#Norman & Alvin

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lineup

[coffeebookslovegt]

El verdadero misterio del mundo es lo visible, no lo invisible.

[up-up-downtime]

i need to be more active.....

[movie-titlecards]

Bogus (1996)

My rating: 5/10

Imagine having Gerard Depardieu living rent free in your head... no wonder the kid was messed up.

[justforbooks]

Gerald Cinamon

Chief designer for Penguin Books with a flair for pacing illustrated nonfiction, such as with Pelican’s Style and Civilization series

Gerald Cinamon, who has died aged 93, was one of the most skilled book designers of his generation. For 20 years from 1965 he was Penguin Books’ main designer of arts and architecture titles, becoming its chief designer in the mid-1970s.

A master of the paste-up method of layout, Cinamon was particularly adept at pacing illustrated books. From one spread to the next he would shift visual emphasis from vertical to horizontal, wide-angle to close-up, empty to full, synchronising these switches of treatment with key points in the text.

His debut for Penguin in 1961 coincided with two key events for the company: its acquittal in the Lady Chatterley’s Lover trial, and its employment of Germano Facetti, who recharged its cover designs for a new decade. But it was Kaye Webb, new editor at the Puffin imprint, who instigated the body of work for which Cinamon would become best known.

Webb had compiled a volume of her husband Ronald Searle’s St Trinian’s cartoons, and handed Cinamon, then a freelancer, “a box of jumbled clippings” from which to create a Penguin edition. He would paste up layouts at his kitchen table in Notting Hill, west London, surrounded by manuscripts, proofs and the aroma of Cow Gum, downing tools when his daughters returned from school.

The St Trinian’s Story (1961) led to further commissions for illustrated Penguins, and Cinamon unintentionally became a specialist in this field, at a time when letterpress was rapidly being replaced by offset litho as the means of printing books.

Where type and images had previously occupied two discrete planes – pictures on their own pages, often on coated art paper – litho enabled designers to place picture and text side-by-side, and Cinamon took advantage of this, interweaving halftones and line images with set type to make a verbal–visual narrative. His flair for sequencing nonfiction books led him to become the main designer of Pelican series of the 60s and 70s such as Style and Civilization and The Architect and Society.

The integrated method was also crucial to John Berger’s Success and Failure of Picasso (1965). There the author indicated precise points within the text where images were to be placed. When Cinamon inevitably found that this was not always possible, Penguin dispatched him to Geneva to resolve the layout with Berger.

In 1966 Penguin launched a hardback imprint, for which Cinamon designed A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor, written by Berger and with photographs by Jean Mohr. The contrast between these two books for Berger demonstrates the span of Cinamon’s repertoire, despite the contextual similarities (same author, same publisher, single-colour print, a hand-held format).

Where Success and Failure’s layout rolled line by line with Berger’s polemic, A Fortunate Man’s images did not correlate with points in the text, and this allowed Cinamon to “write” the text–photo combinations, and the overall rhythm, in his own way. His arrangement is particularly effective in contrasting man with his rural environment: 45 pages pass before a human figure appears in the photographs.

Though sometimes categorised as a proponent of the objective, modernist Swiss style of graphic design, Cinamon’s solutions to briefs were far broader than that tag implies. His colleague Tony Kitzinger remembers his outlook as being “Swiss, tempered by New England”.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Jerry was the younger son of Pearl (nee Hirschberg) and Max, a liquor salesman. He initially studied at Massachusetts School of Art, and in 1953 joined the US Navy. He was then accepted by the department of graphic arts at Yale University, where his teachers included Alvin Eisenman, Armin Hofmann, Norman Ives, Josef Albers, Herbert Matter and Paul Rand.

Graduating in 1957, Cinamon received a Fulbright scholarship for the Ecole des Arts et Métiers in Paris, but found the approach there outmoded, so drove to Switzerland to study further with Hofmann in Basel. He was thus influenced first-hand by several key strands of the modern movement, from the Bauhaus to the new American advertising.

On the way home from Europe he met Diana Philcox, a recent textiles graduate from the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. In New York Cinamon freelanced for publishers, and took up a one-year contract at Standard Oil of New Jersey (subsequently Exxon). In 1959 he and Philcox married, and in the following year moved with their twin baby daughters to Britain. Cinamon’s first clients in London included New Left Books and the Jewish-interest publisher Soncino.

