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Script decorating part of Topaki palace. This is carved and embedded in the wall in the Harem I think. In turkey, writing is an artform and it takes upto a year to learn to write each letter in all the variations or so my guide told me. But then he thought everything was the best in Turkey or originated in Turkey too. Istanbul, Turkey.
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ABOUT AUBERGE SCRIPT
It took me a long time, but I think I now understand why people of my generation and older feel the need to frame current events in an historical context or precedents, while most of the young couldn't care less about what happened ten years ago, let alone centuries back. After living for a few decades, you get to a point when time seems to be moving quite fast, and it’s humbling to see that your entire existence so far can be summed up in a paragraph or two which may or may not be useful to whoever ends up reading the stuff anyhow. I suppose one way to cope with the serenity of aging is trying to convince yourself that your life and work are really an extension of millenia of a species striving to accept, adapt to, and improve the human condition through advancing the many facets of civilization -- basically making things more understandable and comfortable for ourselves and each other while we go about doing whatever it is we are trying to do. And when you do finally convince yourself of that, history becomes a source of much solace and even a little premonition, so you end up spending more time there.
Going far back into the history of what I do, one can easily see that for the most part it was ruled by the quill. Western civilization’s writing was done with quill pens for more than thirteen centuries and with newer instruments for about two. By the mid-18th century, the height of the quill experience, various calligraphy techniques could be discerned and writing styles were arranged in distinct categories. There are many old books that showcase the history of it all. I recommend looking at some whenever the urge comes calling and you have to get away from backlit worlds.
Multiple sources usually help me get a better perspective on the range of a specific script genre, so many books served as reference to this quill font of mine. Late 17th century French and Spanish professional calligraphy guides were great aides in understanding the ornamental scope of what the scribes were doing back then. The French books, with their showings of the Ronde, Bâtarde and Coulée alphabets, were the ones I referenced the most. So I decided to name the font Auberge, a French word for hotel or inn, because I really felt like a guest in different French locales (and times) when I going through all that stuff.
Because it is multi-sourced, Auberge does not strictly fit in a distinct quill pen category. Instead, it shows strong hints of both Bâtarde and Coulée alphabets. And like most of my fonts, it is an exercise in going overboard with alternates, swashes, and ornamental devices. Having worked with it for a while, I find it most suitable for display calligraphic setting in general, but it works especially well for things like wine labels and event invitations. It also shines in the original quill pen application purpose, which of course was stationery. Also, as it just occurred to me, if you find yourself in a situation where you have to describe your entire life in 50 words or less, you may as well make it look good and swashy, so Auberge would probably be a good fit there as well.
This is one quill script that no large bird had to die for.
A few technical notes
The Auberge Script Pro version includes 1800 glyphs, everything is included there. Also latin language support. We recommend you to use the latest design application to have full access to alternates, swashes, small caps, ornaments, etc. The images from the gallery uses this version. For better results use the fonts with “liga” feature on.
Awards
During 2014 the early develop of Auberge Script was chosen to be part of Tipos Latinos, the most important type exhibition in South America.
Take a look of the complet project at on.be.net/15Yq5XY
SUDTIPOS NEWS
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We are proud to announce the release of Courtesy Script, our latest ornamental tribute to late S. XiX penmanship.
Get Courtesy > www.myfonts.com/fonts/sudtipos/courtesy-script-pro/
ABOUT COURTESY
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As in Victorian times, the precious, hand-lettered look of custom stationery is back in vogue. Enter Courtesy Script, my newest ornamental script typeface.
Courtesy captures the elegance and propriety of finely practiced Spencerian penmanship, in particular the Zanerian school. Its lowercase is notably understated, a simple monoline with very wide connections that ease readability. In the capitals, Courtesy adds variety in both the weight of the strokes, and in degrees of flourish — from merely fancy to over-the-top engrossery.
Based on an alphabet found in a 19th-century penmanship journal, Ale created hundreds of additional, stylistically complementary letterforms. Alternate capitals and lowercase letters, swashed lowercase forms, and ending and ornamental swashes; numerals, punctuation, and non-English and accented characters.
