Damian’s notes

(Via Typographica on Twitter)

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  Ohno Blazeface I picture five-year-old James Edmondson, sitting on the floor of his dad’s graphic design studio back in the early 1990s, poring over vintage Letraset catalogs and copies of U&lc from the 1970s, absorbing it all like a sponge.

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  Calamity Jon 🌹✍️ on Twitter “Adam Koford has been reimagining Peanuts in a collapsing universe: manic with heat-death, recurring gags transformed into flustered and inchoate ritual, and capturing this era's sense of schizophrenia as dryly as Schulz expressed his era's neurosis. https://t.co/23dJlP0oJR”

(Via Samuel Delany's 1977 Star Wars review: why is the future so damned white and male?)

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  kaninchenzero: gwillow: samueldelany: Samuel Delany reviews the first Star Wars movie, 1977, in Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy. “The PC police are ruining SF/F! We need to go back to the good ole days!” Here is Samuel R. Delany reviewing Star Wars Episode IV–and critiquing it for its lack of women and POC characters. In 1977. You’re very welcome. (His response to the old “It’s just entertainment!” chestnut? Muting half of humanity is not entertaining.) This, right here, is how it is possible to love something–as Delany clearly loved Star Wars–yet recognize its flaws and discuss them in an intelligent, productive way.  “Star Wars, as far as I can tell, has no story at all” god bless you, chip delany

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  The Leica Q A six month field test — by Craig Mod