After more than 20 years with Penguin, he left in 1985 to form a partnership with Kitzinger, who said of his former partner: “When I think of Jerry I do not see the kind of designer who shuffles little bits of paper around on a sheet. He would know, in advance, what he was realising.”

In 1987 Cinamon guest-edited a special issue of the trade journal Monotype Recorder in memory of Hans Schmoller, the exacting production director at Penguin (1949-76), who had been a “father figure” to him. He also wrote on the work of artist-designers including Talwin Morris, Ben Shahn and Emil Rudolf Weiß.

His biography of the type designer Rudolf Koch (2000), includes an apparently stray anecdote about a “young Berliner” who in 1933 had applied to become one of Koch’s students but had been turned away. The young Berliner was Schmoller.

Cinamon’s third daughter, Hannah, died in 2023. He is survived by Diana, their daughters Sara, Kate and Beth, eight grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.

🔔 Gerald Earl Cinamon, graphic designer and author, born 27 July 1930; died 15 February 2024

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[mixed-up-media]

Norman, but evil.

To summarize, Instead of helping Norman protect the zombies and get him to Agatha, Courtney, Mitch, and Alvin eventually leave him to join the mob. The only person supporting him being Neil. The boys and zombies escape through the back door of the town records. Finally reaching the tree and confronting her alone, Aggie starts talking about all the things she went through. Norman, sadly can relate. He starts to open up about the things his gone through, the pain of being called a freak his home, his sister, and worst of all his father. He gets to the point of crying on the floor. Aggie realizes she and Norman are the same, only one thing was different. She had the means to defend herself, her powers. She offers her handlining him a chance to have what she has. In his moment of pain, Norman takes her hand and is infused with her magic, finally having the means to be angry at everyone. Agatha, now bonded to Norman, has a physical form, body of sorts. The two go around and turn people into zombies, creating an army. Neil tries to convince Norman that this isn't the way, but Norman forces him to join them. He brainwashed Neil. The only people able to get out were Selma's family, Alvin's, Neil's and a few others. Norman's family gets out thanks to the smallest amount of mercy Norman had on his mother. The three leave and after a few years of gathering an army and going from town to town, meet a pair of half-button-eyed teenagers with similar interests...

Coraline, Norman, Eggs, Kubo

Wybie, Neil, Winnie, Aggie

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Film Friday: Paranorman

Considering how fond of horror movies, it's odd how few of them register in the very top tier of my favorite movie lists. Something could perhaps be said about how the best-made horror movies are often not very fun, but that's a question for another day. Today I want to talk about a horror movie I love, and for that pinch of extra hipster spice, it's a stop-motion animation flick.

Norman Babcock, Age 11, is a bit of an outcast in the little suburban town of Blithe Hollow, MA. The reason? He can see and talk to ghosts. After a series of increasingly harrowing visions and a meeting with his profoundly kooky uncle, Norman sees disaster in the town's immediate future, and only he can stop it. Norman is aided on his pint-sized quest for the future of his home by his outcast friend Neil, Neil's jock brother Mitch, the school bully Alvin, and somewhat reluctantly, his older sister Courtney. Their progress is only impeded by their own profound incompetence, and the fact that the dead appear to be rising from their graves spurred on by the curse of a long-dead witch.

Paranorman is notable for a couple of things. First of all, its visual design is awesome. Real care is put into making the town of Blithe Hollow and everyone who lives in it just a little bit off, asymmetric, messy in a way that makes it all an effective caricature in the way only animation can be. And speaking of animation, it is also gorgeous. Laika has been doing puppet stop motion for a while now, and they are killing it at this point. Their use of 3D-printed modular faces gives them a surprisingly wide range of emotional expressions to their little fellas.

This increased emotional dexterity comes in handy because this movie also navigates some shockingly dark stuff for a kid's movie. The true nature of the witch's curse and what events spurred it on are some dark stuff, and the movie treats the most somber reveals with quiet contemplation rather than the all-too-common trend of playing it off with a joke to lighten the mood.

