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Foreign. Notes. Hello and welcome to episode 198 of the erasable podcast. As we inch closer to the 200 episode mark, which we have something fun for you, then it's natural for us to take a bit of a look back. So in our last episode we chatted about each Blackwing volumes released since the beginning of COVID 19. Today we're going to do the same for Field Notes because we got a pretty good. Pretty good reception to that little pocket notebooks, of course, that are beloved by stationary nerds everywhere. So I'm Andy. I'm on hosting duties today and I am joined by the. The other. The other two field notes in the three pack of our podcast, Johnny.
And we not used that already. That's a good one.
Maybe we have. I don't remember. No, I bet if I don't remember, other people don't remember. So. Yeah, we'll stick with that.
So what's up, Andy?
What's up?
Hey, happy birthday to our friend, Henry David Thoreau. Yes, I own 206
just a spring chicken.
It doesn't look a day over 140.
Yeah. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. The original Henry. Yeah, we have a couple other Henry's
here in our lives, but baby, Baby Henry's. And Henry Hoolen.
We got the 260 year old Henry. So Papa Henry. So Happy birthday to Ernest Hemingway. No, no, that's on the 21st.
My brain is not working. Of course.
Before we get into our main topic, let us talk about freshpoints. Johnny, did you. The other. The other thing that maybe. Maybe more significant than Thoreau's birthday. Today is the second day of Prime Day. Amazon prime day. Did you partake of any Prime Day deals?
I got a new trash can slash recycling bin.
Excellent. Yeah.
And I've found some neon. I'm not neon. Pastel Taekondarocas. But I don't think we're a Prime Day deal. But they're on the way and they come tomorrow. Yeah, but they're like pukingly pastel. They're awesome.
I think that's the episode title. Pukingly Pastel.
One of the. One of them is called a UV light Vomit. It is. Seriously, Check it. So one other cool one that we didn't talk about amongst ourselves. Right. Notepads has a new book out. Our new notebook out. Sorry, that came out two weeks ago last week.
Oh gosh, I completely missed that.
Yeah, it's called. Pardon me, I don't speak French, Le Voyager. It's a one of those side spiral hardcover notebooks. But this is pretty big. It's 8 by 10, which doesn't sound big if you're holding it. You're like, damn.
I love their margins.
Yeah. The paper is something else. It's really nice.
Good job.
That looks awesome.
They. I feel like they've been. Right. Notepads has been kind of like, keeping a low profile lately. Yeah, this is. This is real nice.
Yeah.
That notebook is just begging to be a bullet journal. Yeah. Like with those boxes along the margin.
Yeah. They made the front covers really flexible, and the back cover is very heavy, so it's got a very nice feel.
Those looks great.
What is that?
Sorry, I was just sharpening my pencil because I. Okay, okay. Stepped off my point and I was trying to take notes.
That's appropriate. Okay.
What did it sound like to you?
Moving on.
That's what I was hoping it was. It was either that or you were torturing an animal.
Yeah. It sounded like you were playing, like. It sounded like one of those things at the mall where you, like, drop a penny in and it, like, goes around in circles. It's like, like, oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Those things are neat.
Like, are you donating to the cancer fund at the mall right now?
Like, good for you.
Good for you, man.
No, he's a sharp new pencil,
but. So in their social media, they mentioned, like, a new limited edition, and I. I was going to ask you guys, have they had one since the Eng. That engineering book they put out? I have no idea how long ago.
No, gosh. I don't. I do not think so.
I mean, I. I'm going to look at their website.
I. They don't organize it. Like. I mean. Yeah, well, yeah, they have their limited edition section. I think there's the amethyst.
Oh, that's still on there.
The amethyst came out when we were. Or just right after we did our live show.
Fall 2017 is the fingerprints edition. Yeah, I'm looking at the stuff that's on their. Chesapeake's definitely old. Yeah, I don't think so. Yeah, I mean, it's been a minute.
They had a really good classic hardcover notebook that.
Still have it, man.
Some super secret previews of.
It's still only 20 bucks.
Yeah,
yeah, I. I assumed it would be about the same size, but it's. It's not just large, it's thick. It has a ton of paper in it. I'm actually stoked to use it, but I'm not taking it anywhere because it's big. But I. I wonder if they know that moleskin Put out a book called Voyager for a while.
Oh, do they have a. Do they have a voyager too?
Yeah, they put it out like, oh, 405. It went through a couple editions. It was a nice book. It was really just a medium sized moleskin with a cloth cover. Yeah, that itself is cool.
Was the statute of limitations or whatever, like, ever? It's. It's in the public domain now, like.
Yeah, well, this is.
Even moleskin doesn't own the word. Yeah. Actually, it looks like it still. Still exists.
Nice.
But it's on sale, so maybe it won't exist for long. So pick them up.
Yeah.
I don't know if this is the appropriate venue to thank people for not quitting my mailing list, but I sent out an email, I don't know, a couple weeks ago offering, among other things, free Trans Pride notebooks to anyone who identifies that way or, you know, in a relationship with someone who does or just, you know, someone who would want one for free. And like, a whole bunch of people quit my mailing list like, that day. And like, you know, people are in and out all the time, but it was a lot of people in one day.
You know what?
You suck.
It's a good cleaning house.
Yep. I'm like, well, okay. But then a whole bunch of people joined the next week, so.
Nice. A lot of. Did you have anybody take you up on it?
Yeah, I had to make two batches.
Oh, that's awesome.
So I might make another batch. If anyone listening, they want one, just, you know, drop us a message.
I would gladly buy a pack.
I didn't even sell them. They were just. They look like my pride books, but they're white craft texts and they have the Trans Pride flag on them and good paper. And I'll pick up the shipping costs. Not a big deal.
Yeah.
Yeah, that. That's it. On that note.
Got it. Well, I'll usually the host goes. Goes last, but I know that, you know, Tim is. Tim is working through some stuff, so let me. Let me share some of my fresh points.
Catching up on my notes. Make it sound like I'm in school or something.
It's been a week, y'. All. Tim is.
Yeah, it's my kids. Are.
We.
We've been in camp and we've been playing very overly competitive putt putt. We went fishing. Tiger woods and putt putt. We did fishing, which I don't know how to do, but I had to take my kids fishing. And it was fun, but it was exhausting. And my son really wanted to do It. And he caught one fish, and then my daughter showed up and caught three in, like 11 minutes or something. And so, like, it was. And so I had to deal with that. So, yeah, I'm just catching up on. Catching up on my notes.
It's. It's the time of summer where you start, like, oh, Labor Day.
You know what, Tim? How dare you not make your pencil fresh points the priority.
Yeah.
Or fishing with your children.
No, I'm sorry. Shout out to Linda, who we met fishing. She's like 90 and she fishes every day. We met her and she was super helpful. So Linda, if you're. Linda, if you're listening, you're awesome. Yeah, that was great. She was sitting there, a little folding chair. She was just fishing the whole time. And she was, like, giving us some tips. And then we found out that she was trying to save someone's shoes from, like, washing into the water, who was, like, kayaking or something, and then lost all of her worms. Yeah, like, all of her worms.
Shout out to Linda.
Shout out to Linda. And then shout out to. I'm proud of my boy Henry, because he took her over a whole cup of worms and was just like, you can have these. We've got plenty. And gave her some worms. And so, yeah, it was a good experience.
Yeah, but. But.
All right, see ya.
Yeah, thanks, Linda.
Linda. This episode is titled Linda.
So, yeah, I'll. I'll start off with fresh points. So I went to the San Francisco stationary meetup on Saturday and hung out with my stationary friends. And what happens it. It takes place in Japantown in San Francisco, and just a. Just a cute little. Cute little coffee shop. And we take over sort of their back room and we have a sort of an after meetup pilgrimage over to Mito to see kind of what's going on there. Sarah Shortino, who is a manager at Mido, is the one who organizes the meetup. So she always has, like, just like some good things to check out. So went over there and I found something I've never seen there before. It is a Mitsubishi Uni pencil and it is a sub brand called Haha Toco. H A H A T O C O. And it's for children. There's. There's some with hedgehogs on it. There's some with dogs on it. There's some with, like, rocket ships on it. But the one that I picked up, just available in 2B, is. Has cats on it, has this like a little, cute little, like, calico cat. And it is super adorable. And I'm Going to read you on the package. The, the like. What am I trying to say? Like the description. This is course translated from Japanese. So it says this pencil will excite not only children but also their mothers. Haha. Toko supports children and their parents with lovely designs and excellent quality. So they are made in Yamagata. I don't know where that is or what that means, but it is. I mean it's a typical sort of like Mitsubishi Uni quality, but it's in to be and it has just like some cats on it. So I'm a big fan of. Big fan of this. Have a Lincoln.
They're super cute.
Yeah, yeah, super cute. So also wanted to mention. So my friend Tim Balonics who is a designer, he is maybe you know, most famous for designing the tattoos that, that the three of us got last time we all met up in person. It's basically a pencil Penrose. It's a pencil that's kind of drawing itself. And because this is kind of his design, you know, this is just a tattoo that we got. This is not any way affiliated with the show. We don't own this design, anything like that.
But he got the medal of freedom for that, didn't he?
I think so.
I thought that was what.
