Four Colour Process

Here’s a little fact: before I went ‘all in’ on web, I’d intended to be a pre-press technician. To me, the print process is a miracle. When I first began to understand how offset printing worked, I would spend a lot of time looking at printed pieces through an old German fold-up pocket loupe and marvel at just how amazing the four colour process is. Then I’d measure the line screen with a screen finder. Yeah, I’m that kind of nerd. Printing is something I could get lost in for hours. Now…I would never tell you to get lost but if you want to understand my fascination a bit, head over to 4CP and marvel at these close-ups of comic book panels. Beautiful and amazing.

Vonnegut At The Blackboard

“I started going to the library in search of reports about ethnographers, preachers, and explorers, those imperialists to find out what sorts of stories they’d collected from primitive people. It was a big mistake for me to take a degree in anthropology anyway, because I can’t stand primitive people, they’re so stupid. But anyway, I read these stories, one after another, collected from primitive people all over the world, and they were dead level, like the B-E axis here. So all right. Primitive people deserve to lose with their lousy stories. They really are backward. Look at the wonderful rise and fall of our stories.”

You really just have to love the man. (Via Joshua Porter.)