The movie also is surprisingly scary for a movie for children. Especially the initial exploration of the curse and a few moments in the movie's climax never fails to send a chill down my spine. This isn't to say the movie isn't appropriate for its intended audience, merely to suggest it'll slot nicely into the Doctor Who "Watched with a mix of fascination of fear" pantheon in that regard.

Also, as far as story goes, Paranorman has a real banger of a third act. After resolving the ongoing source of conflict, although one of the parties doubtlessly has learned nothing, Norman heads for the core of the problem to confront the witch on her home turf. It culminates in a powerful scene, both because it's thematically very powerful how Norman ends up coming out on top and because Laika decides to make a very interpersonal climax also visually stunning with enough action to keep the tempo up. In a lesser film, this confrontation would take place in a magical tornado or somesuch and it'd still be a good scene, but Laika's apocalyptic parkour therapy session is a treat for both the brain and the eyes.

In the end, Paranorman feels like a very mature movie for its target age range. Norman does take a stand against bullying and the small-mindedness of his little town, but it doesn't change all that many minds. The simple reason for that is that most people are just complacent with their views and are more than willing to add another untrue axiom to the story they tell themselves about their lives rather than confront uncomfortable truths. Still, Norman manages to change the minds of the people who matter to him, and with that in tow, he finds the strength to meet the stupidity of the world around him with a laugh.

There's just a lot going on with this movie that I don't have the column space to get into here, but I will just quickly mention: The reoccurring gag about Norman's sister hitting on Mitch and him just not getting it and how it resolves, the detail that the witch and Norman are related which isn't super important but another nice parallel, how exactly the curse works, how incredibly down the citizens of Blithe Hollow are for a Zombie situation. I could go on, but I believe my point is demonstrated. Go see Paranorman. Statistically most of you haven't gotten around to it yet.

[beardedmrbean]

A Manhattan pharma millionaire convicted of killing her 8-year-old autistic son was found dead in a Brooklyn apartment just hours after a U.S. Supreme Court justice issued an order that would have sent her back to prison.

Gigi Jordan, 62, was found dead Friday morning in an apartment on MacDonough St. in Stuyvesant Heights, law enforcement sources and Jordan’s lawyer, Norman Siegel, told the Daily News.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an order on Thursday that would have required Jordan to return to prison while the justices considered her case.

The cause of Jordan’s death was unclear, though a law enforcement source said a note was found at the scene. Siegel said the Medical Examiner’s office plans an autopsy.

“It’s unbelievably sad. Gigi Jordan had a lot to offer society,” Siegel said. “In the end, she did not have her opportunity to contribute to society.”

Siegel said he noticed Jordan had called him around 7:30 p.m. Thursday, so he called back.

“She said, ‘Did you call me?’ I said ‘Oh it must’ve been a butt call.’ So we kind of laughed.

“She sounded in good spirits. I said, ‘I’ll talk to you soon.’”

On Friday morning, Siegel said he got a call from someone in Jordan’s house “saying they called 911 and the cops were there. So it was jarring and sad.”

Jordan’s appeal was based on an incident at her trial during which the courtroom was closed for about 15 minutes to hear arguments about email and a web posting “that accused the court of undermining the fairness of the trial,” Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office argued in papers before the Supreme Court.

The transcript of that hearing was ultimately released, and the jury was instructed not to read or listen or observe any media coverage of the trial, Bragg’s motion noted.

Except for that jury instruction, Bragg said, the closed proceeding “did not otherwise affect any substantive matter before the jury.”

Lower courts ruled that the closed proceeding did not violate Jordan’s Sixth Amendment right to a public trial, Bragg noted. But a Manhattan federal judge in 2020 granted bail in Jordan’s case, allowing her to be free while she pursued appeals.

Sotomayor in an order on Dec. 20 continued Jordan’s bail while the Supreme Court weighed the case.

But after Bragg’s papers were filed, Sotomayor on Thursday reversed herself, and issued the order that was expected to send Jordan back to prison.

Jordan was convicted in 2014 of manslaughter for killing her son, Jude Mirra, in a room at the Peninsula Hotel in Manhattan.

Prosecutors said Jordan fed her son a deadly cocktail of painkillers, tranquilizers and sleeping pills mixed with alcohol and orange juice.

