no undo
Thursday, September 21st, 2006I was doing a lot of creative spelunking yesterday on tshirts and other dye-sub related product ideas. I’ve been trying to loosen up creatively recently, stop being so damn stiff about what i produce, and its helping.
I’ve been doing some COPIC coloring here and there (nothing worth posting yet) when i ran across my first problem marker yesterday. I was coloring with it when suddenly ink started to pool up on the nib. This is the first time i’ve had this problem with any of these markers, and unfortunately i wasnt watching for it so i got a huge bleed on the drawing i was coloring which ruined it. Not really sure why it pooled on the nib like that, i assume that it was a marker i had not used yet and it might have been overful of ink - i am going to try to keep an eye out on the problem and see if it crops up again. This is, of course, one of the problems with analogue media, there are no undo buttons.
Spent a little time this morning going over various podcasts looking for something to listen to. I’m a big listener of audiobooks (i get good mileage out of my Audible.com account :P) but i really haven’t delved into podcasts too much. There are the standard ones to poke at, like NPR’s Science Friday and stuff like that, but i also was looking for some more specific ones to some of my newer hobbies. There doesn’t seem to be a decent sea/touring kayak podcast of any note (the ones there are are all whitewater kayaking and thats like a totally different sport, imho) but there are a few good mountain biking ones. I’m giving Gear Noise a listen right now, and it’s pretty laid back… just what i was looking for.
oh, and in case you are wondering what could possibly be interesting about kayaking, here’s an interesting site to poke at. It will be a while before i’ll be doing any actual sea kayaking (there’s plenty of lakes and rivers here in michigan to keep us occupied) but there is some alure to costal waters that fascinates me…