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Aug. 5th, 2009 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenmillionBusiness as Usual
The truck is packed up with the first load and sitting outside of work ready to go. I made buttons and keychains last night, using up the extra-printed bits I had, and finished packaging miniprints. T-shirts and regular prints still to go.
I've got a few javascript fixes to do at PA, posthaste, hopefully those will be up later today. Nothing earthshaking, just a bug fix or two and a streamline of the account information.
Art and Authoring
Instead of content, a question: What's in your essential art kit? What tools of the trade could you not survive without?
Home and Health
Went to bed with a pounding headache yesterday, woke up all refreshed and ready to go. Stepped outside of the bedroom and it slammed right back into me.
I think that the smoke is worse today than it has EVER been. The truck (and everything I had packed into it) was coated with a filmy light coat of ash. Coughing fits. Stinging eyes. Labored breathing. BLECH. The fires themselves are not that bad, I understand, but... they're like campfires... when they're not blazing, they're smoking. And we're breathing them: http://newsminer.com/news/2009/aug/05/fire-grows-murphy-dome/
The air quality is officially 'Unhealthy.'
Last night, the sky was black and orange - it's very, very creepy. My birch trees turn orange. Very apocalyptic.
http://newsminer.com/photos/2009/aug/05/10451/
Scary.
Planning
Tonight, I've got two folks lined up to help set up tents after work, and a third possible. It should go quickly, then we'll go out to dinner at Lemongrass. After that, I've got t-shirts to pack up, and prints. Then, an early night, and a late morning tomorrow, with no more work until after the fair. Which means I'd better get these reports done post-haste...
The truck is packed up with the first load and sitting outside of work ready to go. I made buttons and keychains last night, using up the extra-printed bits I had, and finished packaging miniprints. T-shirts and regular prints still to go.
I've got a few javascript fixes to do at PA, posthaste, hopefully those will be up later today. Nothing earthshaking, just a bug fix or two and a streamline of the account information.
Art and Authoring
Instead of content, a question: What's in your essential art kit? What tools of the trade could you not survive without?
Home and Health
Went to bed with a pounding headache yesterday, woke up all refreshed and ready to go. Stepped outside of the bedroom and it slammed right back into me.
I think that the smoke is worse today than it has EVER been. The truck (and everything I had packed into it) was coated with a filmy light coat of ash. Coughing fits. Stinging eyes. Labored breathing. BLECH. The fires themselves are not that bad, I understand, but... they're like campfires... when they're not blazing, they're smoking. And we're breathing them: http://newsminer.com/news/2009/aug/05/fire-grows-murphy-dome/
The air quality is officially 'Unhealthy.'
Last night, the sky was black and orange - it's very, very creepy. My birch trees turn orange. Very apocalyptic.
http://newsminer.com/photos/2009/aug/05/10451/
Scary.
Planning
Tonight, I've got two folks lined up to help set up tents after work, and a third possible. It should go quickly, then we'll go out to dinner at Lemongrass. After that, I've got t-shirts to pack up, and prints. Then, an early night, and a late morning tomorrow, with no more work until after the fair. Which means I'd better get these reports done post-haste...
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Date: 2009-08-05 08:51 pm (UTC)I do like my pastels and pencils but mostly nowadays I'm digital.
Writing I need a pen for because I have ideas whether I have my laptop with me or not.
Hope you get some good downpours soon, to clear in time for the fair of course.
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Date: 2009-08-05 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-06 05:57 am (UTC)Essential Art Kit: travel version
Date: 2009-08-06 11:26 am (UTC)5" x 7" sketchbook (probably 60 lb paper); about 4 pencils of different weights, a mechanical eraser; 1-2 permanent black ink sketch micron or Staedler pens (.03mm and either a .01 or more commonly a .05); a brush; a set of watercolor pencils. All but the sketchbook fits into this funny blue suede folder from Levenger.
The big kit is in some shelves and satchels and stuff, and is more of those things with more variety, plus watercolor tubes and palettes and boards (for things to be taped on).