While Jude lay dying that night in 2010 in the $2,300-a-night suite, prosecutors said, Jordan was on her laptop computer pulling $125,000 from his trust fund.

Part of her defense was that it was supposed to be a murder suicide.

Jordan was sentenced to 18 years in prison. “She had all the money in the world to help Jude but she wound up taking his life,” Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Charles Solomon said when he imposed the sentence.

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[spookberry]

Oh you like paranorman? Whos your favorite character?

Norman probably, though i also just love the relationships he has with the people around him.

His sister Courtneys a bitch but in the end she clearly does care about him a lot and is the one to stand up for him, also shes just So funny. Alvin becomes an unlikely friend cuz he's also pathetic and weird in his own ways. Mitch! Its such a stupid twist but it was also 2012 and i love him for it. Neil is so sweet and a little dumb and I wish Salma had more time to be developed too. And oh my gosh his grandma!! I love her. And also the zombiess are fascinating, and i cry every time over Aggie. I even like Mr. Penderghast!

I could rant and rave about this movie forever, and if i allow myself to think about it too long i well up with so much emotion i just shut down lol

[themysterycrewau]

Introduction

Hello geeks, weirdos, and explorers! Welcome to the Mystery Crew AU blog! My name is Matsurra, and I created this au on my main blog @maki-matsurra!

How It Started

I am a huge fan of Gravity Falls. From the writing to the characters, to the art style. It was truly an amazing show that deserves so much love and attention. I joined the fandom a little late, but nevertheless, enjoyed every episode I binged.

I'm also a huge fan of the stop-motion Laika movies! I got to see Coraline in 3D when it was first in theaters (yes, the movie did give me nightmares), and I just really loved it too! The aesthetic of the movie and the story and characters as well were top-notch! Paranorman is a movie I know not many people may know about, but it's still such a good movie and should be checked out! When I watched that movie, there were so many scenes where I was just bawling my eyes out in sadness or just on the edge of my seat.

Now, as a fanfiction writer, I love to try and combine fandoms to make crazy new fanfics, sometimes taking inspiration from fan art or just fan edit videos. This AU actually came to me when listening to Follow the Sun while sitting outside. I wondered; "What would a universe be like if Coraline, Paranoman, and Gravity Falls were in the same one?" And then well... Ta-da! It came to be!

I posted the first chapter of the first book for the AU on May 1st, 2022 on Tumblr, then on AO3 on July 29th, 2022, titling it The Button Key. And the fanfic is still being worked on to this day.

Meet The Crew

Coraline Jones 🗝️

Full Name: Coraline Jones

Age: 13 (Currently)

Home: Pink Palace Apartments, Gravity Falls, Oregon

Family: Mel Jones (Mother), Charlie Jones (Father)

Friends/Allies: Wybie Lovat (Best Friend), Mabel Pines (Best Friend), Dipper Pines (Best Friend), Norman Babcock (Best friend), The Cat, April Spink, Miriam Forcible, Mr. Bobinksy, Stan Pines, Ford Pines, Soos, Wendy Corduroy, Courtney Babcock, Niel Downe, Mitch Downe

Enemies: Other Mother, Other Father (former), Alvin (former), Pacifica Northwest (former), Gideon Gleeful, Bill Cipher

Item/Symbol: Button Key

Other Info (Will be updated as time goes on) - Goes to Gravity Falls Middle School - Wears her orange gloves to school - Favorite class is Science (Specifically loves learning Earth Science) - Previously lived in Pontiac, Michigan - Skilled Artist - Also likes Astrology

Wybie Lovat 💀

Full Name: Wyborne "Wybie" Lovat

Age: 14 (Currently)

Home: His Grandmother's house, Gravity Falls, Oregon

Family: His Grandmother

Friends/Allies: Coraline Jones (Best Friend), Mabel Pines (Best Friend), Dipper Pines (Best Friend), Norman Babcock (Best friend), The Cat, April Spink, Miriam Forcible, Mr. Bobinksy, Stan Pines, Ford Pines, Soos, Wendy Corduroy, Courtney Babcock, Niel Downe, Mitch Downe

Enemies: Other Mother, Alvin (former), Pacifica Northwest (former), Gideon Gleeful, Bill Cipher

