The talented Mr. Jos Buivenga of exlijbris has released another free font! Please meet the new Diavlo. Now with:
+ Extended language support (Latin / Central European / Croatian / Romanian / Icelandic / Turkish / Esperanto)
+ Improved glyph shapes (such as S, s, W, w, f, t, diactitics and many more… )
+ Numeral widths are now old style (via OpenType tabular widths can be accessed)
+ And extended and improved kerning—Diavlo contains more than 3,200 kerning pairs. ^____^
To store a digital master record of a movie costs about $12,514 a year, versus the $1,059 it costs to keep a conventional film master.
to keep the enormous swarm of data produced when a picture is “born digital” — that is, produced using all-electronic processes, rather than relying wholly or partially on film — pushes the cost of preservation to $208,569 a year, vastly higher than the $486 it costs to toss the equivalent camera negatives, audio recordings, on-set photographs and annotated scripts of an all-film production into the cold-storage vault.
I spent most of Monday burning all the footage from Love Angle onto DVD. I have a relatively old burner, so it took about 5 hours to burn 20 DVDs.
The main reason why I chose to burn DVDs is the fact that magnetic storage fades over time. Especially with data on tapes. Have you ever tried watching an old VHS tape? This is not to say that DVDs are going to last forever. Most digital media lasts for about 5-8 years. Beyond that, there isn’t much guarantee of data integrity. I didn’t have much of a choice because I had reused DV tapes during the shoot. Still, it’s better to have it backed up in case my hard drive crashes.
In the future, I plan to keep all my DV tapes in addition to the DVD backups.
Numbers dipped a little bit, but I think that’s because of Thanksgiving. It’s good that you guys are spending time with your families, rather than on the internets, as much as we love you at NvP.
Top 5 Key Phrases:
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I find it interesting that people find us while looking for tattoos. And honestly, I’m not sure where people are coming from, but that’s okay, you’re all welcome to stay.
Fantastic little short by Blue Tongue Films. Notice the editing and the camera and how it creates tension. Sometimes, your adversary doesn’t have to be another person. Inanimate objects or even the world itself can be a pretty strong antagonist.
Wow, what a year! I can’t believe it’s almost over.
Happy holidays!!
Much thanks to everyone for all the lovely emails + well wishes we’ve received.
Warm wishes + smiles,
Ninja + Penguin
* Just because I’ve already been asked—yes, I carried that little, red hat in my purse, waiting for just the right moment + just the right restaurant to snap that photo. ~__^
Technically, Jesus wasn’t born today. Most historical accounts actually place his birth probably some time in April. It was Constantine who, after becoming a Christian, decided to move it to December.
Folks are emptying the contents of their pockets onto their scanners + sending the images to Timur Akhmetov + Yulia Yakushova to upload onto their site, face your pockets project.
Like the site’s name suggests, the owners also place their faces on their scanners to complete the image.
Here are two that caught my eye:
Sergio’s submission
Indian Caba’s submission
And here’s mine. Yes, I know I have a lot of hair; it all just plopped onto the scanner as I stood over it.
Author: Ninja
Occupation: graphic designer
Description (items from my purse): micron pens (.05 and .005), sheet from my sketch book, mini matryoshka dolls, fortune cookie slip
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