Monday Miscellany: Some Odds, Ends and Personals

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Personals:

From Wayne B in respect of the item on Bette Davis/Bette Davis Eyes:

Much I did not know. Very interesting about an interesting person and actress.

Thanks amigo.  Here is another Bette Davis pic for you:

While on the topic of Bette Davis eyes, this is a pic of Carol Lombard, who was married to Clark Gable and who died at age 33 in 1942 in a plane crash whilst on a War Bonds tour:

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From Kerrie B re the 21st birthday party on a Quentin Tarantino theme:

Great photos but where are you & Kate? Love & best wishes to Elliot

Kate and I were Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega.  I did not take pics of us, sorry.

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Let’s have a bit of fun with words.

Some time ago, Ji Lee started depicting words in ways that illustrated what they stood for. In her words:

This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Students were encouraged to see letters beyond their dull, practical functionality. The challenge is to visualize the meaning of a word, using only the graphic elements of the letters forming the word, without adding any outside parts. The challenge was very hard, but the reward of “cracking” a word felt great. So this became a lifelong project for me. n 2011, I published a book called “Word as Image” containing nearly 100 words.

Here are some of those word images, some quite imaginative:

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