So the other day I found this movie called "Helvetica" on netflix. yes like the font. Its a documentary about the history of Helvetica, and its impact on graphic design and typography over the past decade. sounds dorky, I know but if youre a designer or ever really get into type its pretty interesting. If you have Netflix you can watch it on line.
I told Tom about it and he started to watch it. here's our convo this morning. Oh and Happy birthday you old yak gelder.
Tom: 24 minutes in to Helvetica, and it is VERY cool. Kirk: ha ha. i love the german accents ... "elvedica.. eets like aiaah.." Tom: yeah, I love that too. Always reminds me of Deter from Sprockets. Tom: I knew I loved that font for a reason. It ireally is perfect. I lost it about a year ago when moving computers, so I only have Arial. I need to get helvetioca back. Kirk: yea, i dont know why i dont have it. where can you get it? Tom: it costs $$ Tom: I got it flowed once. Kirk: yea i found it on the LinoType site. its $$... its so generic you think it would be free. bastards! Tom: yeah Kirk: they should hand that shit out like a business card Tom: I bet most of the "helvetica" we see today on the streets is Arial. Which sucks. Kirk: i honestly cant tell a difference. here's a Arial vs Helvetica quiz http://www.iliveonyourvisits.com/helvetica/Tom: the R is different kirk: for sure Tom: here's the Arial Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial Kirk: the t is different too.... crazy Tom: I have something called "coolvetica" which is pretty close....want it? Kirk: i can get it from that font site. i almost did yesterday Tom: right. it's not bad. i got it for the T Kirk: just the t? lol Tom: actually, the 't' Kirk: here's a more indepth article about the differences; http://www.ms-studio.com/articlesarialsid.html Tom: that is insteresting! I thought the t in arial had a straight top, and helvetica's was slanted. I'm all fucked up. Kirk: ha ha. the capital G is very unique to helvetica. that tooth hanging off is really signature Tom: I HATE the Airal C The ends are angled the wrong way!!! Kirk: oh totally Tom: yeah, the G is killer Kirk: i think i like the Grotesk 215 "R" the best tho Tom: yeah, the little flip on the end of the helvetica R is little gay. Kirk: and retarded Tom: dorkiest conversation EVER Kirk: totally!!! i love it Tom: HAHA!! Kirk: i feel like we should be in big leather chairs smoking pipes Tom: Or sitting at giant desks with nothing on them, except a swiss designed lamp. Kirk: and really cool euro eyeglasses.yours will be lime and mine will be orange Tom: ya Kirk: with a giant poster of a Helvetica "G" behind us Tom: HAHA! Kirk: damnit i need Helvetica now! i feel like a shill using Arial. Tom: yeah for sure. I know some dudes on SnB have it. There's some serious type guys on there. Kirk: yea the coolvetica "t" is nuts Tom: I'm going do a test with Arial, and Coolvetica the capital G is retarted. it's like G and J makin' babies kirk: i'm DLing it now Tom: and J is taking it from behind Kirk: lol ... notquitevetica Tom: Hellifthisishelvetica.... Likehelvetica Kirk: i just clicked the photoshop icon.. see you in 3 hours Tom: lol Kirk: the coolvetica "G" "j" and "q" are lame. Tom: totally. they tried way too hard. Kirk: the more i look at Arial the more ugly it is to me Tom: I KNOW! and it sucks, because it's my "go-to" font. Kirk: and now i feel like im in some secret "can tell the difference between Arial and Helvetica" club. Arial, its the poor mans Helvetica Tom: Yup. I know real desingers laugh at me for using Arial Kirk: Tom: those smarmy fuckers Kirk: im envisioning a comic strip. Milhouse saying "Hello nelson" written in arial, and then getting kicking him in the shins by Nelson while he says "HA HA" back to him, written in helvetica. it would be hard to tell its Helvetica with "HA HA" tho. it would be very subtle
I brought a Lean Cuisine tuscan chicken panini and an orange in a safeway bag for lunch. I put it in the office fridge like I always do. When i went to go get it and nuke it there was a surprise waiting for me.
i guess the new chick (secret santa) had a Lean Cuisine Pizza and a piece of fruit in a safeway bag and took mine. and cooked it. and ate it. and knew it.. there was a post-it on the pizza saying sorry it was a mistake. I'm not trying to accuse anyone of foulplay but how far into a chicken panini do you have to get before you realise its not a pizza.
So, nevertheless, I was nice and took the pizza ... same difference right?
WRONG.. a shitty mushroom gourmet pizza is NOT a chicken Tuscan panini! i hate mushrooms and thats all it was. mushrooms and cheese on flatbread. no sauce. so when i cooked it, it was just mushroom juice and cheese and gross mushshrooms. Despite the smell, i took a bite and almost puked...then threw it away.
to add insult to injury, my orange was rotten on one side. so i guess i'm having Stride Sweetmint chewing gum for lunch.
fucking sucks. This was my first lunchjacking.
PS: new chick, if somehow you're reading this, It really wasn't a big deal and I dont hate you. but you owe me some chicken panini.
A&E has a new show thats kinda like Ghost Hunters called Paranormal State. It was ok. While watching, it made me appreciate the way Ghost Hunters investigates. For example, in the ep i saw, the woman complains about a ghost and one of the things is "i hear bells ringing"
The first thing i noticed when they went into the house was a bell hanging outside the front door. like a door bell. TAPS would have been all over this.
