I Love my Aunt

It’s so nice having an aunt like her. Had dinner with her after dancing today and it was so interesting chatting with her about everything and anything. Never have I felt like I could tell someone everything before without being selective about what I could say.

She’s like so supportive, and that’s all I really need to drive me. I mean, she’s ok with me having a tattoo. That’s like so sweet LOL.

Unfortunately, I can’t get one. Just yet. LOL.

Something about Salsa

So I took up Salsa. And I admit it’s fun. Went for the first lesson today and I didn’t know dancing was this fun, especially when you can get the moves right. I had purposely wore contacts today in case my glasses fell off, and brought out my super old pair of santa barbara shoes which were super slippery LOL.

And for no reason suddenly, I thought of capoeira and break dancing. I wonder…. hmmm

Layer #7 done

I realised I haven’t been posting much about my stencil work of late due to anonymity reasons. I just completed another one tonight and after looking at it, I think this one is safe for posting LOL. 2 more to go, I hope when I start spraying, everything will align nicely, and I don’t screw it up mid way through lol.

I must say that this has been a rather good experience. Along the way, I have picked up quite a lot of skills and things to note while doing stencils. especially multilayered ones.

Some of the more important ones to share would be:

1. Always use a sharp blade for fine details.
2. For fine details, go light and slow, carefully make a few passes to cut through.
3. When designing base layers, you can really just design it such that only those areas showing will be cut. This saves alot of cutting time. But you must be careful where places align up.
4. Try to design such that the different layers have a place to align.
5. Try to get plastic as thin as possible, espeically for detailed stencils. Easier to cut.
6. When cutting plastic, try not to rotate the stencil to cut, there will be parrallax. Rotate the Xacto instead. You can however, make light passes in one direction, then turn the paper and cut along those passes ignoring the picture.
7. One good skill to pick up is Adobe Illustrator, which I will do for my next stencil. Having your designs vectorized will be a great help for details as it’s difficult to cut details when you have a lot of aliasing from blowing up a Photoshopped work.

Ok, I guess that was boring lol. Anyway, here’s the new piece.

The drive at Holland

Had a rather fine day at the gym after work, not too long nor too short, and I did enough to feel good about it. Headed down to Holland for coffee with a friend after.

Most interestingly, the boss (who does recognise me a little), sat down and chatted with us, all about business and stuff and a little of his family. Incidentally his daughter was helping out at the drinks stall, so, for some reason or other, he introduced her to us. Which was totally off IMO, because at that moment I was more interested in his sharing of his business experience.

Which is why suddenly I’m driven lol. Gonna start planning a little. Nothing to lose while I’m young, do or die!

Funnily, both options seem fine to me LOL