Glass scores with yet another reference to the other match. (Which match, I will remind you, or at least I will remind my esteemed fellow commentator Mr. Baldwin, is the "B" match.) There's a Star Wars-y feel to those laser bolts, and that's mental comfort food for my 30-something mind.
I once read an interview with Steven Spielberg where he argued, persuasively, that the best character in the Star Wars series was R2-D2 -- constrained in motion and incapable of actual dialog, R2-D2 was still a full, rich, well-defined character. A beeping, chirping trash can on wheels that came across as competent, bold, clever, and somehow even sarcastic.
I see those same traits in this laser-dodging glass.
Noteworthy details: Optical distortion of the girl through the beverage. (Glass must've put a print-out behind the glass when he shot it.) And that mysterious fleck on the left. Not sure why, but I like it.
Play by play commentary for this match is provided, as it happens, by John Gruber.
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Naz and Sam Peeling Back the Layers on last Friday's amazing photographic and musical live Layer Tennis Match. No Tennis this week by the way, we'll be back live on the 19th
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Mark Simonson shares his insider's view of Friday's typographic battle, including a nifty chart of all the glyphs created during the match.
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