With virtually endless ways to customize its use, Courtesy helps designers create fluid, signature looks on stationery and invitations, book covers, fashion layouts, and packaging.
More fonts
Visit www.sudtipos.com
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20th February 2015
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German collectors card by J & M Serienbilder Produktion Saar, no. 61. Photo: Gloria Film. Still fromBuffalo Bill, l'eroe del far west / Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West (Mario Costa, 1965). The German film title was Das war Buffalo Bill. Caption: 'Buffalo Bill knows that there will be no peace in Indian Creek until the chief ‘Yellow Hand’ has been brought to justice. Bill pursues him relentlessly to get the kidnapped Mary and his friend Hunter away from the redskin.'
The entertaining and colourful Eurowestern Buffalo Bill, l'eroe del far west / Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West (1965) was a coproduction by Italy, France and West Germany. American bodybuilder and former Tarzan, Gordon Scott, played the mythical hero taking on Indians and Cheyenne chief Yellow Hand. The cast included German actors Hans Von Borsody, Jan Hendriks, and Ingeborg Schöner, Italian actors Roldano Lupi and Mario Brega and French actress Catherine Ribeiro. Director Mario Costa was credited as John W. Fordson, and cinematographer Massimo Dallamano as Jack Dalmas.
Louis Agotay, Pierre Corty, Nino Stresa (Sigfrido Tomba) and Ernesto Gastaldi wrote the script for Buffalo Bill, l'eroe del far west / Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West (Mario Costa, 1965). It is a fictionalised account of the life and career of mythical hero William F. Cody (Gordon Scott,) better known as Buffalo Bill, legendary Western hero, from his days as an army Major. Cody is sent west by President Ulysses S. Grant to settle an Indian uprising started by Cheyenne Yellow Hand (Mirko Ellis) and his hostile tribe, who are illegally sold guns and whiskey by Big Sam Donaldson (Mario Brega) and his outlaws. The local troops are led by the rigid Federal Colonel Peterson (Roldano Lupi), who lives at the army outpost with his beautiful daughter, Mary (Ingeborg Schöner). Cody goes to the chief of Yellow Hand's tribe, Wise Fox (Feodor Chaliapin Jr.), and tries to convince him to sign a peace treaty with the Federal troops. Along the way, Bill delivers justice by confronting nasties and brawls at the Gold Dust saloon, whose owner is the suspicious Monroe (Jan Hendriks). To avoid a peace treaty, Yellow Hand and Donaldson’s gun runners abduct Wise Fox's daughter, Moonbeam (Catherine Ribeiro ), and try to blame Colonel Peterson's soldiers. Yellow Hand's deception succeeds, and the Indians attack the army fort. The only way peace can be restored is by Buffalo Bill defeating Yellow Hand in a climactic, savage, one-on-one fight. Buffalo Bill was the hero of many films in Hollywood and Europe. Tom Tyler played Cody in Battling with Buffalo Bill (Ray Taylor, 1931). Five years later, Gary Cooper was Buffalo Bill in The Plainsman (1936) by Cecil B. De Mille. Often considered the best Buffalo Bill film is Buffalo Bill (William A. Wellman, 1944) with Joel McCrea, Thomas Mitchell, Maureen O'Hara and Anthony Quinn as Yellow Hand. Other films are Buffalo Bill Rides Again (Bernard Ray, 1947) with Richard Arlen, Buffalo Bill a Roma / Buffalo Bill in Rome (Giuseppe Accattino, 1949), Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory (Bernard Ray, 1952) with Clayton Moore, and Aventuras del Oeste / Seven Hours of Gunfire (Joaquin Romero Marchent, 1965) with Rik Van Nutter as Buffalo Bill Cody and Adrian Hoven as Wild Bill Hickok. Underrated is the historical pastiche Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (Robert Altman, 1976) with Paul Newman, who portrays Buffalo Bill as a cynical charlatan and shameless exemplar of encroaching imperialism.
