Comments on: Text education

By: Felipe Budinich

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:01:29 +0000

Not for a living (yet), but working on it. This is a script for a two scene short (in spanish):
http://sites.google.com/site/fbudinichd/archivos/021_EF_G_Americano.pdf
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By: Adam

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:23:27 +0000

That is a nice font… now slightly soiled with D&D connotations

You write scripts?

By: Felipe Budinich

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:54:31 +0000

Souvenir Light, i use it for all my scripts. (First fell in love with it when I saw it in Basic Dungeons & Dragons books)

By: Lyric

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:59:10 +0000

Definitely some truth to "Good typesetting is rarely noticed." like most design really. Thanks for the book reccs I've only read the McLuhan one and it was a real page turner, in part just to see what the next page was going to look like. Eager to take a look at the other two, they look good. Lyrics last post..Sublime Time

By: Brandy

Thu, 28 May 2009 13:33:25 +0000

Yay on the job loss! (that sounded odd).

By: Roo

Wed, 27 May 2009 01:24:45 +0000

Haha, I def see how she could get that out of the video. Good fun.

By: Roo

Wed, 27 May 2009 01:23:57 +0000

Hahaha, that’s true. Maybe I read too much cyberpunk…

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Wed, 27 May 2009 01:11:20 +0000

Heh, meatspace. "Meatspace: It's where you can keep your meat!!" The Great Joe Bivinss last post..Scatterbrained Nonsense

By: Roo

Wed, 27 May 2009 01:06:42 +0000

Typesetting is amazing! I have a wonderfully typeset PDF copy of Charles Stross’s Accelerando that my brother did in LaTeX for use with eReader devices like the Sony PRS. It’s a kick ass book, too, released on the GNU Public License too. So ask, I’ll send it your way.

Personally, my favourite lately was House of Leaves, though I realize it’s a love-it-or-hate-it type of thing. I loved it.

On another note, I lost my job this week! So, I’m on the dole, and working on some personal projects, trying to figure out my life a bit, and drinking too much. I’ll be in Montreal in a couple of weeks — if anyone’s up there, let me know, maybe we can get together in meatspace.

By: Maddie

Tue, 26 May 2009 09:34:12 +0000

Yay indeed!
hehe, thanks Ben. x

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Tue, 26 May 2009 06:18:54 +0000

"I can only assume you are joking or entirely insane." Can't it be both? The Great Joe Bivinss last post..Scatterbrained Nonsense

By: Ben

Tue, 26 May 2009 04:24:03 +0000

Jokerman? Horrendous. I can only assume you are joking or entirely insane. Hmmm, I will have to do a test and see which I find easier on the eye. Bens last post..Rave Graffitti

By: Ben

Tue, 26 May 2009 04:17:32 +0000

Yay, you aren't dead!!!! Bens last post..Rave Graffitti

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Mon, 25 May 2009 10:33:53 +0000

I don't know the science on the matter but I think serifed fonts are definitely easier to read. On the other hand I find sans-serif fonts work better in smaller sizes, so both have their advantages. But of course Jokerman is the industry standard. The Great Joe Bivinss last post..Scatterbrained Nonsense

By: Ben

Mon, 25 May 2009 08:51:50 +0000

Adam, or any one else with an opinion on the matter. Just got told that reading long texts, fonts with serifs are easier to read, but, I always thought it was easier with sans-serif. Bens last post..Rave Graffitti

By: Erika Hammerschmidt

Mon, 25 May 2009 01:06:03 +0000

I've never heard of Wordtris before, but I used to play a game that was almost identical to it, on my parents' Franklin Language Master. Except it was called Letris, and I think it allowed words of two letters as well, and there was no blank tile. It was addictive. Erika Hammerschmidts last post..Abby and Norma #449

By: Maddie

Sun, 24 May 2009 20:32:57 +0000

To be honest, I have no real comment to make but hey, just so you know, although i am drowning slowly in the sludgy pit of exams, I am STILL HERE!

Love you all! Ah, don’t you just deserve a poke? *poke*
I’m done.
x

By: beemoh

Wed, 20 May 2009 13:58:24 +0000

>Except there totally is a learning curve for Tetris but you only notice it after you get to be a frickin’ grandmaster.

Sounds like an excuse to dig out the ‘people who are awesome at tetris’ YT videos…

By: Ben

Wed, 20 May 2009 13:57:01 +0000

Thank you Beemoh, for that second video. Wicked, tho, my gf misheard and now thinks I was enjoying something involving lesbians and tetris. Bens last post..Dark Orange, Weird Gran and Bulgarian Umbrella

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Wed, 20 May 2009 13:45:29 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM06XhyEXvs The Great Joe Bivinss last post..I Curse and It's a Whole Blog Post

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Wed, 20 May 2009 13:45:03 +0000

Oh man, I just realized I've never played Wordtris and yet I am obsessed with both Tetris AND words (and would play Scrabble more often if the dog hadn't chewed up most of the letter tiles, not to mention we don't have the awesome one with the raised borders to keep the tiles from moving around). Heh, that one with words was pretty funny actually. Except there totally is a learning curve for Tetris but you only notice it after you get to be a frickin' grandmaster. You casual players are doing it ALL WRONG. And here's the Ozma version, this video always reminds me of this kickass PSX/Saturn game called Robopit that someone should really make a sequel to: Actually on the subject of typesetting I just noticed the other day that my new copy of Breakfast of Champions, which is from the first paperback printing, has these fat little right-pointing arrows which force an indent on the first line of each paragraph. They're pretty neat, but my old copy (paradoxically from a much later edition, purchased brand new at Borders in 2002) doesn't have them, using traditional (much bigger) first line indents. Upon closer examination I notice that the new copy is also set in different fonts, where the old makes special mention that it it "set in Caledonia, Memphis, and Playbill types by Maryland Linotype Composition Company. Designed by Joel Schick." As a consequence of these changes, the pagecount is increased from 296 in the old copy to 303 in the new and and there is no consistency in the pages on which you can find specific passages between the two editions. This infuriates me. I wonder if that's why my copy of Cat's Cradle seems so goofily typeset? The Great Joe Bivinss last post..I Curse and It's a Whole Blog Post

By: Ben

Wed, 20 May 2009 11:07:55 +0000

Hmmm, until yesterday, I wouldn't have cared much about typesetting, because, as you say, good typesetting goes unnoticed. Then I read a Terry Prachett book, in PDF formatt. Ironically, the book was Truth, all about typesetting, newspapers, etc. Whoever made the file did such a terrible job, Pratchett's books are normally well done, but this was painful. Line breaks missing, non-standard formatting, etc. So, yes, now I understand and appreciate your subtle, yet integral art. Bens last post..Dark Orange, Weird Gran and Bulgarian Umbrella

By: beemoh

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:14:31 +0000

Tetris with text, you say? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordtris Also, on the subject of Korobeiniki interpretations: (and, erm, when I was trying to find the song from the Adam & Joe show...) /b

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Tue, 19 May 2009 21:11:13 +0000

Ah, that's an interesting rendition of Korobeiniki. I myself prefer the Ozma version, it doesn't have the electro edge and like most of Ozma's work it is somehow juvenile yet polished, but it has more pickup and energy and manages to sound natural even though listening to it you can't help recalling that it's the theme from Tetris. I hate those dashes sep- arating words at the end of lines. When I write thi- ngs in Word I usually se- t it to auto-justify, which has problems of its own but at least it never splits words up and the margi- ns are nice and straight. The Great Joe Bivinss last post..I Curse and It's a Whole Blog Post