#ticker tape

[newyorkthegoldenage]

When news of the German surrender began to trickle in, New Yorkers lost no time to celebrate, May 7, 1945. V-E Day, as it was called, didn't come till the following day. These women are tossing real ticker tape out the window in the Wall Street area.

Photo: Frances McLaughlin-Gill via Conde Nast/Getty Images/milled.com

[panelswithoutpeople]

The Yellow Menace from Witches Tales No. 4

by Rudy Palais

[krjpalmer]

Antic June 1983

A cover illustration with a decidedly "financial" focus just might have been pressed into service for a more general survey of databases in this issue. New Atari computers were already being announced to follow the 1200, although not all of them made it to the point where you could actually buy them. Another hardware obscurity appeared in the form of the "Supercharger," which would offer 6,272 bytes of RAM for the Atari 2600 VCS and the ability to load inexpensive games from cassette tape (although the article explained nobody other than its manufacturer had rushed to produce games for it yet...)

[electronicsquid]

Billy Rose keeping track of his portfolio with a stock ticker

(Eliot Elisofon. 1962)

[mvaljean525]

To market, To market, To buy a fat pig. Home again, Home again, Jiggity jig. To market, To market, To buy a fat hog. Home again, Home again, Jiggity jog. To market, To market, To buy a plum bun. Home again, Home again, Market is done.

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To market, to market

Nina Crews  (B.1963)

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Graphic - Julie Heffernan  (B.1956)

[writerwithasideofrandom]

Intro to Ticker Tape Synesthesia

One of my types of synesthesia is called ticker tape synesthesia (which is associative, like all my types of synesthesia). Essentially, my life has subtitles. Participating in a conversation? Everyone’s words (including my own, plus there’s my thoughts) are literally spelled out in my brain. Same thing happens if I’m listening to a song with lyrics, so it’s like having an instant lyric video (with colors, shapes, etc. courtesy of my sound-color synesthesia/chromesthesia.) These “mental subtitles” aren’t something I can help, but they come in handy more often than not, so I’m okay with that.

I didn’t even realize that ticker tape wasn’t normal until a few months ago. I also didn’t realize that some synesthetes with ticker tape see different fonts than me. I spent a while comparing different fonts to my brain’s, and the closest I can get is actually the same font as this post: Helvetica Neue. I didn’t know that until I got Tumblr a couple of weeks ago or so, so my best guess before now was Times New Roman (mostly because they actually got the “I” right so it doesn’t look like an “L”, plus a few other reasons). While not all the letters in either font are exactly what I see, finding a similar font is the best way I have to describe it to other people and make visual representations of what I see.

The words are usually white against a black background, though the background depends on the music I’m listening to, the speaker’s voice, or if I’m just lost in my own thoughts. 

This post is getting a bit long, so I’m going to end it here. 

[music--equals--life]

Gorillaz feat. Carly Simon & Kali Uchis --“Ticker Tape” (2017)

[evilhorse]

I swear I will never get sick of this.