Editing The Pen Addict 203/transcript (section)

== Field Notes ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Talking about superb notebooks, I saw this today. So, you posted a picture on Instagram of some slightly peculiar field notes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I happened to see these. I don't know if it was on Instagram or if it was in the field notes group, but there was an anime. You're familiar with Loot Crate, which is like a monthly box with different themes, right? I think they've done some video game stuff, and they do different things. This was an anime Loot Crate. And in it, they had these special field notes with these anime characters, and I left them in the other room, of course, as we're talking about this. And I don't know the characters offhand, but I thought this was just a really cool-looking addition that they did just from a style perspective. I thought it was great-looking. And, you know, I got hooked up at the Chicago Pen Show by a gentleman named Seth who came there to meet us and hand out some swag. And he was there all weekend, and it was great talking with him and a bunch of other people in Chicago. We'll talk about that in a little bit. But this was just kind of a – I haven't bought or acquired many other field notes other than the colors editions recently. But this one I thought was a real kind of a standout in its style, and I really, really appreciate him hooking me and Ana up with these. That was pretty cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, this is like one of those editions that you want, not because you need to add them to your collection, but just because, wow, that looks cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's such a different edition. So the cover of the one that's flipped – that's the one with the skull is the backside of a book, and it's just black on the front. So, you know, they're just – they did a good job. It's a little two-pack as opposed to a three-pack, but it looks really, really cool. So thank you, Seth. That was awesome.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, totally. Thank you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And we're going to talk more about field notes here in a minute. Oh, are we now?

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so just a couple weeks ago, I did one of those, I guess it's called cover pages, where you just do like a personal landing page. I've always owned the domain braddowdy.com, I don't know, for years and years and years and just sat there not doing anything with it. And I thought, well, let me throw up one of those cover pages for me, kind of like a landing page. Not that I really do anything with it now, but it's there. Well, look at this now. It looks kind of cool. It's an out-of-pretty one, huh? Yeah, yeah. Look at that. Blogger, podcaster, maker. I like that. Yeah, so I just figure I'd throw that up there. So I can go in and put some other things later. It's just kind of a, you know, pretty much just a template right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I really should do this with MikeHurley.net. I really should do this. Because I do, I actually also set up a Squarespace cover page at ringpost.fm. For a project that I'm working on for the incomparable. That's a Squarespace cover page. Gotcha. But I should do it for MikeHurley.net because I don't use that at all anymore. Look at you. Fancy pants.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Squarespace makes it easy to be a fancy pants. Mm-hmm.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Talking about fancy pants.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So you made the pilgrimage.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I made the pilgrimage. So, yeah, I went up Thursday, last Thursday to Chicago. And I was getting in pretty early, like 10 a.m. Chicago time. Maybe 11. And it just happened to work out that Anna Reiner from the Well Appointed Desk was also going to be there. And she was going to drive up from Kansas City. And she's also good friends with Brian Bedell at Field Notes. So the three of us coordinated a little field trip to the Field Notes HQ. And I have to say, Myke, it was worth it. It was really, really awesome. We had a good time. Brian showed us around. Jim was in the office. So we got to talk with him for a little bit. You know, we toured around the current office and got to see some of the cool setup that they have. And then we got to see the new office space, which they're actually, they're on the third floor of their current building. They're actually moving to the first floor and taking over a much larger space. Oh, that's great to hear. I like that kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. So right now they use this bottom floor for like some storage stuff, but they're just going to move the entire office down there. So it was under construction, right? And as we were there, but we got to see it and tour around. And, you know, we got to see, see some of the secrets, some of the things that I can't take pictures of, but we didn't get to see any, anything for the summer release. But as you, you asked me to do, we will have Brian and or Jim on when summer releases because they want to talk about it. And then we'll be able to talk about, you know, what's going on at, what else is going on at field notes, they're up to move. So they're pretty anxious about this summer release. And I think it's coming at the beginning of June. So really only a month, maybe five, six weeks away at the most. And now we will, we will get them on to talk then. So that was pretty cool. Cool.