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John Kenn’s dreamy Post-It Note art

John Kenn’s dreamy Post-It Note art

Years ago, I published an art and early cyberculture zine, called Going Gaga. I did an issue devoted to doodling. I’m fascinated by doodles, scribbles, “crazy walls” (those string-connected, associative wall collages that Hollywood serial killers and the cops who pursue them all seem to need), and all forms of loose-brained/non-linear thinking. The very precise […]

Maker Birthdays: William Blake

Maker Birthdays: William Blake

Most people probably think of William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) as a slightly whack-a-doodle British poet and painter. But he was so much more than that. He was a slightly whack-a-doodle British craftsman, inventor, engraver, printer, and self-publisher, among many other things. Blake believed that every human being had a “poetic […]

Ghost story puppet show, amazing!

Ghost story puppet show benefits kids’ charity @ Boing Boing… The team of hollywood SFX modeller Kevin McTurk is currently working on the next X-Men film. On the side, however, they do amazingly realistic puppetry. Embedded above is a promo for The Narrative of Victor Karloch, a non-profit traveling stage show benefiting childrens’ charity The […]

A tiny screen font you can actually download and use, free

A tiny screen font you can actually download and use, free

A reader who enjoyed Monday’s post about Ken Perlin’s astoundingly tiny screen font , but was disappointed to learn that the font was not available for use, wrote to point out Domenico Mazza’s “Zepto,” which is available for free over at MyFonts.com. Shown above is a comparison of Perlin’s Tiny Font to Zepto, with the same text, in the same screen area, at comparable size and density. You can see that Zepto isn’t quite as readable as Perlin’s font, but still does pretty well.