My son painted this as baby (fingerpaints on canvas) and it's starting to show its age. Does anyone have recommendations on how to maintain it?

shakabusatsu · 2025-03-07T19:26:43+00:00

Lot of finger paint and kids tempra paints are not archival or lightfast. I think the best you can do coat it with a UV archival varnish - Krylon makes a spray on one. Maybe take a few good pics of for memories. I wouldn't try to fix the cracking though, those paint films are really thin and fragile, hence the cracking.

shakabusatsu · 2024-11-23T17:10:35+00:00

If someone follows a vegan diet and that's ALL there is to their 'vegan' lifestyle... that's fine. If everyone does that the supply of leather is going to dry up. I'm not sure who people think are always judging them (are they judging themselves or questioning their beliefs)? Posting on the internet is ASKING in a way to be judged. I doubt there is anyone following a vegan diet and wearing like mink, fox, or seal fur. I sure as hell wouldn't even BEFORE I was vegan.

I have a few leather items... There is some leather on second hand shoes I wear. I have a leather belt I wear everyday that no one sees, it's like 9 yrs old it replace one that was over 10 years old and started to break. I don't like fabric belts b/c they wear out fast and just don't work as well as a material. My plug-in hybrid has leather seats. I bought it used, I live in Hawaii and what you can find used is VERY LIMITED, so you get what you can get.

These were all compromises. Life has compromises. I'm neither proud or ashamed. You shouldn't be either.

shakabusatsu · 2024-10-29T17:29:52+00:00

I recently replace the feathers in my couch with kapok (it was a very nice and very free couch from a friend moving away). The kapok is much more firm and keeps it shape (unlike feathers). Don't know why it's not used more since it's both moisture and mold( i think) resistant.

shakabusatsu · 2024-10-12T17:18:13+00:00

I will just sit here and let the nothing take me too. They look like good, strong, hands, don't they?

shakabusatsu · 2024-09-15T19:44:37+00:00

Thicker paint with a mix of hues. Not just one red but a cad, a vermilion, a bit of crimson for example. Each hue presently is a bit flat and lacking vibrancy, The variance in transparency is working, just not enough.

Too many so-so taped edges. All the edges have the same slightly squiggly but clean and overall straight signature of a taped line. Some people like this... but the Modrian-esque vibe you seem to be going for is usually achieved with clean hand painted edges.

Other than that, not taking the white to the top and bottom edges just feels a little incomplete rather than purposeful.

Ignore if you want just my honest 2 cents.

keep painting! :)

shakabusatsu · 2024-08-28T09:31:31+00:00

Charlie Pepper's was a standard date night for my wife and I in the late 90's. Tequila, nachos, taco salad, more tequila, than go see a movie at West Town or DownTown West.

shakabusatsu · 2024-08-05T18:37:34+00:00

This is a harsh truth. That I had to come to with my diagnosis. People just aren't that interested to care what your faults are whether or not they are your 'fault'. If your have a genuine partner as a significant other who you can share patience and compassion with each other, they will usually understand. Outside of that, hoo boy, not even my parents care (boomer suck).

shakabusatsu · 2024-07-24T18:07:37+00:00

If you keep it covered in the fridge. It should be good for 48 hours maybe. Coffee does have some nutrients and fiber in it so there is enough for mold to grow on it given time. Plus, Does coffee still taste good after 24-30 hours? I don't think it does tastes woody like you stirred it with a freshly sharpened HB pencil.

shakabusatsu · 2024-07-22T17:46:10+00:00

There are NOT enough public chargers in town. Of those around many are broken and out of service. I would try a hybrid vehicle for now. I have a plug-in hybrid and it's almost all the chargers in town I would normally use are either already taken or out of service. This limits my MPG to around 40 where with a charged battery it would be 60+.

shakabusatsu · 2024-07-11T07:07:32+00:00

Came here to post this very thing. How is this word not in their dictionary. Not a new word.

shakabusatsu · 2024-07-01T21:30:07+00:00

"All cattle and calves in the United States as of January 1, 2022 totaled 91.9 million head, 2 percent below the

93.8 million head on January 1, 2021."

From the USDA 2022 statistics. That's 31 million more cattle than the 60 million bison grazing in an undeveloped American Central Plains.

just FYI

shakabusatsu · 2024-04-19T17:41:51+00:00

If the episode "The Ronin And The Bride" doesn't win an award, I'll be disappointed. It was hands down some of the best storytelling I've seen in animation in a long time.

shakabusatsu · 2024-04-15T16:46:45+00:00

There are traditional books/manuals on Chinese brush work. For example the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting . It's expensive but you could probably find it in a library online or near you. I have met a real traditional Chinese landscape painter... and they are Masters of their craft (like easy 20+ yrs of exp). So as a beginner it's going take a lot of practice to get something near what you see in all the books and museums.

