I tried and failed quite a bit in my youth, from my childhood to my early twenties… never made the BP Award as a Rover (top award for senior scouting) but I also had some successes. I did some dune steps at 18 that came out rather well and made whip “antennas” in college from small pieces of old coaxial cable to watch air TV (before digital TV) from anywhere, even using sometimes paper clips I made mini-antennas. Used to do that when a TV was in the classroom for a planned video lesson and the teacher wasn’t around, I managed to always watch that way a bit of a game or quiz shows or even news before the teacher was back. Sometimes the other Students saw me as a kind of do-it-all.
LOL remember I wanted to create a “channel” for a Sand Castle that would draw water straight from the sea and tried to from 11 all the way to 14 years of age , it took that long to realize the tide would always fill it out with sand, I tried for three long summer weekends in South Padre Island and it took me until the summer between 8th and 9th grade to finally give up. As a result the sand castles never came up, except for a few badly made sand mounts. Then at 15 I tried to make a sand wall that looked realistic… well, I never grew up to be an architect or an artist… I draw a bit… but I would not make a good sculptor much less a sand sculptor… since all I got were more sand mounts.
I’m sorry to hear about the change. The “old” method, while I admit harder for the artist to fill, it’s a throwback to pre World War II comics, specially the early comics from the 1890s to the early 1930s in which the typical weekday strip was six frames instead of four (1920s) and the graphic department of newspapers, despite the much more difficult methods to transfer pictures to frames to print, would adjust to the choice of the artists who could use six, twelve or one large frame, specially true of early comics in which there was no format and the artist chose how to divide his artwork. Fur Babies by Beaman and Dark Side of the Horse by Samson were until now a throwback to early comics.Anyway, we cannot move back. So good luck to the artist and keeping my fingers crossed.
This is so innocent and representative of childhood (from a human angle): two young boys searching for pirate treasure… which classic children’s story does not include a pirate hunt, a “saffari” or some type of quest with all sorts of “adventures” and “plots” in the imagination of the young protagonist of the story.
Red light, green light. Reminds of a children’s game…. you know what… let’s forget I’ve even heard of that film, the clips were bad enough… don’t need to ruin my mood by actually watching that film….
First time I see Syrius leash being held from his neck collar instead of a vest. I suppose it was necessary so he could take out his dog jacket and put it on the tree…. cute!
I tried and failed quite a bit in my youth, from my childhood to my early twenties… never made the BP Award as a Rover (top award for senior scouting) but I also had some successes. I did some dune steps at 18 that came out rather well and made whip “antennas” in college from small pieces of old coaxial cable to watch air TV (before digital TV) from anywhere, even using sometimes paper clips I made mini-antennas. Used to do that when a TV was in the classroom for a planned video lesson and the teacher wasn’t around, I managed to always watch that way a bit of a game or quiz shows or even news before the teacher was back. Sometimes the other Students saw me as a kind of do-it-all.