#handsetting

[m1keville]

I’m so excited for Roger’s route I’m literally crying rn

[reblogs r appreciated]

[cyclesprefectpress]

[image description: photos of The Disco Elysium Tarot, printed letterpress in an edition of one from handset lead type and linoleum blocks. It is a complete 78-card tarot deck printed primarily with white text and illustrations on medium grey cardstock, in a custom dark grey hardcase box with a hand-marbled orange and yellow endsheet. The backs of the deck are decorated with an illustration of a sprig of may bells, and a quote from Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns: "None of this matters at all." The interpretive meaning of each card is expressed on its face with a small excerpt of the game's text. The Minor Arcana are divided into four suits of Harry's Attributes—Motorics, Psyche, Physique, Intellect—and each card in that suit is a quote from a skill under that Attribute. The Major Arcana are assigned quotes from other sources like NPC dialogue or Thought Cabinet problems & solutions. Pips for the Minors are counted with diamonds like the game's skill points; each actor or title is printed with their in-game color, but made shiny & metallic with bronzing powder.

each piece of text was set in handset lead type, assembled from individual pieces for each letter and space, and printed relief on a chandler & price clamshell press. end description.]

🎊🎊 Desert Bus for Hope starts for 2023 on nov. 11th and i have made an item this year for the craftalong that will be up for giveaway between 6am-12pm on Monday the 13th! 🎊🎊 It is a full tarot deck based on Disco Elysium and it has several pieces of my heart & soul in it but NOT my blood because i put a bandaid right on that :) donations for this and any other auctions & giveaways for Desert Bus go to Child's Play Charity.

notes: i did not make a whole new interpretive model for this deck, apologies, that was outside of my scope. it's generally compatible with a Rider-Waite model, with Motorics for Wands, Psyche for Cups, Physique for Swords, and Intellect for Disks. (full distribution of text listed by card, linked below. any spelling or transcription errors you find there, i promise i fixed them in print—that's copied from my digital mockup which was copied hastily from screenshots.)

i also do not track hours on these kinds of projects because that way lies madness, but i will say: i knew how much time it would take to print it. it was a lot but i was not worried about it, i know how to print. i was very worried about how much time it would take to absorb the sheer amount of text, and distribute it across the cards, and really get an array i believe in. i was right to worry, and i have absolutely had a few anxious nightmares about discovering the Perfect excerpt that should've gone in and i missed it, and the suit of Intellect made me want to lay on the floor a few times, but still! i believe there's many versions of a deck you could make from this game and this one is a good one.

i think the Minors fit really well with the double-edged sword of Harry's skills, their advice, their priorities. the circular way the Fool-World assignment works out makes me smile every time. The colors on The Star came out so nice. i think Justice fulfills some of my favorite things about Kim's character & purpose in the story. i worried sometimes that editing to such short clips would lose too much of the politics of the game, but of course you can't really take them out and they're especially present in the Majors—the Devil and the Hierophant, The Star and The Sun. i've wanted to design a tarot deck for years and i love this game deeply and i let this idea percolate for a few months and it never stopped making me laugh so here it is, & given a beautiful purpose :)

i also literally could not have done this without xyrilin's Disco Reader and the FAYDE On-Air Playback Experiment to navigate the dialogue and skill checks. Really couldn’t have tied the whole concept & colophon in its final bow without the Disco Reader :)) thank thank thank, they're so fun to investigate that it was honestly very difficult to focus on my task instead of veering off and exploring every branch in an extremely disorganized way.

actual printing went well honestly, very few problems! i think that means i'm getting pretty good at planning one of these monstrosities, although perhaps it also means i'm not challenging myself enough. hmm. no that's silly there's 78 ding dang cards in this thing. anyway the drop & replace formes worked well, no registration issues. mum convinced me to overprint another half a deck's worth of cards when I was printing backs & borders and of course she was right :/ there were a handful of cards that actually had better line breaks and fewer lines total in true type than in the digital mockup, so i needed all the spares I had to put those new short quotes into the appropriate border breakage. next time i will not question her.

handset in Garamond, Eden Bold, and secret Neuland.

WIP : full text card assignments

bonus photo of the kind of trash notes i always take to plan things like how many borders were printed with space for short excerpts vs long excerpts, and how many of those are majors vs. minors, because they have a slightly different frame at the bottom edge, etc.

[image description: they are truly garbage notes, i tell you. half of it is written at angles to the other half, many numbers in the math problems are not labeled, mistakes are scribbled over. it gets me there but it doesn't look pretty. end description.]

[degomon]

can a lad and a cunt really fall in love in this godforsaken world

[the-acid-pear]

Spinning the concept of rotary phonetaurs on my head my first idea naturally was a trimline telephone because it'd be like if it had its own little bed and that's so fucking cute but it begs questions of mobility with the cord would it have to remain attached to the telephone could you turn the Phone itself lets say into its tail or perhaps a shell? Actually that'd be kinda cute... Maybe to protect its belly (soft and weak) and to be allowed to use it as a telephone would be a showcase of trust and vulnerability.

[krjpalmer]

Antic June 1982

The communications focus of Antic's second issue included an "acoustic coupler" on the cover, a relatively simple way to link your computer to the phone system.

[midnightfruitsqueeze]

the day of the jackal...movie of all time. we've got gritty paperwork. we've got a thousand different ways to furiously answer a rotary phone. we've got cunty little neckerchiefs. we've got evading the cops by cruising. we've got the spasming panic of dying empires. we've got guys smoking while they rewind the tapes. we've got low tech surveillance. we've got The Doohickey

[dent-de-leon]

Thinking about this aspect of the Wildmother, feral and hungry and hurting, gnashing teeth and anger, tethered to a dying world. Her absolute volatile hatred for Aeor and anguish and vengeance, lashing back out in this place where trees are uprooted and birds have no shelter and nothing real or living gets the chance to grow. How ready she was to let it all fall.

