2 posts tagged “ink”
Well... I'll usually declare allegiance to the vampires—I understand them best. I relate to them... I've been called (and compared to) them. And I'm fine with that.
I'VE BEEN CAREFULLY PLOTTING AND PLANNING MY NEXT "BIG MOVES," and though the details have been (sorta) made public, I've kept only my tightly-knit personal group informed.
I plan on ditching TypePad (at least for now), sticking with Vox in the mean-time, and I have no plans to change my Livejournal account (as I don't trust the fate of the company).
The biggest addition to my "Bradtastic Lifestyle" is Squarespace. I've been thoroughly impressed by their lightning-fast customer service and support, and their wonderful interface called "V5." The easy-to-edit WYSIWYG stylings will allow me to focus on the writing instead of code, but the feature that really sold me is Daring Fireball's Smartypants — built-in.
As a writer/illustrator/designer with a love for typography and a penchant for perfection, normal blogs' lack of “smart quotes” (alongside lousy blog editors) has been quite bothersome. Just when I was about to give up on my smart quote fantasy, I found an option to enable my saviour-software.
And I was sold.
I was going to leave TypePad without much fanfare or a farewell, but marinesetwas convinced me to send Six Apart my feedback. He likes their service, as does Warner Crocker, so I thought, why not? And I thought I'd share my review with y'all as well—it'll likely appear at Bradtastic.com or my new secret site.
I'm also sharing with you lucky, lucky people, the (partial) list of my Kindle contents! (Exciting!) Until then... stay sexy.
Barnes & Noble is such a trap for an artist... any type of creative, really. There's some welcome changes there, too... for instance, more magazines and periodicals on politics and social agendas... more art and photography mags, more "alternative lifestyle" stuff. I'm also really happy to see the Moleskine section grow into its own station.
WHEN I FIRST STARTED PUTTING Montblanc pens to Moleskine paper, I would go there to find a mixed-n-mashed section of Moleskines with the plastic packaging half-torn... note three-sets missing one and an all-around, miserably-pathetic selection. Generally, there were no more than a couple large Notebooks and a "reporter" pocket-sized...
...now B&N is well-stocked. I guess my purchases have single-handedly changed the trends (at least in Walnut Creek). Bradtastic thinks it's cool, therefore it... nah.
However, I did also pick up a copy of the new Computer Arts magazine... it's different now. The 'Projects mag looked pretty slick—cool new shape—but its topic is "motion graphics," and that's not something I'm working with right now. Being nothing more than a distraction (a damned good one at that), I couldn't risk it and didn't want to waste... it'd end up as more paper mess, even if it turned out to be a good visual resource and guide for later-use (I'm sure it would).
Gilmore Girls inspires my writing, vector art and graffiti inspires my art. The 'Girls are overall more-important to my creative process, however, and if I had to live with just one or the other, it's an easy choice.
I have a lot of stuff to write about... but I'm not sure how much of it I want to share... and if people really want me to share such things...!
