Day 107: Untapped

Fragment: In everything I saw, I saw opportunity
Font: Futura
Quoted: Babatunde Fashola, governor of Lagos, Nigeria

"The poor may be lacking in money as individuals but together, in their tens of millions, represent an untapped resource."

Day 106: Facts of Life

Fragment: If you wait til the last hour, it only takes an hour.
Font: Univers
Quoted: Allen Zhang

A strange fact of life that I'm not endorsing. Allen said this a long time ago, but I thought of it while debating whether or not to start packing for my trip out of town tomorrow night. Allen also said that when he gives advice, he thinks of what he would do, then chooses the opposite. Somehow, he's still one of my heroes. Miss you already.

Day 105: Ugly Feet

Fragment: Only the secure can truly pretend
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Dr. Jay to Lenore in The Broom of The System, by David Foster Wallace


"Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet"




I've realized that due to a downgrade in quality, the fragment is pretty had to read after uploading. I've made an alternate, below, with 85% black, over Registration (the one above is 95% over Registration, and it comes out just fine on my computer)
As with all fragments, click to enlarge.

When it comes down to serious business black in not really black. A strange quality of printing is that, in general, everything comes out darker than you see it on the screen... my guess is that this comes from the lighting of the screen. The exception to this rule is Black. In inDesign, there are two options, that look pretty much the same: Black and Registration. Black has CMY values of 0% and a K value of 100%, so in theory, it  is 100% black. Registration, on the other hand, has CMYK all set to 100%. It's telling the printer, "All jets on!" which gets you a rich, glossy black.

Day 104: Beatles or the Rolling Stones

Fragment: Got no time to take a picture
Font: Din Black
Quoted: Metric

Gimme Sympathy

Day 103: Feet Phase

Fragment: Do I deserve to be an artist?
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Mia Thompson


I tried taking pictures, but they were so mediocre. I guess every girl goes through a photography phase. You know, horses... taking dumb pictures of your feet.


Charlotte, in Lost in Translation

102: Rain Makes Corn

Fragment: This is country music.
Font: Garamond
Quoted: Brad Paisley

I never thought there would come the day when I would appreciate country music, but I guess the day is here. Country music on open roads.... Thanks for the Tip, Allen.

Day 101: Vibrations

Fragment: Sometimes I hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living
Font: Futura
Quoted: Jonathan Safran Foer, in Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close


I really, really like this book. It's like a little puzzle. In other news, apparently they're coming out with a Tom Hanks/Sandra Bullock movie version.......

Day 100: 265 to Go

Fragment: Goals are Dreams with Deadlines
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Diana Scharf Hunt

Time Management Guru.

Day 99: ADD

Fragment: Black Cat, white cat... doesn't matter so long as it catches mice

Font: Futura

Quoted: Mom, relaying a Doctor's words

The doctor was trying to point out that the boy didn't have ADD, and there wasn't a point in looking for problems.

Day 98: Love Finds You

Fragment: Why would you settle for less, when the world gives you more?

Font: Galaxie Polaris

Quoted: The Submarines

Things always seem to come just when I stop looking. 

Listen to the Submarines here

Day 97: Leg Up

Fragment: And he was munching away so unappologetically
Font: Univers
Quoted: Mom

Day 96: Robots and Aliens

Fragment: Gophers what do they want out of life
Font: Futura Condensed
Quoted: Mia Thompson

Ah yes. excellent point

Day 95: Bound

Fragment: You get out what you put in

Font: Knockout

Quoted: Jeanne Phillips (Dear Abby)

Sometimes I read Dear Abby Just for kicks.

Day 94: Bucket List

Fragment: If it happens, it happens
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Allen Zhang

You know, cause one day I might find myself taking a leak on woolsey's toe.

Day 93: Slice

Fragment: Granma said that when you come on something good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out where no telling it will go. Which is right.
Font: Avenir
Quoted: Granma, in The Education of Little Tree


A really sweet book. I think the first time I read it, I was in third grade, and I didn't quite understand, much like the protagonist himself.

Day 92: Inhale

Fragment: Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them.
Font: Futura
Quoted: Anonymous


Who is this Anonymous, and why does he say so many cool things‽

Day 91: Building

Fragment: 十年树木，百年树人, roughly translated, It takes 10 years to grow a tree, 100 years to erect a people.
Font: English, in Helvetica
Quoted: Mom, but really, a Chinese idiom


 Generally refers to education, as in: ‘It takes 10 years to grow a tree while a hundred for a sound education’.

Day 90: Not So Fly

Fragment: I'm your density... I mean destiny
Font: Gotham
Quoted: George McFly in Back to the Future I

love.

Day 89: True Fact

Fragment: Defining and Analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people

Font: Times New Roman

Quoted: Robert Benchley

Day 88: Robots in Love

Fragment: BABIES EVERYWHERE!!
Font: Gotham
Quoted: Justin Lan

We're a perfectly normal family

Day 87: J21H

Fragment: You just have to make it your own
Font: Calibri
Quoted: Bryan Balvaneda

My room is a lot smaller than I thought it would be, but I guess it doesn't matter, because the bed fits just so, blocking off enough room for a fort with a window and the heater, and the ceiling has a little groove, perfect for hanging a curtain (aka fort walls)

Day 86: Never Will

Fragment: Don't let the sunshine get you down
Font: Gotham
Quoted: Professor Stan Eisenstat

I kind of wonder if he said the wrong thing....

Day 85: Run Fast

Fragment: You can't Carry it With you if you want to survive
Font: Interstate
Quote: Florence and the Machine in Dog Days are over

Listen Here

Day 84: Grip

Fragment: Hold on to this
Font: Avenir
Quoted: Professor Steven Zucker

Day 83: Lessons

Fragment: Differentiation is all about rules, Integration is all about tricks

Font: Times New Roman

Quoted: Aneesh Raghunandan

Day 82: Duty

Fragment: One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family
Font: Univers, Dear Joe Script
Quoted: Jonathan Safran Foer, in Everything is Illuminated

Day 81: Wabbits

Fragment: Tastes Like Chicken
Font: Times New Roman
Quoted: Allen Zhang

I had rabbit for the first time (stealing from Allen's plate, but still) Rabbits are so cute... but really tasty.
I had it at a cute little family owned Italian place, Skappo, in New Haven. The food is amazing, but it's all about the atmosphere. It's run by Skappo, his sister, his daughters, and his mom.

Day 80: Vandals

Fragment: It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
Font: Futura/Stencil
Quoted: Banksy

Day 79: Afterlife

Fragemnt: I have always imagined that paradise would be a kind of library
Font: Times New Roman
Quoted: Jorge Luis Borges

Day 78: Vegetable Marrows

Fragment: It's not a man's working hours that are important -- it's his leisure hours
Font: Georgia
Quoted: Dr. Burton in the Labors of Hercules by Agatha Christie

Day 77: Raid

Fragment: Justice has been done

Font: Gotham

Quoted: Barack Obama