i got behind because i didn’t have internet access while i was out of town (i highly recommend visiting the island of ocracoke on the outer banks of north carolina)
i finished editing my time lapse video, and it took parts of three days, but i’ll claim it as two, for saturday and sunday. here are some stills from it:
and you can watch the actual video RIGHT HERE. the song is “welcome, ghosts” by explosions in the sky.
I watched one of the movies I had recorded on the tee-vee tonight. To be honest, The 47 Ronin part II was hard for me to get through and not a favorite. Maybe it would’ve helped if I had see part I? I wanted to check it out because the synopsis looked promising: samurai seek revenge and all 47 of them are sentenced to death by suicide based on a true story. Visually the film had some nice stuff to look at (costumes, hair, a look into different country and different time period).
This drawing is a paused screenshot from the movie jotted down on paper. I roughly sketched out the courtyard that these two dudes were sitting in, but later decided to paste over the green-blue notebook paper background instead. As the movie was in black and white, I was also able to color it however I liked.
Some months ago, I ordered the deluxe Helvetica film DVD pack. It finally arrived this week, oh joy! We watched it on Saturday night and wow, it was good… It’s a full-length feature documentary on the Helvetica font, it has a great soundtrack, some bits were slow, but altogether informative and refreshing. I truly didn’t realise how ubiquitous the Helvetica font really is. I enjoyed the different perspectives of various designers; geez, some of them are really font-geeks to a level that I don’t understand, yet admire at the same time because the work produced is so… beautiful, rhythmic, visual poetry really.
My Helvetica film DVD pack is a limited-edition package with the retail DVD, three letterpressed mini-posters (I think I will frame them and hang them in a row), a color C-print of a still from the film (street scene of a LADIES toilet sign in helvetica) signed by director Gary Hustwit, two love/hate Helvetica buttons, and the letter n/u of actual Helvetica metal type.
