Essay: The End of Secrets

 

Illuminated Text Culture of Violence

This piece was created in 1991, amidst the invasion of Kuwait during the G W Bush administration. It was exhibited in the Connecticut Capitol Buildings complex that summer. The items expressed then still apply today.  

East Haddam Bridge Repair Schedule week of March 23 to 29 2024

 3/23/24 -> INTO NEXT WEEK

Swing Span Testing:

Contractor will be performing test openings of the new mechanicals of the swing span throughout the week, these random tests will only occur between 9am-3pm. The contractor will work to limit traffic backups, but delays should be anticipated during these test runs.

Conversion Charts for Weights and Measures

Coming into the 21st Century ~

At some point, [it's already happening] people living in the United States / North America will have to adopt metric system units of weight and measure. Here's a link that could be useful.

Conversion Charts for weights and meaures 

Thoughts on sex appeal

 

Trained as a "hot metal" typographer

 

I was trained as a "hot type" typesetter. While this did not immediately lead to a vocation - it is now, years later, only part of what I do, and have done. nor does it indicate what I primarily do for work now - the experience forever affected how I look at graphic arts and at design in general.

UPCOMING ART SHOW ~ July 2024 / Gallery at the Wauregan / 200 Main St / Norwich CT

 

Preserving old video and computer games ~ (from PC Gamer News)

 

Nightdive's Stephen Kick and Larry Kuperman shared their thoughts on the importance of videogame history in an interview with PC Gamer at GDC.

The Nightdive Studios website makes its mission clear: "Bringing lost and forgotten gaming treasures back from the depths." And so it has, through outstanding updates of games including Quake and Quake 2, System Shock, Turok 3, and Dark Forces. But it's not just the games that Nightdive aims to bring back from the past: Maintaining the totality of their history is a major part of what the studio aims to do.

"I think the issue of games as art has been answered more than enough," Nightdive director of business development Larry Kuperman said in an interview with PC Gamer at GDC. "But taking it to the next level, if we all agree that games are art, then the people that make games are artists and deserve to be remembered that way and deserve to have their names incorporated into what we do going forward."

Please follow the link for more details: Preserving older games for the future's pleasures