Yeah, it was. Or at least some, some kind of Pulitzer. Like I'm not sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If there's like graphic design Pulitzers. But if you, if they did.
Podcaster tattoo.
Yeah, exactly. Category. So he, the guy who designed that has recently launched a new website and he is selling little lapel pins that is in that shape. So all, all I'm saying if you want a lapel pin that is the same as our tattoo, go to standardnotice.com and if you click on shop and you click on objects, you can kind of see this. So he's also selling some of his prints, some of his artwork, but he also is selling just a little, just a little lapel pin of this tattoo. So speaking only to the two of you, don't go buy one because I'm sending you one.
Oh, I was about to buy one. Thank you.
I mean if you want to, if you want to get some for like others in your life, they suck. But I'm about to mail you one of these.
Oh, thanks, Andy. Yeah, yeah, I might still buy. Yeah, I mean I, I want to support him because I as well for my own end because that's look really great. They seem like they're like kind of a perfect little size. My, my son would love one too. So yeah, I'll. I'll get him one.
Yeah.
Put it on his backpack or something.
Yeah. So I'm. I'm still trying to decide, do I want to be that guy who has a lapel pin of my tattoo?
Well, yours is a different. Oh, no, yours is the same color.
Yeah, mine is exactly the same.
Yeah, mine's different colors. And Tim's is outlined.
Yeah.
So we won't look as cool, but we'll still look cool. Or we might look more cool.
Probably more cool, because I don't want to be that. That just, like, tool who, you know, has a lapel pin. I already made stickers of this design just to give to friends and stuff. And I don't have it, like, stuck on my stuff because I'm just like, I have a tattoo of this. I don't want to be some guy
who just, like, people see your tattoo and they're like. They see your lapel pin, they're like. So where'd you get the idea for the tattoo?
It's also. It's also a little weird because. Because. So Tim, when he designed this, he used to work at. He worked at Facebook, and that's where I first encountered it. And since he left, some folks, like the team at Facebook that designs their internal tools, like, just a lot of the stuff they use internally, sort of adopted that design as their logo. So I've had a few people, people, you know, who work at Facebook see my tattoo and be like, why do you have, like, the internal tools team logo as your tattoo? And just like, now that's that dweeb who has, like, a corporate logo.
Just a big fan.
Yeah. Might as well just put the Nike
logo on my Quiznos logos on my back.
Yeah. Just a big fan of internal tools, you know? But, yeah, so I was like, I got it before. It was cool. So that. Is that. Is that if you. If y' all want a lapel pin with that that's designed like our matching tattoos, click on. Click on that link and show notes. He also actually, in the description of that. Of that, he links to a Facebook post or an Instagram post he made where he just, like, showed a picture of our tattoos. So that's pretty fun.
Ooh.
Yeah, it's forever. Forever linked to our. Our stuff. I also wanted to mention something super cool that I got in the mail yesterday, and that is a cover for a Baron fig confidant in the flagship size made by a little company called Pencil Revolution Bookbinders.
Or.
No, is it. Wait, is it Pencil Revolution or is It Johnny Gamber Bookbinders Pencil Revolution Press llc. That's right. That's right.
Legal in the state of Maryland.
Yeah. And it's something, it's something Johnny and I have been talking about for a little while. Just because I don't believe that there's any non Baron fig Baron fig book covers out there. And I wanted something, I, I didn't want a leather one. Like I didn't want their Vanguard and I wanted something that was a little bit thinner and lighter than the Vanguard plus which as Tim has correctly pointed out, looks like a Bible cover for like Sunday school or Bible study. So I just wanted just a really simple cover, non leather cover out of this. And Johnny, do you want to like talk a little bit about like what's, what went behind this making this?
It was actually not hard to make but my, my saddle stitching is rusty and I didn't have a stitching pony but now there's one on the way which is like sort of a third hand thing because saddle stitching is done with two needles at a time and it's really hard if you don't have something to hold your work. But it's just made of craft text which is. They call it a paper based fabric that wears like leather. But I call it magic because yeah, it's awesome. It's vegan.
It's.
There's something involved in their supply chain where they're not quite FSC certified. But you know, it's recyclable. It has a very small amount of latex in it but you can still recycle it with paper recycling if I'm right. But yeah, yeah, it's waterproof. It gets better the more you beat the crap out of it. It's lovely.
It takes ink. Right. Like I was thinking about rubber stamping the front of it.
Yeah, yeah. I'm tried marbling it with mixed results but because the white, I don't know if it seems coated, it's not very absorbent. But yeah, I make tons of stuff out of it. I love it to death. It's kind of expensive but if you buy some and sell books made of it then you get your own craft text for free. So that's where you should start a small book binding business for the free craft text.
So yeah, so if, if you didn't know like the Baron fake confidants are a little bit shorter and a little bit wider than like a typical moleskin or Leuchtturm. And I, I have like covers for those notebooks and But I wanted something because I. The last confidant that I used, I spilled a little bit of water on the COVID and it just, like, kind of puckered the fabric, and it's like, damn it. So what a nice cover for it. And the. This, man. You know, I'm just, like, not even, like, a third of the way through this Leuchtturm that I'm using, and now I just want to switch back to a commandant so I can use this cover.
We could make it make. Make a L1.
Make a Lich. Term one.
I'm out of orange, but I have other colors.
Yeah, that be great. So also, if anybody out there wants a craftex notebook cover, email Johnny and force him to make you one.
Take a lot of convincing.
Is that the same material you used to make my traveler's notebook?
Yep. Gosh. Yeah.
Stuff's amazing.
It's such a good material.
We should talk about in the last episode, and I was gonna talk about later, but I'll just talk about now since we're on the subject. But, like, Johnny made me a. Like, our version. Was it 7x4? Is that what it was?
Yeah. The refills are 7 by 4.
Yeah, 7 by 4 refills made me a travelers notebook, and I have been obsessed with it. That paper in there is just crazy good. Is so good. It takes everything. It feels good. It's got a perfect texture. Takes fountain pens. Good is, like, the best. It's like, I. I was. I've been, like, kind of blown away by. I've been using it. I stopped using all other, like, pocket notebooks that I had because it was so good with everything. And I've.
What?
Awesome. Yeah, no, it is. I. I had. Mine is lined blank and dot grid. Right now is how you set it up when you sent it to me. And so in the line I'm doing, like, short journal entries in the blank is like my brain dump. Kind of like sandbox notebook. And then the dot grid. I'm doing a bullet journal. And so I've got, like, everything. It's just, like, it's been so great. And if it's my fanny pack, which is even better.
So how's that?
I love that thing.
Yeah. I want to hear about this.
You what?
I want to hear about your fanny pack.
We have talked about my fanny pack. Okay, I'll talk about my fanny pack.
Twist my arm.
No, actually, you know, we have, because Johnny and I have the same one. It's a Jansport. It's.
Oh, yeah, the Fifth Avenue black yes,
the JanSport black Fifth Avenue fanny pack. I'm loving it so. Especially when it's 92 fraking degrees outside like it is right now here, it's like I don't have anything in my pockets. Keeps me cool. Like, keeps me like, I don't know, 10% less sweaty. I don't know, not having stuff in my pockets. But I love the stoic I like or this, what do you call it? Notebook holder or whatever. So thank you, Johnny. It's amazing.
Oh, you're welcome.
Cool. So that is it for my fresh points. Tim, you've already talked about your fanny pack, but your travelers notebook. Do you have any other fresh points?
Nope, that was it. I was going to talk about. Fanny pack. Travelers notebook.
Yeah.
Yeah. So I met up with. So we had a big family event this past weekend. We, it was my in laws, they did a big party for their 50th year of marriage. And so I got to see a bunch of family and my uncle, who I've. I think I've referenced here, my, my wife's uncle who is a big. Like we have like our, our Venn diagram is basically like 90% overlapping. Like we've just got like all these things that we talk about every time we get together. It's just like we're in a room full of people, we're talking to other people and then eventually we finally get together and it's like, all right, now let's do this. Like, let's talk about pens, let's talk about fountain pens, let's talk about pencils, let's talk about guitars, let's talk about books. You know, we've got like all this stuff in common.
But he.
So I saw him this weekend and he was telling me that Atlanta just got a Kinakonia store and if you go to their website, it's like the first thing that pops up there and it looks amazing. So I'll be going there soon, very soon. We're going to go down and visit them and go there. But I'm very excited. I've never been to one and so there's not a whole lot of them on the east coast, I think, is there? There? I know there's probably. There's one in New York. Is there any others?
There's.
I don't think so.
There's one in San Francisco that's in the Japan Center Mall. It's. It's interesting because in every other place the Mido, like stationary and stuff is in the Kinokuniya, but in for some Reason in the Japan center mall in San Francisco. It's their separate stores, so it's the same company.
Interesting.
Yeah. And there's a big one in Seattle that I've been to too, so it
looks like I'm on their website now. There are. There's one in Torrance, California, Louisiana, Louisiana. Arcadia, California. San Jose, California. Still in California, if you're not keeping track at home. San Francisco, California. And there's one in Beaverton, Oregon, which is also interesting because my sister used to live right there and my former co host of the Wendell Berry podcast lives and lives right around there too. There's one in Portland, Seattle, Katy, Texas. Austin, Texas. Which Plano, Texas. Carrollton, Texas, man. Texas. Good for you. And there's. There's one in Illinois and there's. So now there's one in Atlanta, New Jersey and New York or the. The only east coast reps is. So yeah, I'll be going there soon and I'm very excited. The pictures of the store look awesome. It's huge. Which is.
