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Jul. 10th, 2023 05:58 pm- I got my bike tuned up and bought a trailer for it on craigslist--next year I can take Youngest to preschool biking instead of walking with a stroller! I'd have done this earlier if I realized it's not really any harder to tow two kids than one, but at any rate, it's never too late to start. I did however make the unfortunate (or maybe fortunate?) discovery that while biking is, yes, faster than walking, it also uses muscles whose existence I haven't acknowledged in several years. Probably worth it.
- I'm typsetting You Yao / Are You OK? for my next bookbinding project and I have reached the point where I have to decide if I want to stop at the main story, or include mtl extras. At this point I want to at least figure out what the extras are about so I'll probably end up including them? But I'll be annoyed at them the whole time.
I've also reached the point in the design process where I'm truly excited about what the physical book will be like once I finalize the typeset and print. My initial design self-prompt was "play with anachronisms" and from there I went "what if some variation of a stab binding?" but I quickly concluded two things: a) while You Yao is short for a cnovel, it is far too long for a stab binding and b) any pseudo/mock stab binding isn't going to look like "playing with a concept" it's just going to look like a cop-out. So, if I want a stab binding, split it up into multiple volumes, and do it for real.
But at that point it's just a straight historic style. What then?
Splitting into multiple volumes is simple, You Yao is 10 interconnected short stories, 2 per book is a good length. Then I thought, make it reversible! Two stories that start at either end and meet in the middle. I don't know if it's quite "anachronism" but it's fun and feels in line with the story.
- I'm typsetting You Yao / Are You OK? for my next bookbinding project and I have reached the point where I have to decide if I want to stop at the main story, or include mtl extras. At this point I want to at least figure out what the extras are about so I'll probably end up including them? But I'll be annoyed at them the whole time.
I've also reached the point in the design process where I'm truly excited about what the physical book will be like once I finalize the typeset and print. My initial design self-prompt was "play with anachronisms" and from there I went "what if some variation of a stab binding?" but I quickly concluded two things: a) while You Yao is short for a cnovel, it is far too long for a stab binding and b) any pseudo/mock stab binding isn't going to look like "playing with a concept" it's just going to look like a cop-out. So, if I want a stab binding, split it up into multiple volumes, and do it for real.
But at that point it's just a straight historic style. What then?
Splitting into multiple volumes is simple, You Yao is 10 interconnected short stories, 2 per book is a good length. Then I thought, make it reversible! Two stories that start at either end and meet in the middle. I don't know if it's quite "anachronism" but it's fun and feels in line with the story.
