Condor Leather Jacket

Over the summer a kid named Ben Domby came to Alfred for Alfred Summer Glass. He had pretty much all his own gear which included his own leather fire jacket that was personalized with his name on the back. His name was on all his stuff but it was just his initials in an interesting graphic. The b and the d were together and geometric, the bd looked like an x with a line on either side making the b and d. After seeing that I was interested in getting my own and personalizing it.

I have been shopping around for a while. I noticed the ones in the hot shop (and it seems the foundry as well) have these nice air vents in the arm pit area for increased air flow. I looked around in a couple stores and they only had expensive boring looking ones that didn't fit well. I went into the hot shop the other day and found the brand to be Condor. I think I will need to order it offline, but soon I will have a sick Condor vented jacket!

Ticonderoga Pencils

Up until recently I have fucking hated pencils. Regular pencils were annoying and tough for me to hold and write with. Mechanical pencils always broke when I was writing with them and you always run out of lead. But I found through Fred Tschida these large Ticonderoga Pencils. He uses them because like me he breaks mechanical pencils and regular pencils are just stupid. These pencils were designed for children beginning to write. For whatever reason it increases the legibility of my writing ten fold. I guess I never really graduated from beginner pencils... I'm doing more sketching now and liking the way they look, thank god for Ticonderoga pencils!