We're compiling a list of links to photos and TC03 articles/reviews on the TypeCon2003 website. Email me or post 'em here, and we'll add them to the site!

My god, Colin - is that you in the photos? I'm frightened. You seemed like such a calm sort in the hotel ;-)

Nice pix, Keith!

Hey All! I really had a great time. Everyone was so friendly! I came away with so much inspiration...

I've posted more thoughts in my LiveJournal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/amelitatwinstar/5571.html if you care to see.

Ciao!

Best TypeCon ever.

I know I'm getting in a bit late on this thread but I just wanted to say it was great getting meet all of you. Tamye Riggs and her crew really did a great job.

Stealing Joe's format:
The funniest thing at TypeCon:
John Downer's strip tease at the auction.

The most frustrating moments:
Not being able to go to all the really great workshops offered.

The most unbelievable moments:
Every once in awhile I would step back and realise that Ken Barber of House was teaching me how to draw letters, or that I was having dinner with Akira Kobayashi of Linotype and it was hard to believe. I thank TypeCon/SoTA for bringing together people who may not have otherwise meet.

The second worst moment:
Finding out Josh Darden couldn't make it.

The worst moment:
Joe--I had the same problem with the business center. I tried to go across the skyway and poach a computer at the Marriot, but theirs were heavily guarded.

Biggest regret:
No regrets.

The simplest pleasure:
Those beds.

Funnest time:
All the planed and unplanned evening events. It's really great to get to talk (in person) to like minded typo folk.

I'm already looking forward to the Bay Area. The west coast crew really has their work cut out for them.

Sustain SoTA: Join SoTA as a member now!

Oh, yeah. Does anyone have or know of a picture of the posters that we created in the Not-Quite-Letterpress workshop? The ones where we stamped the whole set of letters that we carved in rubber.

I'd really like a picture of that to remember it by.

Thanks!

Great, super, best ever... but I'll stop there since I can't outdo Jon Coltz's summary.

Here are some movies for y'all:

* Bill Moran printing
* Lazy Drinker 1
* Lazy Drinker 2
* Just & Chloe

http://www.lorp.org/typecon2003/

Let me know if anyone wants fullrez versions.

Here is a blurry shot my co-worker took of the print I have hanging at work. I'll send a better one later directly to you.

Tony

Sorry. Didn't come thru last time. Lousy pop-client!

In response to Amy Conger's request for:
"Does anyone have or know of a picture of the posters that we created in the Not-Quite-Letterpress workshop? The ones where we stamped the whole set of letters that we carved in rubber."

here it is, blurry. I will send a better one directly to you later on.

Tony

I guess the Lazy Drinker machine was part of the workshop...

hhp

For testing purposes I made a rough digital version of some font like that using the picture on the wall in the place where Lazy Drinker was installed (digital photo -> ScanFont -> FontLab). I don't remember if it is the same picture, but it definitely is very close.

It is OpenType font file and I don't know what to do with it. Is anybody interested?

Best regards,
Yuri Yarmola

Now 109 stills are at http://www.lorp.org/typecon2003/

Good to see you got some shots of the architectural wonders of downtown. There are actually a couple of better streets, one in north Mpls and one in St. Paul... nice old signage. Sigh!

I'm finally recovering from the frolicking fun of TypeCon and have setup a small website with pictures from some of the workshops and events. I'll be putting up more shots over the weekend and will post again to let you know when more shots are added. I've also received some photos from Ilene Stizver that I'll be setting up pages for later as well.

So go check out the crazy TypeCon photos.

http://astigmatic.com/typecon2003/

(for those worried people, I will not be posting any of the incrimiating video clips that I shot at the event. They are solely for my personal entertainment.)

I've just added to my TypeCon 2003 Photo Gallery a few new sections, so the current photo galleries include...

Miscellanous
Calligraphy Workshop
Sign Painting Workshop
Vendor Room
SoTA Auction
Boogie Night (including infrared video screencaps)

I still have a few sections left to add, and I'll drop another message here when more is added. If anyone wants any higher quality versions of any of these photos, just e-mail me.

http://www.astigmatic.com/typecon2003

Enjoy the photos...

