Just found a tasty little typography website:

Typophile

Oh, my goodness! I had originally started this post to link to Typophile’s group memory/collective consciousness project. But then I clicked the “based on this account…” link at the bottom of the page and got completely blown away.

How cool must that have been? Just reading about it gave me that excited rush I remember most recently from sitting in a few paper presentations at Siggraph 2000. Now I’m kicking myself for missing 2002. It was even in San Antonio — I have family there! I could have gone and stayed for free! Of course, then I would have missed out on my Boundary Waters experience. Fair trade, I suppose.

Okay, here’s a ‘net quiz I can appreciate: Jung-Meyers-Briggs Typological Test.

My result? INFP.

Snipped from the Joe Block explanation linked above:

INFPs never seem to lose their sense of wonder. One might say they see life through rose-colored glasses. It’s as though they live at the edge of a looking-glass world where mundane objects come to life, where flora and fauna take on near-human qualities.

[Update: 09.25.2002] Humanmetrics.com keeps renaming their cgi-bin so the link below breaks. If it’s not working, just dive in right from the top and find their “Jung Typology Test.”

It’s on!

Got a great crop of submissions for my little project. There’s still room for more, though. Deadline is September 27.

I think I’ll be changing the name. “Century” just lacks a bit in panache. Besides, I’ll probably not even make a hundred copies. How about this totally random idea: On the 27th, count all the submittors. Write that number out as if we were reading the digits and that becomes the name. If today were the 27th, it would be “Eight.”

Oh, boy — that’s prety lame. I’d like to at least get into double-digits. you need to help me out, here.

That means you — yes, you, skulking in the back row — need to send me something today! It doesn’t have to be perfect. It just needs to be done. This can be a learning experience for all of us.

A bunch of people came out to the Schöne Maschine show last night. That makes me feel good. It makes me feel good because a lot of folks from Harrisburg drove the two hours to big, bad Philadelphia to see us. I also feel good because there were a bunch of Philly scenesters there, too — this despite the fact that I didn’t do any promoting for the show.

Whatever the case, whether you’re local or you travelled, thank you for being there. We can’t work in a vacuum. Last night was a great show and I lay that at the feet of all of you that showed up. It’s your energy that feeds us. You didn’t let us down.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I’ve been various sorts of graphic design guy for a bunch of years now. In that time I’ve gotten proficient with a lot of software packages. But I haven’t really been a super-marketable comodity (outside of my tiny, hyper-specialized TV design/animation niche, that is) because I didn’t really know Quark XPress. I’ve been “meaning to learn it” for oh, about five years now. I’ve figure out a few things, but I never got good enough to actually lay out a page for real. Well, watch out world — I’ve got skillz now!

Today I finished a two-day “Intro to Quark” class. Now I actually understand how the damn thing works. Well, mostly. Now I can at least figure out how to find what I need to know. As long as I actually use the software This is where you come in.

You guys (and girls) are creative people. I know. Some of you write, some draw, a bunch photograph — it seems just about everybody does something. I need you to send me some of what you do. Just send it right to me.

I’m gonna put together a little ‘zine called “Century.” Then I’m gonna make 100 copies. (Now the name makes a bit more sense, yes?) And then I’m gonna send them to you and anyone else that wants one until they’re gone. After that, I’ll probably take a deep breath and figure whether or not I’m gonna publish “Century2.”

Please — help save my fledgling Quark skills. Send stuff today!

[Update: 10:30p] Wow — I’m getting responses already! Fuck yeah! And most of them are questions about specs… So here’s the scoop: (I’m totally pulling this out of my ass, so be sure you wash your hands after you read this.)

• Text: Send it as a Word file or as plain old text. It don’t matta.
• Images: Just send a generously sized greyscale jpeg for now and I’ll contact you to get a print-sized file once I know what’s going on.

Dad calls it “To smile or not.” I call it “Damn the glare.” Either way, it’s a shot of me sitting in Dad’s booth at Arti Gras. It’s a wonder anyone even came near the booth with me in it…

See also: the disassembly of the most professional-looking booth at Arti Gras. Not that I’m unbelievably proud of my dad or anything. He’s just good. And people really seem to dig his stuff.

So there. Phtt!