Item/Symbol: Mask with a skull on it

Other Info (Will be updated as time goes on) - Goes to Gravity Falls Middle School - Wears his skeleton bike gloves to school - Favorite class is Science - Loves to go to dirt bike races - Parents passed away in a car accident

Dipper Pines 🌲

(Art by the amazing @your-local-neighborhood-nerd) Full Name: Mason "Dipper" Pines

Age: 12 (Currently)

Home: 618 Gopher Road, Gravity Falls, Oregon (The Mystery Shack)

Family: Mr. Pines, Mrs. Pines ✝️, Mabel Pines (Twin Sister), Stan Pines (Granduncle and current caretaker), Ford Pines (Granduncle)

Friends/Allies: Coraline Jones (Best Friend), Wybie Lovat (Best Friend), Norman Babcock (Best friend), The Cat, April Spink, Miriam Forcible, Mr. Bobinksy, Soos, Wendy Corduroy, Courtney Babcock, Niel Downe, Mitch Downe

Enemies: Other Mother, Alvin (former), Pacifica Northwest (former), Gideon Gleeful (former), Bill Cipher

Item/Symbol: Pine Tree

Other Info (Will be updated as time goes on) - Goes to Gravity Falls Middle School - Wears his hat everywhere - Favorite Class in English - Does well in all of his classes - Also loves Astrology - Trans ftm - Was adopted by Grunkle Stan ever since they were toddlers - Mother passed away during childbirth - Father is not in the picture

Mabel Pines 🌠

Full Name: Mabel Pines

Age: 12 (Currently)

Home: 618 Gopher Road, Gravity Falls, Oregon (The Mystery Shack)

Family: Mr. Pines, Mrs. Pines ✝️, Dipper Pines (Twin Brother), Stan Pines (Granduncle and current caretaker), Ford Pines (Granduncle)

Friends/Allies: Coraline Jones (Best Friend), Wybie Lovat (Best Friend), Norman Babcock (Best friend), The Cat, April Spink, Miriam Forcible, Mr. Bobinksy, Soos, Wendy Corduroy, Courtney Babcock, Niel Downe, Mitch Downe

Enemies: Other Mother, Alvin (former), Pacifica Northwest (former), Gideon Gleeful (former), Bill Cipher

Item/Symbol: Shooting Star

Other Info (Will be updated as time goes on) - Goes to Gravity Falls Middle School - Wears sweater over uniform - Favorite class is Art - Always comes prepared with bandaids and stickers - Was adopted by Grunkle Stan ever since they were toddlers - Mother passed away during childbirth - Father is not in the picture

Norman Babcock 📙

Full Name: Norman Babcock

Age: 13 (Currently)

Home: Gravity Falls, Oregon

Family: Perry Babcock (Father), Sandra Babcock (Mother), Courtney Babcock (Older Sister)

Friends/Allies: Coraline Jones (Best Friend), Wybie Lovat (Best Friend), Dipper Pines (Best Friend), Mabel Pines (Best Friend), April Spink, Miriam Forcible, Mr. Bobinksy, Soos, Wendy Corduroy, Niel Downe, Mitch Downe

Enemies: Aggie Prenderghast (former), Alvin (former), Pacifica Northwest (former), Gideon Gleeful (former), Bill Cipher

Item/Symbol: Fairytales Book

Other Info (Will be updated as time goes on) - Goes to Gravity Falls Middle School - Wears Red Hoodie over uniform - Favorite class is History - Loves to watch horror movies (especially with zombies in them) - The most skittish and shyest in the crew

Other Info (Will be Updated)

The Pink Palace is within walking distance of The Mystery Shack (2 Miles Away)

Some of the characters are aged up a little, but not too much (I did this so they could somewhat be in the same grade and class in school)

The Mystery Shack is where the crew hangs out most of the time

Pacifica has a small crush on Dipper

Fanfics

The Button Key (Book 1) [Avaliable on AO3!] Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4

[raelleloweauthor]

Starting a list of celebrities im obsessed with and my favourite roll/gig, feel free to add to it!

