Through Lines 161

It’s taken me a while to latch onto the first couple new tracks from Hannah Georgas forthcoming album I'd Be Lying If I Said I Didn't Care, but Better Somehow caught me right away. Bonus points for the Brighton Pier backdrop in the video.

• These new images of the Sun from the NSF’s Daniel K. Inouyse Solar Telescope (the largest, most powerful in the world), including upward-flowing plasma (granules), sunspots, and magnetic field accumulations are simply breathtaking.
• Scientists have artificially triggered hibernation in mice, one step towards allowing such a thing for humans, thus making deep space travel a possibility.
• I’m looking forward to seeing Peter Gabriel's I/o tour in October and it sounds like it will be well worth the wait. The six new tracks he’s released so far have all been surprising in different ways.
• 20 Years of Transatlantacism, Death Cab for Cutie’s 4th album that changed everything. One of my favorite records of all time — not a single dud on it.
• Searching for Meg White. “…her current operational way forward — this media blackout —is fucking badass, and it’s rock ’n’ roll.” Meg rules.
• Excited for this Zuzana Licko and Rex Ray show at Gallery 16 in San Francisco which opened this past Friday. Hoping to check it out this week myself.
• Masnick's Impossibility Theorem content moderation is impossible to do well at scale. I think all the evidence we’ve seen thus far proves this true.
• No Nostalgia Letterpress. Still a fantastic process for modern creative invention.
• I often miss the quiet and I always feel better and more creative after finding time to properly hear my own thoughts.
• Back-to-office mandates (or as I recently heard it being described as “in-office time”) are all about power struggles, operational authority, and identify.
• Making a Solar-Powered Billion Year Clock… out of LEGO. Wowza.
• The Mini Moog Factory. Amazing and fun!

Notable Type Releases

• I forgot to include Lyric from XYZ Type last week but that just means it can get more attention this week. It’s a thing of beauty, full of curvy, sensuous detail. I definitely see picking this one up and might even have a project in mind for it already myself.
• The alternating sharp and round stroke ends of Micro from Superior Type make it feel both sturdy and reliable yet unexpectedly friendly and calm. The distinctive design patterns that make up its form result in different expressions at different sizes — from minimal to maximal.
• Herzberg Design’s Thanatos has an organic, woodsy flavor that lends a sense of history yet still feels like it could work beautifully across a variety of modern contexts.
• DJR’s Font of the Month for June is Rhody Wide, an expansion of a previous typeface. It’s wide and chonky in all the best ways possible.
• OxProto is an open-source monospace type family designed for the distinct needs of software engineers.
• Nova Caps from Rosetta Type takes contrast to an extreme whereby the thins nearly vanish entirely and where extreme changes in width entirely change it’s visual voice.
• Socko it too me baby. Squishy, playful, fun, weird. I dig it.