Editing The Pen Addict 183/transcript (section)

== Colors Edition ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I'm really kind of excited to talk about this one. So, it's Colors Edition number 29. It's called the Snowblind Edition. I was pretty shocked when this came out. Very surprised. It's one of those more technical releases that Field Notes kind of does. You know, maybe once a year, they'll do something kind of really off the beaten path that you didn't see coming. You know, and what were your first thoughts when you saw this email come in, and you started looking through what this edition was?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I was looking at it initially, and then I kind of looked at the video, like I saw the big screen, and it's just a white pack. I was like, ooh, like it's like northerly. And then I went down, and I saw white and blue, and I was like, oh, there's two different colors, maybe? And then like I kind of started looking through, I was like, oh, hang on a minute. What's going on here?

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I like these. And, you know, see, I agree with you. They like to do something technical. But this isn't necessarily technical at the expense of something else, you know, if that makes sense. Like this is technical. Like it's not technical like the Expedition Edition was.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Where it was like we're just going to upend everything. And they made something super cool, but for a specific purpose, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. So this, to be specific, the covers of this book are made with photochromic ink. So what that does is it changes with sunlight. Yeah, UV rays, right? So the paper, the cover stock is white, but the photochromic ink, when it goes outside in the sunlight, changes to kind of like this powdery blue, I guess you would call it. And then you can, it kind of changes, you know, as you move it in and out of the sunlight. You know, if you're blocking some of the sun rays from it, you know, like in the pictures they show, you can leave, like you can see your fingerprints from where you block the sun. I've also already seen people who have these, mine haven't arrived just yet, but people who have these are using things like the ghost ink, the ultraviolet ink. Have you seen that, Myke? Like, so you can use ink, you know, like spy ink, like if you write it on a piece of paper and you need an ultraviolet light to see it, it actually reverses the photochromic ink. So the, when the cover's white, your ghost ink will show up blue. And when the cover's blue, your ghost ink shows up white, I think is how I have this. So people are playing around with the colors. I think it's kind of cool. I mean, I'm not like super jacked up woohoo about it, but I also don't have them in my hands yet. I think it's going to be pretty cool. But, you know, they're either going to be in my desk, my backpack or my back pocket. So I don't know that I'm going to get the effects, you know, that they spent a lot of time, I'm sure, and resources in getting this just right, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like how much benefit are you going to get from the color changing, right? It's basically going to be a white edition for the most part.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, but white editions look great though.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I was going to say, which I'm good with, like the best picture that they have in this whole thing is the binding with the white staples, the white covers and the white staples. It just looks, that was my favorite picture of the whole thing, not necessarily the photochromatic part and things like that. And I'm interested to see the cover type. It's got like that, it's like a roughed up, it's a powder pearlescent pigments for the, like the field notes type and logo and things like that on there. That should be pretty cool, but I mean, I think it's going to be good. I'm anxious to get it and try it, but like I said, how much color variation am I going to be getting? You know, am I going to be playing around with the ultraviolet part of this, or am I just going to be writing in the notebook and, you know, and not getting the benefits of, you know, the color variation? You know, like when they did something like Night Sky, which is, you know, yours and I's probably one of our favorite edition. You know, they did something really cool with the foil stamping and the holographic stamping and things like that. You get that benefit constantly, right? Every time you use the book, you get the benefit of the work that they put into the book. With this one, with this cover, you don't get the benefit of all the work they put into the book every time. You know it's there, but you're not getting that benefit. Does that make sense?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, but I don't know if that's a bad thing. I think that might be a more fun thing because every now and then it will surprise you. Like, I think that's more exciting. Like, because if they just came out with a new white book, people would probably be pretty happy with that, right? Yeah, I'd be stoked.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, my day game one is the day game white is one of the best editions ever. Exactly. In my opinion.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And it was better than the northerly because the northerly had that crazy paper inside.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it had the reverse printed paper. I forget there's a name for that, but basically the paper was gray and the grid lines were white, so it was like inverted.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But it had like an inky covering, didn't it? Like, it wasn't that great. They weren't that great to write in.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' People loved the style of that one, but it was one of the worst performers of just actually the physical writing in the books were not a great addition for that. But yes, just the white covers were pretty impressive for everyone. Everyone loves the white covers, including myself. I'm a huge fan. So yeah, I'll be anxious to get it and put it to use, and I'm sure it's going to be cool as heck. But, you know, I think it's great. I got no problems with it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, I'm a big fan. And, like, you know, I've been talking about, like, when the Shenandoahs came out, that I love Field Notes when they do something crazy. And this is something crazy. Yeah. So I bought three additional packs of these. Oh, wow. Yeah, I went all in. I went all in.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nice. See, if my only choices, if Field Notes only existed from Shenandoah to Snowblind, just those two additions, I would pick Shenandoah every time. But I don't have the Snowblind in hand yet either, but just looking at it, I'm going to totally enjoy it. I will prefer Shenandoah over it, I would say, probably nine times out of ten.