Haven't blogged on Sg for a little while because, you know, what's the point?
I feel like an old scenester when I think about SG. You know, back in the day, it really used to be about the COMMUNITY. Or maybe it's just Long Beach. Maybe the locals are evasive online as they are in the walking world.
But that it not this.
This is a story of my possibly misguided pride in being a savage artist of sorts.
I called wacom, the people who make the drawing tablets, to find out if it was possible to change out the nubs on the tips of the pens for my tablet, because I was tired of buying new pens ($35 dollars) when I wore through the nub. I saw that they sold the nubs, but no amount of twisting in my teeth or with tools revealed any opening to these expensive components.
So I say all that to my customer service rep, who was cracking me up. I told him, I was tired of buying pens every year and a half just because the nub was worn down.
"Every year and a half?"
"Yep."
"You're kidding me?"
"Sometimes faster, if I'm doing a lot of graphic work that year."
"Are you some kind of eight foot tall monster?"
"Uhm, no. Would there be a discount if I was?"
"Our most exhaustive users take double that to wear them down. Do you eat the ends."
"No. I eat real pens. Never digital ones."
"You must draw with some kind of savagery I've never seen if you're burning through them that fast."
I guess I am. I guess I'm a savage artist. But maybe I'm just heavy handed, because I usually pound a keyboard into being inoperable every several years too.
So. Gotta buy a new pen. But it came with a free twisted compliment.
I feel like an old scenester when I think about SG. You know, back in the day, it really used to be about the COMMUNITY. Or maybe it's just Long Beach. Maybe the locals are evasive online as they are in the walking world.
But that it not this.
This is a story of my possibly misguided pride in being a savage artist of sorts.
I called wacom, the people who make the drawing tablets, to find out if it was possible to change out the nubs on the tips of the pens for my tablet, because I was tired of buying new pens ($35 dollars) when I wore through the nub. I saw that they sold the nubs, but no amount of twisting in my teeth or with tools revealed any opening to these expensive components.
So I say all that to my customer service rep, who was cracking me up. I told him, I was tired of buying pens every year and a half just because the nub was worn down.
"Every year and a half?"
"Yep."
"You're kidding me?"
"Sometimes faster, if I'm doing a lot of graphic work that year."
"Are you some kind of eight foot tall monster?"
"Uhm, no. Would there be a discount if I was?"
"Our most exhaustive users take double that to wear them down. Do you eat the ends."
"No. I eat real pens. Never digital ones."
"You must draw with some kind of savagery I've never seen if you're burning through them that fast."
I guess I am. I guess I'm a savage artist. But maybe I'm just heavy handed, because I usually pound a keyboard into being inoperable every several years too.
So. Gotta buy a new pen. But it came with a free twisted compliment.
As for your compliment, I would wear it like a badge of honor. Chances are, word will get around, it'll start catching on and all the kids will be calling themselves that. Another form of compliment I suppose.