Friday, November 23, 2012

A Touch of Class

My love, let me show you it.

There are some aspects of this that are RONG but I have to set it aside for the moment and do things like sleep.

I guess this might as well show up again since I listen to it pretty regularly:



UPDATE:

GO FUCK YOURSELF

Light position, file-size and legibility update and isn't the little curlicue in the R ADORABLE?

It may be that the solution to the shadow problem is simply to pretend the letters glow a bit.

UPDATE ALSO:

GO FUCK YOURSELF
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33 comments:

  1. M. BouffantNovember 23, 2012 at 10:51 PM

    The full stop isn't needed. Exclamation point or nothing.

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  2. Smut ClydeNovember 23, 2012 at 11:33 PM

    Shouldn't there be a tag for "Annoying the Typeface Aesthetes"?

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  3. Substance McGravitasNovember 23, 2012 at 11:43 PM

    I was going to do some more deco-like thing as I was thinking of movie studio title designs...but Papyrus goes with everything!

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  4. Substance McGravitasNovember 23, 2012 at 11:50 PM

    Gotta get the tones right and figure out how to make a shadow fall on the globe: I faked the circling text (I dunno how to actually bend 3D objects at this point) by having an image of it scrolling left-to-right projected on a transparent sphere enclosing the globe. That was a clever dodge, I think, but Quartz Composer doesn't seem to recognize the resulting text as a shadow-casting object. Thus far faking some kind of blur on another transparent sphere hasn't panned out.

    I thought a lot about that period, and then imagined the citizens of Earth being oppressed by the simplest punctuation mark possible and went with it.

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  5. zombie rotten mcdonaldNovember 24, 2012 at 1:15 AM

    Way too classy for the Empire, don't you think?

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  6. Dr.KennethNoisewaterNovember 24, 2012 at 6:12 AM

    That would be amazeballs if it weren't for the papyrus.

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  7. Dr.KennethNoisewaterNovember 24, 2012 at 6:14 AM

    And the earth weren't shaped like an egg.

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    1. Dr.KennethNoisewaterNovember 24, 2012 at 6:14 AM

      Well, nm. That was a trick of my dumb phone. Carry on.

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  8. J Neo MarvinNovember 24, 2012 at 9:33 AM

    (Wipes away tear) That's....BEAUTIFUL.

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  9. Substance McGravitasNovember 24, 2012 at 9:36 AM

    OMG forgot the period in the newer one.

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  10. zombie rotten mcdonaldNovember 24, 2012 at 10:04 AM

    I LIKED the Papyrus though. Perhaps that one is aggravating enough for the Empire.

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  11. Substance McGravitasNovember 24, 2012 at 10:13 AM

    You can name your font you know. Or export a .dae out of Sketchup and email it to me. It's nothing to plug in some more 3D text and I've got a decent handle on getting the frames in and out of the GIMP (which is four frames a second from Quartz Composer, cutting the colours down to 64, and optimizing for GIF).

    Unfortunately Cocksure is line art and doesn't render nicely.

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  12. El ManquécitoNovember 24, 2012 at 10:37 AM

    Or export a .dae out of Sketchup and email it to me. It's nothing to plug in some more 3D text and I've got a decent handle on getting the frames in and out of the GIMP (which is four frames a second from Quartz Composer, cutting the colours down to 64, and optimizing for GIF).


    Speak ingrish!

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  13. zombie rotten mcdonaldNovember 24, 2012 at 10:39 AM

    You can name your font you know.

    Consider how much it pains Unca Smut, I can't imagine anything better than Papyrus.

    Maybe Comic Sans.

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  14. Substance McGravitasNovember 24, 2012 at 11:13 AM

    Speak ingrish!

    That is English dialect, specifically "I'll forget this so must write it down."

    Papyrus doesn't look so good glowy though because of all the faux aging. Looks better as solid and threatening black.

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  15. Substance McGravitasNovember 24, 2012 at 11:26 AM

    Hmm, maybe I've solved that. Might look a little more Pirates-of-the-Caribbean though.

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  16. Substance McGravitasNovember 24, 2012 at 11:35 AM

    But cartoonishly fast and irritating and even smaller file size.

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  17. Smut ClydeNovember 24, 2012 at 11:49 AM

    Trajan would be annoying, and also work well.

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  18. Substance McGravitasNovember 24, 2012 at 12:01 PM

    Never trust Twomblys.

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  19. mikeyNovember 24, 2012 at 12:30 PM

    It all somehow reminds me of the stylized RKO Radio tower on the stage in the Floor Show scene in the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

    It's beyond me
    Help me mommy....

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  20. JenniferNovember 24, 2012 at 12:58 PM

    Way too classy for the Empire, don't you think?

    Yes.

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  21. zombie rotten mcdonaldNovember 24, 2012 at 1:02 PM

    ooo, I've scored the Jennifer-hate!

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  22. Substance McGravitasNovember 24, 2012 at 1:04 PM

    Not me though!

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  23. JenniferNovember 24, 2012 at 2:32 PM

    Dear lord...

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  24. tigrisNovember 24, 2012 at 2:51 PM

    Uncial would be classier.

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  25. El ManquécitoNovember 24, 2012 at 6:20 PM

    Font issues aside (please!) I like how the Mayan world is central to your point.

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  26. Substance McGravitasNovember 25, 2012 at 10:24 AM

    <img alt="GO FUCK YOURSELF" src="http://6670591382867360873-a-1802744773732722657-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/substantialityalso/home/Go Fuck Yourself Also Too.gif" />

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  27. zombie rotten mcdonaldNovember 25, 2012 at 12:01 PM

    OK, it's not just me.

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  28. Substance McGravitasNovember 25, 2012 at 1:22 PM

    The third gif's 700k, not so bad to just snag yourself.

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  29. zombie rotten mcdonaldNovember 25, 2012 at 2:23 PM

    FYWP seems to choke at embedding a remotely hosted animated gif. I think they do it if I pay the upgrade...

    Maybe I should start a Blogger blog.

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  30. Substance McGravitasNovember 26, 2012 at 1:45 AM

    WP may want those spaces in the filename to be %20.

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  31. zombie rotten mcdonaldNovember 26, 2012 at 6:47 AM

    Heck, go for %30. It's Christmas.

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