A thousand years later, in the last remnant of this city—one great big rotting cadaver—an empty husk. And then—mushrooms. Vines. Wildflowers. A patch of greenery blooming here in the heart of the place she so hated, allowed to grow and be reborn because she willed it, because Caduceus asked nicely for it, because she is willing to give some part of this place one last chance.

The Wildmother from a millennia ago surely would have despised the Nonagon, sought to destroy whatever vessel allowed these last ancient mages of Aeor to live on. But so much of the world has had time to heal and grow since then, to flourish once more into something new.

The same Wildmother who ached to strike down Aeor, allowing this lost little piece of a soul the chance to grow and try again. Divine intervention here in this place that the gods supposedly abandoned—

[sayhowdycountrycritters]

Recycled handset rotary phones and curly cords.

[cyclesprefectpress]

[image description: photos of a small 4x4 inch letterpress print. text adapted from dictionary definitions of “milk teeth,” temporary, deciduous teeth in young mammals; and “deciduous,” 1. shed at a certain stage of the life cycle. 2. ephemeral, transient. the print also has the small shape of a tooth cut out of the sheet. Photos also of the forme of relief handset type used to print the text, where every letter and space is an individual piece assembled by hand, the small cutting die used to punch out the shape of the tooth, and all the little paper teeth removed from the prints, as little half-inch tooth confetti. End description.]

Had these as little die cutting demos at the Tacoma Wayzgoose last week but there’s a stack leftover so I finished them out! Related to some other stuff I’ve done, obviously. Sort of a series of studies for a bigger project I’m slowly pulling together. If you want the removed tooth along with the print there’s a button for that :)

Etsy

Set in Caslon 471

[unproduciblesmackdown]

The Joe Iconis Christmas Extravaganza plays December 13-15 and will be live streamed. By: Joey Mervis Dec. 12, 2024

The Joe Iconis Christmas Extravaganza is back to sleigh another day. The iconic holiday tradition is coming back to 54 Below for the 14th time! Joe and his merry band of musical theater punks descend on every square inch of 54 Below with their legendary holiday tradition that brings their insane celebration of all things red and green back to the heart of the theater district. Written by Joe Iconis, directed by John Simpkins, and produced by Jennifer Ashley Tepper, this wild yuletide explosion is part rock concert, part theater piece, and part theme park attraction come to life. Featuring brand new holiday songs, old favorites, a huge cast of musical theater all-stars, tiny elves, enormous reindeer, an inebriated Mr. and Mrs. Claus, and more whiskey-fueled shenanigans than you can shake a candy cane at, it promises to be the hap-hap-happiest holiday hoedown ever seen on stage. Iconis explained that this Extravaganza, like all years, is a mixture of old and new. "We always add new songs and new characters," he said in a break from rehearsals. "That is because there are people who see it year after year- it's a big holiday tradition for some people... however, we always have a bunch of new audience members too. When I write the show I make sure it's a show that's gonna please people- that it has the characters and songs they are expecting to see and is also for people who have never seen the thing before. It's bigger and better every single year." Watch as we go inside rehearsals with Iconis and the whole family!

ft. video in the link with interview material from joe iconis & eric william morris & rehearsal glimpses ft. "celebrate christmas (with me)," mister chestnut's christmas medley (specifically "it's the most wonderful time of the year" for one), & a generous look at liz lark brown's "santa, baby" performance as the virgin mary with the virgin mary dancers

[roundearthsociety]

Monospace font cotbg muse is a staple of our brain now btw. We gotta put it into something some day.

"What I need you to do is every time you read 'eigen-' in Foundation docs, you gotta mentally word-replace that with 'bullshit'. Alright?"

[thirddeadlysin]

what if there was one single psychiatric practitioner within 25 miles who could return a phone call so we could schedule an appointment

[holmoris]

memorable ones i've seen:

'IKARUGA' on a black muscle car (a ferarri irc) that obviously got tboned and had both side doors replaced with white ones

'GEODUDE' on a muddy brown SUV with college faculty plates (he teaches at my alma mater; never had his class though)

'DUHHHHH' on a humvee

'DAD WOO' on a minivan with visible baby seats

still planning on trying for RADARLV or NOTAFED for my crappy work van (decomissioned fed radar van circa 1982! 30k miles! weird wiring everywhere! CRT wallmounts! 12v8a running through phone handset cable behind the dashboard! it's such a shitbox. i love it)

Top ten vanity plates ever spotted….no question

[walkie-talkie-repairs]

I am in Basingstoke and offer a fixed price, postal repair service for walkie-talkie two-way radios. Best prices, engineer with 38+ years experience within the radio communications industry.

https://www.mikeashbycomms.uk/repairs

#repost #repair #wireless #walkietalkie #handset #education #school #academy #hotel #zoo #park

[newstech24]

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[cyclesprefectpress]

[image description: photos of a 4x6 inch postcard/small print, letterpress printed from handset type. it says "head UP, feet down; the Sun doesn't wait for you to get your boots on," and has a rough shape of sun rays built from large is, ls, and !s. in handset type, each letter and space is a separate piece, assembled into a rectilinear form and then redistributed back into individual pieces after printing. end description.]

etsy

cooper black, venus extended, etc. wanted to do something quick and a little rougher before Wayzgoose, and then felt like i had to wait to post until it got a little sunny again.

the sun is hand-inked with orange and fluorescent red, impression pulled without register in the Poco proofing press, so they're all a little different. i'm generally a little—uptight, as a printer. i'm feeling out for the new freedoms i will enjoy, and i like these a lot :)