I don't think it is fundamentally hipster to enjoy using your hands to create things, even though "craftiness" does encroach into the twee aesthetic that can be quite easily found in many hipster magazines. Perhaps, as part of my adjustment to this new desk-bound job, I've begun to crave some hands-on activity, the results of which are more immediate and visible.

Extremely impressed with this short video of a printmaker at work. It takes a certain eye, I think, to know where to carve to create the effect of light. It reminded me of John, the sign-maker in London. He was one of the last few sign-makers who made signs and letterings by hand in London, and he did many of the signs for Barristers and the courts and the houses of parliament, some of goldleaf. I remember of him, most of all, our conversations about kerning and the perfect serifs for the perfect G's, F's and T's.

I don't think I could ever work with wood in the way that Thomas Shahan (in the video) does, but I hope at least that my latest projects like learning to drive and learning to sew would kind of anchor this strange online lifestyle in some sort of reality- of the seeing and touching sort.