Erik Purins - purins.com

Alcohol markers

Markers and paint pens

The combo of alcohol markers and acrylic paint pens is great! What’s not to love?

A white male driver talks on his cel phone. Phone in his right hand, left hand gesturing. No hands are on the steering wheel of the car.

CarViolence

Hit By a White Crossover Car

In 2007, a taxi nearly hit me. The next car did.

Me at my workshop, refilling Prismacolor alcohol markers. A squeeze bottle in my right hand. A marker with its fiber tip removed in my left. A rag protects the surface of a wooden workbench.

Reuse

Refilling Prismacolor markers

Can you refill or revive dry Prismacolors? Yeah! And it's pretty easy and affordable.

A linocut print, inked with black, on a roller (etching) press bed. Print blankets are thrown back. The artist is laying blue paper down.

howto

How to prepare and print a small intaglio drypoint

Jessica's instructions for preparing and printing a drypoint etching (intaglio) plate. Full instructions behind paywall.

A person in a ghost costume, wearing dark sunglasses, in a cement parking garage.

Tech

2025 blog migration to ghost

I migrate old blog posts to ghost.org and review the experience.

POV - my right hand reaches out to type on a macbook pro. I'm wearing brown plaid shirt. My hand is in focus. I'm working at a wood dining table. The laptop is plugged into power.

Self reflection

SPOILER: I am a terrible writer

I reflect on my challenges clearly communicating, and my hope that reading a self help book I bought in January of 2020 will fix everything.

A blurred out user's Ubuntu terminal prompt, zoomed in to see pixellation of the insert cursor

Tech

2018 still not the year of linux on the desktop

I complain about how Ubuntu's 2018 bluetooth stack breaks every time I upgrade anything ever.

A screenshot of a cPanel / hosting provider dashboard, with some onitor banding.

Tech

Blog software security redux

Carrie's blog gets infected at the cPanel level, and we dump that hosting provider.

The shooting location of the TV show M.A.S.H., in Malibu Creek State Park, as it looks today. The title song of M.A.S.H. is 'Suicide is Painless'.

Self reflection

It brings on many changes

Getting off the Harbor Bay ferry, there was a car parked up on the sidewalk, where riders usually exit to the parking lot. And an older man, slumped in it.

A masculine hand, inking wooden type with black ink, using a wide well-used brayer.

Tech

First post!

I explain why I moved from self-hosted MovableType to hosted Wordpress.