Sit down! Stay a while! It’s time we talked
Hey! It’s been a while since we’ve talked! ((Photo courtesy of Scott Beale))
Hopefully you’ll excuse the rambling nature of this post. :) A fair bit has changed recently. I started a new day job1 in June, but not after taking off all of May and arranging for this last week off.
May was fun, especially Maker Faire and taking the time to go on little field trips. I got my drawing robot in working order, put together a website dedicated to drawing robots, and drew some really cool things. I’ve even got some stories from Maker Faire to share with you.
1. A Little Story
I had a number of drawings on display in my Maker Faire booth. I had some Doctor Who related things, a Yoda, a Death Star, a Tesla, a House Stark dire wolf, and a number of other things. In particular, one was a big blue TARDIS I had taped to the chain link “wall” and I was working on drawing a dalek.
Then this guy walks up with some friends, asked me a few questions, and then asked me how much for the TARDIS and dalek. I told him that I wasn’t really selling them and that the dalek was only about 75% done – and it would need another hour or two to finish.
He turns to his friend and says, “Hey, how much do you have on you? $110?” Then, he says to me, “I’ll give you $110 for both right now.” I told him he had a deal – but that the dalek was still an hour or two from being done. He said he liked it just the way it was. What the hell, who am I to stand between a man and his Doctor Who-themed robot drawings? I stopped the robot, pulled down the drawings, rolled them up, and took the man’s money.
2. Another Little Story
At Maker Faire I drew two pictures for other Makers. One was for the guys from Wikipedia who asked me if I could draw a big poster of the Wikipedia logo. They e-mailed me an SVG of their logo and I was happy to draw it up. Although I was still figuring out how best to draw non-TSP SVG files, it turned out really well.
The next drawing was for a fellow maker and good friend, Chris Connors, who needed a banner/poster for his booth for How2Today. He sketched out a few tiny logos in Sharpie on a piece of paper, I took a picture with my cell phone, and I drew a big giant version of his logo. I’m working on putting together a tutorial to help you do this too. :)
3. Crane Project
I’m about 26% done folding 1,000 cranes. I kinda stalled out on this project over the last few weeks. However, now that I’m back from a vacation I’m hoping to revisit this project and get it back on track.
Okay, that’s it for a catch up post. More soon!
- I say “day job” to differentiate what I do as my vocation versus what I do with the rest of my time [↩]