#john day

Painted Hills

im mad now i wrote a whole thing for all of these and i lost it all in draft hell

happy john day btw

your present isssss uhhhhh to get elkmanned

what if i come to you and holds you like hamburber

cooleg doodle

👇mimes arent supposed to have bodies in unnamed au (hate the sin love the sinner) but i wanted to draw so

its a bit suggestive and the image suffers the same bright af background as prev post so erm

It’s John’s day! His birthday? No, no, his other day, the one where we celebrate queer John!

Break out your typing fingers and stretch out your creativity and join us for a splendid showcase of rainbow John 🌈😄🧡

a london ornament

the first illustration displays digital reissue of monotype’s recutting [english monotype 218] of an arabesque unit. d.l. vervliet attributes the original to robert granjon;¹ however, the unit was also recut by fournier: which served as exemplar for monotype 218 is difficult to say. however, to my eye the monotype recutting looks closer to the original.   vervliet found first display in the office of london printer henry bynneman in 1569 [2nd illustration²], & notes: granjon founts had arrived around this time in london; exiled antwerp punchcutter françois guyot was residing in london & «is known to have provided types to printer John Day».³ vervliet gets his dates from oastler,⁴ but oastler only mentions that john day was among the first london printers to use guyot types, & françois’ son, gabriel guyot, «may have been instrumental» in bringing to london the guyot double pica italic. oastler further gives evidence that guyot, his family, & servants resided in john day’s house in 1568 (françois returned to antwerp in 1570, where he died shortly thereafter). vervliet dismisses guyot as the ornament’s designer on aesthetic grounds.⁵  as evidenced by his italics guyot was an admirer of granjon; indeed, harry carter views guyot’s types as «revolutionary in effect, bringing an archaic regional typography almost into line with Paris». ⁶ the oldest know type specimen by a founder who was not also a printer⁷ is confirmed by carter to show the types of françois guyot (the sheet survived for having been bound in with a set of elizabethan proclamations). arguably, guyot prepared the sheet as advertisement of his types to london printers:⁸ on it appears a solitary ornament, a vine leaf [3rd illustration⁹]. granjon cut many vine leaves—no surprise to find a version by guyot. i must, however, disagree with vervliet on one point: bynneman’s ornament i do not find particularly granjonesque, & the engraving of guyot’s vine leaf seems consistent with the hand that cut bynneman’s ornament.  it is conceivable that day held strikes of guyot ornaments—his property or that of guyot—to cast sorts for use in his office or to sell to other london printers, such as bynneman.

John Lennon would have completed 83 years of pure singularity. Even though he is not on this earthly plane, he will always be the legend who changed the world forever.

John was a mixture of things, at the same time that he was so unique that he seemed like nothing else. He was white for his fight for peace, yellow for the hope of always get better, blue for the tranquility of being himself, red for the passion for everything he believed in. despite living in a dark mind that traumatized him due to the lack of light, he was the light himself, seeking his own color enhancement. It wasn't enough to fight for it, he wanted the whole world like that. Despite stumbling upon saturation throughout his life, he wanted everything around him to be a rainbow. At first he hated the color pink but then he said: "I like my Oscar Wilde side", at the same time as the color orange it was the basis of his days to survive both black and white. Deep down, it didn't really matter what color he drained from his personality, he was always everything at the same time, a tuning his light with his shadow and being that: just john. In any color, in any contrast, with any filter, I love him entirely and completely, letting my own colors create a psychedelic picture with his own with so much love involved and I'm very proud to be like this, colored like my idol.