In other news, this morning I saw someone talking on one of those car phones that were big back in the early- to mid-90s. You know the ones with the little carrying case and an actual cord attached to the receiver? One of those. I almost laughed out loud at how dumb those things are. They were so pricey too -- like $3 a minute or something back in the day.
My friend Derek and I were just debating over how you get the cool "baseball field-like" mowing strips in your yard. Does anyone know? Do you have to set the wheels in the front lower than those in the back? I've tried mowing criss-crosses in my lawn before to make it look like a Major League outfield, but to no avail. Someone please enlighten me, my grass is begging to look beautiful.
I was asked to feature the Photoshopped images of Blair Fisher that I've created in the past (along with Mike Donnenwerth and Grimace, Blair is one of my three favorite people/monsters to Photoshop). Here's the first installment:
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The designs are created through a process called lawn striping. To create lawn-striping designs of your own, you only need two pieces of equipment: a lawnmower and a roller. Many professional groundskeepers use old-fashioned reel mowers to cut a stadium's grass. Attached just behind the blades of the mower is a lawn roller that bends the grass down.
Whatever pattern you make is revealed by the light shining off of the bent grass. A checkerboard design is created by passing over the grass in side-by-side rows, first going north to south, then crossing over that with east-to-west stripes perpendicular to the north-to-south stripes. In this way, you alternate the way the grass bends. When you look at your lawn, the stripes of grass leaning away from you will look lighter. This lighter green is caused by the sunlight reflecting off the entire blade of grass. In the darker green stripes, formed by the blades of grass leaning toward you, the sunlight is reflecting only off the tips of the blades.
In order to make a diamond design in the lawn, your grass must be from Antwerp.
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