I tried to do a double exposure on my Canon AE-1 last weekend, shooting a tree silhouette first then a sunset... came out looking like a blurry mess. Meanwhile my buddy used a Holga 120N and got this perfect ghostly overlap of a bridge and a crowd at the LA River. Guess I need to stop overthinking and just let the film do its thing... anyone else find cheap cameras work better for this stuff?
He told me grab every single Folger's Shakespeare paperback even if they smelled like an ashtray, and last month I had to pay $18 online for just one copy of King Lear because my professor banned laptops during class.
One guy kept arguing the dad was selfish for not leaving the kid at a farm he found, and I got mad defensive. It made me realize I never questioned my own assumptions about survival in that book because I deal with that stuff everyday at work. Has anyone else had a debate in your club that totally flipped how you saw a character?
I was cutting a 50 sheet set of plans and the blade just gave out on sheet 38. Had to manually trim the rest by hand with a straightedge, which took me an extra hour and a half. Has anyone else had trouble with these carbide tips wearing out faster than expected?
I redid the whole thing with fabric glue and iron-on patches instead, spent about $12 total at the thrift store. Finally wore it to a con last weekend and three strangers asked where I bought it. Anyone else have a cosplay that took multiple tries before you got it right?
I was at Anderson's Lumber in Portland last Saturday grabbing some cherry for a side table I'm building. An older guy named Bill saw me feeling a board and said "you're picking for color but you should be picking for grain orientation on the face frame." He showed me how a quarter-sawn piece would stay flat way longer than the flat-sawn stuff I usually grab for doors. It hit different because I've been doing this 8 years and never once thought about how the growth rings sit inside the wood. Has anyone else had a random stranger at the lumber yard give you advice that actually stuck?
Ran a little test last week comparing my standard draghead with a newer vortex style one. In fine sand the vortex pulled about 15% more material per hour but in coarse sand it clogged up twice as fast. The standard head just chugged along in both conditions without any issues. I'm sticking with the old design for mixed ground since downtime kills production way more than peak rates. Anyone else seen big differences with different head designs on varying bottom conditions?
Spent a year fighting with PVA bubbling on book cloth, especially on the tighter weaves. Tried wheat paste on a whim for a batch of 5 journals last month and the adhesion is way more forgiving, plus it cleans up with just water. Anyone else find certain cloth types just don't play nice with synthetic glues?
Last weekend I had back to back appointments and my Andis clippers just stopped working halfway through a fade. I tried swapping the cord and checked the outlet but nothing. Ended up having to finish with my backup trimmer and it took twice as long and the client was annoyed. Anyone else had their main clippers fail at the worst time and what do you keep as a reliable backup?
I always thought pen plotters were ancient tech that nobody should touch for large format drawings, but last month I saw a guy in Dallas finish a set of 30 arch D sheets with one and the line quality was way better than my inkjet. He told me he hasn't replaced a cartridge in 2 years and the pens last forever with proper care. Am I really missing out by sticking to digital printing, or is this just an old timer thing?