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2011 Typographic Wall Calendar
Project by Harald Geisler

This is serious. This is calendar ART. This is art that is a CALENDAR. This is, may I repeat myself, serious. And striking.

"The keys have to be arranged by hand and photographed line-by-line to achieve high resolution and minimize lens distortion. The 2010 prototype was a gigantic image of 323 Megapixel (15119 x 21378, 1,83 GB Photoshop RGB).

The size of the print is B0 (70cm x 100cm / 27.56in x 39.37in). The large format is needed to reproduce the keys in their actual size. It will be printed in four color offset on thick paper and UV coated to protect the print from scratches and the colors from bleaching. The UV coating also makes it is possible to write on the print with whiteboard markers."

Dear readers, how rare it is I make imperatives. Yet, now, here it is: Pledge. I am.
And you should support those things that I like because my liking things is a direct comment on their worthiness. Of course.

takeoffs and landings

Gibraltar Airport, runway, Mediterranean Sea, etc. 'can't you see?'

Who Flies There:
Air Malta, British Airways, EasyJet, Iberia Airlines, and Monarch Airlines.

Difficult to maneuver, flanked on all sides by international (Spanish not British) airspace, and yet it would all be kosher if not for:

"The most challenging aspect... defies logic."

"They [tourists] think it's a car park. You have people in air traffic control saying 'you can't stop in the middle of the runway'."

See Also: Courcheval Airport, France; Princess Juliana Int'l Airport, St. Maarten

just a brief comment on the election...

Rand Paul, Senator Elect, Kentucky, 1963-

"I think you don't have a right to happiness -- you have the right to the pursuit of happiness." -Rand Paul

Paul Rand, American graphic designer, 1914-1996

"Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. [...] Design is the foundation of all the arts." -Paul Rand




















Discerning citizens are urged by the editor of c&uw to please not confuse the two.

those cities in which i most often ride trains

rules: one photo for each, none to be repeated. no trains in photos.

        

           

A rendering of NYC if the East River were to be filled in to close the gap between Manhattan and Brooklyn

Lake Shore Drive (LSD), easily my favorite road in our nation, also the favorite road of all road travellers for vomiting out of a cab

Apparently flood waves over London Bridge weren't working, so instead just a picture of London (?) as seen through the eyes of the beholder. ie drunk.

Happy Halloween...

last year, convinced nothing was more important, i stayed home on halloween and watched "horror" films (mainly pre-dating the genre) from the 50s.

this year, i go do the societally-accepted halloween thing. i feel like i already know the ending to it, though.

there's nothing like... bad singing

australian tourism ad, for your viewing pleasure. (15% away from a completed application for ANU, fall semester, beginning February 2011).

Library of Babel, and others, photographed

I can't believe I haven't done a post on libraries yet. They are the cream in my architecture pastry.

One of the better artistic renderings of Borges' Library of Babel, 1941

Salt Lake City Main Public Library in Salt Lake City, Utah by Moshe Safdie and Associates, 2003

 

Stockholm Library by Interior Architects Armel Neouze, Jacques Gelez, and Olivier Charles, 2007

Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt, Architects: Snøhetta, 2002

And lest any of this make you homesick:

Harper Library Reading Room, The University of Chicago