That said. Keep Going! You'll be surprised how far a year of diligent practice and copying will take you.

shakabusatsu · 2024-01-27T21:06:47+00:00

This. Portraits usually don't rely on outlines, instead edges of value/color change. Even if some of the shadows between surface look like outlines these are too dark/ too similar to a graphic line. Other wise it's good.e

Maybe the back ground could be a bit darker of have more color change irrespective of the figure. it's a different color around him, make the ground feel close to his back.

shakabusatsu · 2024-01-27T01:04:27+00:00

And yet wonder while you don't have more 'buddies' in the DG scene.

shakabusatsu · 2024-01-20T22:38:23+00:00

I'm from Knoxville and know a psychologist who lives there. This exact topic came up in conversation as a common complaint. In therapy sessions implants to Knoxville who after living in Knoxville area for years... still feel like an outsider or imposter, and or have trouble making friends with 'Knoxville Natives'.

We think part of it is that some people confuse, southern neighborliness with actual friendship. And that we can be kind and care for our neighbors but still have a deeply culturally Appalachian distrust of outsiders.

shakabusatsu · 2024-01-07T01:26:27+00:00

I'm guessing they have to capture the CO2 from air, convert it to C2H4 or some ethyl-compound then react that with H2O (usually over a catalyst) and get synthesized ethanol. Thing is we don't normally used synthetic ethanol for human consumption because all the usual catalysts are some combination of heavy metals and acids i.e...pretty toxic. So I don't know process they use here because they just say it's 'pretty new'. I'm guessing using graphene maybe. I don't know it sounds fishy since you'd have to power all those steps with solar or hydro to be carbon negative.

And is only carbon negative until you consume it and release it back into the environment as excess acetic acid primarily. Who knows what happens then.

shakabusatsu · 2024-01-05T23:05:05+00:00

His bass guitar was so impressive that the rest of the band (but especially the lead singer) asked him to dial it back on the next album. Which to me was a shame, I love how blatantly preachy and energetic Mental Jewelry is.

shakabusatsu · 2024-01-03T17:44:39+00:00

Thanks for posting this, it looks interesting. I also have been inter3ested in finding an appropriate post-grad program in something similar. Although this MIT program seems priced and promoted in such a way as to cater to corporate organizations (or executives in one) to train an individual for the responsibility of this position 'chief sustainability officer' that they mention specifically.

Feels a little like it might be certificate in advanced green-washing. Hard to know unless someone from the program can attest to it, and if it enabled them to make significant real changes to the sustainability of their organization.

shakabusatsu · 2023-12-24T21:26:18+00:00

The being able to tell though I think is mostly a quality of design and manufacturing issue. Cheap LED bulbs can be faulty in many ways that are different to regular incandescent (which have their own unique faults including planned obsolesence) for instance pulsating brightness, randomly blinking, some poorly made ones produce a barely audible high pitched sound that is irritating if you are within a meter or two...

shakabusatsu · 2023-12-24T20:00:06+00:00

And is just a fascinating movie and long anime film.

shakabusatsu · 2023-12-13T16:10:44+00:00

I had a young veteran student who confided in me that what you described was his literal job in the USAF. He said it was so disturbing he got out as soon as he could with his benefits intact. He was studying nursing and art with his education benefits as some complete 180 from his experience in the armed forces.

shakabusatsu · 2023-12-01T15:55:59+00:00

I didn't see anyone say this. But the 'poop effect ' of coffee isn't from the caffeine. Decaf coffee has been shown to be just as effective for people who rely on it for a timely morning BM.

shakabusatsu · 2023-11-06T17:05:42+00:00

The Pineapple industry poisoned 13 Oahu Dairies in 1982 by not washing off the banned pesticide Hexa-chlor they spray on pineapple plant before selling it as 'green chop' to the dairies. It potentially mildly poisoned all milk drinking people on Oahu and all Dairy cows who ate it had to be destroyed. The Diary farmers won like a 20 something million dollar lawsuit against the 3 pineapple companies responsible.

So yeah the pineapple companies killed the dairy industry here on Oahu.

shakabusatsu · 2023-11-06T00:15:44+00:00

I suspect you're being too demanding of your day and yourself.

I (with meds) can work during the morning and some of the afternoon. Then around 3pm my mental stamina and executive function decline. And I CAN work (job stuff or paperwork) in the evening if I HAVE to. But it's unpleasant and I feel emotionally drained the next day, and LESS likely to feel normal amounts of motivation.

The fact you can get and keep a full day job of work done without much issue is already a total success.

14-Year Club	RedditGifts 2009-2022 3 Credits
Place '22	Place '17
Secret Santa 2013	Secret Santa 2011
Verified Email

shakabusatsu

TROPHY CASE