The first word of your post needs another vowel :)
yikes! Embarrassing, but fixed nonetheless. Thank you.
Why I take sketch breaks instead of surfing the Internet
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem with moving to explicitly tablets is that the feel of different papers/pens is radically different than any electronic technology can provide. There are smartpens now, but there's still a loss of texture when storing images, and displaying them on a backlit screen alters them as well. That aside, a tablet completely wrecks the point of getting away from all the distractions that come with your computer.
This is so true. I was given an iPad 2 earlier this year and I love it. Reading, surfing, planning, wireframing, does it all. But doodling? Brainstorming? There is no app in the world (yet?) that can match a pad of paper and a good, comfortable pen.
I use a Wacom pen especially built for the iPad screen and an app called Penultime. Works pretty well.
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#23It would be interesting to know what other people in the technology industry do during their breaks. I usually go for a smoke and a cup of coffee, and maybe getting to know what other people do could inspire me to avoid this bad habit.
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#24Am I the only one who first read the title of the post as "stretch breaks" instead of "sketch breaks"?
No
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#25There is a Ted talk that goes over why Doodling should actually be encouraged: http://www.ted.com/talks/sunni_brown.html
Awesome talk.
I'm guity of being caught doodling in class. As early as first grade. I still remember one particular day long ago where a teacher noticed me doodling during class. The lecture halted. My notes were confiscated. Then torn up and tossed into the trash. I was horrified.
And yet, to this day, I've never stopped doodling. It's quite soothing. Some of my best works of art started as "just a doodle."
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#26It would be interesting to know what other people in the technology industry do during their breaks. I usually go for a smoke and a cup of coffee, and maybe getting to know what other people do could inspire me to avoid this bad habit.
At previous jobsI've played the a Korg piano I've got, sometimes I juggle, sometimes I doodle, if I've not had any exercise yet sometimes I'll walk around the building.
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#27Problem with using physical media - STORAGE. Trust me, I have literally 1000's of pieces of paper lying around here with ideas, sketches, the works, built up over 15 years. I'm never going to scan any of it. Get a tablet before it's too late.
You know you can get a scanner with a feeder right? You just have to drop the paper in the feeder and it will produce a set of pdf documents. It is more expensive than normal scanners but in your case it would properly be worth it.
This is so true, I've got a Fuju Scansnap 1500 and it really really made my life easier. Drop pages in poof they come out as scanned on both sides or just one (it figures out blank pages), as a pdf, with text ocr'd off if it can recognize it so its searchable. They automatically drop into a shared folder on a filer. Paper goes in box with a date, dates > 3 yrs go to shredder.
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#28My G&L Tele is out of its case leaning against the wall most all the time for this very reason. 5-10 minutes of working on my Knopfler bends and I'm good. Time well spent.
To save someone else as musically ignorant as I some googling: G&L is a guitar brand. "Tele" is short for "Telecaster", a model made by Fender (who also makes the Stratocaster) which is presumably used loosely for similar models from other guitar brands as well.
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#29My G&L Tele is out of its case leaning against the wall most all the time for this very reason. 5-10 minutes of working on my Knopfler bends and I'm good. Time well spent.
To save someone else as musically ignorant as I some googling: G&L is a guitar brand. "Tele" is short for "Telecaster", a model made by Fender (who also makes the Stratocaster) which is presumably used loosely for similar models from other guitar brands as well.
G&L was founded by Leo Fender...of Fender fame.
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#30My G&L Tele is out of its case leaning against the wall most all the time for this very reason. 5-10 minutes of working on my Knopfler bends and I'm good. Time well spent.
To save someone else as musically ignorant as I some googling: G&L is a guitar brand. "Tele" is short for "Telecaster", a model made by Fender (who also makes the Stratocaster) which is presumably used loosely for similar models from other guitar brands as well.
Ahh- then "Knopfler bends" must refer to Dire Straights guitarist Mark Knopfler.