Yeah.
It's been a while since I've been in a, like an exciting stationary centered brick and mortar store, so I'm looking forward to that. Yeah. Yeah. This has nothing to do with pencils, but I got a new guitar and it has been amazing. I traded in. I traded two guitars to get one guitar and it has been the best decision. Like, I had a guitar that I like. So this, again, this has nothing to do with stationary, but I am just so happy with this guitar. I. So I went to. I've been going to the guitar center here in Johnson City and I've been wanting a Fender Telecaster, which I've got one, but it's like a hollow body and it's kind of like a funky one. And I was like, man, I just want like a regular solid body Telecaster, you know, like, think Bruce Springsteen is like, what it was in my head, like the guitar that Bruce Springsteen. I was like, I just want one of those. And so I've been looking. I was looking at like really cheap ones, like the Squires, which are like the, you know, cheap model Fenders. I was like, maybe I'll get one of those and I'll just like fix it up and I'll add stuff to it or whatever. And I was playing one and it was the color I wanted and I was like, okay, that's all right. And then I looked up and then I saw like the Fender model on the wall. Same color, but like it looked better because, you know, they spent Money on it.
Yeah.
And I tried that thing out, and it was like I was. I was. I held it. I started playing, and it felt like it was a part of my body. And like, I. I got that feeling. I walked out of the store and I was thinking about it. I just kept thinking about it. I drove away and I was thinking about. I was like, I'm going to be dreaming about this damn guitar. Like, what am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? Anyways, I traded in, and I'm very excited about it. So I traded in an acoustic in my own Telecaster to get this thing. And so I've got, like, a butterscotch blonde. It looks just like the Bruce Springsteen one Telecaster. And it sounds so good, but it makes me very happy. And I've been. We've got a gig coming up. My band, the Minor Leagues, has a gig coming up next week. And so I've been, like, getting ready for it. And I printed out. I made, like, a template for my cheat sheet, like, my crib sheet for the gig, to, like, write out, like, chords and stuff so I'm not, like, flipping through a giant binder. So I've been enjoying my time with my Blackwing natural in this, like, template that I made and printed out on that awesome paper that Johnny recommended, like, a year and a half ago to map it out. But anyways, I just. I just had to share that because I'm so happy with it. It. It's sitting right next to me, just, like, reaching. Reaching for me.
You ever had those things where you're just. You're almost glad that you don't
do
something or participate in a certain community because you know that you would just go deep and spend so much money on it. Every.
Every single day.
I feel like. I feel like that about guitars. Like, I. I don't. I don't read music. I don't play music. I just was never a musical person. And I look at guitars, I'm like, oh, that's. That's real nice. And I'm just like. It's. It's probably good that I don't play guitar, because I feel like I would have too many guitars.
It's. Yeah, that's. It's the same thing. It's like you look at a pencil and you're like, that looks like a good pencil, and you're right with it, but you're like, that's not a great pencil. And there's sometimes where you look at it, you're like, that looks like a good pencil. And Then it feels great, and you're like, I'm in love. And this is one of those, like. I mean, it's just like. Because you can feel it. Like, you know, just like how I feel it with pencils. Like, I know this is a good pencil.
Your guitar is a golden bear. That's what it is.
Yeah. Yeah. Based on the color, I would say it's like, maybe more closer. Like, it's like closer to, like, a cedar point. Yeah, Cedar point. Or like a forest choice or like a. Yeah, you know, something like that. Like a. Or what's the. The Mitsubishi 9852. Ew. To throw a bunch of numbers and letters out there.
You know how they have those. Those Twitter threads that are like, if Tilda Swinton were a. Like, were caterpillars a thread? Like, you should have. Like, if guitars were a pencil, I
could do a whole blog. I just read about it. Hell, yeah. I'd have four subscribers.
It'd be like, I would be one of them.
It'd be Andy and Johnny and, like, Ted Walker and maybe Adam. I don't know.
From.
From. Take note. They'd just be like, yeah, I'm in. Let's do this. Let's talk about it. But I love it.
Yeah.
And. Okay, so moving on. I'll move on from that, but I'm very excited. Last thing, we have some big, like, a big news story, a big pencil news story that is kind of a preview for something that we might have to come. But Aaron Bartholomew, who we've, like, been familiar with, he is in the American Pencil Collector Society, and he is. Has submitted his pencil collection to be considered for the Guinness Book of World Records. So he's. He submitted his collection of 70,000 advertising pencils.
That's bananas.
So he could pass these out in Johnson City to every human being in the town where I live, and he would still have, like, 18,000 pencils in his hand.
Everybody could get 1.3 pencils.
There you go. He would start cracking those things in half. But amazing. Amazing. I mean, it's. I don't know, Like, I mean, you guys made me aware of this, like, or, you know, Andy, you had mentioned it, like, in our. In our chat, but it's such a. Such an incredible collection. So. And a big, you know, a big moment for the American Pencil Collector Society.
We've known. So we've known Aaron for a few years now. He's. He's been the. The secretary treasurer of the American Metal Collector Society for. For several years now. And our podcast Sends a fair number of people each just, you know, just each month to, to the APCs. And like whenever they put out a newsletter, they're just like, oh, yeah. So and so. Heard about this from the Erasable Podcast. So we talk about on here. I'll mention it again. If anybody is interested in a very, very low stakes, low cost, just sort of connection to other pencil people, consider joining the American Pencil Collector society. It's like 10 bucks yearly. I think it's a little bit more. I think they raise their rates. If you want to get like a paper newsletter, an E newsletter, pro tip, spend the extra money for the paper newsletter. It's pretty good. And if you go to pencilcollector.org, you can kind of get more information about that. But he's the secretary treasurer of it and he's. I think he's a listener of the podcast and he is. Yeah. Perhaps a Guinness Book of World Records holder for largest pencil collections.
So, so cool.
Yeah, so cool. We're. We're not sure of this, that this is not a teaser. We're actively working on getting Aaron on our podcast to talk about, talk about his collection. So I hope we can do that.
Yeah, so. But still, way to go, Aaron. Whether you get, whether, you know, whatever those bureaucrats at Guinness decide, we're all very proud encounters over there. Like. Yeah. Yes, absolutely. So that's all I've got.
So let's jump into our main topic. Much as much like the last episode that we did about some of the Blackwing Quarterly releases since the Pandemic started, we're going to do one about field notes, the other kind of like big quarterly limited edition release brand. So we're going to talk a little bit about the edition, talk a little bit about the theme, talk a little bit about the construction and the materials used, and then give it a grade. So, you know, a plus, a minus, all the way down to F or. I think, Johnny, you had like a Z or something like that with one of the field notes.
I think one of them. I gave a number, didn't I? Yeah. This doesn't get a letter.
I think so.
It sounds familiar.
So we're going to start with Spring 2020, the first release since the Pandemic started, which is Vignette. Do you guys remember this one?
Yeah, those were cool.
Those are cool.
Yeah, that was the one that had the little, like, pocket in the front to put like a little image or photo or something in. And it was just a, just a really. They hadn't done anything like that in the past. And I think. Thought it was really cool. What did you guys think?
I thought it was cool when I first saw. I remember thinking it and I still think of it every time I look at it, especially when I look at their, like their website page for it. Like, but you guys Pearl Jam fans? Like Pearl Jam.
Yeah.
Giving away my age.
Yeah. But there's this. But there's this. Their greatest hits album. It's called Rearview Mirror. And on the front, I always think of that. I always want to take that picture because it's like a circle with, like, Eddie Vedder, like, stepping into the picture and the bands in the background. Like, I just want to, like, take that little circular picture and just like plop it into a vignette.
Yeah.
Which I should totally do.
I could totally do.
It's in my. It's in my ability, I think friend
of the show Jess Letkman, who is a Pearl Jam scholar and journalist. Appreciate that.
Yeah, totally. Maybe I'll do that.
This one had a. So they had that cover that you could like put something like in. Into the. The center, like just kind of frame it. But it also had like a. Just a really nice gray graph paper on the inside. And I don't think it was anything fancy. I think it was just like a 60 pound bright white paper. The. According to the. The back cover, it has a silver emulsion graph, which I thought was pretty nice. Yeah. So did you guys use this. Use this notebook at all?
I did use a bunch of them, yeah. Oh, I can't even think of what I put in them. I think I just used the little pictures they gave you with a subscriber pack. I got, you know, paralyzed by freedom. Like, oh, my God.
Analysis paralysis.
Yeah. So, yeah, put those in. But the. I thought that one was really imaginative and it looked like it was really a pain in the butt to make.
Yeah.
To have those, like, really complex covers and then get them to fold over.
Oh, yeah. It had a. A fairly. Yeah. Complex looking kind of substrate to do it.
Yeah.
I thought they did a good job.
I love. I imagine doing that many circular cuts like on notebooks. Had to be like, hard, like in a quality control.
Yeah. Yeah, That's a lot. If you guys were to give this a grade, what. How would you. How would you do it?
