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Courier font has been perfected. Meet Courier Prime, if you dare.
For more of this morning’s roundup, click here.
I love it!
Personality of Parisian Neighborhoods Explored Through Typography
- Yasha Wallin wrote in in Paris, Creativity and Animation
By now, we all know that Paris is a magical place—whether you’ve been there yourself or paid attention to the countless cultural homages to the city through movies, music, books, and art. While Paris’ personality is romanticized, if you dig deeper, each of the 20 Arrondissements, or neighborhoods, that make up this historical city have their own distinct voice. The Marais has longstanding ties to Parisian Jewish life, and today boasts trendy boutiques, art galleries, and the city’s biggest gay community; the Latin Quarter is bustling with students, cafes, and bars, while Oberkampf boasts more “unpredictable” nightlife; and if you visit Père Lachaise you’ll find the cemetery of the same name, forever home to The Doors’ Jim Morrison.
The creative agency Havas Worldwide Paris in collaboration with Flying V explored this varied iconography and characteristics of each area through this clever animation; depicting each hood through a typography based animation.
What’s your favorite neighborhood in Paris?
YES! EVERYTHING I LOVE BUNDLED INTO ONE THING!
And Canal St. Martin recently became my new favorite neighborhood, now that I’ve been there.
smultronställe
(n.) lit. “place of wild strawberries"; a special place discovered, treasured, returned to for solace and relaxation; a personal idyll free from stress or sadness.
In the wake of something terrible, I am generally stunned into silence. There is nothing to be said that can encompass the unfathomable—news of a pedophile football coach, news of pedophile priests, a bombing in a country far away, a mass shooting in a movie theater, a mass shooting at a high school, a mass shooting at an elementary school, a bombing at the finish line of a marathon, the final mile of which was dedicated to the victims of a mass shooting at an elementary school. What wearies me is how often I have found myself stunned and silent in recent years. What especially wearies me is having such a finely honed vocabulary for tragedy.
Haruki Murakami needs to write a new work of fiction for me to live in for a bit. As it stands right now, I am playing his website’s music as background in my room, reading excepts online.
Incidentally, what incredibly appropriate site design.
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” To this day, especially in times of “disaster,” I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.
Fred Rogers (via rainydaysandblankets)
I remember this special during the Gulf War. I watched it with my mother, and I never forgot it.
“All of yesterday’s confusion in the reporting — it’s not a mistake…So my final — not initial — conclusion is, this is deliberate…The chaos they vomit onto the screen, the very thing we thought news organizations were created to clarify is a feature, not a bug.” - Jon Stewart
And I thoroughly agree.
Yesterday, Isaac Fitzgerald announced that on May 1 he is leaving The Rumpus after four years as managing editor, and will be assuming the position of publicity director for McSweeney’s.
This is wonderful news and I couldn’t be happier for him. He deserves all the best things. He will also be...
Isaac rocks as a person, and I’m glad to hear he also rocks as an editor.
Now with rose petals, mallow, and chamomile. Last time the mallow was replaced by oregano. #Roslindale (at Boston Cheese Cellar)
On August 22, 1972, John Wojtowicz, along with two accomplices, attempted to rob a branch of the Chase Manhattan bank at 450 Avenue P in Gravesend, Brooklyn. A major motivation for the robbery was to gather funds for his girlfriend, Elizabeth Eden’s, sex reassignment surgery.
The couple had met the previous year at Manhattan’s Feast of San Genarro and quickly fell in love. Although Wojtiwicz was technically still married to his first wife, he married Eden in a public ceremony a few months later.
Eden, a trans woman, struggled with severe depression. After several suicide attempts she was admitted to a psychiatric institution. Wojtiwicz attributed these struggles to not being able to afford the sex reassignment surgery that Eden badly wanted.
Unbeknownst to Eden, Wojtowicz began planning the bank heist. On the day in question he held bank employees hostage for 14 hours. He reportedly based his plan on the movie The Godfather. He spent the next 15 years in and out of prison and has stated that Eden visited him every month.
A movie based on the robbery, Dog Day Afternoon, starring Al Pacino and Chris Sarandon was relased in 1975. Wojtowicz used the money he made from selling the movie rights to his story to pay for Eden’s surgery.
Eden eventually remarried and passed away from AIDS related pneumonia in 1987. Wojtwowicz, freshly released from prison, attended her funeral and delivered the eulogy.
