Sorry for lagging on this one. I’ve gotten emails from a few people, including some I’ve never even met.
Here’s where we are as we break into December:
Finally got around to painting a few weeks ago. Got my guys in to paint everything pure white as a starting point, and stain the beams. Then my man Roy came over to help me coordinate some of the electrical issues, and help me mount the track lights between the beam and the soffit. Last week I got around to making the Home Depot run to buy the wood for the lattice that’s gonna be mounted just below the tracks. I finally got busy with it today.
The wood I picked up is red oak, like the 1945 floor. For the lattice, I picked up two eleven-foot 2″ x .75″ pieces for the lengths, and fifteen nine-foot 1″ x .75″ for the rungs. I’d originally planned to build it in one piece, but soon realized it’d be way to heavy. I need the thing to be easily removed in case I need to change a bulb.
I sat down with the math and figured that I’d build the lattice in three separate sections. To make things easy for myself, I went with 39.75″ for each length, with fourteen 34.75″ rungs per section spaced apart every three inches. This meant each of the lengths would need to each be cut into three pieces, with each of the fourteen rung pieces also cut into threes. Why 34.75″? Because the space between the beam and the soffit is 36.25″. So the math was 34.75 + (2 x .75) = 36.25.
Today’s activities included math, pencils, a saw, gloves, stain, and rags.
Dating back to the pre-computer days before we called them fonts, the typeface below comes from an old classic 1929 typography book called ‘Pen and Brush: Lettering and Practical Alphabets’. The typeface is called ‘Christmas’, and falls under the ‘Unusual Styles’ section. Kinda gives you that merry feeling, doesn’t it?
From the book’s introduction:
In modern practice, lettering has become part of a power of publicity and propaganda. So much depends on lettering to convey the meaning, the emotion, or even the atmosphere that it has become a work which at all times calls for thought, skill, and originality.
Lettering is like the voice of the elocutionist. It can portray joy and melancholia, it can shout or whisper, it can be loud and blatant or soft and refined. It can strike a note of urgency or of restraint; and these are the qualities which the modern advertiser and user of lettering wishes to employ.
For the people, by the people. That’s what Web 2.0 is all about.
As much as Web 1.0 design was concerned with form aesthetics like color, shape, and layout, Web 2.0 is all about function: how the content is organized and delivered, how compatible it is across different browsers and devices, and how valid the code is according to established (yet constantly evolving) technical standards. To drop an overused buzzword, Web 2.0 is about synergy, where a Web site, while standing alone as its own thing, also functions as a cooperative participant in a larger system of other Web sites. Using technology like RSS, the pool of information on the Internet becomes more relevant, readily available, and useful. It’s what the Web was always meant to be in theory. [click to continue…]
After over a decade of planning, Andreas and I finally worked out the details with some friends and carved out a hang at the first annual Mammoth Film Festival a couple weeks ago. His brainchild. Looks like it’ll be a yearly tradition. Weekend before Thanksgiving, just before the Mammoth rush. A perfect time of year. Mark your calendar.
Funny world we live in these days. I consider Andreas one of my best bros, and yet I never would’ve recognized his voice on the phone. Our communication has been 100% electronic until now.
Have you ever been stopped at a red light and you look over to the guy in the truck next to you who’s laughing hysterically to himself? And you wonder what in the world could be so funny as to cause him to laugh so hard with no visible influence?
Jace D’s Worldwide Website is a completely mental product. It is made from pure lateral thought processes, distilled ideas, and 100% whole natural bits: past, present, and future.