I give this one a B plus.
Okay.
Yeah, likewise. That was what I was gonna say. Like, I mean. Yeah, color wise, they could have gone further, I guess, but I don't know. But like, if I'm just being picky but like I think it like B plus is super positive in my head.
Yeah. Yeah, I'll do the same. I. Oh, one thing I forgot to mention. I really, I thought it had a really good. It has like a stippled texture on the COVID and I really like that. I thought. I think it feels really nice to hold. So yeah, solid B plus sounds good. The other, the next one that we had was a. Just a really kind of like outside of their. Their usual but felt really nice. It was the heavy duty, which was one of those little like top spiral bound notebooks. It's about the same size ish as a. As the field notes but with a spiral on top. And it has a very thick cardboard like chipboard cover. And they come in like a, like a, an orange and A plus blue, like printing on this like a, like a craft brown cover. So it is. Gosh, that, that ink is a super, super thick application. Like the orange one is exactly the sort of like Draplin design company orange color. This is pretty good. Like it, you know, hangs out in a shirt pocket. Feels really good. Do you guys still use any heavy duties?
I found one the other day that I hadn't used so nice. I use some.
It definitely has the distinction that very few have of making it to the permanent collection. So you can buy a. I think they continue to make the heavy duties. Yeah, I.
This, this was, I mean just. Which is totally a sort of like my use case situation. I think they look awesome. They feel awesome. There was something different which was like amazing. I didn't use them a whole lot. I think I've still got like two half used ones or something. But it's just because like I just am curmudgeonly about like what I carry around with me. But I like them. I remember Adam Webb from Take Note doing the. The amazing hack of like attaching a magnet to the back of it and putting on the refrigerator. You remember that? I don't. I thought that was. That was awesome. So like, I mean there's, there's definitely plenty of use for it. And I, I remember when I got my similar format write notepads like the erasable book that they made for us. Like I still have one of those in my toolbox, which this would. That's like what this is made for, you know?
Yeah, yeah, this. It was cool the way they had that. Weren't they lined on the front and the other side had a really fine graph. Remembering that.
Right. Yeah. I thought that line. It was one of those ones. So it's kind of like the do notebooks where it has like a, like a thicker line that is like a wider graph. Maybe like. Oh, gosh, like maybe like a centimeter. And then the. There was a thinner line in the middle of that was like half a centimeter. So you could do either a thick or a thin graph. But then on the, the front side, it was. It was lined.
Excellent. And on their website, they have a very small natural finished pencil. This is field notes 47, which I think was this edition. I don't remember.
I'm looking at that now. It's like. It's almost like an IKEA pencil.
Yeah.
What's up with that?
Yeah.
Did they send that? I can't remember. Did they send that with a. As a subscriber extra?
I don't know. I don't remember. I mean, that seems like a million years ago now.
Yeah.
But I'll have to look around.
I would probably get into that.
Yeah.
So it's funny, I never, I never really used it, but I, I appreciate that it exists so much. Right. Like, I, I know so many people use like a, like a top. Like a top spiral bound notebook and this is just sort of the perfect size for that. So I, I really appreciate that it exists and I feel like there's probably like at some point which, which I could really. I could really use something like this. Especially that, like, you know, line. Line ruled on one side and graph ruled on the other side. So I would probably give this a really just solid A. What do you guys think?
I'm gonna go with a minus just because I wish they made the permanent edition in different color.
Oh, good call.
I probably just I. And bias. Like, I just probably give it a B. Like it's still like cool, but like, just wasn't like, I just didn't want to use it that often, but I thought it was. Was cool. So I'll give it a B. Yeah.
Agree.
Good.
Just a. Just A. It was interesting that, you know, they've had chipboard top bound spiral notebooks before. Like, they have their steno pad, which is pretty great. They did the front page slash byline, you know, the reporter's notebook. But this was kind of the first time they really embarked on like one of these kind of, kind of smaller ones that, you know, you find in the shirt pockets of dads everywhere.
Yeah. And when they did the reporter notebook, they changed it up. And then again they changed it. They changed the. Yeah, the stock of the covers. So when these came out, I thought they would Stamp them with a different color or something.
Yeah, I have actually just today I used this when I was pulling this out on, you know on. In typical field notes they have a ruling on the inside back cover of the like of inches. So you can like use it as like an inch ruler. But on the heavy duty they have an inch ruler and a centimeters ruler. So look at field notes like expanding to metric.
Oh, related. I've. I looked up the original email that apparently I never deleted. There was a subscriber extra pencil.
Okay. Okay. So was it a little golf pencil?
Yeah, it was like a little, little natural pencil. I don't remember holding it in my hands. Must be right.
Go start looking for it right now. So start looking through.
It's with that.
Look, look under Henry's bed somewhere.
It's somewhere.
It's with that three. That 20 sided die that came with the black wings that I immediately lost.
Yeah, so that was. Let's see. That was. Gosh. When, when, when did this come out?
So the, the summer 2020.
Okay. So the field notes vignette was February 2020. And this one came out May 2020. And so in August 2020 we got the United State of letterpress. And trying to think of like yeah,
getting ahead of myself. But yeah, I love this.
Go ahead. Yeah, it was, I think it was their sort of like second edition that ever had. It was after Three Rivers was a few years before this. But it was basically like from a collaboration with a print shop. They, they partnered with. I'm trying to look here. Oh gosh. Who did they partner with to make this? To make this?
Oh, it was like a whole bunch of people.
Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. And it, they had several different like stock colors and of just a bunch of different kind of like overlapping letterpress prints on this. And this came out in August 2020. And it was, it was good. It was another one of those ones where they just like have a bunch of different sort of like collectible designs. So I'm actually holding in my hand one that was made in Kentucky and has just some really nice just like repeating patterns just, just horizontally on the COVID And it is. This one is in collaboration with Finch paper and French paper and it is reproduced from a pattern from 1640. It's the bay Psalms book from the Book of Psalms. So it's the first book known to be printed in the American colonies in 1640. So yeah, so they, they all have sort of like an inside cover sheet, like a fly sheet that has just some information about the United States letterpress. So what they say is they celebrate the rich history and artistry of letterpress printing in the USA with these field notes memo books designed and printed by some of our favorite letterpress artists in collaboration with Finch Paper and French Paper Company. So do you guys. Do you guys remember this one?
Yeah, I think I bought one or two extra packs so I could get the fountain pen cover.
And did you. Yep. Okay.
Yeah, I. I don't know where I put it. I have a lot of notebooks, but, yeah, I thought of all of the. Sorry, the letterpress editions, this one was definitely the coolest.
Yeah.
Is there was more stuff than just, you know, different old wood letters, which is cool. But they already did that.
I will say that, like, out of the. The hatch or out of, like, there's the two rivers one, and then there's also the. The hatch printing that we'll. We'll talk about a little bit later. Like, this was, I think, my favorite too. And also I think I liked it the best because the texture was so good because it was letterpress. Like, it's a little bit depressed and it just feels nice to run your finger over.
They did a really good job with the name.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This edition. Yeah, this edition. Like, from sort of like, concept, like, the idea of it to also the. The way that they collaborated and then also the look of it. And I just. I thought this one was amazing. So, yeah, I loved this one so much. I've still got, I think, one or two left, but, like. Yeah, I just. I just love it. We're so. We're surrounded by collaboration, you know, projects that are going on. It's like, hip, you know, like hip product plus hip product. And then here's our collaboration. But this is like, you know, like, these cool notebooks plus letterpress organization. Like, you know, printers who are not getting that kind of, like, exposure. So I just thought that was really awesome. Yeah, that made me, like, love it even more.
One thing I will mention is that the. Instead of a ruler, like an inch ruler in the inside has a typographic point ruler. So you can measure, like, if something is like 12 point, 24 point. I think it. I think this is a. If I'm not mistaken, this is a pica ruler. And pica was a tool that measured sort of like the size of print that, you know, if you have ever worked in newspaper, it might be something that you've used before. So that. That's fun. That's really fun. If you were to give this a Grade. Where would you put this?
A plus.
Likewise.
Okay. Okay. I would give this a solid A. Yeah, moving on. The winter 2020 edition was the snowy evening edition. And one thing that they did was they basically had a procedural. Oh, let me look on their website real quick. And it was an algorithmic print on the COVID of each of these notebooks. So out of the edition of almost 100,000 notebooks, it was 99,999. They have a unique snowflake on the COVID of each of these, which there's some that look very similar, but they're all slightly different, just like real snowflakes. And this was basically a nice sort of like dark blue, like indigo cover with, with like a silvery kind of white printing on the top. So it was. Okay, so it was the COVID It was a deep blue vellum 80 pound cover with a white UV ink on the top and then printed with just an inkjet printer in order to get all of these, these different covers. So do you guys remember this one? What did you think of it?
Yeah, excuse me.
I'm going to say this several times tonight, but I love when they go back to. Remember they used to call them the seasonal edition and then they switched it to quarterly slash colors. So anytime something comes out like this that's super seasonal, I'm like extra excited. And this one was like. It was one of those notebooks where the concept and the executioner, like just.
Right. Yeah, it felt really good for, for winter. Right? Just like a, like a snow evening. That's kind of what they were going for.
