http://houseofcat.net music/art/culture Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:21:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://houseofcat.net/2010/07/hand-made-letters/ http://houseofcat.net/2010/07/hand-made-letters/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:21:04 +0000 Cat Johnson http://houseofcat.net/?p=3876 We took a quick road trip down to L.A. this week, and as we drove from one small, rural town to the next, I was acutely aware that I really needed to plan a slow and leisurely photo trip to shoot the awesome typography and old signage that is hanging on by a thread. I love [...]]]> http://houseofcat.net/2010/07/hand-made-letters/feed/ 0 http://houseofcat.net/2010/07/alphabet-city/ http://houseofcat.net/2010/07/alphabet-city/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:38:01 +0000 Cat Johnson http://houseofcat.net/?p=3856 Welcome to Alphabet City, a design/architecture/typography project created by Scott Teplin. His idea was to create dream homes based on the 26 figures of our alphabet. Here’s a blurb from the Alphabet City website: From the head and hand of master draftsman Scott Teplin comes a series of 26 dream-houses fashioned after our alphabet. Explore in each [...]]]> http://houseofcat.net/2010/07/alphabet-city/feed/ 0 http://houseofcat.net/2010/07/vocabulary-yoga-5/ http://houseofcat.net/2010/07/vocabulary-yoga-5/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:49:53 +0000 Cat Johnson http://houseofcat.net/?p=3833 It’s time for another round of language-stretching vocabulary yoga. Here are some recent finds that I picked up on WordSpy and the Open Dictionary. joy-to-stuff ratio: the time a person has to enjoy life versus the time a person spends accumulating material goods butt bus: a bus parked near a pub or restaurant that is used as [...]]]> http://houseofcat.net/2010/07/vocabulary-yoga-5/feed/ 0 http://houseofcat.net/2010/07/schoolhouse-rockers/ http://houseofcat.net/2010/07/schoolhouse-rockers/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:18:54 +0000 Cat Johnson http://houseofcat.net/?p=3806 Remember Schoolhouse Rock? With their cool and groovy attempts to get us all to pay attention to grammar, punctuation, politics and whatever else was deemed worthy? Here are a few word-nerd favorites to jog your memory: The Tale of Mr. Morton Verbs Conjunction Junction Related Posts Captain Picard vs. the Alphabet AEIOU and Sometimes Y The Wonderful World of Twimericks Very Long Words Bronte Sisters [...]]]> http://houseofcat.net/2010/07/schoolhouse-rockers/feed/ 1 http://houseofcat.net/2010/06/handwriting-and-you/ http://houseofcat.net/2010/06/handwriting-and-you/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:02:55 +0000 Cat Johnson http://houseofcat.net/?p=3765 Last night one of my co-workers came up to me with a handwritten list of orders and asked if I meant to throw it in the recycling. He said he thought it looked like my handwriting. As we both took a closer look, at the same time, we said, “It’s Mari’s.” Then we had a [...]]]> http://houseofcat.net/2010/06/handwriting-and-you/feed/ 0