I love that word. “Contraption.” You can almost see the string tying together the bolts and ratchets and flanges. Today we have two contraptions. One holds pens. The other is a pen. The Muji pen holder can slide onto most notebook covers. It fits very securely on a standard hardcover Moleskine. Wire hoops stretch to …
Month: March 2010
Sailor’s Nagahara specialty nibs are feats of engineering, and just like other feats of engineering, like bridges and giant tangles of metallic modern art in parks, Â sometimes they look mighty weird. Take, for example, the King Cobra. The King Cobra is actually two nibs. The bottom nib has a very wide tip, the upper nib …
When you grow up stabbing Wonder Woman’s outline on empty cigarette cartons with a ballpoint, you don’t develop a light hand. I remember proudly darkening the outlines on all my trees, apples, houses and sunflowers in art class, thinking it made them look neater. I walked by a Chinese calligraphy exhibit last month and realized …