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Finally left some prints and a couple of copies of a book in a funny little anonymous art box we have in the town, which my friend made.

Previously
https://mltshp.com/p/1RAM7
https://mltshp.com/p/1RJTH

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Made another door in the stump

Previously: https://mltshp.com/p/1RG5L

...a kind soul has made the effort of compiling various dumps people have made of old Macintosh system fonts (and other user-inaccessible fonts, such as "eWorld Tight 18"!), including bitmap and early OpenType fonts, and released them as uniform FontFactory and Truetype files.

There are hundreds of fonts and variations here. In the days before live onscreen vector graphics each size had to be drawn separately, so they look different in ways you can't replicate just by up/downscaling one font.

https://github.com/JohnDDun...

Chicago15 is my madeline.

It's done. I installed everything this morning, and within about 10 minutes, neighbors started coming by to play.

This is just me (my wife shot the vertical video) plinking around.

I'll post a bunch of process photos and notes on the blog and add a link to that here eventually, but as of today, I'm really pleased with the sound quality from the resonators.

It's lovely having soft tones float up through the living room window as random people stop by to make random music.

It's the whole reason why I built the thing in the first place.

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Built on an airplane tug frame according to the steward caring for the vehicle. Has a lower and upper deck for lounging, projecting music system, several hundred watts of LEDs, and powered by two propane alternators and an ungodly amount of lithium ion batteries. Did not get a chance to see it lit up since it was blazingly bright out today.

Seen at the Currents New Media exhibition in SFe.

https://currentsnewmedia.org/

(previously: https://www.xylovan.com/xylovan/)

I’ve dreamed of installing the big xylophone in front of the house ever since we moved in five years ago.

My son and I finally picked up the all instruments from storage in LA and brought them home in January. I have another project in the works using keys from the other big keyboard - details to come as it comes together.

Over the past few weeks I polished up all the keys, built new resonators, and rebuilt the top end of the frame to fix the ugly gap that used to be there to allow it to mount cleanly on the van’s flanks. It’s a lot purtier now.

This morning I dug holes for the four legs with a posthole digger and then lowered the frame into place with the help of friends and neighbors.

I plumbed and leveled things with the frame parallel to the little slope in front of the house ( at a nice, playable 40-degree angle), set the legs in place with small stones to steady them, and poured in and then doused a bag of quickset concrete for each.

Tomorrow I mount the new resonators and reinstall 2-1/2 octaves worth of aluminum keys.

It’s happening. I’m stoked.

Tony Hertz and Lolly were living in Pismo Beach, California, when he took this shot. At the time he was working on a photography series and book based around shadows, and he had taken her along on one of his regular sunset walks.

#photography #TonyHertz

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...

David Hockney, 2007. 4.6 × 12.2 meters, painted on 50 separate panels in a tiny attic studio in Yorkshire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

One of the few paintings that has ever brought me to tears in a museum full of people.

RIP Mr. Hockney, your work has inspired me since I was a child.

Insert obligatory “I liked _Idiocracy_ better when it wasn’t a documentary“ here.

On Beach Road in Vineyard Haven.

The first time Andrea and I stopped in I said; I know I’m not the first to ask but “Althea” like Jerry Garcia..?

-No, like reggae…

Uptown, I interrupted..?

-Top Reggae

She finished.

She is one of the good ones. Mostly works in Lino. This is her first painting in a long time. She was visibly energized by the process.

https://www.altheadesignsmv.com/

This signed Hockney print of "Ian Swimming, Los Angeles, 1982" was recently donated to the art collection at my wife's employer. I always loved his Polaroid constructions and this one has a lovely, serene motion timelapse feel to it. Perfect for a summer's afternoon.

This a couple of days ago. Nearing completion. It’s one of the few shots where the scissor lift isn’t in the way. Since then, I’ve done a lot more work and added lots of lines. Today I decided it to be finished. Tomorrow we’re going to add a top coat.

And on Saturday, there is going to be an official opening and neighborhood party, because two other murals in my neighborhood accidentally have been finished in the last two months as well. So we decided to team up our festivities.

If you’re in Rotterdam on Saturday, June 13, drop by at the corner of Assendelftstraat and Adamshofstraat. 15 PM sharp!

On Google Maps, you can still get a glimpse of what the previous rather dilapidated mural looked like. Nobody was happy with it:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/yM4zbyUP...

#mural #rotterdam #painting

more descender-free dot-matrix rubbish from me

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