The Chimerist: Once Magazine, three stories
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.
The Chimerist: Experiments in handwriting fonts
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.
The Chimerist: dwell in possibility
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.
Stuff I Like
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Joy Division-Inspired Street Art Around the World
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Live sketching on the set of Stephen Elliot’s Happy Baby
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From Delsarte System of Oratory (1893).
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Please be excited for this brave new world. It’s going to be great.
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yes, i do.
i’ve had a bunch of pretty heavy life questions thrown at me by my kid recently, so I seriously appreciate last night’s bedtime query:...
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PEN World Voices to Be Broadcast from PENLive! on Tumblr
Next week, the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature...
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“I didn’t set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I’m happy to start the conversation. I...”
