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Horsies    (2005.08.03)

Technically a shite photo, and would be even if I spent all afternoon dodging and burning, but it’s always magical seeing the police horsies get carted around.

I’m publishing this to make myself feel better for being two seconds late to snap the best-ever mounted-police photograph late last week. How often do you get two cops on horses (with blinking taillights) stopped at a traffic signal while a firetruck races past? Rather as with limerent objects, you never forget the ones that get away.

Friz Quadumpster    (2005.08.03)

An ignominious use of Friz Quadrata.

Then again, he’s a tough old South American runaway Nazi bastard and can stand a bit of stencilling.

Footnotes are like unicorns    (2005.08.02)

My semantics are better than your semantics, and my arrow is better than your arrow

Painful hold, painful shoot    (2005.08.01)

It took two shoots at two locations to come up with a photo that’s only this good. That is indeed a fontmodded Cooper Black that attracts your immediate attention.

Somebody’s defaced it already. Here’s mud in your eye!

Superior truck grille    (2005.08.01)

Again, just what it says.

Village of Le Griffe    (2005.08.01)

The old-style (but not quite oldest-possible-style) Toronto street signs. Since Hollywood stars hang out there once a year (suburban Guidos the rest of the time), Village of Yorkville gets to use Le Griffe.

Because tacky people think script fonts are klassy.

Bauhaus Helvetica Contour    (2005.07.28)

I think homebrew fontmods like this – like this, not just any of them – are the greatest thing since sliced bread. I guess the criterion is: The more it looks like a hand-painted sign in a South American peasant village, the more I like it.

7′6″    (2005.07.28)

IE7: The saga begins    (2005.07.28)

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