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Blog 11-12-13
A friendly reminder that today was awesome, and will be the second to last counting date for a century.
Speak Your Mind 141 #701-705
QUESTIONS
1. When you get out of high school, do you think it would be nice to work a second shift?
2. What color do you think goes best with orange?
3. Do you like hot dogs?
4. Do you own a pair of roller skates?
5. Are there any colors that you think are OK for men to wear but you would not wear (if you were a guy)?
ANSWERS By: Austin Smith
1. I haven’t worked shifts since I got out, but I’d be up for it at least a few times just to get more money.
2. Being an artist, I’d have to say blue.
3. Yes, I really like hot dogs.
4. Not anymore.
5. Men can wear any color, I wear pink and purple, but I probably would’t wear a light green or a bright pink or orange.
Blog 11-9-13 – Site Changes
Today, Blip.tv deleted my account. They didn’t do it without warning. I was told they would be deleting it a month ago, and at that time they also froze most of my services with them. They also gave me an opportunity to download all of my original master videos from their servers, which I did, except for 4 which were apparently lost in the aether. That doesn’t matter, though, because I still have all of the master copies of my videos.
Now it does suck to lose my Blip views, and statistics (which were much more helpful than Youtube’s) but I do understand it. I really wasn’t following their new (I assume as I don’t remember hearing them before) guidelines. I am slightly upset, but I would be much more upset if, say, Youtube did the same thing to me, as Youtube is advertised as a service for anyone, even though some aspects of it are moving toward monetizing content, it still gets its core from the everyday user.
So I don’t hate Blip, but be warned if you sign up, they do delete accounts that aren’t “shows” and they can lose master video files.
Anyway, as a consequence of this, all the videos on my site are now from Youtube. And I will be going through the process of putting ads on some of the lengthier ones, just as a warning.
I’m also looking into putting ads on this site and Dragonfunnies.com, because I have to make money somehow. So that’s happening, and it may take a long or a short time.
And finally, I know I haven’t been posting weekly articles or blogs like I used to, this is because I have run out of ideas and have so much work to do that I can’t think of new ones. So that feature will be indefinitely delayed. It may or may not come back when I’m not as busy.
But what am I busy on? You ask. I have a new comic book and several new comic collections coming in the month, and I’ll be showing previews very soon, so stay tuned.
Review – Signo Angelic White
Some colors of pens are rare, and white even more so. So if you need to highlight something in your art or maybe need a white-out pen that isn’t a white out pen you can try the Uni-ball Signo Angelic white gel pen.
Starting with the pen itself: the barrel is octagonal near the back and becomes a weird grip shape near the front, though it is quite comfortable. The cap has a plastic clip that works I guess and securely clicks into place on both the front and back of the pen. A metal cone holds the tip and cartridge in place and can be easily unscrewed for refilling.
The ink is white. Though not as white as one might hope, being a gel ink it is slightly transparent, and on darker colors would require several coats to cover completely. That being said it highlights very well and is very visible on colored paper, though it looks a bit grey on black paper. The ball is also very fine, leading to a line that can be very faint sometimes.
So overall it is good at highlighting and some writing, but if you’re looking for a pen that can precisely cover marks and don’t have the patience to use multiple coats you might not want to look at the Uniball Signo Angelic White.