I remember when this first came out and having the conversations, we were all like gleefully saying, you know, like, take that, collectors. Just like, what are you gonna do now? It's like there's. You can't. You can't do it. Which I just like that idea that like every notebook was different. I mean, that's such a. I mean, I just think. I can't help but think about the like, production process of doing that behind the scenes. Like, I mean, yeah, it's, you know, I'm sure it's like computer generated or whatever. Like you have somebody you can like generate, but you have to lay them all out. Like, they have to all look. Right. I mean, it's such a huge endeavor. Like, such a huge project.
Can you imagine running really awesome 100,000 different, like Notebook covers through that inkjet
printer or being that poor intern that had to make sure they were all different?
Johnny, can you, can you conceive of that? Because you've probably done it.
If anybody's printer can do it, Johnny's can.
I haven't killed a printer in like two or three weeks,
So I don't know.
It.
It's. It's really nice looking. I don't really care that much about the, like, graph of the dot grid. On the inside. It was. Oh, the innards was just. Just the blue. Just the light blue printing on just the regular finch paper. 60 pound, bright white paper. It was fine. I would give this like a. Like a B minus. It's thematically, it's, it's. It's cool, but also it's just not my particular jam. So what do you guys think?
I'm gonna give it a plain A.
Okay. Okay.
I probably go with B plus.
Nice. Nice. All right, moving on to spring 2021. This marked the 50th limited edition for Field Notes. So they. Gosh, they did a whole thing. You got this huge booklet that just had examples from just all the different papers. There was Butcher blue in there. There's butcher orange in there. There was the green, like the. The grass green in there. And they just did a really, really fancy printing of all of that. And the. The sort of like, collector's bonus was just gorgeous. Sort of a celebration of printing technology and the way that they've done it in the past.
Yeah. And I remember a lot of people got upset because this plastic stuck to the glue.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
But like they were free.
Yeah, I forget.
Yeah.
Forgot about that.
Yeah, they were really, really cool.
Yeah. So the. Yeah, go on.
Okay.
There was the one thing from Field Notes where I actually baby it because. Kick out another one.
Yeah.
So it was definitely sort of like a very, like, wonkish celebration of like the printing bookmaking process. And one of the cool things about the notebooks themselves is the covers were red, but they had like a die cut circle. And where it says field notes, the O of notes was a circle and in the middle, but said 50. Like, it broke through to like an inside paper. And they had three different ones. They had the same paper from Dime Novel, the safety orange from dime novel. They had the night shift blue from Endpapers, that kind of like dark blue that end papers used. And then a gumduck. Blah, blah, blah. Gumdrop green from grass stain green, which was, I think grass stained green was the third one. Right. Yep. Yeah. So they. They had so many kind of callbacks to their own. Their own stuff. They talk a lot about just the different, like, technologies and papers that they use. The subscriber Extras are really cool too. If I remember correctly, it was a set of stamps. Obviously not real stamps that you can mail something with, but just some really nice. Just stamps to put on notebooks or stickers or whatever. Yeah. Do you, did you. Do you guys like this one?
I. I enjoyed the celebratory part. The books were cool, but within the collection of the ones we're talking about tonight. Definitely not near the top.
Yeah.
Yeah, I would. I have almost nothing to add to what he just said. Yeah, he was like. It was like. Yeah, it was. It was fun. It was, like, cool to see it. But also at the same time, like, I get it.
Like, they want to celebrate themselves and this thing that has taken off from just like something that was very small and niche to something that's like, pretty big and has been around for a long time. So it's very self. Self referential. Just like, talk a lot about, like, just like the hard work that goes into making each of these additions, but if you're not like a. If you're not specifically a Field Notes Quarterly Editions fan, or if you don't appreciate kind of like the work and the craft that goes into making it like this probably isn't your. Isn't your thing. Yeah. What would, what kind of grade would you guys give this?
Are we talking about the release or just the books?
You know, I think. I think it's hard to sort of like, pull those apart. So I would say consider both those things.
Yeah, I'd say A minus for the set.
Okay. I'd say B plus. Yeah.
Yeah, I'll go with B. That makes sense. If you look at the specs on the back. Gosh, they have so many different kinds of, like, papers that they use to do this, which is, which is fun. Moving on, let's talk about the trailhead edition. This is a celebration of some of the big. Some of the big, long trails. So the Appalachian Trail is in there. The John Muir. I'm sorry, Appalachian Trail. Thanks, Dan. The Pacific Coast Trail is in there. The Continental Divide Trail is in there. And it's just basically a celebration of those big, long trails. And it was. It was such a compelling addition to me because I love, love, loved that the COVID it was a. Basically one of those, like, linen rolled covers. It's a dark green. They call it emerald green, but I, I would say this is darker than emerald green. And they, they had a big application of a, like an orange. An orange, like, ink on the front and on the back and on the insides. It's. It has my favorite thing ever. It has like a, it's a creamy paper. It is, has the sort of like orange kind of double lined header and then just like a, like a nice like duck colored like lining, lining up, blah, blah, blah lining on the paper itself. So it has like these orange staples that match the COVID I don't care much about like long distance trail hiking or following, but I love the aesthetics of this notebook. What do you guys think of this?
Yes. Yeah, all of the above. Except I do like hiking.
Okay.
The only thing was, so the only thing that was depressing was when this came out. It was that weird period during the pandemic where we thought things might get better and then I forgot which variant came along and you're like, nope, you're not going anywhere.
July 2021. Yeah. Yeah.
But yeah, I actually saved a set because my, my BFF and I have a pact to do the Appalachian Trail before we die. And we're getting old, so better do that soon. Better start planning.
Yeah.
Yeah. I, I mean this was sort of an addition that was like after my own heart, living where I live and Appalachian Trail going like right through here and, and they look great. So. Yeah. I mean to start out, the grades, I. This one was just a lot of fun. I like how they sort of mixed in these different trails. So it wasn't just like one part of the country. It was sort of inclusive of the whole part of the country. I thought it was very cool. So I mean I would give it definitely a solid A. Yeah,
I, I love, love, love that linen cover and the sort of like styling like the, the orange on the dark green cover. Like it looks nice, it feels nice. I really love how they sort of match the staples to the, to the orange cover.
That is satisfying.
Yeah. And I really like the lined, kind of creamy inside.
It's.
It's a vanilla 60 pound finch paper, opaque smooth. And the like header double line is blaze orange. And then the regular lines are double knee duck canvas light brown. And it just, it just feels and looks so nice and so old timey. So I love the way it looks. Don't care that much about the theme, but that's okay. So I would, I would. I'm with you, Tim. I'd give that an A. Yeah. And Johnny, I don't think you did you give it a grade.
Did I? I'd give us an A.
Okay.
Nice.
Yeah. Largely for that, that linen.
Yeah, that linen unity. We just all gave it the same grade. I don't think we did this at all last time with the pencils, so that's fun.
Yeah, we're on the same page about that one. Next up, let's talk about fall 2021. That is September 2021. It is harvest. And what they did is they had several field notes that had different sort of, like, harvest themes on it. So it's. They're illustrated, and the covers have kind of seasonal colors. And then they have a. And like, a painting of tomatoes and apples and kale and corn and pumpkins. And I think there's, like, grapes or something like that in there, too. And they're embossed, so they definitely have a very certain look. The one that was so interesting to me was, like, rather than the COVID the insides were really interesting. And they did this thing where it was. They have, like, a left margin, a stock grid, but they have a left margin, solid line. So it's almost like you can. You can make a list or something in there. And then, of course, they have that double line header, so you can just kind of write something above that. So do you guys remember this one?
What did.
What did you think of it,
like, with the winter one? Like, once I saw that pumpkin and the produce, they look like seed packs. That was like. I was all about this one.
Yeah.
I say famously, Johnny's, like, most used word ever is autumnal. Yes.
Johnny loves it.
This comes out. He's like, oh, yeah, yeah. Harvest. You think of autumn? Yeah. No. So that's rising. I. I think this one looks amazing, too. It's like. I. It's a.
I don't know.
Is this the only one that has sort of like a. As far as the image on the front and how they do it, like a realism sort of, or like a. Like a paint. It's done like a painting. Like a real realistic painting. A little different. I mean, it's one of the few.
Like, America the Beautiful has, like, a little, like, almost photograph on the front and.
Yeah, but that's even, like, a photograph. This just looks like a paint. It looks like something that somebody, like, carefully painted out. And then like, even just the little details that you get with this one, like with the apples, you get the shadows that are kind of, like, casted off to the side. It just looks like a still life painting, which is, like, really amazing. And.
Yeah. Yeah.
I thought this one was very cool. I thought this one was very, like. But, like, cool without trying to be cool. You know what I'm saying? It was just like, of course it's fall. We're gonna do a Harvest edition. We haven't done one. We've done like 50 of these editions or whatever. You know, whatever it was that point. And let's. So if we're gonna do something that
is
not like it's something. Something that is quote unquote, like predictable, like let's do it like amazing. Let's make it look super sharp. So I. I thought this one was.
So the. The Field notes website is saying that this is so John Burgoyne, who's an artist, is this is an ink and watercolor technique to do this. And he apparently does a lot of like Cook's illustrated covers and National Geographic illustrations.
