Editing The Pen Addict 137/transcript (section)

== Field Notes ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So our, you spoke about Aaron Draplin just a second ago and we had an interesting field notes that you added to the show notes, Myke.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes, indeedy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So this field notes stuff is starting to become a little funny to me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's getting a bit ridiculous, I think, in certain points.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think that's the word, ridiculous. I mean, believe me, I love field notes and praise them, but it's the, it's the chase of these rare editions that I'm starting to get, find the ridiculousness in. And so one of the links that came up this week was one of the field notes DDC factory floor editions. And these are really cool editions. These are something that Aaron, from time to time, will make them for personal use and then make a small run that he will eventually sell. Usually through the DDC shop, not through field notes. So this is one of the standard issue memo books that he made and it's numbered blank of a thousand. Well, the problem is it's literally numbered blank of a thousand. There's no number on it. So, oh my God, the field notes went, field notes went crazy. What does this mean? There's no number on the field notes, Myke. What are we going to do?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't find that ridiculous because that is kind of interesting because if you're able to get your hands on one of these ones, it's like super rare. I think the price that it's at is ridiculous. Yes. So currently, the current bid, this isn't like the starting price. This is the current bid of the 16 bids. It's $117.50. That's too much money, man.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So I have one of these. I have one of these.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I didn't look and see what number it was. But it's a little crazy. I admit, I mean, I still would be in the market just for a sealed three pack of Butcher Orange. I don't know what I'd pay for that. I'd certainly have a limit just because then that would just, I would be done with it. But the non-colors editions, editions, I almost have zero interest in. I'll pick them up in my can. Like, believe me, I love the Starbucks Roastery Edition or, you know, like we got the capsule edition a few years ago or the XOXO editions. If we can get them for like a normal, reasonable price, yeah. But when it starts really hitting this aftermarket hard, I'm like, it's almost laughable to this point. It's such a big thing now. It's crazy. Who would have, who would have thunk it, Myke? I remember back in the day, I was offered $50 for my grass staying green and I was like, no, I'm going to use them. And I still am. And I haven't sold any yet.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't know what's perpetuating this aftermarket. I don't know if it's getting worse or if it's always been this bad. But it's pretty, yeah, it's pretty, it's getting pretty out of hand at the moment.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah. So it's interesting. I woke up to this link in my Twitter feed today, Myke, and I went to go put it in the show notes and saw you already had it in there. But there's this really cool field notes in CSS site. I guess our friend, Josh Ginter, had this up on the newsprint and it's from, well, we'll have the link in the show notes to get to this, but it's, show notes are at relay.fm slash penaddict slash 137. That's it. I thought this, I thought this was really neat. This is my kind of thing and I almost wish whoever did this, I think his name's Ben, would take the CSS field notes that he created and move them to individual notebooks instead of the fanned out look and that way I could use them for iOS wallpaper. Like the American Tradesman would be super sweet as an iOS wallpaper. I would like that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, have you pressed down on them?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, no. Press down on them. Oh, get out.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They don't come all the way apart. They just fan out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' How cool is that?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's pretty neat.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I love that. So he did a really good, did a really good job setting all these up and it's all the way down to Ambition Edition so it's very cool. So yeah, like he says, a silly thing built by BMJT made with lots of help from other smarter people. But yeah, I would love to have because these are just very, very simple, plain colors and it would look good as smartphone backgrounds. That would be cool. That would be cool. So we'll have that in the link to the show notes for you to go check out.