“Everywhere you look you see typefaces. But there’s one you probably see more than any other one, and that’s Helvetica. You know, there it is, and it seems to come from no where. You know, it seems like air? It seems like gravity? ” Michael Bierut

This semester I’ll be studying typography in one of my classes and our first assignment is to come up with 100 variations on the letter of our choosing. 5o of them must be made by me, the other 50 can be found.

I picked the letter B.

Since the teacher didn’t really specify how to find the 50… I figured why not try something different?

I wanna see your B’s. Where do you see a B? I’m not talking about your standard B. I’m talking about seeing a B in something. For example, my friend Jax saw a B in this headlight. Do you?

The Letter B can also just be a great use of the letter in an advertisement poster for a business or event. Such as this poster from Good Records for the Black Angels / Black Mountain show.

So, where do you see a B? Let me know by sending me your B’s and when I’ve gotten them all in, I’ll upload them to a new post and link back to your site, Facebook, Twitter. Whatever you want. As long as it’s not pornographic in nature.

Just send your pictures to got80s[at]gmail.com and make sure to include the link you want me to link the image back to.

Final submissions must be in by September 25th

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Update: Found Submissions
Urban B

Urban B from @Stealingsand

This time, it’s an open scenario for what I want to be sent to me. No length limit, no questions to be answered, no context.

I don’t care if you use your iPhone, or your laptop cam or a digital camera or a full on video camera.

I just want video of moments in time. Your time.

You can email them directly to me, got80s@gmail.com or you can upload to the site of your choice (Yfrog, Youtube, Vimeo, Twitvid, Facebook Drop.io) and comment or send me the link via twitter.

The only thing I ask is that it be submitted to me by Saturday evening at the latest. (multiple submissions are welcome)

Example;

Green Theme'd Shirt

Link to Class WordPress

I’m going to be taking photos for my Black & White photography class (really? photos?) and I’m brainstorming on an idea and figured I’d reach out to my social network people to get your feedback.

I’m trying to take photographs of actions that require two people to do them but there will only be one person doing the action. It’s meaning is to convey a sense of loneliness and or longing for someone to do that action with.

I’m trying to think of what actions can I photograph? That’s where you all come in. Leave me a comment telling me what you think could be a good idea for an action that requires two persons. I have some ideas but would like to have as many as possible so I’ll have some backups.

Here’s the video

When I’m at the pearly gates
This’ll be on my videotape
my videotape

When Mephistopheles is just beneath
And he’s reaching up to grab me

This is one for the good days
And I have it all here
In red blue green
Red blue green

You are my center when I spin away
Out of control on videotape
On videotape

This is my way of saying goodbye
Because I can’t do it face to face

No matter what happens now
I won’t be afraid
Because I know today has been the most perfect day I’ve ever seen.

Concerts, as you know, per my pasts posts, I’ve been to quite a few shows and seen a lot of bands this year. I promised myself that I’d just do Austin City Limits. Well, that just didn’t happen. Here’s my top 5 concerts.

1. ACL – Ghostland Observatory, Bjork, Regina Spektor, Muse.

2. Rufus Wainwright & Neko Case

3. Rilo Kiley

4. The Black Angels

5. TOOL

This year has to be the year that too many bands released too many good albums. It was hard to choose, but my number one is my number one because it was just that good. The marketing, the websites, the CD it’s self, the go fuck the music industry attitude of the lead singer just made it that much better.

1. Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero

2. Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?

3. Tori Amos – American Doll Posse

4. Amy Winehouse – Back to Black

5. Beirut – The Flying Club Cup

As I said, there has been a whole lot of really really good music released this year. My favorite new discoveries this year are bands that I found via various podcasts and word of mouth.

1. The Black Angels

2. Rilo Kiley

3. Yeasayer

4. Animal Collective

5. Band of Horses

If I’ve kept you here. Then now onto non music top 5′s.

Movies

1. The Bourne Ultimatum

2. Transformers

3. Knocked Up

4. Superbad

5. Hot Fuzz

Mentioned time and time again, I listen to and watch video podcasts like TV shows. I actually spend more of my time listening and watching them then regular radio & tv broadcasts. So here are my top five Podcast & Vidcasts this year.

1. Wait Wait!! Don’t Tell Me – http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/

2. Feast of Fools – http://www.feastoffools.net

3. Dan Savage – Savage cast NSFW

4. SModcast – Kevin Smith’s Podcast – http://quickstopentertainment.com/smodcast/

5. Midwest Teen Sex Show NSFW Videocast

Due to the nature of my job and my school and side jobs, I do a lot of web surfing. I have to thank the all mighty master Google for creating and updating Google Reader to where I can use it. I honestly can surf 10x faster and find stuff that really interest me via RSS feeds, rather than actually reading everything and going to the sites.

Here are my top 5 website discoveries

1. ColourLovers – Lovers of color and mixtures – http://www.colourlovers.com/

2. PSDTuts – Photoshop Tutorials – http://psdtuts.com/

3. Explosm.net / Cyanide and Happiness – http://www.explosm.net/comics/

4. Hypem.com – The Hype Machine <– Firefox + Download Helper = Free Mp3′s

5. Design is Kinky – About all designs, real world and digital.

There could be many many more 5′s in this list. But for now, this will do. Let me know what you think by commenting.