Disappoint!
Couture: The End
I’m done experimenting with printing t-shirts for this year, at least. Certain rooms of the apt. are kinda chaotic while I’m printing, so it gets kinda frustrating as the months pass… And I’ve been busy with other stuff this time, so it’s taken quite a while.
(MST3K is very important when printing t-shirts.)
Cheese, too.
Anyway, for the final shirt I wanted to revisit the first design I did this year, but try to do it successfully. In my previous attempt, I didn’t wash the screen properly, so I got unclear edges. I think I’ve figured out the solution to that problem now (washing the screen, letting it dry, and wash it again), so I wanted to print a good shirt.
Again, this fine figure of a zebra/man is by Lisa Hanwalt:
Gah! I got some wash-out.
Fine lines are hard.
But I’ve got screen filler and a brush! Perhaps I can re-draw the lines, even though I’m exceedingly drunk at this point… 
Draw draw and dry dry..
That’s a kinda punk rock right arm and a very elegant left arm. Oh, well.
That’s it. Time to pack up.
Couture: Mariscal
Yup. Mariscal. Very cozy. But I wanted to experiment with mixing colours on the screen…
Hm… I dunno… That’s not a good colour combination. It does look a bit better in person than on the picture, though.
I saw a video of somebody using this technique, but with a thinner paint so that the border area between the colours got a natural gradient. The paint I’m using is too thick for that though.
CSID: App
I made a web page for concerts in Oslo because reasons a couple years ago. An evening this week, it occurred to me that perhaps I could make the page “responsive”; i.e., more cell phone friendly.
That was quite easy, but one thing led to another, and before I knew what was happening, there were logos and menus and oh my.
And this evening it occurred to me that I could probably just wrap the JS/CSS/thing in a Phonegap/Cordova shim.
Five hours later, it’s now up in the Google Play store.
I have to say that the Cordova people have made a pretty good system. It’s far from perfect, but when you’ve gotten the hang of things, whipping out an app (from a web page that’s already “app-like”) isn’t a whole lot of work.
The UX advantage of having this in an app, instead of in the browser on the phone, is pretty tangible. For instance, if you follow links to the event web pages, and then hit the back button, you’re returned to the app immediately. If you do the same in the browser on the phone, it’ll reload parts of the page and rerender all of it, sometimes losing the position you were at. And it’s s-l-o-w.
Why don’t they just cache the rendered representation? That’s what I did in the Emacs web browser. Hitting the back button is a very, very common thing to do, and there’s no reason it shouldn’t give you instant fucking satisfaction.
As for an iPhone version… I dunno. Google takes $25 as a one-time sign-up fee, while Apple takes $99 per year your app is listed. That seems like a rather greedy thing to do. Especially for free apps like CSID.
And Windows Phone? Meh. I’ve been involved with a Windows Phone submission thing at work, and their submission process is slow and cumbersome, as well as nit-pickey. They didn’t like the icon I submitted the other day… For somebody who has virtually no market presence, you’d think they would make it easy to test and submit apps, but they make it amost impossible to test .xap files without having a Windows setup.
What. Evs.
Anyway, if you’re in Oslo, or are planning on going to Oslo, and want to keep up with what concerts are going down, and you have an Android phone, search for “CSID” in Google Play.
Couture: Caro Again
I found this scan from last year that I hadn’t used yet. It’s by Caro, and (again) it’s from an early issue of Raw Magazine.
Hey! Another perfect exposure! I seem to have cracked the code, at least on smaller screens. For larger screens, I’m still getting uneven exposures and wash-off at the edges…
Yay. Good print. Now what can I do to experiment… Hm… Hey, I bought some fluorescent paint today:
Eurhm. That doesn’t really work as a single layer. It needs to have a white layer underneath it… Hm… Perhaps I could try to do a registered print? This is a pretty small image, so perhaps it’ll work…
Nope. After applying a white layer and then curing it, the shirt shrinks like half a centimeter. So doing registered prints has to be done before curing the first layer, perhaps?
Instead I did a very-off-register print with a second, red layer:
(Notice how the red is off by half a cm at the left edge and a cm at the right edge.)
That’s kinda a thing. Hm.
Anyway.