glerg, with a side of good stuff ~

Mar 12, 2009 08:43

this morning i woke up thinking about how i had (oops) missed posting the Monday Millennium recap. then i realized it was thursday and boy did i ever miss it! i guess i got bogged down in other truck and deals and annoying life junk of no interest to any of you. suffice it to say, all is well in the world and despite the inhospitably cold temps ( Read more... )

reconstruction, in pursuance

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ironichles March 12 2009, 14:13:11 UTC
Now that's a pretty damn cool site!! Love it! And you had to post some watch porn dammit.

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lookingland March 12 2009, 15:16:25 UTC
oooo baby, check out these gears. (i know what you mean ~ watches are just too amazing).

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thanks for the compliment! as i mentioned before, you deserve kudos for inspiration ~ so thank you twice!

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ironichles March 12 2009, 15:59:51 UTC
So loads of questions of course. Where did you get the font for the title and how much did you fiddle with it? Did you make the decorations for the right side menu banner yourself? Pretty cool stuff.

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lookingland March 12 2009, 16:11:12 UTC
the font is Ruritania combined and tweaked with something more banal (i think it might be Goudy, but i don't recall off the top of my head). i did very little fiddling (i'm just not any good with vectors and i think you need to be to make nice titles). i did some kerning, but otherwise, i just feel lucky to find nice fonts.

the decorative banner on the right side menu is a mutt created from parts of old scanned 19th century graphics (one was an advertisement for Hamilton's photo gallery in Ontario, the other for a Photo Artist in Chicago). i sort of built the various pieces out of the tops and bottoms using a lot of PhotoShop (and its many wonderful features!).

thank you for the questions and the interest ~ it's fun to share all the little details!

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lookingland March 12 2009, 15:37:52 UTC
thanks cat!

i originally wanted it to just "be" what it was and peeps could explore and figure it out (or not), but i also don't want to create an intentionally hostile environment and a lot of feedback seemed to indicate that my non-welcoming choice might be perceived as snooty, so i tried to make compromises that i can live with ~ and i did and i can and it's all good. hahahahahaha ~

there's still some dead ends and things that need cleaning and rearranging, but yeah, the site's pretty much good to go. like i said, i need to really work on the content now. lots and lots and lots of writing ahead.

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lookingland March 12 2009, 16:32:20 UTC
i agree ~ i don't get the whole 130 thing either. he was the most photographed president since the invention of the camera and very few people in that era were more photographed!

i wish the article showed a closer picture so we could actually see him!

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tranquilmayhem March 12 2009, 17:26:32 UTC
The Reconstruction site is looking great! ♥

Did you see this close up? It's still not clear at all, but it's better than the guy just holding it in his hand...

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lookingland March 12 2009, 17:48:47 UTC
oh, that's a much better picture, thank you!

looks fairly possible, though i am surprised that he would be standing out of doors with no hat on (perhaps?). i don't think, if i looked at the image (even through a loupe) that i could immediately conclude it was Lincoln (the scrawl on the back of the picture is really the only "evidence"). the picture at Gettysburg was far more convincing.

either way, it's super cool!

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redcoatcat March 12 2009, 19:36:23 UTC
WOW what a layout!! :)
Very nice!

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lookingland March 15 2009, 13:35:31 UTC
thank you! i'm so bad at this, so the fact that it looks good surprises and delights even me!

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