A recent Vanity Fair article on the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 indicates that it may have been part of a larger scam to sell forgeries to unsuspecting buyers.
Category: links
The Trajan Inscription
A good scanned photo of the Trajan Inscription. It’s covered up in scaffolding and hasn’t been able to visible in years.
Art vs Money
Making money, the art of James Boggs and the value of art versus money.
Slow motion showreel
Showreel for the SprintCam v3 featuring cheerleaders, firebreathers and jello at 1000fps.
Short typography movies
Algorithm visualization
Visualizations of various sorting algorithms, cool stuff. The original program was written in python, it’s also available using canvas.
Google maps typography
Google maps typography. Rhett Dashwood culled a series of satellite images from the state of Victoria that resemble letterforms.
Infographic history of beer
Comic Sans documentary
A short student documentary about Comic Sans that Marc mentioned after my previous post.
H&FJ on typesetting large prime numbers
Hoefler & Frere-Jones explore typesetting the world’s largest prime number. The largest prime number has more than twelve million digits, and concluded that even one specific kern pair would save hundreds of feet.
Spiekermann’s tips
WSJ on Comic Sans
A Wall Street Journal article on Comic Sans, its lovers and its haters. Vincent Connare also gets the WSJ portrait treatment.