Gary Munch posted this on Typo-L re his own TypeCon2003 pix:

http://www.munchfonts.com/Misc/typecon2003.html
Now has a listing of some photos I took at TypeCon 2003. The camera was brand-new, and wow, is it weird waiting for the shutter to decide to engage its mechanism so long after pressing the button.... Very arty, hmm,not!

Gary

---edited to add---

Also see photos by our friend Tony "Crazy Tony" de Marco, from Brazil:

http://homepage.mac.com/tonymacmania/typecon_2003

All the TypeCon2003 photos and text we know about, as well as other news, are linkable from the TC03 website at http://www.typecon2003.com.

All right! I made it into the background of another picture.

It's amazing how many photos you guys took... Thanks!

> waiting for the shutter

You probably had "red eye reduction" selected (by default).

hhp

Hrant: It's a problem common to many digital cameras, right up to the semi-pro devices. I get frustrated with my own Fuji S602 for the very same reason. (Why don't camera reviews make a bigger deal of this? Sigh...) Even when set to manual everything I feel I'm making a request for a picture to be taken, not taking the picture myself. It turns photography into something akin to video: you press the button with the hope that the desired shot is imminent, and shooting tons of footage you use your "creativity" in the editing process. The difference between film & digital stills may only be 0.2s or so (~0.1s vs. ~0.25s), but psychologically that's huge. To capture moments, stick with SLR.

Interesting. In fact 0.1 seconds is the approximate fastest human finger reaction time.

> To capture moments, stick with SLR.

Or full-motion (hi-res) video and then select a frame? :-/

hhp

> In fact 0.1 seconds is the approximate fastest human finger reaction time.

The relevant physiological constraint is not reaction time, but with what precision can one operate a trusted piece of machinery. From experiments (aged 11) I know I can stop a stopwatch within 0.02s of the full second quite reliably. A photographer sees moments coming, and can adjust for a 0.1s delay in a mechanism to an accuracy better than 0.1s. But with longer delays, there will be a rapid fall-off of such accuracy. The probability that you can predict what's going to happen 0.1s from now in a complex environment, is much higher than for 0.3s hence. This is armchair musing, of course. We should both ask good photographers whether they agree... But I liked a story I heard from a friend who once found himself at a party with Henri Cartier-Bresson. The great man would stand in a corner on his own, chain-smoking Gauloises and looking depressed. Every few minutes though, he would whip out his camera, click!, then hide it away again. Hardly anyone had noticed a thing. This seems to me to be the human equivalent of a frog catching a fly: a neuronally complex, supremely precise action, the perfect result of those minutes of observation. Any error in its timing - just by a tenth - would mean the prey would escape both frog and Frog.

> Or full-motion (hi-res) video and then select a frame? :-/

A smaller version of this camera might be ok.

Regarding the discussion about digital cameras, I thought I'd provide a link to this PDF a co-worker shared with me, about the Foveon Chip, which will make digital picture taking a lot better, and faster.

http://12pointstype.com/pdf/FoveonX3.pdf

I use my digital camera much more like a medium format camera than a 35mm SLR: I only shoot stationary objects and I take my time setting up the shot. Actually, my main reason for purchasing it was the built in macro lense: I seldom shoot anything larger than 72pt

Thanks for reminding me about the Foveon chip, Tony. The $1000 Sigma SD-9 with that chip has a shutter lag of only 0.14s.

On Tuesday, July 29, Yuri said:
For testing purposes I made a rough digital version of some font like that using the picture on the wall in the place where Lazy Drinker was installed (digital photo -> ScanFont -> FontLab). I don't remember if it is the same picture, but it definitely is very close.

It is OpenType font file and I don't know what to do with it. Is anybody interested?

Hi Yuri, yes. I'd like to see it. Can you post a jpeg of the alphabet?

Thanks.

Laurence, great story about Cartier-Bresson!

hhp