Dive into the archives.

• Farewell, Polaroid Instant Film

  While reading an update in today’s paper about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo, a wee blip of a news item also caught my attention.
  From The Oregonian:
  Polaroid Corp. is dropping its pioneering instant-film technology.
  !
  I immediately went online to find out more and sure enough, according to PCWorld’s blog:
  Polaroid has announced it’s ceasing production of its instant film, [...]

  Posted on Feb 09.08 to photography, polaroid   

• I Love Flowers

  It’s Friday and I have flowers on the brain.
  There’s no long term connection here. It just happens I’m writing a blog post about flowers and I bought a botanical ornament font designed by Brazilian designer Gustavo Lassala (I wish I knew Portugese…) called Flozo.

  A wee while ago I also purchased SubiktoTwo which if you don’t [...]

  Posted on Feb 08.08 to design, typography   

• 2008 Festival of the Photograph

  It’s that time again.
  We missed last year’s festivities and this year The Festival of the Photograph’s featured artists include Mary Ellen Mark, Joel-Peter Witkin and James Nachtwey.
  Whoa.
  Festival passes are available now for $99 (for 3 days).
  It’s a steal.
  Students: Purchase a pass for $50.
  Buy a ticket and reserve lodging toute suite. Rooms near the downtown walking [...]

  Posted on Feb 06.08 to photographers, photography   

• Engrave your laptop or ipod

  Phillip Torrone of Make Magazine made the business of etching a gadget open source when he and Limor Fried founded Adafruit Industries.
  His blog post How its Made: Laser Etching Powerbooks is still popular.
  I love how it looks and still now sure if I’ll ever make the leap.

  But, if I ever get brave enough to tattoo [...]

  Posted on Feb 05.08 to design   

• I love Numbers

  No, not the iWork Numbers from Apple though I do prefer it over Excel.
  I love these Numbers:

  Aren’t they wonderful?
  From typography.com:
  For more than a century, typefounders considered numbers separately from the provision of other printing types. Nineteenth century type specimen books often displayed a separate section containing fonts of numbers alone, many of which contained [...]

  Posted on Feb 04.08 to design, typography   

• A Brief Moment of Bliss

  It snowed today.
  I still get excited.

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  Posted on Feb 02.08 to garden, photography, portland