Kerning secrets
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- ********0
If you ever need to escape from the world, there is absolutely no better place to do it than into a book.
heroin also works but isn't as socially acceptable,
- kelpie0
that's exactly what ever book looks like to me. only with less sauce
- 23kon0
ive got books that i want to read that are sitting in the flat but i truly never have the time to read and id much prefer to be doing something creative like making music in my spare time rather than "doing nothing" reading.
i hear what you are saying kelpie, you are probably meaning its a shame because you'll maybe be thinking im missing out from not reading such 'great' books.
but then i could argue that you are missing out from not ever hearing a certain album or spent hours farting about with patchleads on a moog to come up with the most amazing sound you have ever heard.different things float different peoples boats.
- OSFA0
nothing better than erotic novels...
- gramme0
Yeah letters, agree that gifuring out spatial relationships and determining legibility are sometimes at odds with eachother. Thus, a balance between the two must be struck...hence the subjective side of kerning.
23kon, in my experience reading opens up the pathways of my imagination like few other pastimes. It not only strengthens my ability to imagine pictures as opposed to having them spoon-fed to me by the almighty TV, but it has greatly enhanced my vocaabulary – thereby giving me greater ammo for discussing concepts, writing, and ultimately making me more desirable/marketable as a designer. Every non-reader I come across is very limited in their imagination and ability for intelligent discussion. There is little separating them from some of the furrier mammals.
- gramme0
gifuring??
*figuring.
:/
- gramme0
hahaha my spelling in that post was awesome, esp. how I misspelled vocabulary. Heh.
- paraselene0
i heard on some sort of reliable bbc documentary-type thing that more homes in britain have two cars than have two books.
:(
- letters20
gifuring
gramme
(Apr 30 07, 07:11)thats some seriously problematic kerning right there
- 23kon0
i heard on some sort of reliable bbc documentary-type thing that more homes in britain have two cars than have two books.
:(
paraselene
(Apr 30 07, 07:19)
-------------ive got more than 2 books!
lol
- paraselene0
the leading's fucked, as well.
:l
- ********0
do more people read in the states than in the uk para? i know more of us read a newspaper regularly, but book wise?
- Nairn0
Of course they do, skt - they have those Oprah and Starbucks book club things...
- ********0
Of course they do, skt - they have those Oprah and Starbucks book club things...
Nairn
(Apr 30 07, 07:30)Yeah, we can't really laugh at that though Nairn. My little sister used to work in publishing and she has told me the best way to sell a book in the uk was to get it on Richard and fucking Judy.
We are all fucked.
- gramme0
*launches a career drawing pictograms for illiterate Britons
- paraselene0
i dunno; to me it feels about the same, general literacy-wise.
but i hung out with fucking weirdo genius people over there and everyone i know over here seems to be pretty boffinish as well, so from a sample of my immediate environs i'd say people do tend to read fewer books over here and more newspapers.
but that text, as they might say in the ivory tower, has probably been queered.
i know where i saw that stat now - it was the your life thingmie on telly where they put all the newspapers you'll ever read and all the poos you'll ever do in a massive field somewhere and let representative toddlers muck about in all of it.
- ********0
you are stranger than normal today para.
- paraselene0
i know. there are various potential explanations.
- 23kon0
theres this one book that i keep meaning to buy, i hear its really popular around the world.
its about this dude that like creates his own world in like seven days then his son turns up and nae c*nt likes him cos he's a bit of a showoff with his magic tricks etc (maybe like derren brown or someone) so they hang him on this cross but its ok cos by easter time he's alright again.
sounds like a right hoot!
- blaw0
i heard on some sort of reliable bbc documentary-type thing that more homes in britain have two cars than have two books.
:(
paraselene
(Apr 30 07, 07:19)----
that cannot be right. i've never encountered a book-free household in my life, the first 18 years of which were spent in a little redneck coalmining town. if that's not a bastion of illiteracy, i'm afraid there isn't one.
in fact, i'm pretty sure all houses worldwide come standard with the bible, a dictionary, and madonna's "sex".