Although Buffalo Bill, l'eroe del far west / Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West (Mario Costa, 1965) is a thrilling Eurowestern filmed in Italy, it is not a typical Spaghetti Western. It has more in common with the Winnetou films. It was made in 1964 when the Peplum (Sword and Sandal) films made in Cinecittà were going out of fashion, and Sergio Leone's Man With No Name trilogy was just starting to skyrocket to popular success. The film misses the items usually associated with Spaghetti Westerns, except for the badly dubbed dialogue, European locations substituting for the American West and Spaniards playing Native Americans. The mini-biopic about the mythical frontier explorer and army officer Buffalo Bill has the style of the American Western of the 1940s and 1950s, from the standard Western plot right down to the musical score. Several elements make it an enjoyable film. The filmmakers had a budget and could film spectacular outdoors in widescreen, filmed in Spain and Italy. There are dozens of extras, as well as a complete replica of an army fort built. The action sequences, with rousing Indian attacks against the Yankee fort and the realistic shootouts, are well done. The score by Carlo Rustichelli is moving. The story, despite the presence of the colourful Wild West figure Buffalo Bill, is sadly a bit flat and predictable, with stereotypical dialogue. Director Mario Costa, credited with the pseudonym J. W. Fordson, was a craftsman who directed several adventure films and Westerns, including some films starring Gordon Scott. Scott's endless fistfights with hulking brute Yellow Hand (Mario Brega) and their climactic battle are the highlights of Buffalo Bill, l'eroe del far west (1965).
As Buffalo Bill Cody, sporting a buckskin jacket, jeans and a goatee, Gordon Scott played a genuine hero, rather than the ambiguous anti-hero Clint Eastwood played in the Leone trilogy. Gordon Scott was tall and had a lean waist but muscular bulk and a likeable, almost innocent disposition. He played Tarzan six times from 1955 to 1960 and then became known for his Peplum roles, like Goliath, Samson, Remus and Hercules. His short acting career lasted till 1967. D.B. Dumonteil at IMDb: “The hero is called ‘Buffalo Bill’, but they could have chosen Davy Crockett or Hopalong Cassidy or any legendary Wild West character. After Tarzan and the Sword and Sandals flicks, and before becoming, in the wake of James Bond, a secret agent, Gordon Scott (essentially remembered for his part opposite Steve Reeves, in an estimable Romolo e Remo) was cast as the fearless horseman on the right side of the law. (…) The movie borrows a little from many American movies: of course, there's a fort with a bossy colonel who does not want his daughter to marry a nice captain - because marrying a military man would make her a widow too soon; a final fight between Bill and the nasty Indian is the Pièce de Resistance of a harmless entertaining Western, with rather nice cinematography and a good sense of space which makes up (a little) for the triteness of the plot.” And Steven Nyland at IMDb: “Sure, it's silly and potentially offensive to see Spanish supporting actors dressed up like Injun braves and dubbed by voice actors with mid-Atlantic quasi-British accents. What the film may lack in terms of authenticity, it makes up for with wide-eyed innocence, and they even have Scott ride off waving to the crowd in the end to the applause & cheers of those he had saved, just like in his Maciste films. Not something you'd see Clint Eastwood do, that's for sure.” Gordon Scott made one more Eurowestern for Albert Band, the tragic Spanish romantic range drama Gli uomini dal passo pesante / The Tramplers (Albert Band, Mario Sequi, 1965). Rumour has it that while preparing to make a third Western, his nose was broken by co-star Mario Brega. He found the disfigurement ruinous to his photogenic looks, and after two more Eurospy films, he abruptly retired from the film industry in late 1965. By the time Buffalo Bill, l'eroe del far west / Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West (1965) was circulating, the Italian Western was changed by the more stylish approaches of Django and Sergio Leone's Dollar films. The more traditionalist approach of Buffalo Bill looked a bit old-fashioned by comparison, but its naïve charm and energy can be quite refreshing for today’s viewers.
Sources: D.B. Dumonteil (IMDb), Steve Nyland (IMDb), Wikipedia, SWBD and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Post Script Feb 2024
This shaped jigsaw is by ZigZag not Holtzapffel
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Needs revising, as this is a ZigZag jigsaw.
March 2015
The collection of Holtzapffel Figure-It-Out jigsaws shown at the BCD 2015 House Party may have been the largest group of the puzzles assembled in recent times, from many collectors.
