G A N Z E E R . T O D A Y

6 pages to color and 33 to letter.

Lettering moves pretty quickly, but digital coloring is slow and loathsome. So many hours sat in front of a computer screen which makes me feel like a zombie at the end of each day. Can't wait to be done with this part already.

Started reading Kazuo Ishiguro's NEVER LET ME GO sometime ago, which started interestingly enough but I largely lost interest by the last third of the book and now find myself winding most evening's down with a film instead. This however is also likely due to the above-mentioned zombie status induced by long hours at the computer desk.

Today's screening: LOST HIGHWAY

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Happy to see the fine folks at the Letterform Archive in San Francisco celebrate 10 years of typographic awesomeness. To celebrate, they asked a number of designers to contribute a “1” to use in conjunction with their circular AAAAAAAAA logomark to signify a “10”.

Figured I'd pitch in with the most intuitive “1” in human history, based on a photo of my own hand.

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Issue #226 of the RESTRICTED FREQUENCY newsletter dropped a few days ago. In it we discuss 7 Rules for Artists.

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Inking is done.

Tones, touch-ups, and colors where they apply remain before moving onto lettering.

Lords help me.

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9 pages worth of inks to go.

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  • AFAC announces new grant round under the banner Ecologies of Culture

  • Europe uses Iran as pawn in transatlantic power play — Responsible Statecraft

  • Egypt's Nato-style Arab defense force proposal rejected at Doha summit — Middle East Eye... “According to the senior official, the main disagreement was over leadership: Saudi Arabia wanted to take command, while Egypt argued it was best placed given its long military experience.”

  • Qatar requests Israeli apology to resume Gaza mediation efforts — Axios... Imagine getting attacked by another country and the best thing you can do is ask for an apology.

  • Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission Finds — OHCHR... No shit?

  • Gaza death toll passes 60,000 — AP

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8:30 am. Garden kittens have stormed the house and laid claim to my bed, ruffling around playfully between the sheets. I haven't the heart or energy to chase them out. Fresh coffee in hand fails to disperse sleep from my eyes as a I plan the day ahead:

  • Finish inking TSG09p24 – 12 more pages to go on the final chapter of THE SOLAR GRID.

  • Shave face.

  • Look after dad.

Tomorrow I need to finish most of the branding work on PROJECT FUNNYCULT, run a couple errands, including a much-dreaded Ikea run. I'd really hoped to avoid Ikea upon the move to Cairo, which I hoped to avoid upon the move to Cairo, but I don’t have the time or patience to comb through the city’s endless shopping clusters for a couple of basics. A negligible betrayal only if it were my first since being here.

RESTRICTED FREQUENCY #225 goes out around midnight. Its title: Anything But The Art! 😱

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  • “Refugees alone, a tiny proportion of all immigrants to the U.S., produced $124 billion in net tax revenue between 2005 and 2019, Moorehead noted in her piece on Liberian refugees. As of January, the U.S. no longer resettles refugees; as of this fall, refugees living in the U.S. will no longer be eligible for Medicaid.” — Nathaniel Popkin

  • “You can’t Instagram your way into belonging; it requires choosing deliberate entanglement over endless optionality, again and again.” — Kai for DENSE DISCOVERY

  • “There is happy, and there is polite, and they look very different. Polite has a mechanical quality to it, like carrying out all the right movements to replace batteries in a remote. Happy has a boundless quality: unpredictable, even when it is at a low level.” — Shani Zhang writes 21 Observations From People Watching for SKIN CONTACT

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