This is a page made for my webcomic and other stuff that isn't my webcomic also

This is just something to fill the header so I know that it works.

18/10/2024 23:23(make a wish! I'll allow it)

Hello!! This is my first official post, I suppose. I've started this web blog as a place to put my webcomic and also for all the other reasons people make web blogs. I'm not the best at HTML, but I really hope to get better. I like taking pictures, doing art and sounding a lot cooler than I actually am. Maybe one day I'll be as cool as people in my real life think I am, but alas today is not that day. I'll be adding more things to this soon since I eventually want to replace my social media presence with this website. Like a place to put my art, writing, ect ect, but for now, it's just words and pictures, as that is all I have time for at the moment.

18/10/2024 23:32(make an even cooler wish)

I'm currently very sick right now. I don't know if it's just because my body has been upheaved from it's usual environment, as I'm now living away from home. It could be (and probably is) the tap water here in the halls, that I drink from constantly. It really has got a weird taste to it, but I'd rather get septic poisoning than have to start buying water.
Anyways, because I've been sick and busy, I haven't taken many new pictures, so, as a sort of celebratory first post(ish) kind of thing. Here's some of the pictures I took when I went to Berlin the summer just gone.

Isn't the typeface on this great? I know it was mainly for practical purposes, but there's just something about the font (or lettering? I saw someone say it wasn't a font but a lettering, on reddit) that I find super pleasing to look at.
I wondered if there was an actual font you could link it back to, but I didn't find much on it's origins.
However, I did find something else when I was looking, which is this typeface called Berlin by hvdfonts and while it isn't exactly the same it's very heavily inspired by all of Berlins public lettering.

We've just started to learn about Jan Tschicholds DIE NUEU TYPOGRAPHY in class. I'm not an expert designer, but it reminds me a lot of that style. Very straight edged and functional. Jan Tschichold also possibly may have had some ties to Marxism and the likes, but it's not super clear on the account of how suppressed the Communist movement was back when he was publishing things. This person seems to know what they're talking about a lot more than I do, so if you're interested I'd recommend checking out their blog. I've only skimmed through it, but it looks super interesting!

Ah, sweet, sweet, Czech Embassy building, how I adore you. It's also known as the "Starship Enterprise" and I mean seriously, this is my favourite building I've ever seen in my entire life. The architecture is gorgeous, a very dated type of brutalism reminiscent of the late seventies back when it was designed. It's got these lovely tinted windows and cut corners which makes it look like something out of an old sci-fi flick. The inside is even better from what I've seen online, a dawning eighties interior filled with warm tones, custom furniture and lighting. I couldn't go in because I think it was closed and I'm sure I already looked dodgy as the only foriegner taking pictures of a government building from as many angles as I could.

It's definetly not a tourist spot, which was great for the photos. If you're a bit of a design geek, I'd recommend going just for a look. Although I've heard a lot of Karl-Marx-Allee has the same type of soviet brutalism going on too.
Someone called Helena Huber-Doudová wrote quite an interesting essay about it's cultural significance, I've put a download to the PDF file here. I haven't read it all, but it did give me a satisfying enough answer to the question of 'Why is an embassy building built like that, though?'

It got me interested in Czech archutecture in general, and I found this building, that was once a bank in Prague, from a travel/soviet architecture blog called Architectonic that gives off the same "space age" look:

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Cool, right? I actaully got those images from a different site that belongs to CAMP /Centre for Architecture And Metropolitan Planning/ that looks at the works of Karel Prager (the guy who made the bank and lots of other work in Prague). I particularly like the CAMP building and the boiler house of the Sokolská General University Hospital too.

13/11/2024 14:56