Thursday, April 16, 2009
You know how when you have a pen that’s stopped writing, you shake it? (Or lick it, to revive a dried-up tip. Not a felt tip! Just ballpoint.)
Well, I use a Wacom tablet almost every day, to draw and color in illustrations. While it’s not the biggest and newest, I’m really comfortable with it. And sometimes I’ll be in the flow, finishing something up, when all of a sudden my computer will pause to render the latest line or color blob or whatever. In confused frustration, I always shake the Wacom pen as if it were a regular pen with low ink.
I do it all the time; I can’t help it.
Isn’t it funny? I think I do this with other electronics–like my mouse–probably left over from when you could shake things & get them to work. I bet that’ll be a huge generational marker for those who never dealt with analog things.
The future is unimaginable since so much of it is already here. I had to explain a rotary phone to somebody and it just blew me away. I only have limited experience with them, myself, but c’mon, you turn the dial! Not unlike an iPod… haha.