http://www.yanone.de Blobs and blurbs from Yanone. en-gb Copyright 2008, Yanone Many thanks to the alliance Dresden nazifrei who spearheaded and organized the protests against yesterday's Nazi demonstation on occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Allied's bombing of Dresden. About 12,000 (numbers vary) citizens peacefully blocked various streets and bridges around Dresden Neustadt station, effectively locking the 5,000 brown scum up at the station upon arrival and for the whole seven hours of their allowed demo. The police didn't let them march for "security concerns", thus playing hand in hand with the protesters, and at 5 p.m. pushed them back into the waiting trains.
Yesterday we showed the world and the Nazis where this ideology leads: exactly nowhere :)
This is not to be confused with the human chain of quiet remembrance of the victims of the bombing organized by Dresden's mayor Orosz with another 10,000 participants on the other bank of the river. Such a passive protest is nice and also very important, but ridiculously ineffective in face of Europe's biggest Nazi march since the end of the war. Hadn't the police locked the bridges, another couples of thousands of citizens would have joined the blockade on our side after the solely symbolic event of the human chain was over. I hope that the effectiveness of this year's active blockade will lead to a change of thinking of our local politicians, to maybe join forces with protesters in the future, instead of criminalising Dresden nazifrei prior to the event.
Thanks again to every participant and also to the police, who could have easily torpedoed the efforts but chose to remain quiet.
Here's a link (in german) that pretty much sums it all up, with more links in the article. Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:36:28 GMT Confirmed: Typo Berlin invited me to speak about the Amman Type Project on this year's issue of Europe's largest design conference. Thank you, Typo.
Get tickets here while they're cheap. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:41:39 GMT German design mag PAGE issue 03.2010 is out today. It sports a four page article about the making of the Amman Typeface. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:12:53 GMT Follow me now on Twitter. @iloveyanone Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:38:33 GMT The FontFeed published a really interesting interview with FontShop co-founder Joan Spiekermann about their early days of distributing floppy disks of digital typefaces in 1989. The article also sports a photo of our former guest prof Alexander Branczyk, who already wore his Lederhosen permanently at the time. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:43:05 GMT I'll hold a short presentation along with a hopefully rather extensive discussion about my Amman project on a talk event called Und sonst so. Aim of the organizers is to point out the creative potential gathered in our beloved provincial little Elb-Florence.
November 5th at 7pm, Louisenstraße 64 in Dresden-Neustadt Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:58:58 GMT I'll be holding a workshop about type design and the technical part of font production using FontLab Studio for students of the Bauhaus-University this semester. The workshop is independant from uni curriculum; student will not officially get credited for it. More here. Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:56:33 GMT My short stay of well over a week in Amman has come to an end. I'm really sad to leave this time, as I have actually gotten to love this city over the past times. I met old and new friends and took photos of my graduation typeface in the cityscape.
The Centennial Parade yesterday was super nice, and much better (and better organized) than expected. It was a parade showcasing the history of Amman in many steps, played by nicely dressed actors. It also included a number of groups key to Amman's experience: The street cleaners, vegetable and hommos vendors, road workers, police men, and even the gas vendors. They are known to every citizen by the annoying melody of the loudspeaker attached to their cars for notification. They have remixed that melody into an urban beat and put it on a sound system on the parade's car. Nice.
I'll take the northern border crossing by Irbid today. Just out of curiosity. It appears to be of a much less painful crossing, since only a couple of foreigners cross there. Its the crossing between Jordan and Israel, not Palestine like at the King Hussein/Allenby Bridge. So there's no need to harass any Palestinians. It's definitely a huge detour, but might be faster than the Dead Sea crossing with its endless hours of waiting. Plus the northern crossing is open until 8pm, which is nice. I'll have three more days in Tel Aviv then before flying back to Old Europe. Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:48:42 GMT Following up on 2008's Amman party success "Doo the Zoo": German discjockey superstar Yanone alias The Tiger teams up with local legend The Z'Ibra to celebrate 100 years of urban diversity in Amman, on the night of the Centennial Parade in Downtown Amman.
Old Irish Pub, below the Dove Hotel, Jabbal Amman. Friday, 9th of October. Don't miss! Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:30:16 GMT So we're sitting in the Sherut (minibus) from Jerusalem to the border crossing at Allenby Bridge (King Hussein Bridge) with two Hong Kong tourists and seven Palestinians. At the gate to the station the car is being examined for explosives, and a guy enters the car to check each of our passports and whether their respective owners were actually in the car. Then he asks me and the two other tourists: Do you carry a weapon? Of course, Dude! Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:51:04 GMT