Makes total sense with illustrated. I mean.
Yeah, yeah. Just absolutely. So I will. I will say that this is not my particular jam. Like, this isn't my aesthetic. Kind of these very realistic looking like. Like harvest vegetables and fruits. But that doesn't mean I don't appreciate the craftsmanship. I think they look really lovely. I love how they embossed it to just kind of like raise the illustration from the COVID just a little bit. But to me that one of the things that is just the best is that insights. So on their website they're calling it a ruled dot ledger format. It's great for list making and diagrams or just plug plain old autumnal notes and observations. So planting bed diagrams, recipes, grocery lists. Another thing that I didn't know before is that each page.
Use it in the bathtub. You can use it in there.
That's all right. Amazon basics. Eat your heart out.
I keep coming back to that. I love it every 20 episodes.
Good, good callback. And another thing that I kind of forgot to note before is every page is. Is perforated so you can tear out. Tear out every page, which is really great. And they have brass staples, which is a very good kind of autumnal thing. So I even. Even though I would not say that this cover, like this aesthetically is my jam, I just. I just love the craftsmanship and all the features that go into it. Just. It's so thoughtful. I would. I'm gonna give this an A plus. What about you, Johnny?
Same.
Because.
So pretty.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean I give it a very firm A. I mean, almost there with
you, but like I. Yeah, yeah.
It's a great addition.
Let us move on. We are looking at the next one. Is. Came out in November 2021. This is the ignition.
Oh yeah.
That one was nuts.
And it is a series of three. There is a date book and there is a checklist journal. And I believe each date book is 26 weeks, so half of a year you can kind of spread that out. And then there's a big to do journal. And I believe the COVID was made from the same kind of like paper stock that Expedition is made out of. It's waterproof, it's tear proof. It's a synthetic paper from a company called Yupo. Yeah, Yupo with. It's like a plastic paper, so can't tear it. And then also the inside pages are just like, just have a very, just like subtle, subtle application. So I'm holding a checklist journal in my hand and the COVID has almost like a UV spot coating that kind of looks like the, the inside pages. And it has just like alternating lines. Some gray, some white, with a little like kind of dot journaly circle beside each one. So it's just like made for checklists. So do you guys remember these?
Yeah, I thought the best thing about this and I liked them a lot was the matching yellow click pen if you were a subscriber. Oh yeah, that was so sweet.
That was a good one.
I mean, I was slightly more excited about that at the time.
This is admittedly one that I never have held in hand. So like, I feel like I have to like qualify my. I didn't get this one. Not by any like super strict reason, but just I haven't been a subscriber for a while. I just kind of buy the ones that stick out to me, which this was a period of time clearly where a lot of them did. But this is when I didn't, didn't hold in hand. But I appreciated it. You know, it's almost like a, you know, a callback or it's like what was the, that New Year's edition they did? Yeah, it's like Resolution Mach 2 or something. It was like. Which I appreciated.
Yeah, yeah, that was how I felt about it. I, I really, really liked the resolution. And I think the most, most of the reason I liked it was because I really loved the colors. And I also love that kind of gilding on the, on the edges. Like when you cracked open, you know, a pack and you, you sort of like bent the pages a little bit and made that kind of like little shimmer in the sky with all the, all the like the gilding that just kind of got stirred up. It's definitely a callback to that. And I, I just very much like regrettably don't use like paper calendars anymore just because my calendar is so dynamic and electronic that I just, and I shared just among so Many different people. Like, I just can't keep a, like a paper calendar anymore. So I. It's not like two of the notebooks in here aren't super usable for me. And I also tend to use checklists that are not like, like the word notebooks are about as structured as I go first. Checklists, right. Like just regular old lines, but maybe with a little light dot on the side. This reminds me of that. And like the, the tear proof waterproof covers are nice, but I just don't like the way they feel like, like tactilely they're just, they just feel very plastic. Do you guys like kind of have you noticed that with this?
I mean, I didn't mind that much. I. What I liked was that they put more pages in them. They were.
Oh, I didn't notice that. Yeah. There's 56 pages. Yeah.
So every time I pick one up I'm like, whoa, beefy.
Interesting.
Yeah, I liked the color scheme a lot. I have no idea what it had to do with, you know, igniting something or the new year, but I just thought it looked really cool. Especially when on the two date books, the way they put book one and book two in yellow, that just pops out of the covers.
Oh yeah.
Cool.
Yeah, that's true. That's a good design. So I'm just. For my own personal use, I think I'm probably, even though I, I sort of appreciate like the, the formatting that they're using, I'm probably going to give this a C just because I don't, I didn't like the COVID and I don't have much of a use for the actual pages themselves.
Yeah, I'd probably put it like color scheme wise and I like, I love the idea of it, but also this kind of happened to me, happened to me with resolution also where there was like one of the three that I like, loved. And I. Again, I will preface this by saying I've not used this one, but I would still, based on the concept, based on what I see, I would probably give it a C plus.
Yeah.
Nice.
Jenny, how about you?
B plus, I think. Or B.
Okay.
Nice.
I'm going to move on to spring. Spring 2022. And that was a notebook called Signs of Spring. And that was a really interesting one to me. One thing I kind of have been learning about myself is I really, really love texture. And that's one of the reasons I love Baron Fig confidant so much is they're fabric browned and I just love kind of running my hands across it and any of the notebooks where they have a really nice texture is one that I love and, and that is one of the reasons I just loved Signs of Spring. It has a debossed, kind of tight floral pattern on the covers of these notebooks and each one has a, just a different color of a foil stamp on the front. So there's a blue one, there's a pink one, there's a green one. And it is on a very bright yellow paper. And I just, I love, love, love the way it feels. It is very, very springy yellow with like a very springy like, like cover, like foil on the COVID And even that, like the insides are really good. They had, that, they had really good texture on the inside. If I'm not mistaken, this is the first field notes that the inside has like a linen texture on it. It's a Strathmore 70 pound paper, which is a little bit heavier than usual. Usually they go with like a 60 pound. And it just reminds me of when you go to like Office Depot and buy like resume paper. That's kind of what the insides are. And the dot graph insides are yellow. That kind of matches, matches the COVID So, yeah, they call it Yellow crocus. And I, I was a big fan of the, just the tactile feel of this cover, even though I don't, I don't care that much about like spring colors. I just liked all the rest of that stuff. So. Yeah. Tim, what did you think of this one? Did you ever have it in hand?
Yes, I, I, I did have this one in hand and this was, I remember seeing it the first time and feeling like this was the companion piece to Blackwing Volume 3, the Ravi Shank. Like the Ravi Shankar. Like they, like, they pair pretty nicely together. I mean, it's not the exact same yellow, of course, but like, you know, just like similar sort of like aesthetic with the, the patterns and the yellow and whatever. But yeah, I mean, I thought I, I, I enjoyed this one. I like textured things in general. And we'll go back to like my, my love for the Mars edition of the Black Wing, you know, the Blackwing Volume 4. Just, I like things that have sort of a tactile feel to them a lot. So I thought this one was very cool. And just the fact that they did the different colored, Yeah, I mean, just the different colored imprints on every notebook, I thought this was very cool. I, I thought it was. And it was very, very different from anything they'd done, done before.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That texture of the inside pages, man.
It's sort of called back the, what's that one called? Packet of Sunshine. One of the early, early spring releases with the all the same yellow but different colored stamping. But those weren't foil. The foil on these was very nice.
Yeah.
And I, I, I used to not like when they experimented too much with paper, but I, as a paper nerd, come to really appreciate it.
Yeah. So anytime. Good one.
Yeah. They're just like, hey, this is textured. How about textured paper? Do it. Yeah, I love it.
I, if I were, how would you guys grade this thing?
You want to go first, Tim? I keep making you go last.
That's okay.
I know.
I'd probably go with the B plus on this. I thought it was cool. Again, I like the texture aspect of it. B plus.
I'd go with an A. Yeah, I would. Yeah. Somewhere between like an A and A minus I think would be good for me. Like, I love, like, I really like using, I love the texture.
So.
Yeah. So moving on. I, if I were to like. So summer 2020, where are we? 2022. Speaking of texture, they did a really like the next one that they released was something that was pretty popular and it's one of those kind of like national parks. That was one of the ones that people have been requesting for a long time. It is the Great Lakes edition and subscribers got a five pack of these notebooks, cost almost $30. But each five pack had the five Great Lakes on it. So if all, if you all remember from like school, right. Like homes is the, is the like the thing we all used Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior. And so they have a different notebook for each one. The one that I think is kind of nearest and dearest to like many people's hearts is Lake Michigan. I've seen people kind of sell and trade for Lake Michigan on in the Field Nuts group. And speaking of texture, they had a really, really, really good texture. It is a like a really great blue. Looking at their notes right here, it is a cobalt blue somewhere between like a royal blue and a navy blue. And they have what is called a tech weave color. It's an 80 pound paper made by Nina paper. And I don't know how I would describe this cover except that it's like kind of isometric or like maybe slightly hexagonal. It is a very like, nice weave and like little, little pods, almost like a little tiny, tiny little honeycomb. It feels super nice.
It looks like linen paper from a sci fi movie.
Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's definitely kind of synthetically made, but it is just. It feels really good. It looks really good, and it has kind of like a very subtle grid to it.
