Month: December 2021

  • Curry Surprise

    There is a graphic design story that I read about a decade ago that goes something like this: nearly everyone hate the font “comic sans” and turns their noses up whenever it turns up printed across an amature bit of graphic design work. But as much as some might scorn the folks who use that

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  • Glacial Stares

    Sometimes things just click. Sometimes you need to do a hike up the side of a mountain to an interesting place, lay on the bare ground and get the moment just right for things to work out how you want. Describe the best picture you took in 2021. We had booked a week in the

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  • Salted Toffee Crisps

    For the span of a whole weekend in early December it seemed like I couldn’t look on my social media feeds and subscriptions without seeing a recipe for some kind of homemade chocolate toffee bar. In fact, I saw this (or a variation of this) recipe online on Youtube, Instagram, and Twitter no less than

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  • Words on Sketching

    Learning by doing. It can work, but at some point a guy needs to look to some other sources for guidance and advice. Like, say… a book (or ten.) What was the best anything that you read in 2021? As much as I’ve taken to the internets this past year in an attempt to hone

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  • Sourdough But Not Bread

    It’s been a long twenty-one months of pandemic craziness, but I’ve kept myself a little more sane by baking a lot of sourdough bread. A few loaves per week. A regular diet of sourdough toast for breakfast. A healthy source of bread for the family. But in all that time I haven’t explored much further

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