[OpenFontLibrary] [GFD] Re: Libre Graphics Meeting 2014: Call For Paper

[vernon adams]

:)

thanks Frank.

I’m not anti slowness, just thought it would make an interesting subject for a talk. Wherease yet another talk on ‘being efficient’… snore-dom! 
As a painter as well as a font maker, i can appreciate the opposite of ‘quick and easy’ too, but  ‘efficiency’ does not allways give the most interesting results either. Myron Stout (http://www.pinterest.com/newtypo/myron-stout/) took decades to paint single geometric paintings.
Also; life is very short and likely totally meaningless :)

-v 


On 6 Jan 2014, at 00:30, Frank E. Blokland <blokland at dutchtypelibrary.com> wrote:

> Vernon: 'I’m toying with the idea of submitting something like an “A non-experts guide to making libre fonts, quickly and easily […]'
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> I suggest 'efficiently' instead of 'quickly and easily'. I'm making fonts since the midst 1980s and I have never considered this easy.
> 
> In the period 1980-1996 the Dutch pianist and conductor Reinbert de Leeuw recorded Satie's 'Gnossiennes' and 'Gymnopédies'. He performed these *extremely* slow (for instance his first 'Gymnopédie' is half as fast as Aldo Ciccolini's interpretation). I recall his remark that there were many pianists that could play fast, but that nobody could play as slow as he did. The result is absolutely beautiful.
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