Its a Typography Post.

Was working on a project for school where I had to design a masthead for a fictional magazine. So playing around with fonts and such, I discovered this!

How amazingly cool is it that Baskerville's brackets are so gorgeously thin and light, that it looks like it belongs with a san serif typeface? And yet, it still matches the serif letters so well, since Baskerville I feel, has a relatively light stroke as it is. So nice.

(Not that there's anything wrong with Caslon, of course.)

How about a closer look please! And you know I love italics, even more than how much I love san serifs in their thin/ultrathin versions.

Check out the even stroke of the ampersand (&) on Baskerville Regular compared to the Caslon. And the contrast on its comma is gorgeous. While I'm not to sure on the sharpness of its question mark, I really love the flourish on Baskerville Italic's ampersand and just look at the sharp tapered ends of the brackets!

Its quite an innovative solution too, I think, with regards to designing what the italicized form of the brackets should be. Ultrathin strokes on regular, and a slight belly in italics, to denote a really graceful shift in weight and angle.

Sigh.

Seriously, Helter Skelter is an amazing song - both the original Beatles song and the version for Across the Universe. The rawness, the violence! GRAWR!

Do you, don't you want me to love you
I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you
Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the answer
Well you may be a lover but you ain't no dancer

Now helter skelter helter skelter
Helter skelter yeah
Ooh!

Will you, won't you want me to make you
I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you
Tell me tell me tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer

Damn killer. I suppose my taste for music late in the night when churning out work is loud and ear-killing. The Vines!

Old project based on Symone's translation of Baudelaire's Epilogue:

With heart at rest I climbed the citadel's/ Steep height

and see the city as from a tower, /Hospital, brothel, prison, and such hells,

I love thee, infamous city!

Harlots and /Hunted have pleasures of their own to give,

The vulgar herd can never understand.

(click to enlarge to get mofo-huge image)

Lol I always come out from a jaunt through Facebook-trawling feeling pretty lame.

ANYWAYS IN BETTER NEWS!

I went to this pretty amazing gig today, the first gig I've been too in a very long time and wah lau, the music was hella awesome. At first, the $18 entry seemed like quite a drag, even though it was a for a good cause but just seeing three of the bands listed to play at the gig made it damn worth my money. First band we caught was Amateur Takes Control, who co-incidentally! Has romantic links with a super-cool friend, who now that I've made this connection, has +97213172 Cool Points lol.

Hazri disagrees with me, but I really prefer listening to shoegaze/alternative rock/post-rock/whatever! live rather than a recorded version. There's something incredible about listening to all the layered sound going from heartachingly sweet tones and then building up and then you can FEEL the vibration from the bass (guitar and drums) hitting you and then the IMMENSE sound filling my ears like the universe! Its so huge and dense but you can feel every inflection and you're in touch with every motion and then the peak hits and the strobe light flashes white -

God, its just this intense bliss.

Or maybe that's just me, channeling and projecting my own emotions into a random well of sound that some people would consider noise.

And also, we saw Great Spy Experiment which is pretty nifty! Since the (higher priced) gig they had at the Esplanade sold-out damn fast and hey, technically $6 bucks to watch a 30-minute set so hurrah! It was nice that I could sing along (lol what a fangirl..) and its always nice to hear the vocals live (i.e. wow he really does sound like that in person) and 'Siti in the City' was really great to hear live, and gah 'Late Night Request' in all of its melancholy. BUT, BUT! The greatest bit was the last song they played, called 'The Lights'? I'm not too sure whether this was on their album, but holy geez it was effin amazing! I think the vocalist had some reverb thingum somewhere and phwoar, what immense sound! It reminded me of U2, and while I don't usually like U2, it reminded me of a very, very, very good U2.

And MUON! I know they sound good on record, but live, their clear sound just cuts through the air man. Again with what I mentioned (or raved, rather ha) about hearing shoegaze live.

Lol I am being so damn superlative tonight.

Am listening to the new Franz Ferdinand album and its a pretty different sound, some of it sounds a bit weird* to me but there are some IMMEDIATELY strong tracks (Ulysses, Turn It On, the electronic half of Lucid Dreams, Twillight Omens)! It took me awhile to realize that I was already mini-dancing in my seat on the first listen, and hey its been some time since any album has gotten me to do that. The sound is even more layered now, which is awesome. Sometimes I also wish they did more soft ballads because the vocals on Katherine Kiss Me is so emotive and coupled with the lyrics, its quite dirtily wistful.

CANNOT WAIT FOR THEM TO START THEIR ASIAN TOUR.

*not too worried about this either - i remember not feeling half of the second album in the beginning but now I love all the tracks.

I've been having increasingly traumatic nightmares three nights in a row man, which really sucks. Its quite emotionally exhausting to wake up in the morning carrying all the leftover fear, panic and anxiety from sleeptime encounters with Anonymous, Invsible, Malignant Forces giving chase and then having to find a place to hide. Or having a psycho stalker who is just so quietly sinister who makes you feel so scared to even leave the house by yourself because she WILL FIND YOU and then you find out that your mother's an impostor and it's actually the stalker AFTER FACIAL-RECONSTRUCTION SURGERY. Then you kill her.

The residual anxiety this morning was so bad I even didn't feel 'safe' leaving the house.

Oh god. I have issues.