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[fajrdrako]

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. - Orson Welles, 1915 - 1985

Welles applied this to acting, but it seems to me it applies just as much to writing.

This morning Raven was citing a T-shirt a friend of hers saw in Edmonton: Bad acting makes me cranky. I immediately said, Bad writing makes me cranky. I want that T-shirt. - not that I'd ever wear it.

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[maaseru.livejournal.com]

Wear it! Wear it! You wear T-shirts with the most amazing things written on them - why not a cry from the heart on a most worthwhile subject?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You wear T-shirts with the most amazing things written on them

I do? I thought my T-shirts just had comic book titles on them. Well, except for the Han Solo one with "Roguewear" on it but I just wear that to sleep in.

I think I'll have to get it made myself though. It would be a cri de coeur.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I make iron-on T-shirt transfers...
I have a Ruritanian Resistance sweatshirt (in German!), and a handbag with the Circolo Culturale 'I Marchesi del Monferrato''s badge on.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Ruritanian Resistance

Oh, beautiful!

and a handbag with the Circolo Culturale 'I Marchesi del Monferrato''s badge on.

Good job, if you can find it!

How do you make them? Did you learn from a book? How do you make the designs?

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

You simply make the design in PhotoShop and print it on to transfer paper with an ink-jet printer (remembering to flip the design if it's on the transparent sort). I got the Circolo Culturale's design from their website:



I made the Ruritanian one with a bit of clip-art and some fancy German fonts.
This was the first design:

The second has the same graphic and lay-out, but uses the font Ruritania:

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

My goodness, that's beautiful!

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Very pretty... The same font also appears on some sites as Rothenburg.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It has a nice, exotic look to it.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

It is the divine consequence of German Blackletter meeting Jugendstil (as they call Art Nouveau).

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It will come as no surprise to you to learn that I am very, very fond of Art Nouveau. As a teenager my bedroom was festooned with art nouveau theatre prints (along with the requisite Tolkien poster and the Sunday Times portrait of Hamlet).

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I had Beardsley and Mucha posters!
Here is where to find the fonts:
Paul Lloyd @ typOasis (http://www.moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/lloyd/).
Ruritania is lovely; there's also Zenda, Hentzau Initials and Strelsau on the Anthony Hope theme! And lots of other gorgeous mediæval-type ones!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Nice site - and good names, too!

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I have lots of free fonts from typOasis!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I love writing in beautiful fonts. Or interesting ones. Including medieval styles, of course.

One of my favourite fonts (which I have on my computer at home) is Elizabeth-style handwriting.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I seldom get the opportunity to use them now, but I have tons of Mediæval, Art Nouveau and Germanic ones...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It's been years since I looked for new fonts. I should do another search - I could use them in my apazine.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I had Beardsley and Mucha posters!

Showing your fine good taste! Yes, I had Mucha posters too. Saw an exhibit of his in Edinburgh a few years ago - it was magnificent.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

So did I. Also one in Hull.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

We went to the same Mucha exhibit - ? Cool! Was the one in Hull different?

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

It's a few years ago, so they've blurred into one. I can't even remember what year they were. Both in the 1990s-early 2000s, I think.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes - the exhibit I saw in Edinburgh was definitely in 2000, the year of the Dorothy Dunnett Gathering.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Bizarre. We went to the same exhibition, and didn't know each other in those days!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I love the notion that we might have gone on the same day. Without a clue.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

'Bad History Makes Me Cranky' would be a good one, too...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

How about:

Bad History Should Be Taken Out at Dawn and Shot.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

How about:
Bad Historians (& Historical Novelists) Should Be Taken Out at Dawn and Shot

That would fit with my ideal world, in which scholars would rule, have unlimited resources to research and write, and the rest would be helots and look after all the practical stuff.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

my ideal world, in which scholars would rule, have unlimited resources to research and write

Oh, yes! Pens would never run dry, computers would never crash, I would never forget my Latin grammar and certain Crusading kings would have public respect.

Bring on the pool-boys, every one of them fluent in Langue d'Oc.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! Pens would never run dry, computers would never crash, I would never forget my Latin grammar and certain Crusading kings would have public respect.

And would have public holidays in their honour.
And Lindt and Eraclea's special hot chocolates would be available universally and not just in Italy.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I could drink Kinnie every day!

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

What's that?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It's a soft drink that is made and sold in Malta. Beulah and I loved it. Sadly, it is not sold anywhere else. We miss it!

[wanderinunicorn.livejournal.com]

Hey, I have been to Malta two years ago, but I never drank Kinnie!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I would never have tried Kinnie except that it was recommended to us by an Irish friend who also loves it. Beulah and I got some just out of curiosity and became instantly addicted. It's tough to be addicted to something that only exists thousands of miles away.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I have the same problem with the Caffè del Borgo's Bicerin del Borgo. However, I have located the main ingredient... but it's £26 for a box of 35 sachets of Eraclea Crema di Zabaione (http://www.italianbev.co.uk/acatalog/Eraclea_Chocolate_Sachets.html)! The Marrone flavour was wonderful, too: I had that in the Caffè degli Artisti, which is near the Teatro Alfieri and the fabulous restaurant La Tacabanda (http://convivium.gbjewels.com/c39.htm).

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oooh - the temptation is intense! I want some! And I want it in Italy.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

If we both could afford it, I'd love to go back to Asti with you.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't that be fun? Okay, I'll start brushing up my Italian, so when opportunity strikes, I'll be ready. Preta.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

But is Monferrato ready for an influx of mad Conrad-groupies?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Of course not, but that's a good thing. We wouldn't want them to be prepared! We'll take them by storm.