Archive for the ‘nerdery’ Category
Helvetica
So I’ve been working my way slowly through Helvetica, the documentary about the font. I love it, it’s both geeky and rewarding in a way that not many things are, but it’s also kinda hard work. Listening to designers talk about the mundanities of typefaces, and drone on about the philosophical implications of their work [...]
Digital Cinema by a dilettante
It’s not a pretty time to be a digital cinema camera manufacturer. There’s a crisis in the economy, film and tv production are down, reality television is supplanting dramatic content at an alarming rate. And then there are the sensor wars. In one corner, we have Panavision. Panavision probably needs no introduction to even casual [...]