed focus was on typography. This comes from a somewhat new interest in typography itself, as I’ve been much more aware of it with my own forays into web design & development, not to mention having recently watched a little film called Helvetica.
I was hoping to capture a number of hand-written signs, whether chalk, paint, or some other medium, but did not find as many as I was hoping. But as the sun got lower and lower, persistence paid off in the form of plenty of other signage and the occasional deviance to capture some texture or object.
This is actually only a small portion of my haul for the day, as while some of the types/fonts were interesting in themselves and would work well as inspiration in other projects, I didn’t necessarily feel my photos of them were particularly special, which is what I prefer to post here on telecommute.
I’m hoping to do another such stroll sometime soon, with a different district for destination. And of course, an ulterior motive for this collection is for ripe source material to be used in blend_z__z__z_.
intervallic
[4-23-2011]
idea for a writing project:
intervallic signal to noise. a very high ratio. 1:16, maybe. some very meaningful, dense sentences or ideas, followed by lots of noise; glossolaliac rambling, phonetic hip-hoppery, meant to act as knotted static between more familiar, structured language.
example:
[opening]
Do you ever think about the orgasm that caused your subsequent birth? Trals flammit, he grayed at sides, followed by brim pyre, ay-ching at his back, bend routine enough to slide by, quasart those things—whole—in the skyze. i cun ask you to bleeve me, but only to here, me, i’m talking to you remember? Don’t let that fuzz distract you… all… from… that… conundrumt up a dream on his swim or swam out past rim or dam what water gave whut have your stall? Gates swutter closed like london mall; reverb-achoo with paris-lolls, swallow upside down sandwich peanut balls, bread-white flavor feats up against the walls.
I ask, why must i do this to myself, i tell: you whilst change ‘t all. Order of overdue spam, tell my own what i should’ve mastered paul, “dominick, your middle here; what so long, where so been? aint you got no care of ‘t all? What’s this repetitsh i speak? is it that small? someone ask’d you earlier, ‘are you going to be creative?’ well well well well well well Well—creative its are just destructive fuzz, rendered backwards in spiral tries.”
trust not !trust —fetch levers or levels of binary bevels; artisan algos i have mentioned what weather, my, we’re having with fraying raveled endeavors, poorish borish mind i have wroughten in gallows.
———–you come out of it. you’re alive, gasping. no: you’re gasping. gasping. … gasping…
because the breathing space reclined, redesigned your reactional subliminal bodymind. ohhhhhneveryoueverhavetreadonafeathersocourtsiedsopleasured
the red underline of the spell-checker is a conglomerate helper that relieve your communes to others, but also points out your neologs—they’re off-radar enough to claim tether: spin them yet, they may better and better and better. put them together. put them wherever. put them aghast atop your Seussian leatherbound lectures.
Jon Stewart interviews Jim DeMint on The Daily Show
In this unedited, extended interview, Senator Jim DeMint explains why he thinks that federal programs make people dependent on the government.
This is the sort of discourse that happens on a “fake news” show on a comedy network. South Carolina Senator DeMint and Stewart have a fair back and forth, yet as the nearly 30-minute long interview progresses—and regardless of which side you tend to agree with more—it’s hard to deny Stewart’s skill for political discourse as well as the cogency of his questions and of his rebuttals. I highly recommend watching all three parts of the extended interview, as the ground they cover necessitates an arc not capable of being distilled to a sound byte or two.
Part 1:
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Exclusive – Jim DeMint Extended Interview Pt. 1 | ||||
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Part 2:
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Exclusive – Jim DeMint Extended Interview Pt. 2 | ||||
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Part 3:
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Exclusive – Jim DeMint Extended Interview Pt. 3 | ||||
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I also recommend the collection of essays, The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News. I’ve read the collection a couple of times now and it will deepen your appreciation for not only Stewart, Colbert, and their team of writers and producers, but for satire in general.
From the Back Cover
This book brings together nineteen essays on the many moments of Zen to be found in the artful humor of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Want the real deal on fake news? Want to know how Jon Stewart stacks up against public intellectuals past and present? How The Daily Show hones your critical thinking skills in the war on bad media, bullshit, and political spin? Want to know more about The Daily Show’s philosophy of religion? About what “truthiness” really means? Or how far down Stephen Colbert’s irony goes? It’s all right here. More than just fake news, The Daily Show has achieved an undeniable cultural significance. What better way to plumb its depths than with the razor-sharp, media-savvy minds of our Senior Philosophical Correspondents?
Objects from a night of beats & boardgames
Object stills taken from a magnificent space in San Francisco where people can come together to listen to chill DJs whilst playing any number of boardgames.
Can’t wait to use these shots as fodder for a Blends series.
we will serialize all our things
wading around the Nougat Shallows, with the best, the sweetest intentions
i get to the thing that i want most, the full laser-centric focus of ego
i care not of my happiness but my auto-creation of exuberant moments
flick a switch of licked wicks to spark some carefully-distraught wit
why am
fleet,
fleet,
the /// up up up/// doesn’t equal up when you rotate about the prescribed axis.
it’s just a flip of the sign, bit of a switch, on to off, threshold not soft
a physi fizzy urge reminds me that i still have to eat, consummate my deal with existance
never leave me alone with sesame cracker foods
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