{"id":154,"date":"2009-04-27T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2009-04-27T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T22:29:00","slug":"links-for-2009-04-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/links-for-2009-04-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2009-04-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/artistgeneral.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/artistgeneral.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instructions on creating your own Star Wars crawl on TheForce.Net:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theforce.net\/fanfilms\/postproduction\/crawl\/opening.asp\"> http:\/\/www.theforce.net\/fanfilms\/postproduction\/crawl\/opening.asp<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reviews of some spy gear, including a bulletproof dress shirt:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At Wired:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/reviews\/product\/pr_roundup_spygear\"> http:\/\/www.wired.com\/reviews\/product\/pr_roundup_spygear<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gizmodo has a whole category: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/spy-gear\/\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/spy-gear\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some people think you shouldn&#8217;t use Papyrus, the font I liberally use in &#8220;The Library of Dresan&#8221; logo and all over the rest of this site.  I present the evidence; you decide:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Wikipedia: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=6601227&amp;postID=3538568548637597948#%20#%20http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Papyrus_%28typeface%29\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Papyrus_(typeface)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Its Author: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costelloart.com\/fonts.html\">http:\/\/www.costelloart.com\/fonts.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Some Criticism: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=6601227&amp;postID=3538568548637597948#%20http:\/\/modernl.com\/article\/5-terrible-fonts-that-you-should-not-use-in-print-design%20#\">http:\/\/modernl.com\/article\/5-terrible-fonts-that-you-should-not-use-in-print-design<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Papyrus Sightings: <a href=\"http:\/\/esotericappeal.typepad.com\/papyrus\/\">http:\/\/esotericappeal.typepad.com\/papyrus\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Papyrus Watch: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.papyruswatch.com\/\">http:\/\/www.papyruswatch.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And finally, I bring you a few pointers to the Artist General, Michael Masley, who I saw again recently playing his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cymbalom\">cymbalom<\/a> to the crowds at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">2009 Game Developer&#8217;s Conference<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Wikipedia: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Masley\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Masley<\/a><\/li>\n<li>His web site: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistgeneral.com\/\">http:\/\/www.artistgeneral.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>His very nice CD: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cymbalennium-Michael-Masley\/dp\/B0007VDF6S\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cymbalennium-Michael-Masley\/dp\/B0007VDF6S<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Image: Michael Masley playing the cymbalom at GDC 2009 using his amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bowhammer\">bowhammers<\/a>, which create a distinctive soundscape that sounds like Masley is several performers.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructions on creating your own Star Wars crawl on TheForce.Net: http:\/\/www.theforce.net\/fanfilms\/postproduction\/crawl\/opening.asp Reviews of some spy gear, including a bulletproof dress shirt: At Wired: http:\/\/www.wired.com\/reviews\/product\/pr_roundup_spygear Gizmodo has a whole category: http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/spy-gear\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pointers","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}