Dear Designers

Everyone, I've discovered this amazing line of paper that I think everyone should know about. It's called Heaven 42 by Scheufelen. It's ultra white. Nothing warm about it; it's stark white, cold white, laboratory white. And it feels amazing. It feels like you can't hurt it. Like it has a sort of innate protection magicked into it—it feels otherworldly. We ran a job at work a while ago, ordered parent sheets and cut it down ourselves. There was scrap left over which would normally be tossed, but I set it aside because I knew we had something special on our hands and I wasn't going to let it go so easily. The scraps were only about three inches wide, so I made note pads out of them. It's been one of the most rewarding decisions of my recent life. I yearnto take notes on this paper—100 # coated text weight. I should explain that it's not a gloss coat (obviously not, you couldn't write on it then), it's a soft smooth coating that just... oh, you just want to touch it and you want to draw on it and doodle on it with just about anything you can get your hands on. It's fine for pencil; it's marvelous for pen. I recently bought a new technical pen—.35— and when I combined the two, it was... there's no other word for it. Heaven.

Heaven 42, I reckon.

I'm getting a little tired of high speed cameras. Slow motion has always been awesome, of course, and it really came into its own as film and editing quality went way up in the last ten years or so. But once Mythbusters got a hold of it...well there just wasn't much for it from that point on. There's a show on Discovery called Time Warp that consists almost exclusively of high speed cinematography. It's gotten to be a bit much.

Hopefully it'll go out of style soon... and then come back in style around the time I'm ready to make my first commercial or music video or something.