I look at this pen and I think of robots and space opera. Was it their then-zeitgeist, futuristic science making the decade of the Second World War easier to bear? The Eversharp Skyline was produced between 1940 to 1949. Many will contend that science fiction’s first golden age was the 50s, ushered in by Isaac …
Month: August 2009
Taken with the N97’s fabulous camera, color-corrected in Pixelmator. Ink is some diluted brown in a Danitrio flexible EF nib, Noodler’s X-Feather in Pelikan 3B, Kiowa Pecan in Visconti stub.
In between workshop sessions, I could play. Casa San Pablo welcomes people and pens, and there is an interesting composition to be found (or improvised) in every corner. In the room where I stayed, nudes hung from the walls, their backs to me while I slept. A tiny table managed to stay up under the …
Because this is definitely not what it’s meant to do. This costs P120 at National Bookstore. It comes with two extra attachments – another scoop, and a tweezer. There. I have a pen peeper. I have been saved from poking around pen barrels hoping I don’t dislodge anything crucial, like a bit of lever. Yay!
For some reason, today was old-pen-is-that-you day. I found an italic nib from an old Parker calligraphy set, and decided to go to National Bookstore in Greenbelt over lunch to buy a Vector to fit it in. I also dug up and cleaned 4 Pilot Parallel Pens. And, in what was a hunch that proved …
Cute has invaded my life. First bunny shoes, and now this. FUNctional is a stationery shop in Megamall A. It’s beside Toy Kingdom, which means I have two black holes to fall into. Everything in the shop comes from China. There are ballpens in all shades of sherbet, folders, pencil cases, and notebooks. I bought two …
I like stationery products, I do! In Singapore I run to Borders and Kinokuniya and to the fifth floor of Ngee An City where there’s a huge Art Friend and a shop that sells cloth-covered notebooks and organizers. In Hong Kong I walk down alleys to spot mom-and-pop school supply stores (that also sell chops …
What a colorful treat on a rainy day. On the left is the original pen kimono May gave me. The new ones, also her gifts, are in patterned brown and chartreuse. The leather-textured wrap comes with a bamboo-print brocade lining, while the chartreuse has a quiet beige and gold floral lining. Don’t they all look …
I started accumulating fountain pens in 2005. Before then I was used to carrying any number of Pilot G-tec C3s, Uniball Signos and the occasional Artline. Even now, when I carry a minimum of five fountain pens everyday, I still peek at the student pen section at National Bookstore, wondering if maybe I should get …