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One of the pens on my desk - a real throwback, I can't remember when I have used a pen for anything more than a signature!
(1) Brian and I used Writely to compose the outline for this presentation. From Vancouver, he created the first version, and then sent me in Arizona, via email, an invitation to have access to write in the same document.
(2) We each added, changed, edited as the revisions show.
(3) We did not need to necessarily, but you can publish directly from Writely to a weblog (Blogger, MovableType. TypePad, WordPress, and more). See am example published directly to Blogger.
(4) Or we could, if needed, export directly from Writely to Word, OpenOffice, ODF, RTF. See an example of the same document exported as MS Word file.
In many ways, Writely provides the collaboration capability and versioning used in wikis, but with more features we like to use in word processing software. What takes it beyond wikis are its connections to other social software, export capabilities, and being more of a private space if you choose.
Nicolette Gray writes of Minister (Caslon 1880), “More interesting is the group of faces, neither quite script nor gothic, but very round like the new blacks, and like all blacks dominated by the lower-case design.
“Early versions still have something of the clerical touch of the seventies, Caslon's Minister is nonconformist with its smooth blacks and horizontal stresses and so is Stephenson Blake's Old Style Ornamented, even though the absurd hair lines popping up in curls detract from the downward droop of the lower-case m and n and the upper-case R.”¹
This face was designed by Herman Ihlenburg in 1878. The patent was assigned to MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan; MSJ showed it as Minster.
This letterpress typeface has not been digitally archived for posterity. Good-quality working specimens of the previews seen here are available to revival developers.
More about THP revival projects: forums.typeheritage.com/status/
More cool undigitized fonts: forums.typeheritage.com/undigitized/
More updates of Nicolette Gray's research of 19th-century type trends in Great Britain: forums.typeheritage.com/gray-chart/
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¹Gray, N. (1938): Chapter VII, 1875-1890. In XIXth Century Ornamented Types and Title Pages, pages 63-69. Faber and Faber Limited, London.
Academic life is said to be fun, but it can get really frantic when assignment, essays, projects are to be written especially on a short term deadline. www.buyassignment.com/can-someone-write-me-essay.html
I don't know if anyone ever reads my descriptions, but I write them anyway, so there!!
Was out today (August 20th 2021) on a forced vacation day, from 9:30AM til' almost 4PM. 80F today but it felt like 100F. This is a very active line and I probably flicked 20 freights today. 750+ flicks. By the time I get rid of a few duplicates, and bad ones, I'm guessing it'll be about 700 +/-. 700 to straighten, fix any color issues, upload, and also ID the writers. It's lots of time and as you can imagine, it's a lot of work, but so far it's been fun. I'm trying to not rush myself to post before I'm ready. I already have the flicks, and they're timeless. So getting them posted ASAP!!!!!! is not really my concern. Duh..
Had an interesting interaction with a guy while out there. Guy with backpack had walked back and forth across the tracks a few times. The lat time I saw him he was on the other side of a set, about 100 yards away. Next thing you know he's coming closer..... Closer..... And I'm like WTF? I'm way out here minding my own business. He walks within' like 10 ft. of me and I say "How ya' doin'?" he says something, and then says "Trains?" and I say "Yep." and he says "Oh.." and walks away. I think he was feelin' me out, as there's a small population of people who's homes are shall I say, mobile. I've talked to a few of them, and have never had a bad interaction, I just don't like people walkin' up on me when I'm trying to get away from the rest of the world out by the tracks. I go out there to get away from people, not to interact.
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I follow some other amazing photographers on flickr, but for this I will talk about the ones who flick the freights. There are a few that I really love. Some it's because of the great locations they shoot at, and others it's the amazing little details they manage to capture. For me (right now) I don't have the luxury of walking the lines and seeing pieces static. 99.999% of my flicks the freight is rolling by at 10-50 mph and sometimes I don't really even know what I have until I get home, dump the memory cards and go through the photos. Because of this, most of my flicks are just straight on shots and documenting what I saw and where. I saw this freight here, on this date, here's what was on it, and i captured it. Buffed or scraped next week, well I have it on "film" for future generations (sounds corny, I know). There are times when a freight will stop in-front of me, and I'll walk up and get some shots of monikers, but it's rare.
Obviously in any area there are sidings where freights park for extended periods, I know a few spots, but as I get older, and older, do I really want to leave my car parked on the side of the road and walk 2 miles to capture some little details I might normally miss? I'd love to, but it's just not practical for me at this time, any many other people do it better than I could. Retirement is getting closer every day, maybe then, when my weekdays are free. :-)
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During the Covid lockdown, I was working from home, and I was getting out benching like 2 & 3 times a month. Back at work, I'm lucky to have the energy to get out once a month. Every time I do manage to get out, I come home and my batteries feel re-charged. It's been so f-ing hot here in SoCal though, I can't wait for cooler weather and some clouds in the sky.
As always, thanks to the writers!
To see the rest of my freight graffiti flicks click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/siamesepuppy/collections/7215771678...
For freight graffiti slideshows/videos hit up my YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/SilenceSeven
There's this really cool movement that I was thinking of on the beach that day.
To quote Zambooie Clothing catalog thing...
"TWLOHA (To Write Love On Her Arms) is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for those struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery."
Check out their site: www.twloha.com.
USFS write-up; The former Lava Cast Forest Geological Area (now part of the Newberry National Volcanic Monument) was established by the Forest Service in 1942. The geological area was established to protect the many lava trees and tree molds which occur in the area. The various flows of the Lava Cast Forest were all erupted from the Northwest Rift Zone of Newberry Volcano.
There is a one mile paved self guided interpretive trail with barrier free access. The trail loops through an area where hot molten lava erupted from the northwest flank of Newberry Volcano and engulfed a forest here 7,000 years ago. The landscape now includes the "casts" or molds, of these ancient trees. Colonizing plants, such as delicate penstemon flowers and Indian paintbrush, have taken root in the rocky soil. Ponderosa pine trees have re-established themselves and flourished as well, so that the landscape now includes a blend of the past and the present.
My write-up of this day on Intentionally Lost
This image used Amaranth Dreams' "Ghost Stories / Fog Monster" action as a base edit, followed by my own subsequent adjustments.