Cillian murphy: Red Eye

Jennifer connelly: the day the earth stood still

Florence pugh: midsommer/Dont worry darling

Harry styles: dont worry darling

Emily blunt: a quiet place

Natalie portman: jackie/ Annihilation

Jack black: king kong

Rachel mcadams: Red eye

Kirsten dunst: spiderman

Zendaya: spiderman

Tom holland: spiderman/the impossible

Naomi watts: the ring

Viggo mortenson: lotr/the road

Phillip seymour hoffman: hunger games/twister

Bill paxton: titanic/twister

Ben feldman: as above so below

Perdita weeks: as above so below

Megan fox: tmnt/transformers/ jennifers body

Sebastian stan: marvel/gone/the apparition

Amy adams: arrival

Jessica chastain: interstellar

Matthew mcConaughey: interstellar

Shia labeouf: disturbia/transformers

Sigourney weaver: ghost busters/ avatar

Bryce dallas howard: the village

Joaquin pheonix: the village/joker

Brad pitt: sinbad/world war z

Adrien brody: splice

Adam brody: jennifers body

Shawn ashmore: xmen/ frozen

Hugh jackman: xmen/ australia

Anna paquin: xmen

Anya taylor joy: vvitch/ split

James mcavoy: split/narnia/xmen

Andrew garfield: amazing spiderman

Emma stone: amazing spiderman/ easy A

Emma watson: Harry potter/ this is the end

Seth rogen: this is the end/knocked up

Seth mcfarlane: a million ways to die in the west/ orville

Norman reedus: TWD/ the messengers 2

Chandler riggs: The walking dead

Hana hayes: the last of us (game)

Bella ramsey: catherine called birdy/TLOU

Pedro pascal: TLOU/ narcos

Keefer sutherland: phone booth/lost boys

Jim carrey: EVERYTHING OF HIS

Adam sandler: just go with it/ grown ups

Jennifer aniston: friends/ the breakup

Mark wahlberg: ted/ deep water horizon

Leonardo dicaprio: titanic/django

Christoph waltz: django/inglorious basterdz

Bradley cooper: the hangover/ guardians of the galaxy

Elizabeth olsen: marvel/martha marcy may marleen

Jennifer lawrence: Mother!/ hunger games

Jeff goldblum: the fly/jurassic park

Jared padalecki: supernatural/ friday the 13th

Jackson rathbone: s.darko/twilight

Matthew gray gubler: criminal minds/ alvin &the chipmunks

[odk-2]

Frank Sinatra - One for My Baby (1958)

Frank Sinatra - One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) (1958) Johnny Mercer (Lyrics) | Harold Arlen (Music) from: "Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely" (LP) (2018 Deluxe Edition)

Traditional Pop

JukeHostUK (left click = "play") (320kbps)

Personnel: Frank Sinatra: Vocals

Orchestra: The Nelson Riddle Orchestra

Piano: Bill Miller

Guitar: Al Hendrickson Al Viola

Harp: Kathryn Julye

Double Bass: Joe Comfort Eddie Gilbert

Drums / Percussion: Frank Flynn Bill Richmond

Horns: Trumpet: Cappy Lewis

Trombone: Milt Bernhart   Russell Brown Ray Sims Tommy Pederson

French Horn: James Decker James McGee George Price

Reeds/Woodwinds: Clarinet: Gus Bivona   Sal Franzella   Chuck Gentry Morris Bercov

Oboe: Arnold Koblentz Champ Webb

Flute: Arthur Gleghorn Harry Klee

Bassoon: Don Christlieb Norman Herzberg

Strings: Violin: Israel Baker Victor Bay   Alex Beller   Arnold Belnick   Daniel Karpilowsky   Emo Neufeld   Ben Gill   Paul Shure   Felix Slatkin   Marshall Sosson   Victor Amo Gerald Vinci

Viola: Alvin Dinkin   Stanley Harris Paul Robyn Dave Sterkin

Cello: James Arkatov   Armand Kaproff Joseph Saxon and Eleanor Slatkin

Conductor: Nelson Riddle Arranger: Nelson Riddle Producer: Voyle Gilmore

Recorded: @ The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California USA on June 25, 1958

