In advance of Fat Tuesday! Here’s a combination of Venice and New Orleans. This is Gabriela Coutinho’s Venice Carnavale 2008. The costumes are wonderful: And from Irishaikidoka on YouTube: Hermes Wrestling for Pollens Float 18, just this past Friday night: I’ll have to ask my brother it this was his float. Here’s an interesting story behind a commissioned  Sri Lankan Mask. And something we use everyday — not a cover up but maybe a hidden art —  of creating typography. There is an interesting lecture tonight at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, called “The Designing Type: The Work of Matthew Carter. He is a founder of the fonts: Verdana, Georgia,…