she's always right

caron's been telling me to see the documentary helvetica for a long time. it's just what it sounds like: a film about the history and cultural impact of the font helvetica. it finally came up on the netflix queue and i just watched it while matching baby socks. what can i say? it's a brilliant film. it's so beautiful visually. it made me crazy to grab my bag and hop a flight to amsterdam. but the thing i loved the most: all the talking. the talking: the passionate, articulate, intellectual, esoteric, highly subjective and utterly self-referential talk about art, design, modernism, the twentieth century, beauty, function and the white spaces between black letters. i've never seen so many white guys with generic european accents in artsy eyeglasses, waxing marvelous about a font. oh, i loved it. i could almost cry. she knows me. she was right.