So I.
Each one has a little bit of a. Like a. It's on this blue.
There's a.
A dark color that represents all the different five lakes except for the one that is being represented, which, in which case it's silver. So it is. Oh, what do they call it? Superior silver and a charcoal ink. Sorry. Go, sonny.
Oh. The end for subscribers. You got a sixth notebook that was silver, but I can't remember what it was about or what the theme of that extra.
Oh, that's right. Gosh. I'm looking for the notes in here, but. Yeah, yeah, they don't say but. Yeah. That was really nice.
Yeah. This one had crazy, crazy good paper.
Yeah.
I got in touch with the company for a sample book, and then they followed up with an email, but I lost the sample book, so I never wrote back to him.
Oh, no, I forgot. So they're saying it is veri Starbright opiate opaque white.
They sent that sample book out so fast for free. I felt really bad for not getting back to them. I'm sure that, you know, they made a note that Johnny Camper didn't get back to them.
It's really thick. I'm assuming this was like a good black. Yeah, this is like a good fountain pen paper.
It was nuts for fountain pen.
It was perfect. Yeah. I didn't care much for the grid. Like, it was just a graph paper that was like a gray. A gray ink. They call it the made of mist gray ink. So I didn't care much about the ruling, but I remember the paper was just really nice and lush. Tim, as a monster Indiana native, did you have any feelings kind of about Great Lakes?
Absolutely. Yeah. Lake Michigan notebook. I snap these up pretty quickly. Yeah, absolutely. I love the sort of Midwest. I like when, you know, companies like write notepads or field notes or whoever sort of who have a very geographical, like, link, you know, I mean, field notes is. It's Chicago and Portland or whatever.
Right.
Notepads, we got like. I. I like when they lean into kind of the local themes. I. I like that a lot. So I think these are fantastic. I think these are such cool notebooks. So. And like you all have been saying, like, the paper is just great too. And they're. I love the sort of translucent belly band kind of, like, detail they did on them. I like the artwork on how they did the lakes with I don't know what you would call that. It's like a sort of not vector, but it's like a. Using shapes or whatever. It almost looks like those little tiles that you would play with as a kid that you like stuck together and crazy orders to. To make images out of. But yeah, no, I thought these are fantastic. The blue. I mean, it's just a great summer edition because what are people doing in the Midwest of the summer? They're going to the lake.
Yeah, yeah, I forgot about the belly band. It was kind of like a vellum semi transparent thing and they used like a white application of ink to show the binding of the notebook. So. Yeah, that looked really good.
Yeah. And those postcards I think are still for sale, aren't they?
Oh, I think so. According to the website, you can still buy a five pack of this Great Lakes notebook. Yeah. So it had a. It has some like, like a little map that comes with it, which is cool. And that Great Lake postcard said it's really lovely. Cool. Moving on. Wait, do we grade this? I would give this like a. I'll give this an A. A minus. Somewhere on there.
I'm jumping.
Okay. Yeah, I go A plus on this one.
Nice.
Oh, we're not the same again.
All right, moving on. We have the Hatch notebooks. And these were pretty printed in autumn 2022. So just a little less than a year ago. And this was a. Just like another celebration. Kind of like two rivers and kind of like American States of Letterpress. Wait, no, Did I say that right? Letterpress States of America.
You know, United States of letterpress.
Yes, yes, yes. It's a. It's a celebration of printing. And this is from the Hatch show print. They have a bunch of letter letterpress printed posters. And it is definitely like a little bit more. It's less of a. Like a segment of a letterpress and more about sort of like the full. Sort of the full poster. So there's a lot of really just like interesting things in there. So it's another kind of like wonkish celebration of printing. I remember that at this point a lot of people in the fieldnuts group were a little bit disappointed. People who didn't really care much about the process of printing. They didn't really like this because aesthetically it looks very much like three or two rivers and letterpress. So I just remember I being a big fan of like the ruled. The line ruled notebooks. They had line ruled pages and it was just very much in that sort of like light blue that that just feels really nice. Do you guys. Do you guys remember this one? Did you. Did you like it? Did you collect more?
I didn't collect more. I remember people being bored by it and being like, shut up. They're cool. But looking back, they're. They're the least interesting of their letterpress books, I think.
Yeah.
But still really cool. And like you said, the inside is so nice.
Yeah.
That, you know, it sort of balances itself out.
Yeah. Yeah.
It just felt repetitive. I don't know, like this. It's as if, you know, as if they're discovering some sort of. What's the word I'm looking for? Template or whatever, where it's like, oh, let's just. Oh, let's just do another one where you just, like, sort of flop a bunch of stuff in, like, weird order over each other. But I get. But I. But I do, like, understand, like, the story behind all of these, and I appreciate that.
Yeah.
Like, the fact that they. They're definitely being deliberate about these designs that they're using for it, so. So I appreciate that. But also, it was just kind of like, oh, it's another one of those where they're sort of crisscrossing or, like, you know, splicing up some sort of design from somewhere. So I. I don't know. I feel. It feels complicated because it's like, I appreciate a series or, you know, a theme that you kind of return to every once in a while. I also appreciate the Nashville connection, but, you know, it just. It just felt like a repeat.
Yeah.
Yeah. I think they. They thought your average person was going to latch on to the Nashville connection a little more than they did.
Yeah. That makes.
That makes any sense. It's getting late.
Yeah. I would. How would you guys rate this thing?
I would give this a B minus.
Yeah.
B minus.
Yeah, I'll agree. B minus.
Ding, ding, ding.
So the next edition, which was November 2022, they kind of went just like. They took a 180. And their next notebook that they released was very much meant to be a new kind of, like, permanent collection edition. And they're calling it Craft Plus. And so it is a little bit heavier weight than your classic brown notebook. They're releasing it in three different colors, but if you're a subscriber, you get a fourth color, which is like, kind of a berry. Like, a berry red. And they're. I don't know. They're. I'm trying to describe the. The look of them, but they're just sort of like a textured Just like wash print of on a craft brown notebook cover. And it's a, It's a classic package packing brown wrap, 80 pound stock cover, but with an application of. There's an orange, there's a blue, there's a green. And then for subscribers those are. There's a red too. And the difference is as much like the heavy, heavy duty notebook, they have the start date and the like location, subject, context on the front. It's just a, just a different, like slightly more utilitarian permanent collection editions. So they call it Craft plus, which is pretty interesting. So I know that in the field Nuts group, of course everybody has something to complain about. But like in this particular one, people are like, oh, this is. They're just giving us like a, like a regular collection notebook here with a different color too.
But you know, whatever. They were totally different. They had completely different paper.
Yeah. Yeah.
This paper, no offense to the regular notebooks, is much better than the regular paper.
It's. It's. Instead of Finch paper, it's. It's called Domtar Cougar. It's a 60 pound natural paper which is like slightly creamier than the white paper they use regularly.
They took fountain pen like a champ.
Yeah. One thing that I love about it, again, like a few of the other ones is that like all the pages are, are perforated. So you can tear out any page at all and just use that separately. Which, you know, I do, I surprisingly do quite often.
So.
Big fan of that.
Yeah. And they, I think they made a big deal about wanting to keep them at 10 bucks. So you got two books instead of three, but they did three different colors. So I just wanted them to have two packs of. One of each color.
Yeah.
The whole time. But I bought an extra pack of the aqua anyway because they were really nice.
Yeah.
So if they, they sort of followed up on a. One of their this is Wednesday things where they had the same kind of thing where they just took the regular notebook and flooded the covers with blue and then another one with red. Yeah, I guess people responded well. Or maybe they, maybe they were experiments and they worked really well.
So. Yeah, you're right. I completely forgot about that. Yeah, they were. They wanted something that was under $10. So they're two pack instead of three pack. But you can buy the amber or the aqua or the moss edition. So. Yeah, that's pretty, pretty nice. They have something that's a little bit smaller. Tim, did you, did you use this one?
Yes, absolutely. I actually bought, I think I bought three sets of this three or four. No, no, no, of the one. Because I really loved the sort of orangish one. And so I actually went to Asheville to Origami Inc. My like, closest possible stationary store. And I bought up a bunch of them when they had them. So I. I still have them. I've been using them very recently, actually. I just finished one, like, a few weeks before I got my Pencil Revolution Press Travelers notebook, which has killed everything else that I was carrying around. So. But no, I loved this edition. I thought it was fantastic. I thought it was like kind of a return to form, kind of going back to the old school kind of idea of field notes. Simple. Like Johnny was saying, with, like, the. Even, like the price part of it was just kind of like, all right, we've done a lot of fancy. Let's just go back to, like, making some cool, simple notebooks. And I really loved this one. So I. And I. I've. I've only had that orange or amber. What do they call it? Is it amber? Yeah, yeah, the Craft plus amber. So I've got. I think I have three packs of those and I've used, like, I've went through one of them, so. So I love it. I think these are fantastic.
Yeah, I would give this a solid. Like, I give this a solid a minus. It's something really nice. Like, I. I feel like I'm going to be just, like, drawn in by some of the special editions, especially with interesting textures for a while. But if I was looking for just a very, very solid notebook that I would like gift out to the world, this would be definitely that. So a minus for me.
