As children our journey imitates human evolution: we start out drawing on walls.

It’s one of our first artistic risks crushed by an ardent no. If we can successfully maintain our Artistic impulses through the limited faculties of education and many more nos we arrive to eventually professionally begin…writing on walls.

Only this time wall writing is consider advertising. As the Font Men in this documentary short confirm a font isn’t alive until it “joins the culture.”

In 6 minutes this sublime documentary short explores Hoefler & Frere-Jones a distinguished type foundry with classy clients including The New York Times and Nike. Like a magician on Fox they reveal several font designing secrets.

Save yourself the Art School tuition, make tea and relish this short.

“Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.”
Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

I met this band at a CMW BBQ: rather fittingly with a dancey groove that’s got more pep than an entire rally, the smooth Total Blender blending of a male voice with a female voice and sadness and sorrow that this delightful tune is shorter than Gary Coleman (too soon?).

From The Addington County Revue or ACR for short:
These songs were written while travelling up and down highway 401.

As inspired by listening to Oh Land’s Earth Sick

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I can only write about Amy Winehouse with a heavy heart. She had it…man she had it. It was all there in the music.

Alas it was not meant to be: on July 23rd 2011 Amy died of alcohol poisoning; leaving this life and becoming a celebrated member of the 27 Club.

Wow…just wow! This song is made for volume and fist pumping and high fives!

As inspired by listening to Twin Forks’ Twin Forks

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Get the feeling I’ll be sleeping with my G.I. Joe nightlight after this…Guillermo del Toro returns with Crimson Peak:

As per my custom this morning I got off the subway a few stops earlier: I emerged outside to absorb some delicious Sunshine before being trapped indoors all day.

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

The future inconveniences us by forcing us to go through the present.

It’s the decisions we make now, powered by a compelling vision of the future that determine our fate. Want to ditch winter weight for a beach body by Summer means going on a diet now.

In theory the futures we court and cultivate tend to be positive, nobody dreams of being poor or homeless. It’s the classic crystal ball seduction. Yet in reality we make bad decisions all the time, we smoke, we tweet, get into draining relationships, we compromise willingly and often because the present (with its present pain) is ruthlessly demanding.

We don’t want to feel good in the future; we want to feel good now.

We live in the consequences of past nows.