For me it was kind of cool watching that documentary because with all of the urban shots you are bound to get some graffiti. I have read a book or two on the history of graffiti (and plan to get some more when I get some money) and it was cool recognizing random graffiti artists in scenes. I saw Keith Haring and Eine's stuff in there to name a few, there were probably less iconic ones who slipped by though.

The documentary itself was pretty interesting as well. While I'm not a super-font collector like you, I find the history of random things pretty interesting and learning all this historical typeface stuff was definitely an hour and a half well-spent.

you want a graffiti documentary? You ever seen Style Wars? I just watched it a couple of days ago. And now I know where my favorite trio of DJs got the name Never Forgive Action for their monthly event!

Style Wars, check it: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2proc_style-w…

i could never stand arial, personally. helvetica was just so much cleaner looking, so effective. it's not my all time favourite font, i like something with a little more flourish, but you'd have to be foolish not to see that helvetica has some how achieved perfection.

What do you like that gives you that flourish?

Just gave it a watch! The filmography was pretty good, I really liked the opening scene. The music wasnt bad either, a couple songs are now in my iTunes, ha.

It's kind of sad in away to see the kind of urban culture that our society used to have. I remember in one of the books I read it was talking about how people used to trade photographs of graffiti and samples of lettering styles and stuff like that, filling up sketchbooks and albums with that kind of stuff. It's so different now, there's just not that same kind of secret and awesome romanticism with art nowadays, especially after the internet, where everything is always accessible.

I think there's still that same passion and romanticism. Maybe you just need to meet the people who are in that scene. And part it too is the Internet, like you brought up. But for my money the Internet makes everything more cool because now you can cross-pollinate with styles from around the world where before you had to actually go to those places and get physically near those people. And the Internet gives people that outlet so they don't need to do it on public property. Not that I'm rooting for The Man here. I just mean cuz The Man will paint over your shit on a subway car he doesn't care about your website.

i usually use garamond, when i say flourish i don't mean the type of flourish that makes us fabulous, more just an added, well, flourish in the traditional print sense.
that extra curve and kick. classic, but without being over done, in my humble estimation.

AAah, Garamond. My serif font of choice is Elephant. I don't remember where I got it, it's not one that comes with your computer. It's a Bodoni kind of thing but way hotter.

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