link pile: tech & design edition

[kradeelav]

• "Why [Cooper Black, a font] is everywhere" - fascinating mini-documentary on possibly the one font used in more places than helvetica is.

• also found the font review journal (RSS friendly) through the above video, which gives a much more in-depth historical and text-based glance of slightly more uncommon fonts.

• relatedly, Vox' 5 minute video on how the Memphis design style influenced the 80's design (along with MTV) was rad and led me down yet another 80's design rabbit hole ... I always love digging into the anatomy of design movements, there's a sense a science/mechanics there that reveals so much more than what it looks like at first glance.

• 'why are unix read/write/execute permissions Like That' - i've always wanted to know why messing around with cpanel / ubuntu permissions are always 775 or some other weird number, now both you and I know :D 

• I don't have it working quite Yet, but here's the most promising photoshit-CC-on-linux github bash script I've seen lately. currently also doubling as a neat little 'learn git 101' with a very tasty reward at the end :P krita's great for drawing but as a professional, i do want to have the meaty backup in the pocket just in case for weird edge cases like converting a pdf and such.

• legally skittish / not confident enough in your h4x0r skills to run a tor node? the firefox snowflake extension looks like a great safe and easy way to help circumvent censorship in a similar way. still would not install it unless if you're comfortable with Tor, but been applying it to all my machines.

• "debugging by tarot" - this is a unique spread that honestly makes a lot of sense and practical structure and that I feel several of you may enjoy at least the read through :)

Comments

[kradeelav]

Thank you for that link to hyphen press - such a cool website with link treasures to a whole carload's worth of tabs. ;D

likewise with that description, you've made me 200% more curious to watch AMG ... it almost feels like a shoujo version of Lain or NGE when put that way with the mythos so intertwined with digital worlds. I could see how, in hindsight, that appealed to many in the early 2000's and all.

Deliciousness all the way around!

[vsitante]

(Time passes and now this is a very late reply, dearie me)

You're welcome! Fellow divers of rabbit holes, unite ;P

Well, now that you made those comparisons, I'd recommend digging into the movie first if you ever do check it out. It's the most "dark" of all animated entries, and even maybe the manga. Otherwise, it's generally slice of life with a lot of mystic battles once a in while. The characters are what make it enjoyable to read and watch, imo.

It's funny that you say shoujo, because almost everyone thinks it's shoujo but it's not! I'd say so too tbh but nope. it's seinen. Funny how publishing in a genre magazine labels you as such. (Though in its defense, it does have sexy scenes and absurdity...and someone like Urd, hehe.)