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harolds

it looks like a shop but it's paradise. they say it, and they're absolutely right. harolds is the country's finest store when it comes to paper, art supplies, and stuff like that. most of the elements that make up the well received c cover designs come from this shop in the centre of rotterdam. spent some time this afternoon to select sources for the upcoming c releases by fear falls burning and theo travis. the actual cover paper comes from a different paper supplier who has structured and thicker paper. i need at least 250 grammes for a sturdy cover.

georgia

this log uses georgia, a font i discovered back in 2004 when working on a poster for the blackfield gig at the boerderij in zoetermeer. the font had originally been used by lasse hoile for his blackfield artwork. the font solves the problem i have with the use of capitals and numbers. they simply don't fit in with text as i like to see it. with a small cap use of numbers, i can now do without any caps. spent most of xmas 2005 (see how nice it works!) working on a new version of www.tonefloat.com based on a text dominated design featuring georgia. the new site is to be launched in the first week of january 2006.

gigs

a busy year meant that i didn't have the chance to attend an awful lot of gigs, but i managed to see a few. these are the ones i liked most:

1. pink floyd, hyde park, london, 2 july
2. robert fripp, shepherd's bush, london, 7 december
3. the who, hyde park, london, 2 july
4. billy corgan, paradiso, amsterdam, 9 june
5. 22 pistepirkko, 013, tilburg, 13 october
6. porcupine tree, le bataclan, paris, 13 november
7. spinvis, gigant, apeldoorn, 17 december
8. oak, lvc, leiden, 3 october

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flute salads

received vinyl cutting master for theo travis' eleven bowls of acidophilus flute salad in the post. looking forward to its release late january. with the pressing plant closed for xmas and new year, cutting and pressing will be undertaken early in the new year, along with the fear falls burning release on c.

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tickets

ready at ten for a usually less than pleasant stay behind the pc to grab some online david gilmour tickets from the royal albert hall site. following a five minute crash, it was announced that the box office was only going to sell tickets by phone and not online. checked another site and got tickets in the end, but up high in the sky, in this particular case the circles. with tickets for the opening show in dortmund, frankfurt, amsterdam, and a set of three for the closing shows in london, i can only hope that the concerts will be as intimate and entertaining as four years back.

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