Mecha-human-Robot-type-thing. Luxor SuperChisels on parchment as old as third year at NID. Very sad scanner-bed.

Couldn’t sleep and was watching a Doyald Young documentary from Lynda/LinkedIn and listening to fountain pen reviews of Pilot Petits and Platinum Preppy-s. This happened.

Places online from the past couple of weeks. In other words, good ways to procrastinate while feeling relatively good about it all.

Web- (Sites and What They Can Be)

http://varia.zone/en/what-a-website-can-be.html

The Varia piece discussing static websites as a statement of independence is a timely find since I am struggling with a personal web project. (Stacey isn’t supported by the latest PHP updates anymore and the good-ol’ work site is now permanently down. I was looking for a flat-file site generator and am not sure anymore. In other news, this blog now runs the latest version of Bludit with custom styles ported over and database cleaned up. I—still—don’t like the image insertion process and some of the unnecessary styling quirks, though.)

A Sunlit Magazine

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html

LowTech Mag’s solar website is run on sunlight and some really nice basic styles. The page background doubles as a battery-level indicator. I love the articles and the way the quotes are treated too. The bit on typography in the site is rather lovely in its Bringhurst-ness. Makes me want to order an RPi4 and some cables.

Back-to-the-LAN

https://www.are.na/blog/the-internet's-back-to-the-land-movement

This article is the proverbial mouth to this specific rabbithole I have been in. The references are all worth your time and so is are.na for its eclectic collections and ways of inteconnecting them. I went from here to low-fi camera-hacks and back in fewer minutes than it takes to say lo-fi.

Yamatomichi Stories

https://www.yamatomichi.com/products/34702/

I love the way Yamatomichi’s product pages are presented. They are genuine stories with width and depth and loads of fun once you translate the pages. The Cheap-Hike journal articles are gold, too.

Huaraches

http://408ownworks.hatenablog.com/

The 408OwnWorks website is something I wish I had come across when in my own-huaraches-phase (post reading Born-to-Run).

Typography Again

My course with NID-V kids is starting later, after a week from the original schedule. We start by the end of October now. Had some fun putting a materials page up here on Exif. I can empathise with how too much online learning fatigues people. Mine are—I think—more off- than on-line when it comes to most days. Here is how we dealt with an on-line timetable for the last week of course the last time (which was also the first time).

It’s been a while since I cracked that joke. Lovely sunset somewhere.

Kerala Govt. Lottery Ticket from 1987. Hand-drawn-to-fit text with a variety of pen-angles (Pre-paid and 5 at 0, Date-of-Draw at a confused -45) and a tastefully divided horizontal-space. That Lubalin-esque 9 just begs to be folded in half.

Monsoon Fiesta 2010 T-Shirt came home with brother’s other miscellaneous stuff from college. Sober Ultralight Helvetica typography as an homage to the EJ Ampersand Tee. Figured ‘Monsoon: Raindrops & Umbrellas & Puddles & Snails & Posters*’ described the MF experience as well as words could. The orange asterisk was a fun indulgence, print-wise.

ഓണാശംസകൾ! Fishing boats form a dashed line in the sea at Kollam. We recently invested in an 055 with a 500AH head. Panoramas are cakewalk now. Night-scapes aren’t.

New place online for R. She is looking for a teaching-responsibility again. reshmateelar.in Have a look.

A day’s worth of messing around with code and pixel-percentage adjustments. Fira Sans and a limited colour palette so the photographs speak clearly. Sneaked in a fun 404 page, too.

The difference between flying in an airplane, walking, and riding a bicycle is the same as that between looking through a telescope, a microscope, and a movie camera. Each allows for a particular way of seeing. From an airplane, the world is a distant representation of itself. On two legs, we are condemned to a plethora of microscopic detail. But the person suspended over two wheels, a meter above the ground, can see things as if through the lens of a movie camera: he can linger on minutiae and choose to pass over what is unnecessary.

— Valeria Luiselli, Sidewalks