Another thing was they bring in this medium guy, who keeps asking questions to the investigator dude, and you can totally tell he's looking for clues all over the place. To the investigator's credit he never gives straight answers. he's really vague which really fucks up fake psychics. Then the psychic says "is there a woman with an M name.. like Margarete?" there wasnt that we knew of. the investigator says "should there be?" nice one! then the medium said theres something out there... and he points to the back yard, which is mostly woods. they search and come across a headstone marked Margarete. the psychic, who looks like Capote, screams like a little girl and exclaims "MARGARET!!" in a tone like "see i told you so" that was pretty rad.
another extra creepy part was that everyone who lived in this remote house had dogs that got run over and killed.
to make a long story short the ghost was a dog i think.
Then, after that paranormal show they had this special about 6th Sense kids. it was really interesting but i fucking fell asleep because it came on at like 12:00
i guess these kids ages like 10 - 17 can see, hear and otherwise sense spirits and dead people. and they all get shunned by friends and its a real thing for them. one girl, the oldest says that she's supressed her ability to see them because it scared her too much but can feel them.
from A&E's site. In this special spotlighting psychic kids, we will focus on three compelling psychic and/or mediumistic kids (ages 10-17) as they learn to manage the gift they have been given. Like real life "Heroes", these kids feel isolated and alone, set apart from the other "normal" kids because of the burden of their powers. We will meet them at their home, in their own environment, to experience what they are dealing with before they come to a very special three day "camp" that will offer invaluable support and guidance from the professional psychics. Paranormal State psychic Chip Coffey helps these kids through this three day transformational experience.
The Capote looking, psychic guy that was on an ep of that paranormal show brought them all to this cabin in the woods for a retreat so they can share their stories and abilities and not feel like a freak.
at one point they all got in a circle and held hands .. then this one kid said his eyes were watering but he didn't know why. and that he sensed fire or heat. almost all of the kids all said they felt heat or had the sense of someone burning. later, one of the guys that worked at the camp said that a cabin burned down 2 years ago and killed a couple.
it seemed genuine and they all said different stuff. these kids had been through hell because of their 6th sense. cant sleep, scared all the time.
one girl said she can see things before they happen and some of them have healing powers. The 13yr old girl meets this other kids mom for the first time and does a psychic reading thing and says her knee is bad and describes it as if she can see the actual missing cartilage in her knee and tries to fix it using her energy. she said that she had just figured out how to see into peoples bodies, "like the blood and organs and stuff". Its funny because she's this total blond girly-girl 13 yr old.
it will be on tomorrow at 3amEastern what so like 12 Pacific.... Damn, i wish i didnt fall asleep. I'll try to see it tonite.
And they were right!! It's raining like a race horse in a pissing contest out there. and windy too!
Whats funny tho is that its not even all that bad, but here in sunny, moderate California we wet our pants over any kind of actual weather.
Everyone on the roads this morning were driving safe and keeping a distance.. except this one fucking minivan. this dude(bitch?) kept cutting people off and riding their ass. I bet this is the same jagoff that wont have his headlights on during the commute home. i think thats actually a law here now. headlights required if you have your wipers on.. best law passed in 07 I'd say.
here's some photos.
talk about bad timing. right after the oil spill a couple weeks ago, the local gas station had these on sale at the register.
my rain gauge
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frozen car. skateboarding @ 7:00 am.
nothing says "FUN" like cutting out and playing dress up with America's favorite Republican Presidents.
i needed an 08 calendar for my desk and theres a stack of shit vendors leave on the front desk.. i grabbed the smallest calender that was there.. it was all paintings. like impressionist and bob ross type shit. i figured i needed a calendar and this one wasnt huge so fuck it.
I turn the first page and it has photos of "the artists" that did the paintings. and then i read the title of the calendar.. "...painted by the mouth and foot painting artists"
they're all amputees!!!!!!!
i feel bad laughing.. but its totally not what i was expecting to see. considering their disabilities.. these paintings arent half bad. "not bad for an amputee" the title of this post is January's painting title.
Don't hate in 2008. Dont be late in 2008. It'll be great in 2008. Make em wait in 2008. Go out-of-state in 2008. Let him lick your plate in 2008. Call up Nate, in 2008. Clean slate, in 2008. Get a date in 2008. Appreciate in 2008. Dont drink acetate in 2008.
damn, a lot of stuff rhymes with 8. i had a bitch of a time coming up with something for last year.
anyway, happy new year. here's some of my favorite blogs from that piece of shit 2007. It was gonna be a top 10 but i just like to read myself so much Its just a list.
skate or die dude may not be a total fav, but its the first post of 2007. funny how i'm skating every weekend now and my ass currently hurts from falling over the weekend.
well thats all i feel like spending time on this morning. there's other good ones, and i'm sure you have your personal favs. if its not on this list, search for it and post up in the comments.
happy new year assfaces! thanks for reading the noggins. oh yea, i changed the banner again.
i had a pretty wild party on new years. this was my coffee table.
I made this into a desktop wallpaper. click for full size.
Mc Killa G
stencil art i'm working on.
heh heh, you said Unit.
subliminal messages from the Island.
fuck it. giving the people what they really want.
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