Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of moderate means and questionable taste
I've been around for a long, long year
I've seen too much and I've lost faith
Apologies to the Rolling Stones but I've updated it for the general malaise that is #GenX life in the early 21st century. General #introduction post here as I've just migrated from mastodon.social. I'm the homebody type who's very content to just curl up with a good #book. I enjoy #movies and most types of #music. Love good #food but I have a lifelong hatred of olives. I'm mostly here to meet fun, funny people and have a good time while taking the serious stuff in small doses for the preservation of whatever sanity I have left. I imagine I'll update this as more things occur to me to add. Below are some more specific interest. Glad to be here and beige bless!
Type and design nerds! I’m considering commissioning¹ a queer² lettering artist or typographer to set a slogan³ – link me to beautiful work!
(Boosts would be awesome, and feel free to recommend yourself!)
¹ I hope to crowdfund their fee
² My definition is incredibly broad; if the artist self-identifies as queer, that’s all I need
³ Probably in a hand-drawn way rather than using fonts, but I’m open; to be used on t-shirts/stickers
Our local calligraphy guild is nearly all very old folks (depressingly so - death announcements come several times a year, some amazing artists are being lost). Their email list is, no joke, just sending a message with all seven gazillion member addresses in the TO: field. Responses are a total mess.
I want to suggest an alternative. Groups.io is my current favorite, but curious if anyone has another favorite online groups/list service?
This "autograph" book is over 100 years old and belonged to my grandmother who was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Most of the signatures are from high school classmates. It looks like she collected these from the age of 15 to about 22.
The visualisation reveals the diversity and variance of the Latin alphabet in the last 2000 years.
The project is not complete. Rather, it is a first attempt to bring the history of the alphabet into an interconnected structure and to present the major historical developments in a clear, evocative way. We welcome feedback!
Noise cancelling headphones. Boy oh boy, I can't believe it took me all these years to discover their wonder. Well it was discovered for me because they were a surprise Christmas gift but it counts. Wow!
I walked the long way to a postbox to deliver a letter (in photo). I got steps and saw the sun.
I started a #calligraphy book, got overexcited and immediately wrote my friend a letter. Here is their name. Yey for learning new things!
My normal cursive handwriting (in an especially thick pen), my blackletter hand and the serif hand I’m currently trying to get the hang of. Text is the first time Hayr meets his father’s least favorite wife in Glory in the Thunder
Completed my illuminated manuscript of Psalm 93 in time for Mother's Day!
I used a modern variation of the Beneventan hand, which was most widely used in southern Italy in the middle ages. The historical script had lots of ligatures, but those are hard for modern readers, so I didn't use any here. This is also the hand where our modern question mark originated.