Archive for September, 2008
30
Sep
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in New media, Tech, web 2.0, writing. Tagged: join, micro blogging, social network, toobydoo, twitter, web 2.0. 1 Comment
If you look in the side bar of this site you will find a widget called “What am I doing?”. In this my twitter updates show up. But what is Twitter you might think. Well, it’s something called micro blogging, but that is really a term that makes about as much sense as the later Nietzsche… [...]
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29
Sep
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Humour, Vampires. Tagged: cambridge, comedy, footlights, Humour, stephen fry, university. Leave a Comment
Time for some Cambridge humour, curtsey of Stephen Fry and the Footlights. “Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.“ ~ Stephen Fry Thobias
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29
Sep
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in author, writing. Tagged: editors, hamlet, hugh laurie, rowan atkinson, shakespeare. 1 Comment
You apparentley can’t underestimate the importance of a good editor… “Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.” ~Adlai E. Stevenson Thobias
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28
Sep
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in books, Food & Drink, Humanities, Tech, typography, writing. Tagged: bok- och biblioteksmässa, bokmässa, book, con, conference, convention, death piglet, göteborg, gothenburg, stars, taschen. 6 Comments
As previously stated, I attended the Book- & Library con in Gothenburg this Thursday. I thought I’d recount some of that experience here for the benefit of the ‘scryers’ of the TwilightShadows. Staying the night with two girls… The trip was paid for by the department I attend, the Department for Culture Studies, but of [...]
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24
Sep
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in author, books, Humanities, New media, Personal, Uncategorized, update, writing. Tagged: "bishops arm", "culture night", bokmässa, book, con, flickr, göteborg, gothenburg, irish, kulturnatten, library, litteralund, mushroom, session, updatem "jonathan coulton". 3 Comments
So, I thought maybe it was time for a general update of things. As you might have seen I recently went pro on Flickr and updated for the entire summer. Sorry about that, but my internet connection over the summer was really sucky… In other news: I am attending the Book and Library con in [...]
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14
Sep
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Horror, writing. Tagged: autumn, dark, halloween, jack-o-lantern, macabre, poem, writing. 4 Comments
I will start by publishing a very short piece I started to write one Halloween, or so I think, just after I’d made a Jack-O-Lantern. It was originally meant to be a real short story, but ended up some sort of poem instead. I originally called it ‘The Cutting of Jack‘, but decided to rename [...]
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13
Sep
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in mac, Tech, writing. Tagged: applescript, bare bones software, bbedit, growl, mac, tex-edit, text edit, text editing, textmate, textwrangler, word count. 14 Comments
I tend to write my texts, at least for blogging, in a text editor and then cut & paste them into where ever. The editor I tend to use nowadays is TextWrangler from Bare Bones Software. Why? Well, I find that a text editor lets me focus on the task at hand much better than [...]
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11
Sep
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Movies, Philosophy, typography, writing. Tagged: art, calligraphy, humanity, movie, pillow book, writing. Leave a Comment
Reading the excellent web design page by Mark Boulton I came across a fascinating video called ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’. “Watching Job draw the letterforms is mesmeric enough, but when his son (?) joins in, I found myself laughing as he tries to imitate his fathers work. This leads to some funny-looking characters (c and d are [...]
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11
Sep
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in mac, Movies, typography. Tagged: font, fontfetishist, geek, helvetica, mac, typography. 1 Comment
It may not be a very well known fact to people, but along with several other fetishes, I have a huge one for typography and fonts. Because of this I spent roughly one and a half hours this evening watching a documentary about a font… Specifically about Helvetica. In spite of all that was said [...]
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8
Sep
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in books, Humanities, New media, writing. Tagged: blog, books, communication, cuniform, dilemma, hieroglyph, history, parchment, smiley, typography, writing. 3 Comments
I recently began a course in the history of handwritten texts, and I must say it has made me think a lot about communication. Throughout history we are inclined to think that we as a race have evolved into more and more advanced creatures, which in turn has led to more and more advanced communication. [...]
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