Unfortunately I failed to record the identity of the Regency Couple, in this medium to large jigsaw cut in an interlocking earlet style. The jigsaw is not on Jigasaurus (though it is vaguely familiar).
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The Figure=It=Out range of puzzles used excellent quality artistic prints, many of which originated as promotional film & theatre posters and were ingeniously recycled. To remove the extraneous type and information they were line-cut around the main subject(s) and then dissected (generally in semi-interlocking style often with "drop-outs", or small missing areas). The brand name describes the way the figures have been cut from their surroundings, but also the challenge of working out how the different elements fit together as an image.
The illustrious BCD member giving the talk also provided a promotional leaflet - which listed 36 titles in the range of 125-350pc (cost 5s - 11s, plus postage) in 1922, plus the Blue Bird (75 or 200pc at 2s or 5s), and a range of 12 small puzzles (mainly heads of women, at 2s 6d). They felt the need to explain the concept: "These puzzles are something quite new, and are real puzzles. The usual square margins are absent, and there are no pieces with straight edges to serve as guides in starting. This adds greatly to the interest, as the only course is to "FIGURE IT OUT"."
By 1923 prices had increased - the sizes went from 75pc (at 3s or 3s 6d) up to 400pc (18s 6d - three titles), but only the 75pc Blue Bird was offered at 3s 6d, all plus postage.
You can see an excellent selection of these puzzles on Jigasaurus, including many of the ones shown at our meeting.
www.thejigasaurus.com/jigasaurus/v/holtzapffel/figure_it_...
Jigsaw production represents about 25yrs of a 162yr history of the firm. The Holtzapffel dynasty of tool and lathe makers was founded in Long Acre, London by a Strasbourg-born turner, Jean-Jacques Holtzapffel, in 1794. The business was located at 64 Charing Cross, London from 1819 until 1901 when the site was required “for building purposes”. The firm then moved to New Bond Street, and were in premises in the Haymarket from 1907 to 1930.
SUDTIPOS NEWS
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We are proud to announce the release of Courtesy Script, our latest ornamental tribute to late S. XiX penmanship.
Get Courtesy > www.myfonts.com/fonts/sudtipos/courtesy-script-pro/
ABOUT COURTESY
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As in Victorian times, the precious, hand-lettered look of custom stationery is back in vogue. Enter Courtesy Script, my newest ornamental script typeface.
Courtesy captures the elegance and propriety of finely practiced Spencerian penmanship, in particular the Zanerian school. Its lowercase is notably understated, a simple monoline with very wide connections that ease readability. In the capitals, Courtesy adds variety in both the weight of the strokes, and in degrees of flourish — from merely fancy to over-the-top engrossery.
Based on an alphabet found in a 19th-century penmanship journal, Ale created hundreds of additional, stylistically complementary letterforms. Alternate capitals and lowercase letters, swashed lowercase forms, and ending and ornamental swashes; numerals, punctuation, and non-English and accented characters.
With virtually endless ways to customize its use, Courtesy helps designers create fluid, signature looks on stationery and invitations, book covers, fashion layouts, and packaging.
More fonts
Visit www.sudtipos.com
Autographed by April Telek (Darla the saloon girl), Jim Michaels (executive producer), Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Kevin Parks (1st AD), Russ MovieGod Hamilton (locations manager), Jared Padalecki, and Clif Kosterman
Donated by April Telek
"Immediately after the final home game of every season, the band performs what is known as "Script Kent", a formation similar to "Script Ohio" performed by The Ohio State University Marching Band and using the same song, Le Régiment de Sambre et Meuse by Robert Planquette. As part of the tradition, the band spells out "Kent" with the stadium lights off and band members wearing green glow sticks around their ankles that are uncovered only after the stadium lights have been turned off."
Video by Maddie Otterdaughter
Movie scripts from the past for sale on Lower Broadway. Dr. Strangelove and Cool Hand Luke are from 1964 and 1967. The Wizard of Oz is from 1939.
Original script for "The Goddess Speaks.", a multi-dimensional modern/ classic club performance that opened at Shelter, 564 West Fulton, on July 13, 1990