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Month January 2010

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A Night Out With Annie, Alyx and McK

Jan 13, ’10 12:30 PM

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We met up with Helena native and New York resident Annie Connole for a great night out of Indian food and a performance by Baby Wants Candy. (Excuse the blurry photos, my camera was set to Inexcusably Blurry Photo mode.)

We jumped in a cab at the apartment and Annie took us to one of her favorite restaurants, Saravanaa Bhavan on Lexington and 26th. Awesome, cheap, huge Indian food. It was literally huge, Annie ordered a dish called paper-something that was a huge crepe roll at least 24 inches long and 6 inches in diameter. Should’a took a photo, but I was distracted by the array of curries and chutneys I’d ordered for myself.

After dinner we jumped into another cab (lux night!) and headed to Baby Wants Candy at the Players Theater. It was a long form improvised musical. In the beginning someone shouts the title of a musical no one has ever seen before: Take it out of your pocket, Sir. Then the four musicians and four performers immediately start to perform the first song. The whole show lasts 60 minutes or so with many songs and characters branching out at first but it was all satisfyingly tied together in the end. It was superb.

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H&FJ:Vitesse

Jan 13, ’10 12:10 PM

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A new font family from my favorite type designers Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones was released today. They made Gotham, Obama’s campaign font.

H&FJ is delighted to introduce Vitesse®, a new slab serif in twelve styles.
Slab serifs are one of typography’s most vibrant categories, yet they remain dominated by two ancient forms: the nineteenth century Antique, and the twentieth century Geometric. Both are vital and living genres—we’ve explored each of them, in our Sentinel and Archer type families—but what of the twenty-first century slab? Vitesse revels in the tension between organic letterforms and mechanical grids, and offers designers a distinctive new voice that’s suave, confident, and stylish. Engineered for responsive handling and a sporty ride.

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Home From New York

Jan 12, ’10 10:41 PM

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We’re home from New York!
Upon getting home the full weight of returning to reality hit me and I turned to despondency. If no one minds the significant temporal shift, I’ll keep posting New York “updates” at automated intervals over the next few days. It’ll cheer me up!

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Subway Fun

Jan 9, ’10 8:11 AM

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An Afternoon At The MoMA

Jan 8, ’10 10:30 PM
After noon we charged down the street to see the MoMA.

After noon we charged down the street to see the MoMA.

In the main atrium there is the mounted skeleton of a baleen whale. It was very realistic.

In the main atrium there is the mounted skeleton of a baleen whale. It was very realistic.

"Look at it for a long time, the painting is done in different kinds of black, first you will make out a geometric shape, then the painting will reveal itself to you."

Look at it for a long time, the painting is done in different kinds of black, first you will make out a geometric shape, then the painting will reveal itself to you.

I visited Monet in his studio after enjoying his lily paintings, though I was distracted by a phone call.

I visited Monet in his studio after enjoying his lily paintings, though I was distracted by a phone call.

We ate a lunch from the Finnians Rainbow cart across Broadway. This is the look of hungry people recently fed.

We ate a lunch from the Finnians Rainbow cart across Broadway. This is the look of hungry people recently fed.

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