Oh, man, I'm gonna give this one a plus.
Plus.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, yeah, I'd go a single plus. Okay.
You know what? I'm gonna revise that to a single plus because I don't like perforated paper.
Okay. Oh, you don't like to refer to paper?
No, I'm most afraid it's going to fall out, even though it never, ever does.
Yeah, I just like the option to, like, tear it out and give it to somebody Here. Put. Put it somewhere. Yeah. Moving on. Last. Last edition, which was spring 2023. We are recording this in July, mid July 2023. So it'll probably be a couple months before we get our next field notes edition.
Any day now.
Oh, really? Yeah, you're right. They printed a shipping label, didn't they?
Oh, I didn't know that, but, ooh, they had a teaser up a couple weeks ago about how there's A new stock, two artists. Like some awesome subscriber extra.
Okay.
Like, oh my.
Yeah. So pretty soon we'll be seeing the new one. But this edition that just came out is the. In spring was the Streetscapes edition. This came out in April and they are kind of that larger size that they do with art. They started with Arts and Sciences and they've released a few editions in this size. But it is. The COVID is almost like a coloring book and it has various illustrations of New York and Miami and I think Los Angeles and Chicago. You know, there's no, there's no San Francisco. It's fine. I don't care.
I mean, I don't know why they picked Miami. I'd have gone with Washington because, I mean that's the low hanging fruit. Look at those, all those cool buildings.
I mean I went to Miami in, in April and it was gorgeous. And they have some really cool architecture. So I like, I get it. But maybe they're trying to get outside of their usual zone. Except, you know, they're still like, you know what? Obviously we're going to include Chicago, so I guess New York too.
But they should do some more.
Yeah, they come in two packs. I would love. Yeah. San Francisco and Baltimore.
And Boston.
And Boston and Johnson City.
And Kingsport.
And Kingsport. Get that, get that Kingsport skyline.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh man, it's something else.
Yeah. So this is, this is one that I think that our friend Tino Koyama might appreciate where it's very much a celebration of urban sketching and just like, just cities. Right. Like cityscapes. So the COVID is very, very black and white. It is just something that would be just like really lovely to like pencil in. And I'm trying to think the insides are blank. They are. It's just a regular Mohawk, like 70 pound white paper. It has a really nice texture to it. I feel like it. It's very toothy. I feel like it would be very good with colored pencil or even just regular pencil. Kind of makes me wonder. I know that Baron Fig does not talk about what their, what paper they use in their confidants, but this paper feels pretty similar to that. Maybe a little bit thicker, but similar.
When's the last edition that they had a blank notebook?
Yeah, that's a good question. Maybe like end papers. Was that the last one?
Oh, but those were like half line and half blank.
Well, there was that like stupid past like the Easter edition.
Oh, the sweet tooth.
Sweet tooth. Yeah, that was.
Oh my God. That was 2016.
Yeah.
I don't know. I don't know what else was.
Yeah, we had. I'm trying to remember. Group 11 was. No, that wasn't blank. Autumn Trilogy. National Parks. Mile marker. Clandestine. Was clandestine blank?
No, they had that weird dot grid that had codes in it.
Oh, you're right.
Which I could never see.
Yeah. Yeah. End papers was, like, half blank, blank, half dot grid. Oh, you know what? Dime novel is the Last 1. Fall 2017. So it's been a while.
Oh, man, I feel old.
Yeah. Yeah. So streetscapes. I appreciate kind of what they're going for. It's for a very specific kind of, like, person. Not. Not really. For me, the size is great, but, like, I. I'm not a sketcher. If I were to give it a rating, I. I would give it, like, a C plus just given. I love the. The concept, but just. It just wasn't for me. So that's me.
You want to go, Tim?
Yeah, I mean.
Yeah.
I mean, I. I think I would probably go with, like. I really like the coloring book side of it, but, like, the chances of people actually doing that are pretty low, you know, so it kind of is basically just a black and white notebook. I almost like more than, like, the coloring aspect. I liked how the belly bands lined up, and you could see, like, sort of the colored strip of it or whatever.
Yeah.
I would probably give this one, like, a. Gosh, I can't go see, because, like, I still. It's like. It has. It's a. It's definitely, like, a stretch. I would probably go B plus on this one.
Okay, so I'm gonna go A minus because it came with an eraser. If you're a subscriber, this says Big Pink.
It's a nice eraser, which is also
the name of a good band. They didn't mention that. And one of their pencils, which have gotten a lot more expensive, but I noticed has also gotten a lot nicer. But, yeah, I didn't. I have no use for these. I gave them to Charlotte because Charlotte's draw. But if I were someone who likes to draw, I would be, like, flipping over these.
Yeah. That eraser is called Big Pink Graphite Eradicator.
Yeah.
Mine's very black. I don't know why it turned black. I had it on the windowsill. Maybe it got wet, but I'm holding it. It's soft.
Nice.
So can I posit something before we start?
Please do. Please do.
During this period of time, there have been a lot of collabs, dedicated editions like the Dungeons and Dragons ones and you know, a lot of just non regular field notes but also non quarterlies. Do you want to say like what's your favorite from this period? I mean it's a lot to pick from.
Yeah. Is the James Brand one from this period?
Oh man, I don't know. Close enough.
That's. That's one of my favorites. I love the James Brand collection. They had one with like a gray one and a white one and a just like neon greenish yellowish one. And that one, that one in specific was one that I loved.
Like it's.
It's this really bright, bright, bright cover and the dot grid on the inside was that same kind of like bright green color. So I'm a big fan of that one.
I think mine and I don't know if this qualifies. It might be like a little like too early, slightly. I don't know. But the Wilco Field notes collaboration, that box set, that was really awesome. I've current. I. I was just using one that was the most recent notebook that Johnny's Traveler notebook booted out of my, my rotation.
So make you a cover for those
using one of those. But yeah, that was, that was my. Definitely my favorite which biased because I'm just such a big Wilco fan. But I just love those notebooks. They look so cool. I love that they're all so wildly different. I like that they collaborated with all the different people in the band to design the notebook is just. I don't know, I just thought that was fantastic.
That's a good one. Love that slow cover they use.
You're making me change mine. I'm going to go with the Maggie Rogers set where they were. There are two books. They're sort of like the Time novels. There's Smythstone and they have that really nice Strathmore paper in them.
I forgot about that one.
Do you have a look this one that much? Yeah, I'll put it in the show notes. I mean in addition to the fact that I really like Magic Maggie Rogers, like these notebooks themselves were so pretty.
And you know another one that I really love, the COVID one, the COVID on is the collaboration they did with Overstory. Like the, that novel, I think. Johnny, you said you, you read recently.
Oh, the Underworld. Underworld or not understory Underworld.
Yeah.
I don't remember Underworld. No. Overstory is a novel also. So good.
Yeah, yeah, that one looked. Looked really lovely. Yeah, the Maggie Rogers one looks, looks so good now.
I need to look this up. Oh yeah, it's.
It's funny. I don't know if you guys kind of noticed this trend, but I feel like we have rated the Field Notes editions consistently higher than we rated the Black Wings editions.
I think there was a period of time where I think it would have been the opposite for me. For a while they were putting out some boring stuff and Blackwing was really nailing it. But yeah, the pendulum is swung.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, some of it. I feel like there's probably more that you can do with all these different paper, Paper and ink stocks than you can do with Black Wings. Like, it's just.
Yeah, that's a good point.
The materials that like, then the variables that are involved are just like different. Right. So you can do more with like the ruling and the size and the COVID paper and the internal paper and you can do this.
Then again, though, like, Field Notes just has shown in these last. This last stretch that they have better taste.
Yeah.
I don't know, you know, like, that they're like, there's. They're more consistently like on brand and on point. It's like they don't have like a weird Beatles edition popping out where everybody's like, wow, what does that mean? Like there. It's just like they're. They're doing their thing. They're not. They have. They don't do the like person. They're just like, this is a concept or this is a place or whatever. Like, and. And then we're going to have our own twist on it. Which always looks like a field notes, you know?
Yeah, yeah. They pick better collaborators too.
Yeah. And Field Notes has been at this longer and you know, I don't know if they've invented sort of the quarterly limited edition, but they definitely were just at the forefront of this.
Right.
Like they're the ones who kind of invented it for stationary.
They have to be. I don't know.
Yeah. So.
And they have a different. I don't want to say integrity, but they have a different ethic of how they put their stuff out. It's all American made paper, all printed in America. They, you know, there's a degree of transparency. This is what it's made of. This is how many we made. This is who made it. But Black Wings, like we made some of them. And here, that's a roll on print, not a rap.
Yeah.
And that's a teacher to get.
Yeah, I. I mean, I don't know. I think that Field notes is just like forever just sort of like synonymous with that. Quarterly editions, like, they, when they started doing it, I remember like, oh, yeah. Like orange, blue, green. Like, who cares? Like, it's just different colors of the same notebook. But they've just like, they've done such a good job of just sort of like innovating and kind of like thematically just like just picking really good themes and really good collaborations. So always give field notes such good credit for, for these quarterly editions.
And they, they, they communicate a little more like, personally, like Brian's been on the show. Like, if you have question, they'll answer your question. Not even if you don't host an internationally famous podcast.
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Yep. Sounds good.
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