User:HotType918

I think, therefore I am.

I've been a member and contributor to Wikipedia since around 1999.

Having earned a BFA in painting under Rudolph Zallinger in 1986, if I have any expertise, it is as a graphic production artist, designer, and typographer running a hot metal letterpress printing office founded in 1992. Simultaneous with assembling a sizable collection of wood and foundry type and ornament, I also continue to build my reference library of books on books, which now numbers over 1000 titles. Not exclusively reference, the shelves include fine press, and interesting trade books with focus on counterculture, drugs, erotica, comix and 'zines, rock and punk, short stories, outsider fiction and poetry. It's rather narrowly eclectic; —sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll— as one might expect from the son of an artist and a suit born the penultimate year of the Baby Boom in the United States.

Given practical experience in typography and traditional letterpress, I tend to edit pages related to those subjects. I have experience with hot metal technology as it relates to the Linotype as one of a handful of operator/ machinists keeping machines running. I can be seen in a cameo in Linotype, The Film, seated discussing the limitations of the Linotype as relate to "fine typography".