I discovered the Sennelier brushpen in Payne’s Grey and was enamoured with its indigo blue.
I used it with a water brushpen on thick watercolour paper. For the boat I used the Geranium Red Kuretake brushpen. And I used my Pentel pocket brushpen in grey for the pier.
(14×21 cm)
In a dream that felt particularly real, a kind and good looking stranger arranged my Apple AirPods into a V Wing…
I had no idea this was even possible! I was in a diner in a busy and dark megalopolis, minding my own business, when this guy eyes me, leaves his young companion at adjacent table, sets himself in front of me and deftly handled my Apple AirPods and case. His fingers and hands were like those of Rubik’s cubes players. The next moment he set on the table what looked like a small V Wing Star Wars spaceship. He said, “there, now you have your own portable loudspeakers” and left.
I looked at the beautiful object in front of me, and thought I needed a second pair to use in-ear, because I would never be able to arrange them this way again.
I also tried to think of what to tell the stranger to hold on to him longer, but nothing came to mind and I was disappointed. That’s it.
I woke up wondering just how loud the small device would be 🙂
For a few years I was a happy and fulfilled user of the iPhone app Metatext, a client for the federated social network Mastodon. When Metatext stopped being developed, I spent days reading comparisons, trying other clients, and settled on two which eventually matched all of my criteria:
I donate 0,99€ per month to the developer of Ice Cubes for Mastodon, and I pay the yearly subscription for Ivory (which costs 1,50€ per month.)
There are a 8 features specific to #IceCubesApp and 7 features specific to #ivory that I am really keen about. Since neither implemented them all, I continue to use both.
| Ice Cubes | Ivory |
| Quote post transforms the quoted post into a card with embedded content | Boost/favorite from/as a different account |
| Add/edit filters via our own profile | App-integrated statistics for the rolling week, with bar graphs, directly in the tray |
| Private messages button in the tray | Ungrouped notifications |
| Filtering notifications in the notifications pane | Date format choice between relative & absolute (I’m a sucker for the latter) |
| Collapse long posts | Option to get a missing Alt text reminder |
| Auto-detect language when posting | Can send iPhone “stickers” |
| Displays all posts for a given followed hashtag (whereas Ivory apparently displays only a portion) |
I drew again in my small sketchbook Canson art book universal (14×21 cm / 4×6 in), using individually or together a black Pentel brushpen, a grey Pentel Brushpen, Sakura Pigma Micron 003 black fine liner, Kuretake light grey Brush Writer, and a Staedtler 0.3-2.0 black pigment liner.
6 drawings are tributes to Moebius, 4 were Japan-inspired. I had fun doing all of them. It was a bit tough the last week, and for the first time I think, I was counting the days until the end.
