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onpaperwings

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Creative director, writer, filmmaker, and cyclist living in Denver, CO.

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Today is the one-year anniversary of my Linotype Book Project!

To mark this anniversary, I posted a video with updates on the project and (because I’m a nerd) I show three books that also celebrate anniversaries related to the Linotype.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7UiHh-x88f/

onpaperwings,
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Somehow haven’t heard about my book project?

Well, start here: https://linotypebook.com/

onpaperwings,
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From the beginning, I’ve wanted to be as transparent about the process as I truly believe it to be a journey and not just an end product to sell. So here are a few stats:

8 - libraries, museums, and archives visited

3 - first-person interviews conducted (plus four interviews by others transcribed)

150 - publications and books added to the bibliography

600 - subscribers to the newsletter

78 - paid subscribers

onpaperwings,
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And of course, let’s talk dollars and cents:

From the first year of paid subscribers, I netted about $4,500. A majority of this was from one-time payments, so I expect this year to net around $1,250 or so.

Every penny I’ve received has gone directly to costs of research: flights, hotels, camera/lens rentals, purchasing books not available in libraries, and tech/backup costs.

It’s not a lot, but the financial support keeps me going and I'm so thankful for it.

glennf, to random
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AirPort Utility was discontinued years ago. It only worked with Apple’s base stations. It does not scan a network in a useful way. Some fact checking when referring people to software would be very useful. https://wapo.st/3wHyd0P There are third-party Wi-Fi network scanners that are very helpful.

onpaperwings,
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@glennf I’m having some weird wifi issues at home. What apps/software do you recommend, then?

onpaperwings, to random
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Good grief, Billie Eilish’s “BLUE” is on repeat over here and so beautifully done.

onpaperwings, to random
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For the three of you still on here on a Friday afternoon/evening, I just added two new images to my VERY photo-heavy blog post about the beautiful and restored Linotype & Machinery factory building outside of Manchester, England:

https://realdougwilson.com/writing/visiting-linotype-and-machinery

I shot these images from my recent research at the @letterformarchive in SF and St. Bride Foundation Library in London.

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onpaperwings, to random
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Attention Colorado friends!

As of April 1, 2024, there is a $450 e-bike tax credit AT THE POINT OF SALE (instead of having to deal with a complicated rebate system) but only certain retailers are participating: https://www.wheatridgecyclery.com/articles/e-bike-rebate-program-pg572.htm

onpaperwings,
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Which reminds me that I need to write an update to my own e-bike blog post: https://realdougwilson.com/writing/globe-haul-st-short-term-review

onpaperwings, to random
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A new Billie Eilish album?!

I’ll take it.

Okay, to random
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Oh... https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/138928/francesco-colonna/hypnerotomachia-poliphili

onpaperwings,
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@Okay

MY LORD GIF from Walker Texas Ranger

onpaperwings, to random
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Of course I just backed the new book by @elliotjaystocks without even watching the video!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elliotjaystocks/8-faces-presents-fine-specimens?ref=thanks-copy

henry, to random
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thanks to everyone who took the time to watch my talk last week at the first 11ty conference! that was a total blast and i have just now caught my breath lol.

here's the demo repo as promised — i’ve included a basic README guide, comment-annotated the code, and added my bibliography so there's plenty more material to explore. <3

https://github.com/xdesro/posse-with-11ty/

onpaperwings,
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@henry JIF Henry?! JIF?!

onpaperwings,
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@henry But for real; love the talk and glad to have a bit of this built into my site ;-)

onpaperwings, to random
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🚨BIG RED ALERT! 🚨

https://www.ebay.com/itm/176368120465?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=JzhbupxSTLO&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=oRfalFKxRoa&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

onpaperwings, to random
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Prepping newsletter № 8 to send out soon! Make sure you’re signed up to learn about recent discoveries in Australia, USA, and England: https://linotypebook.com/

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On a long ride. Never ride with headphones but only recently dawned on me it’s a long time to spend in my own head.

onpaperwings,
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@rosetta @markboulton 100% the same. See my thoughts on it mid-pandemic: https://realdougwilson.com/writing/seek-and-diverge

onpaperwings,
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@rosetta @markboulton I don’t, but will look it up.

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It just struck me what Apple got wrong with its “crushing ad.”

They thought we would identify with the iPad, not the creative instruments and materials.

onpaperwings,
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@glennf Yup.

elliotjaystocks, to random
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Okay, the news is (sort of) out: I’m launching a new Kickstarter project next Tuesday!

While it may indeed be a little crazy to be launching another type-focussed book so soon after the release of Universal Principles of Typography, this one is very different: a coffee table book in the spirit of 8 Faces that celebrates beautiful type specimen graphics.

Check out the holding page, where you can be notified about its launch:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elliotjaystocks/8-faces-presents-fine-specimens?ref=clipboard-prelaunch

onpaperwings, (edited )
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@elliotjaystocks Nice, Elliot. I love that you’re focusing on contemporary specimens! Obviously you’ve got my 💵💶💷

onpaperwings, to random
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I genuinely think that developers of corporate websites should be forced to load their websites on airplane wifi to see how absolutely bloated and unusable they become.

Signed,

Someone on airplane wifi

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Looking for book reccommendations. What are you reading or what have you recently read that you enjoyed?

onpaperwings,
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@JTDType Currently reading “Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine” after watching the movie on a flight. The movie left a lot to be desired (IMO) but the book has lots of details. You might like it?

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Hey printing and type nerds! I’m
researching today at St. Bride Foundation’s Library and you can follow along on my Linotype Book insta: https://www.instagram.com/linotypebook?igsh=MTRveHIyZjg4bnI5dQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

onpaperwings, to random
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I highly suggest to any home owners: never let your basement flood. 🌊 😰 🥵

onpaperwings,
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@soundclamp We didn't have a sump pump because it has never flooded before.

But here we are.

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Doing something in LaTeX for the first time in my life and I am so NOT impressed!

(Granted, I’m trying to make a poster with images which might not be the main use case, but… what a mess.)

onpaperwings,
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@mwichary This is so great, Marcin!

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