Its too easy to turn a blind eye to the light
Its too easy to bow your head and pray
There are some times when you should try to find your voice
This is one voice that you must find today
Are you hoping for a miracle
Am I still there in your plans
No use hoping for a miracle
I am balanced in your hands
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Well, I’ve heard a lot lately how processed meat, especially lunch meat and meats found on pizza and in sausage have been known to be full of sodium nitrite - but this article - posted almost 5 years ago just made its way to my screen. I’m sure there have been studies against it trying to disprove it. But unfortunately the message is sound and what it really makes me realize is how much natural, organic and unprocessed food I consume on a daily (yes daily) basis.
Time to start cutting processed food out of my diet.
Nice to see an unused graphic of a map I painstakingly produced for a client project finally finding a home in some work that Daniel Francavilla has been doing for a project of his called Non-Stop Toronto: a mapping project as part of a Think Tank class at OCAD University – looking at ways to create a living atlas of the city, from a perspective that traditional maps do not cover. Look’s great Daniel!
About a month ago, a classmate of mine had pointed out that illustrator sometimes had a mysterious hairline around shapes of objects, even when there wasn’t a border or outline defined on the shape. Furthermore, this outline when exported out into raster format, retained and translated that outline into the pixels of the image!
See the following image close up to see what is happening. Also described here some six years ago but with no resolution.
Well as you can see in the image, the problem has to do with the CYMK specifically, and the depth of the colour values for not only K, but cyan, yellow and magenta as well.
For some reason illustrator puts a small fringe hairline around the image. This may have to do with rich black outputs or something to that effect.
I really don’t have the facts, but I do know how to fix it - simply Set all CMYK values to 100%, or if you want, set all of the values of CMY to those of the background colour, and let the K/black fill the rest of the shape as the black it would normally be.
Here’s a project I worked on for my Typography 4: Expressive Type class.
The concept revolves around a calendar, “.. [it may be] a usable calendar or one that simply incorporates the elements that one associates with a ‘calendar’. I.E. numbers, the months, times, days, seasons etc. It’s all about carving up, distribution and categorization of ‘TIME’…”
My calendar distributes time by day, with the topic of holidays as a focus. The names of the holidays were collected at random from polling various people on Facebook asking them for one new holiday celebration per month, I call “Cele-days”.
The poll was conducted through my personal alias Facebook page (Something Interactive), where I created a simple Facebook App that used Google Docs as an embedded online form to collect information with, and also ensuring that anyone filling out the form needn’t leave Facebook.
I pitched the project on the Facebook page with this headline copy:
What if the Canadian Government realized the citizens of Canada work extremely hard and proposed to offer twelve new statutory holidays, one per month. They’ve temporarily named them celebration days (“Celedays”). In time these Celedays will need a more fitting name based on contemporary importance. What name would you recommend for each month’s new Celeday? Please share your reasoning for naming that day.
Once I collected all of the responses, I eliminated the duplicates and created random filler days. Finally, the resulting output was coded and put online here in this presentation. If down the road I feel like want to revisit this, I can easily take the days and resort them, change the display functionality and restyle them easily.
In the first minutes of showcasing this to the public, I noticed that people immediately scroll to the Celeday that coincides with their birthday, how interesting and fun!!
Gutenberg eat your heart out.
Once again, it’s interesting how religion and theology drive the advancements of communication through printing, graphic design, typography and advertising.
I wonder how much electricity this place consumes? I also wonder what their hazardous waste procedures are? How much energy do they spend having only one major location to supply the entire world of Scientology/Dianetics?
Do these new advanced machines use recyclable materials, organic inks?
It’d be nice to do some research to find out the average age of Scientologist, and what their internet and technological capabilities were. I’m thinking they’d probably be pretty “savvy and connected”. So do they need all of that paper wasted on newsletters and magazines? Why not just get a nice projector to project new posters on white canvasses in their churches? And lastly,… I think it would be smarter if they just sent out smart email newsletters to their congregations and spent time on developing great websites that engage and interact with the people of their religion.
I *pray* for them.
