Jana KinsmanInterview
Illustrator, beekeeper
Adapted from Jana Kinsman's interview on Uses This, published 12 March 2013. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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For design and illustration work, I use a 11" MacBook Air.
For in-office scanning, I use an Epson Perfection v600.
For portable scanning when I am doodling folks at events, I use an HP Scanjet Professional 1000.
For backing up work, I use a G-Drive Mini.
I drink water out of a 1/2 liter Ball jar, and take photos and tweet about general dickery on my iPhone 4S.
I keep bees in Langstroth hives because my hives are located far apart; I carry everything by bicycle and trailer, and Langstroth hives are ultra-modular.
I use 10-frame supers and use only medium supers (aka "Illinois supers"; REPRESENT) since keeping one size makes the whole process even simpler.
I use a Dadant smoker and a generic hive tool that I inherited from another beekeeper friend.
I use a Bikes At Work 32" trailer that I hitch to my 1974 Peugeot PX-10, which I bought offa Craigslist and lovingly built into a beautiful touring bike.
I use an old Jim Blackburn rack with a custom smoker holster made by Levi Borrenson, and carry junk in orange Ortlieb Panniers.
Communication
Productivity
Quite Strong and I use Basecamp for all of our collaboration and communication, though we frequently lament the loss of Google Wave, the most perfect collaboration tool created.
Design
I work in Adobe CS3 because I don't know any better, and most of my image processing and layout work requires little time.
Media
Instagram makes my beekeeping and all of the stuff I pick up off the ground look good.