blog.jasonandrebecca.net » wedding

Well that was quick

Jason — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:52:15 +0000

The rehearsal upload finished faster than I’d expected. The set is now part of the aforementioned Wedding Collection. You can click here to access the rehearsal set directly.

The honeymoon photos will be a wee bit slower in appearing (I’m still editing them). My plan is to serialize our travels (on a day-by-day basis) and post the photos as each day’s story appears, so keep checking here for updates.

Let’s get this thing started…

Jason — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:28:31 +0000

So it’s been a while since anyone anywhere has said anything on this space. The main website has started to stagnate: the store locator seems to be broken, and the photo viewer needs updating badly. It would appear we’ve fallen off the face of the earth. What could possibly have distracted us so badly?

Well, we’re married now! I’m already back in Seattle and Rebecca is wrapping up her first week in med school—in case you haven’t heard, it’s the prestigious Baylor College of Medicine! I’m almost back in the swing of things (currently I’m a bit ill), but have quite a few photos in store for our readers (all two of them).

I’m still editing our honeymoon photos, the rehearsal dinner photos are in the middle of quite a long upload, but the good news is all of our wedding photos—well all the ones we liked—are now online.

The best place to get started is the Our Wedding collection, which contains 15 not-necessarily-disjoint sets dividing the big event into handy semantic categories. The tagging of individuals in the (around 2,000) photos isn’t quite complete, so the ever-fun “show me photos of him and her but without that guy” searches are—for the time being—sadly impossible. You can, however, download the full resolution version of any photo: just hit “All Sizes” and download the original. Enjoy!

Typographic Commandments

Jason — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:51:21 +0000

While researching to help me define the typographic style of our main webpage, I came across a section in a book which seemed relevant to weddings.

3.4.1 To the marriage of type and text, both parties bring their cultural presumptions, dreams and family obligations. Accept them.

Each text, each manuscript (and naturally, each language and each alphabet) has its own requirements and expectations. Some types are more adaptable than others in meeting these demands. But typefaces too have their individual habits and presumptions. Many of them, for instance, are rich with historical and regional connections… For the moment, consider just the sociology and alliances of typefaces. What kinds of families and alliances do they form?

This passage is from Bringhurst’s definitive The Elements of Typographic Style, of course. It got me to wondering: What typefaces are we? Which are our families? Does this metaphor actually hold any water, or am I just up way too late? I’ll give it some thought in the morning.