Adrian Parsons

It's a chance for people to really use their creativity. You see people's personalities come out. People experiment.

New York is the best city for Halloween, too. You'll see a Dracula on your morning commute. You'll definitely see a drunk Spiderman on the L train late at night.

Halloween is the absolute best holiday. First of all, it's not religious, so there's no obligation to travel to celebrate with family. Especially because it's not religious, it doesn't matter when it's celebrated. Halloween basically lasts for 10 days.

conversely, deploys are inherently good. deploying is greasing the wheels of your living breathing system. you want deploys to be as easy and natural as breathing

Forbes has this nice list of the largest private companies along with logos. I'm hung up on the semiotic(?) value of logos. They're a shorthand for a company.

I read the first three words as “post-food critic” which got me thinking about the implications. Do they write about Soylent flavors?

Would it be cool to have, like, a font that tracks the Fortune 500? Maybe?

I really don't want to add each logo manually. Ideally I would automate the process.

A screenshot from https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive that shows logos of different media outlets in a chart format.

Why do this? I'm not entirely sure... I've been interested in using logos to communicate/represent companies. For example, this political bias chart that uses the logos of media outlets to represent them. app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/intera...

A screenshot of the custom font with the Nike swoosh logo in the MacOS FontBook program.

But at the end of the day I have a working font!

A screenshot of the Nike swoosh logo as it appears in the FontForge character editor

I pulled the swoosh graphic from Wikipedia and loaded it into FontForge. Those paths weren't perfect and I had to click around a little to fix them.

A screenshot of a text editor. The first line has the Nike logo next to the text "just do it?"

A while back I had the idea to create a font of logos of the companies in the Fortune 500.

I dug into it to see how hard it would be and... have a font with a single logo.

Penguinarium - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin...

Modern ampersand (&) symbol next to an older handwritten "et" ligature.

TIL the ampersand symbol evolved from the Latin word "et" (means "and"). You can still kind of see the "e" and "t" combined in it. Here's the modern symbol next to an older "et" ligature.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand

The Go Memory Model - The Go Programming Language

lol I love this. From the go docs:

"If you must read the rest of this document to understand the behavior of your program, you are being too clever.

Don't be clever."

go.dev/ref/mem#:~:t....

Updated empty.nyc with data from all 5 boroughs.

I'm impressed with the maniacal obsession and commitment to the niche exhibited by @sportslogos.net

www.sportslogos.net/teams/list_b...

haha, same! Sometimes I feel bad for focusing on the most run-down parts of a neighborhood or city, but there's a sweetness there.

Adrian Parsons

posted a few new photos: adrian.photos

A lidar scan of the oculus building in lower manhattan.

Just out here visiting landmarks in lidar mode

Lidar scan of the flatiron building in NYC, view from the street.

Streetview of the flatiron building as a normal photo, from the exact same vantage point as the lidar scan.

Sweet, there are LIDAR scans of NYC

I accidentally hit the backtick key while playing around on roadview.planninglabs.nyc/view/-73.988... and BOOM, LIDAR.

No idea what to do with this, but it's cool.

A scan of a metal coin with the Spacelab logo

And it looks great. Next step: vectorize with Illustrator.

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To the professionals! I JUST got great images back from Bleeker Digital in NY. ALSO, they do super cool "3D" scanning of things like coins, so I had the Spacelab coin scanned. bleekerdigital.com/services/lar...

I decided to take matters into my own hands and recreate the vector graphic. I was able to find an original sticker and (eek!) a coin with the logo! I wanted high-quality scans to work off of, but my flatbed scanner struggled with the glossy finish on the sticker.

I really wanted an SVG, but I couldn't find one. We have them for NASA mission patches, which is cool commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

Spacelab - Wikipedia

It took some digging, but I found it! It was used by ESA's Spacelab program that started in the 1980s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacelab

The Spacelab logo, two figures floating in front of a wall of computers, screens, switches, and other instruments.

I kind of got obsessed with tracking down this cool logo I saw as a kid at the Deutsches Museum in Bonn, Germany. I remembered the two figures floating in front of a sea of buttons, switches, and other computer-y things.

Groom of the Stool - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom_o...

I’m mapping out the empty lots of NYC using open data. Starting with Manhattan!

emptylots.adrianparsons.com

Hell yeah
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