We’re in a super accelerated world now. Time just seems to whizz past. December felt like three days. Pre-Christmas, Christmas Day and post Christmas.
Maybe this is an age thing, maybe this is just the stage of life now where instead of summers that last for decades when I was 12 they last for two BBQs and lots and lots of rain. Maybe it’s because covid felt like the world paused – at my age that felt like a breathing space – and then whoosh things moved faster. But for my son, especially my youngest – it happened it the most critical moment of his growing up. That period when you spend your days living in the pockets of your friends and doing sleepovers. He missed that. As did every one in that generation at his age.
It’s weird I can barely remember covid now, but it was a major formative event for him and his friends. What will it have done for them for the rest of their lives? I don’t know.
Time’s relentless march and my facing another 12 years of work before retirement (official work age retirement, I will still be doing everything that I do now, there will be no change!) is one of the reasons I bit the bullet on finally doing my own creator owned project. There’s never an ideal time to start doing something like that, a thing if I’d done when I Was 18 or 25 or 30 or 45 would’ve allowed me to build up a library of creator owned books. But I’ve started now. You should probably do the same!
Colouring
I was asked if I wanted to colour the DC strip, YES PLEASE! It took seven hours. SEVEN HOURS. Counter to what I’ve just said, some things seem to take forever.
I generally try to avoid colouring, I’m not fast at it but I do enjoy it. This page isn’t complex, though I will admit, I think it’s quite pretty.
Traitors
There’s not many things my wife and I will sit and watch together. Partly because so much of my time is spent drawing. But we’ve watched the last few series of Traitors together. It’s a fascinating watch, both for what the show is like (it’s delightfully silly for a thing that really is so low stakes, though I suppose you could win up to £100k so it’s not low stakes to the contestants)
This years show ended in such a way that you were routing for the traitors, no matter where you started it’s hard sit and think “why are these two traitors who have lied their entire way to this pot of money … why am I on their side now?”
Anyway, was great.
Yesterday in Social Media
Over on the Guardian there was an article… look just read the headline:
Victoria Beckham tops UK singles sales chart as fans show support over Brooklyn feud
How does this work? What if I want to support my friend through a separation but they don’t have a single out? AM I A BAD FRIEND IF I CAN’T MAKE THEM CHART?
For future reference if I end up in a terrible feud in the future I’ll be putting out an all new dance mix of Lukas diner. That’s if it’s a family feud. If it’s just like a social media flame war? I’ll just re-release something from the back catalogue. Not bothering recording anything new for that.
Here’s on of those little bon mot thoughts that pop in to the old noggin:
“About 15 minutes in the air fryer” is our generations “about 3 minutes in the microwave”
My mum when asked about the microwave would always say “about 3 minutes” one day it occurred to me that this was her answer to pretty much everything I asked her about cooking in the micro. Soup, meat, bread. Three minutes (“and if it’s not hot enough try it for another minute”). I said “You always say three minutes, no matter what it is” and she burst out laughing like she’d been caught in a tiny lie by a child (I was maybe in my early 20s)
Our airfryer defaults to 15 minutes and there are very few things we don’t just press start and do in 15 minutes, despite the highly complex programmable timer for sundry food stuffs that are all available on the super complex touch controls. Nope. None of that bollocks. 15 minutes in the air timer.
Our kids never ask us how long things take because they don’t need to. 15 minutes it is.
Oh man, do you know how long I’ve been drawing for? Do you know how long I’ve fetished drawing tools for? DO YOU KNOW the weird tools I have? (10 point divider? CHECK! Rapidoraph drawing pens? CHECK? Ames Ruler? CHECK!)
BUT I’VE NEVER HEARD OF THIS…!
Via Meghan Hetrick on instagram “My absolute favorite art gadget”
It’s called an ACU-ARC and is for drawing ARCS ! ARCS!
I’ve never even heard of this, like a full I’ve been using French Curves (terrible) and freehand (slightly worse) BUT this looks amazing.
Invented in the 50s too, so I can’t claim ignorance cus it’s new!
Dave Cook posted this over on Bluesky (it’s time limited, so don’t dawdle!)
And that’s your lot.
Tomorrow I’ll send out the first of my new Monthly newsletters (COLLECT THEM ALL!) signup at pjholden.kit.com
If you’re following the blog, that’s great. The newsletter is a “In case you Missed it” blog post for the whole month. (With maybe a little paragraph of two talking about the month gone) last sunday of the month!
Gonna go before this turns in to a proper irish goodbye (one in which the leaving party spends several hours saying goodbye to friends)
