Rollo
18 May 2009
Not much going on: classes have finished and now all I do all day is walk around and study Greek and wonder what to do next. And play Angband. (Sometimes I wonder if it is possible to write anything interesting about Angband for people who do not themselves play Angband. It occupies a remote intellectual space.)
That Wolfram Alpha thing is working now, if you want to have a look. It could not tell me which fonts Adrian Frutiger designed; apparently typography is not among its areas of expertise. It also does not seem to know who George Dalgarno was.
Today I came across Rollo Press, which I liked.
Rollo Press™ is a small print studio located in Zürich and is operated by Urs Lehni since the beginning of 2008. The only printing machine available is an old Risograph GR 3770. Rollo Press™ aims to produce printed matter with friends and accomplices in a way that includes all steps of the process: from concept to design on to printing, binding and distribution. It’s like in William Morris’ “Art and Its Producers”: To own the means of production is the only way to gain back pleasure in work, and this, in return, is considered as a prerequisite for the production of (applied) art and beauty.
I e-mailed to see if they (he) would accept Birkensnake 1 in trade for his latest.
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It showed promise when it told me that the meaning of life was 42 and the exact age Albert Einstein was when he died, but it couldn’t tell me if Descartes was an empiricist, or the meaning of the name “David”.
It’s frustrating.