The next few months I will have to arrange my 365 project (a personal one on the 6th year of my daughter, all Fuji and 50mm-eq and black-white) and publish it on Blurb using Scribus, another open-source package to do magazine/books layout. I’ve now also understood the library management which is the most prominent part for me.
BOOKWRIGHT VS SCRIBUS FULL
Man, those stickers were sticky! I need to peel away the three I’ve slapped on my new Dell XPS right away otherwise in 3-4 yrs time I will have to spend another full day for the cleanup.ĭarktable is pretty slick now, it has some incredible features adn the difficult part has been just to focus on the appropriate tools to do the minimal retouching and corrections I usually do on my photos.
BOOKWRIGHT VS SCRIBUS PRO
I have cleaned up my old mid-2014 macbook pro 13″ which is ready to go. I have finally completed the switch and am now enjoying my life on Linux. I think I’ve already mentioned in one comment somewhere here about switching from Lightroom to Darktable, an awesome (but obviously a bit more involved and complicated to use) open-source alternative to LR. In fact I’ve decided a few months ago to stop using apple products. The new line they’re following it’s unstainable. It’s brilliant comedy stuff (only it’s real).Ībout Apple’s demise? Well I think the same as you do. In fact I just read yesterday an excellent op-ed on the NYT about the need to send Donald away, and then I’ve clicked through and ended up on another brilliant piece on the Atlantic about the president who couldn’t read. I’m not american but I do read with interest your stories (in fact the only newspaper I’m subscribed to is the NYT, that I use to read news on Italy with the detachment that is needed… difficutl to get an objective view of things if you read italian newspapers). You’ve got balls to talk politics because as you said, this is tricky business and people do get over excited about this. I think you can continue, they’re fun your podcasts (but I also enjoyed the 8 minutes vlogs). Yes I started with n.2, now I’ll go and listen to episodes 1 and 3.
If you do nothing else, try getting a fountain pen – yeah, it’s inconvenient and messy and blah, but oh my goodness is it therapeutic.
I call these books Zibaldone after Leopardi (worth a google, even if it means more screen time) – Peter Beard is another influence… They aren’t for public consumption and are instead a form of therapy – they make me look forward to getting up in the morning.Īnyway, I could go on and I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned some of this stuff in a previous post so apologies but anyway, the above is my fightback against the ubiquity of the screen and its detrimental impact on all our lives. Loosely based on Morning Pages from the book The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron (pretty sure you’ll have heard of it, you may even have been through the process?), I might stick in some pictures I’ve printed out (rough from a laser-jet – couldn’t stand futzing with an inkjet any more – the pictures look, well, not great, but good enough for my purposes), or I might copy out a quote or two, a poem, or cut pictures from a magazine. Every morning, before one of my jobs (which involves a lot of screen time), I take an hour out and sit in a cafe with coffee, a fountain pen and a pad and write whatever is in my head – it’s a way of letting the mud settle in the water and the day becomes clearer as a consequence. Re: screen time and trying to cut down on it – I hear you. Thanks for this post Daniel and good luck with fixing the politics of your country when you are done there, can you pop over here to the UK to sort out our Brexit nightmare? Thanks.
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