arrows on elbows
elbows on arrows
As the temperature drops into the 40s I’ve pulled some layers out of storage. This hoodie I’ve had for years got called up recently. It’s an Outdoor Research full-zip fleece hoodie. Broken-in in a scruffy crusty commuter kind of way. Just like all my clothes.
On Saturday I added some arrows to both elbows. 24 hours later the paint was still wet. I used a super-opaque white that’s as thick as a brick. So thick it’s tough to squeegee through the silkscreen. But it’s opaque. Its opacity is without question. It’s opaqueness beyond compare. However it takes forever and a day to dry.
I wanted to accelerate the drying process and wear that thing to work, because I wouldn’t want your job on a day like this.
I don’t have a hair dryer. But I do have a heat gun. Hair dryers blow about 140 °F. Heat guns can blow up to 1200 °F. What could go wrong? It’s like being thirsty and trying to take a sip of water from a pressure washer.
I wafted the heat gun over the arrows in a couple different sessions. The second time on the left elbow I lingered a bit too long and melted a hole right through it. Like a party in off-campus housing circa 1973. There were ashtrays everywhere but your drunk roommates still burned cigarette holes in all the furniture.
100% polyester fleece hoodies melt like Velveeta under a heatgun. That little hole is now a souvenir
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Imperfection is perfection. Hand made in Rainier Beach.
When I woke up this morning the arrows were still a little sticky. Polyester does not absorb paint like cotton does.
That hoodie will take me to work. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe someday.
party like it's 1973
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