Album Released: on September 8, 1958

Capitol Records

[duardius]

the door in the wall


late in the winter of 1911, the english-born, nyc publisher mitchell kennerley asked his friend frederic goudy «if he cared to plan for me a volume of ten short stories by H.G. Wells.» [‘Kennerley Type, The circumstances which brought its Conception’, A Journal of Composing Room Efficiency, number 70, lanston monotype, philadelphia, 1924, p5.] matthew j. bruccoli relates: «The most typographically distinguished volume bearing Kennerley’s imprint appeared in 1911. The limited edition of H.G. Wells’s The Door in the Wall and Other Stories was proposed by Alvin Langdon Coburn as a vehicle for his photographs. Kennerley commissioned Goudy to design the book, and sample pages were printed in Caslon type by Norman T. A. Munder.» [matthew j. bruccoli, The Fortunes of Mitchell Kennerley, Bookman, hbj, 1986, p51.] bruccoli then quotes much of kennerley’s article from A Journal of Composing Room Efficiency [op. cit.].  goudy was not pleased with the type fit of the sample pages & suggested to kennerley the cutting of a new face, one that would set more tightly yet carry color as caslon. kennerley relates that goudy drew inspiration from oxford’s fell types [monotype, op. cit., p5.]; but to my eye goudy was looking at jenson (or the lettera antiche tonda of the scribes). clearly, kennerley is a 20th c. neo-venetian: canted stroke to the eye of e, serif, color, fit, canted hyphen; only, the cap-height has been brought into agreement with aldine norms.   «Goudy, who retained the rights to Kennerley, leased it to the Lanston Monotype Machine Co. [lanston monotype 268] and to the Caslon Type foundry in England. … Three days after completing Kennerley Old Style, Goudy designed an entirely new face for the title page & story titles of The Door in the Wall, inspired by the lettering in the Roman Forum and accordingly named Forum Title. [bruccoli, op. cit., p53.]  «Six hundred copies of The Door in the Wall were printed in November 1911; but publication was delayed by the spoilage of Coburn’s photogravures [photo-chemical engraving process, intaglio prints], which were to be inserted in [tipped in] the books. … Only three hundred copies were published with all ten illustrations.» [bruccoli, op. cit., p55.] of the three hundred copies not containing all ten photogravures some had at least one, but the complement was made up from aquatone prints—half-tone, relief process. [gleaned from book seller descriptions on the web, vide e.g. abebooks.com].  «As with many of the events in Kennerley’s career, it is impossible to be dogmatic about when Kennerley Old Style was actually first used in a book. The Door in the Wall is usually credited with this distinction, but it seems clear that Kennerley type was used to print 1911 books that appeared before the Wells volume. Kennerley stated that the first use of the type was in the four-page prospectus printed for The Door in the Wall.» [bruccol, op. cit., p53.]

some 
settings in kennerley old style: ‹egg&dart›,  ‹hommage à klaus›, ‹slender mark›.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"HAMILTON PRISONER PICKS HIS CELL LOCK," Toronto Star. June 8, 1942. Page 27. --- Escapes After Getting Penitentiary Term - Two Flee at Guelph --- Special to The Star Hamilton, June 8 - First escape from Hamilton jail in many years was staged by Russell Dilke a few hours after he was sentenced at noon Saturday to two years in penitentiary. Dilke was convicted on eight charges of forgery. Police said they thought he picked his cell lock. He is believed now to be in a stolen panel truck, a 1938 model, with the name of a laundry on the panels. His escape was not discovered until 8 o'clock Saturday night. He was wearing jail clothes. Dilke is clean-shaven, of medium complexion, about 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs 145 pounds. Two Escape at Guelph --- Special to The Star Guelph. June 8 - A search is under way for two inmates of Guelph reformatory who vanished from the dairy barn about 9 a.m. today. They were Alvin Smith, 17, Toronto, and Norman Dakins, 26, of Aylmer. Smith would have been released on July 27 after serving four months for taking an automobile without the owner's consent, and theft. He is described as five feet four and a half inches tall. weighing 146 pounds, dark complexioned with brown hair and eyes. He was wearing blue prison overalls. Dakins, also wearing prison uniform. is described as being dark complexioned with brown hair and eyes. He is five feet four and a half inches tail and weighs 110 pounds. He was due for release on Sept. 3, after being sentenced to three months definite and three months indeterminate on a theft charge.

[yamagache]

Wake up babe! New Paranorman Stop-motion just dropped!