Editing The Pen Addict 179/transcript (section)

== Coloring Pages ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' I know. Right. I finally finished my first, um, the coloring page, like completely finished. Yeah. Uh, and so I put a picture of it on Instagram. I was pretty proud of it, you know?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I am so impressed. I love it. I, I, yeah, it looks so good. You're actually way ahead of me. I haven't even finished my first page yet. Um, but I'm going to work on that too. So I love it. I think it, I think it came out real good. How, how much time do you think that took? Oh, any, any, any concept of that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's at least eight hours, nine hours at least.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's crazy, isn't it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But it's, it's, it's good though. I mean, it's right. You, you feel different. Like when you're doing it, I do.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, because all during this time, it's like, so I do this when I edit, right? That's just whenever I do it. So every couple of weeks I'll spend an hour or two, maybe, maybe more doing this stuff. So that's why it's taken me like a month to do this. Um, and during this time, all I would be doing would be like just dicking around, right? Playing a game, reading tweets, like, or whatever, or doing something that's going to take my attention away. Mm-hmm. And really what I want to be able to do during this period of time, well, is, is focus on what my task at hand is, which is the edit. But I need something to do, um, during this, this stuff. And, you know, me and Gray were just talking about this on Cortex today. Like he is able to play video games sometimes. Uh, but I can with some edits, but with some of the shows that I edit, they require me to be, uh, too frequently, um, using the mouse and keyboard, right? To like cut, cut this, cut this, move this, move that. So I can't really do something else on the computer because I'll just be switching in and out all the time. But like when I'm coloring in, I've got my keyboard right in front of me. So as soon as I hear something, I can just hit the space bar to pause it and it just pauses it and then I can go and fix it. Right. So as soon as I hear something, I'm like, bang, pause. Yeah. That's awesome. So that's what this works out pretty well for me. Um, you'll, if you, anybody takes a look, you'll notice my attempts at trying to keep all of the different flower designs, the same colors throughout. Right. No matter where they are. Yeah. That's difficult to try and spot those. I think there's maybe one or two, uh, little errors here and there, but I tried to keep the colorings the same. And I'm really proud of it. I'm, I think it's come out really nice and I'm really happy with it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Good. I, I'm proud of it. I'm proud of it too. I love looking at it. It's very cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' My mom told me today, she was very proud. She, she now has one of these. Oh, good. Yeah. I don't know what one she got, but it's one, it is one of the Joanna, uh, Basford books. Mm-hmm. Um, but she, she, she, it's a Christmas present from my grandma. Nice. And she bought me just a, a cheaper coloring book as well. She just bought me one. But I was, I was traveling yesterday. I was going to see my brother and, um, I was in a train station, a big train station here called, uh, London, Victoria. It's one of the train stations that you get in to take you to trains all over the country. Right. Right. And they had a stationer there. It's like a stationary magazine bookshop called WH Smiths. Mm-hmm. Um, and they had, you know, you have those like island type things. So you have like a square in the middle of the store. They had four of those full of coloring books. Oh my God. And there were people surrounding them constantly picking them up, going to buy them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's amazing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This coloring thing is really taken off here, like in a huge, huge way in the UK.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. That, that's great. I love seeing this. And, uh, it, I think it's, it's just kind of coming into that consciousness of everybody in like a big way. It kind of, the, the, the books are starting to show up everywhere, right? Everywhere you turn, you're, you're seeing them. So there, it's kind of becoming a thing, um, despite the fact, you know, it's definitely been around for, for a while, but now it's just like, I, you know, I, we've, we've talked about a million times. That's why we like pin, pin so much. You know, we're so involved in our digital, uh, lives that it's, it's nice to get that, uh, those analog things back in your life. And it, uh, it actually, uh, yeah, I think it improves your life.