pico Posted July 14, 2012 Share #21 Â Posted July 14, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Lars, if that picture is of you, then you ain't no old man, or you are defying aging very well! Â Given the curmudgeon you are, I wouldn't be surprised if one day you break the law of gravity and fall upwards. Â Glad you are okay. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted July 14, 2012 Posted July 14, 2012 Hi pico, Take a look here Falling Down. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
lars_bergquist Posted July 15, 2012 Author Share #22  Posted July 15, 2012 Lars, if that picture is of you, then you ain't no old man, or you are defying aging very well! Given the curmudgeon you are, I wouldn't be surprised if one day you break the law of gravity and fall upwards.  Glad you are okay.  I am a wizened old man with white hair and beard (trimmed short to be sure – looking like Santa would be much to un-curmudgeonly for me.) The laughing man is my son-in-law – so he's a generation fresher than I am. And he's a great one for guffaws. Maybe that's because he's an insurance lawyer. We others have somewhat less to laugh about these days, mostly.  The old man from the Age of the Great Depression Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedaes Posted July 15, 2012 Share #23 Â Posted July 15, 2012 Lars, so pleased you are OK and can tell the tales with good humour. Thought you hadn't been posting here recently. Hope you are done with adventures like that for a year or two. All the best. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted July 15, 2012 Share #24  Posted July 15, 2012 I am a wizened old man with white hair and beard (trimmed short to be sure – looking like Santa would be much to un-curmudgeonly for me.) ... Is this you, Lars?  Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff S Posted July 15, 2012 Share #25 Â Posted July 15, 2012 I'm thinking more like this. Â Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted July 15, 2012 Share #26 Â Posted July 15, 2012 What a dashing gentleman! Â Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted July 15, 2012 Share #27 Â Posted July 15, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) What a dashing gentleman! Â LoL! Dashing, dotting, quoting, exclaiming, but thank goodness no digbats! Â If that is Lars, then he's one of my heroes. I really appreciate typeface art. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted July 15, 2012 Share #28 Â Posted July 15, 2012 Hi Lars... happy you survived in full shape... ; happens that me too has been in Tuscany last week (didn't hear the noise of your crash... .. I was next to Piombino) and suffered a minor hassle... lost the front cap of my 21 2,8 asph... (completely me guilty... put in my pocket, and someway went out unnoticed from...). I appreciate that your son-in-law looks hilarious though having in front one of the Italian beers I like less... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hiles Posted July 15, 2012 Share #29 Â Posted July 15, 2012 I really appreciate typeface art. Â Me too. It is often not appreciated that there is sometimes great beauty in elegant typefaces. I am a big fan of the class of typefaces under the name Garamond - after an early 16th century font maker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Posted July 16, 2012 Share #30 Â Posted July 16, 2012 Happy to see this thread doesn't concern situations like those experienced by Michael Douglas in the film by the same name as the thread's title. Â /S Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted July 16, 2012 Author Share #31  Posted July 16, 2012 I'm thinking more like this. Jeff  I do hereby fully confess that this is me. I had to end this second career when I found that I was actually competing with myself. A good occasion arrived when I had to undergo major surgery, a process that took two years. Now I have two artificial hip joints that go beep when I pass security at an airport. So far I have not been required to drop my trousers to show the operation scars.  The old man from the Biplane Age Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted July 16, 2012 Share #32 Â Posted July 16, 2012 Lars, I went to identifont, as directed by an ealier post. How does one view, download, and install (read: obtain) your fonts? Â Regards, Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spylaw4 Posted July 16, 2012 Share #33 Â Posted July 16, 2012 Nice to put a face to a name! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted July 16, 2012 Author Share #34  Posted July 16, 2012 Lars, I went to identifont, as directed by an ealier post. How does one view, download, and install (read: obtain) your fonts? Regards, Bill  They are distributed through independent 'digital type foundries', mainly  3IP Type Foundry | Buy and Download Historical Fonts, Fine Text Type, Antique Penmanship, Offbeat Fonts  PSY/OPS Type Foundry  FontShop. Schriften suchen, vergleichen, downloaden!  Installing instructions depend on what platform you are using, and can be given by the seller.  Lars Bergquist Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted July 17, 2012 Share #35  Posted July 17, 2012 They are distributed through independent 'digital type foundries', mainly 3IP Type Foundry | Buy and Download Historical Fonts, Fine Text Type, Antique Penmanship, Offbeat Fonts  PSY/OPS Type Foundry  FontShop. Schriften suchen, vergleichen, downloaden!  Installing instructions depend on what platform you are using, and can be given by the seller.  Lars Bergquist  Lars, this is an astonishing and stunning array of fonts. I am working on a book with a dancer and will suggest that we use one or two of your fonts. Congratulations on this accomplishment -- it's clearly years of work.  I have found all the fonts. It's like a candy store!  For the record, this is a justifiable hijack of the original thread. These fonts represent No Falling Down.  Best regards, Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaethe Posted July 18, 2012 Share #36 Â Posted July 18, 2012 Lars, Like everyone else, I am glad you survived your tumble, I work in surgery, here in San Francisco, and we see many folks, often tourists, who do not fare so well. Â It was fascinating to meet you in the world of fonts, I remember when Letraset was first released, how I would spend hours at the shops, spinning the racks. Even though this is only a very faint thread of connection on a very large forum, it is wonderful to "meet" you. kaethe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share #37  Posted July 18, 2012 Thanks for the kind words, all of you. Not only because of these, of course – but they do help! – I am beginning to feel nearly human now.  I grew up with a love of letters, as characters. As a lefthander, I had to invent my own writing hand in the late 1940's. Typesetters were among the family friends when I was a child, my father-in-law was a typesetter, and I learned about the trade (though I never practiced it myself) in the course of my job, before the desktop revolution. I have gone about this in the same thorough and thoughtful way as I have gone about other things that I have come to cherish, including gunnery and photography and hiking in the roadless country north of the Arctic Circle – now unfortunately a thing of the past, though I still love Lapland.  The old man from the Gutenberg Age Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share #38  Posted July 18, 2012 Lars,Like everyone else, I am glad you survived your tumble, I work in surgery, here in San Francisco, and we see many folks, often tourists, who do not fare so well.  It was fascinating to meet you in the world of fonts, I remember when Letraset was first released, how I would spend hours at the shops, spinning the racks. Even though this is only a very faint thread of connection on a very large forum, it is wonderful to "meet" you. kaethe  Thanks, Kaethe. At least, I was not shot at. That has happened too in the past, but there were no hits. When I was hospitalized at last in Stockholm, my state was a matter of concern to an internal medical man, not a surgeon.  The Desktop Revolution has made people more aware of type than they ever were. A font of type, with all the permutations that different languages make possible, is still an arcane piece of machinery, even more than it is a work of art, but there is a wider appreciation of it than ever before.  But it is a fact that the art of type changed less in the centuries from Gutenberg to my time, than it has done in my own lifetime. And the same is now true of photography. To live is to change – and still to guard the essence.  The old man from the Ages of Silver and Type Metal Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
haroldp Posted July 18, 2012 Share #39 Â Posted July 18, 2012 In my foolish youth, as a photojournalist in some tight situations, my M2 (usually 50mm collapsible summicron) on a strap, doubled as a morningstar. Â It still works, once had to get View / RF re-aligned. Â ... H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaethe Posted July 19, 2012 Share #40  Posted July 19, 2012 To live is to change – and still to guard the essence.  Elegant. k Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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