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Episode 1 references
Quest for Fire
Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1982 film about a prehistoric tribe searching for s source of fire is fascinating if somewhat dated and a bit cheesy.
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I drew some inspiration from it in creating my own story about the tribe I describe in my podcast and their own story about seeking fire.
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The author Anthony Burgess, who wrote the infamous Clockwork Orange which Stanley Kubrick turned into a startling and controversial film, created the prehistoric Neanderthal language spoken in the film.
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Even though the film is supposedly set less than 100,000 years ago, when we now believe humankind knew how to start fires, the story of this tribes desperate search for a fire source is very compelling.
Steve Jobs on Calligraphy
“I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to [learn calligraphy]. I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful. Historical. Artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture. And I found it fascinating.
None of this had any hope of any practical application in my life. But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac.
It was the first computer with beautiful typography.If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would never have multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them.”
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