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thinking about creatures.

look at this thing

accidentally squirts ketchup water onto my freshly made hotdog and immediately runs to my basement where I blow dust and cobwebs off an old telegraph machine and start sending a morse code SOS signal to whoever can hear me

Today’s performance doodles

out of touch taylor mason thursday

Dodger Blue Fuvahmulah (#1ab5fd to #62f8c6)

Watercolour illustrations from Mary Gartside’s An Essay on a New Theory of Colours (1808). Hand-made and unique to each volume, the images have been deemed some of the earlier examples of abstraction in painting. More in our latest post on the site — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gartside-theory-of-colours

#WordyWednesday

Type: The letters used to print words. Generally, the term refers specifically to moveable type where the letters can be rearranged in any order to print any text. Printing with moveable type was undertaken in Asia as early as the 11th century and was separately invented in Europe in the 15th century by Johannes Gutenberg. A design for a given alphabet is called a “typeface.” A complete set of type in a specific typeface is called a font.

@unproduciblesmackdown #Part of it is because of how the print shop is set up: you don't set your type on the printing stone, you set it in a "composing stick" while you're standing in front of the cases. As a result, you have to set it upside down to keep it from falling out of the stick. #Type has a little nick on one side of the "body" (the long bit of metal with the letter on one side) which lets you know you've got all the type set up the right way around. That nick is at the foot of the letter. #You're right about the reason we use "font" to refer to different sizes on a computer. A printing font is a complete set of all the letters and symbols in a particular typeface *in a particular size*. You can have a 12-point Roman font and a 14-point Roman font and they are not interchangeable, since the 12-point letters are smaller and won't fit with the 14-point letters. #On a computer, it's all ones and zeros (typically rendered in raster graphics which can be scaled up and down at will) but they chose to adopt "font" as a way to refer to a typeface, probably since there's no type involved anymore. #Hope that helps!

hooray thank you!!!

With great power (aromanticism) comes great responsibility (destroying romance with my bare hands)

Anya Janssen (Dutch, 1962) - We Are Stardust (Flower) (2009)

Julien Delval

Geometric Waves - 240330

Common Grackle gathering nesting material Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1

It's finally time to reveal my piece for @palimpsestzine!

This was the first zine I ever participated in and I couldn't have asked for a better experience. A group of amazing and lovely artists coming together for a great project <3

If you haven't yet, go check out the full zine on itch.io! Donations will be open until the end of the month and all funds will go to Librarians and Archivists with Palestine. You'll be able to access some extra content and find out about the creative process behind it, too!

#WordyWednesday

Type: The letters used to print words. Generally, the term refers specifically to moveable type where the letters can be rearranged in any order to print any text. Printing with moveable type was undertaken in Asia as early as the 11th century and was separately invented in Europe in the 15th century by Johannes Gutenberg. A design for a given alphabet is called a “typeface.” A complete set of type in a specific typeface is called a font.

Rebecca Saylor Sack (American,contemporary)