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i thought this may be helpful for your older son if he is interested. i am friends with one of the founders and really like the work they are doing as mentours. i have a short interview with Tom Shaw, one of the men who keeps it moving there…https://youtu.be/585LUVeHqwg

hope this is helpful

Over To The Youth member applications are currently open for ages 18-25 at https://overtotheyouth.com/join/

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i guess i had assumed bald face hornets…most of the other types are not usually very territorially aggressive and one can usually ignore them and go about yer business..

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if you knock t out of the tree they will move their nest, that said it can be a dangerous thing to do if you are not familiar…definately a thing to do pre dawn when it’s coldest and they are least active.

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don’t work for free for nothing, Kev

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i reached out to him via his website, if you are able to give him a heads up about my exceptional awesomeness…😊

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thanks, his art is soooo rad!

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a note on the breakage of your pencil tip, how you store and carry them matters, if you keep them in a bag for instance and they jostle around it can create micro fissures and lead to more breakage… prismacolor are more waxy in their binder, and i like to burnish the surface, giving the quality you are seeing. other types are a “drier” binder and can have a chalkier vibe…then there is paper selection: hot press/cold press, weight, tooth, material (rag, pulp, etc…) which greatly effects the behaviour of the medium and how it works to the surface.

i prefer a quality hand sharpener most of the time, and i find the knurled, round brass type are usually the ones… i do often use my electric teachers desk style electric sharpener if i need an exceptional detail point, these work for this type of tip better as they grind around the pencil rather than a shaving cutter.

hope that is informative and helpful

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what first comes to mind…relax man! pressing in too hard in your excitement?

there are several makers i enjoy, my favorite is prismacolor for their color pallet and feel.

here’s a drawing i did with these pencils in my late teens…

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i will share more of his unpublished work as i am able, he is supper talented, and very articulate!; i posted my interview with him in my timeline if you enjoy a good listen…his website is in the show notes too!

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learning baskets are those that new weavers make to learn the skill and are typically small. they are traditionally given away as a gift…how i got mine, i was more the gathering and processing part of the endeavor.

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love acorn bread…i have gathered spruce roots and helped in making the traditional west coast cooking baskets, then made acorn bread using the hot rock in the basket to cook em’…long time ago, would take me some time to remember the whole of the process. what i remember most is how beautiful the baskets are…i have a learning basket i will share pics of soon.

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PA=nephew living here to go to college…put the young man to work! he is well suited and likes to do the sorts of things i have need of, win win!

Jason Botkin, bad ass. lovely man and hoping to get him to M&S next year…

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thanks for the (unintended?) reminder eliza, to include more pictures of the art work from my guests…one assumes (ass-u-me’s) that most will look them up on their own, when it is likely few will, and it is nice to see the works of people as you are engaging their word and story in the interview…i will put my PA on it!

I like the photo posts to view each of our unique perspectives on beauty, thanks!

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