February 2012
12 posts
2 tags
1 tag
3 tags
The Chimerist: Once Magazine, three stories →
thechimerist:
Once Magazine brings photojournalism to the iPad in monthly issues of three stories each. The format is simple — several pages of intelligent reporting interspersed with gorgeous photography — but native to the device, so that the essays are pleasing and straightforward to navigate, with…
Now with fiction.
[W]hen the papers were discovered after his... →
5 tags
The Chimerist: Experiments in handwriting fonts →
thechimerist:
Alison Bechdel disclosed in a little preview booklet for Are You My Mother? that she used a font based on her own handwriting for the new book, as she did in Fun Home. Computer lettering looks so good when she does it, I got curious about the logistics and downloaded iFontMaker ($6.99)…
Spoiler: My “fonts” don’t look like this.
2 tags
The Chimerist: Narrative and surrender →
thechimerist:
I use my iPad for many things, but mainly for reading books, magazines, stories, and essays that happen to be digitized. Most of them are also published on paper; others, like The Atavist’s ”Mother, Stranger,” are only available digitally, and are consequently much less expensive to…
4 tags
2 tags
Microblogging in print
I still can’t believe I’m being allowed to do this, but I’ve basically been microblogging in print for the New York Times Magazine since the beginning of November.
The venue is the new one-pager, which also includes Lizzie Skurnick’s That Should Be a Word, an advice column from John Hodgman, tiny interviews (this week, with Jonathan Ames on defeat), and frequent...
3 tags
2 tags
The Chimerist: dwell in possibility →
thechimerist:
I probably wouldn’t have bought it if I’d known two years ago what I know now about the conditions for workers who make it, but I wake up with my iPad and go to sleep with it. It’s my alarm clock, my nighttime and commuting library, my dictionary, my hand-held radio, my portable…
A new site about art, stories, and technology that I’m doing with Laura Miller.