My Lytro needed a case, so I talked to Gabie, She Who Sews, and she made me one. There’s something magical about handmade and high-tech snuggling together. Gabie has made me a bird, and a dragon. I can attest to the “handmade with love” product claim. 🙂 She used leather she found in a market …
Click the part of the image you want to focus on. Lytro mojo takes care of the rest. (If no images show up the first time you load, hit refresh.) Here, two Parker 5th “nibs.” In front, a lady’s Parker 5th with rose gold-colored section and what is, for lack of a better phrase, a …
Rarely do my two worlds (advertising and pens) intersect, but when they do, the result is bound to be interesting. Lowe Singapore created an ad for SANA (Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association) and asked me to do the calligraphy. Different lines asked for different ways of writing. I covered tables and tables with giant sheets of Daler-Rowney …
There are many people who will tell you not to be so impulsive. Many times, they will be right. Especially when it comes to impulse shopping, impulse eating, and impulse snarking. (Raven, in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, has Poor Impulse Control tattooed on his forehead. In his case it has more to do with anger …
None of these went home with me, but I did get a chance to play with them during a recent visit to Aesthetic Bay. The original Sailor Professional Gear Saibi Togi (a swordpoint nib) came with gold trim. There’s now one with shiny white metal trim and a rhodium-finish 21k nib. There is a new …
Not much to say here, except: wow. Orange. One side burning, the other side chrome. The design makes me think of high-tech coffeemakers and Betabrand’s disco skirt. This is not my usual pen. It’s not vintage. It’s not Japanese. The nib isn’t flexible. I therefore conclude it must be The Power of Orange. A summer …
It is possible, using one’s powers of observation, to deduce the characteristics and motivations of the individual members of the peculiar tribe known as Pen People from their tools. Known to congregate around platters of pasta in centrally-located malls, Pen People are quite ingenious at devising ways to carry their pens and accessories. Subject 1 …
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If you pass by this blog a lot, why don’t you say hi in the comment thread? If you have a topic you want to see me write about, say so. I might not know enough about it, but it would be good to try. (This is my way of fishing for blog entry ideas. …
I picked up a couple of TWSBI Diamond piston-fill pens at Scribe Writing Essentials over the weekend. (This is your fault, Karlo.) I wasn’t really intending to mod one, but these thoughts do cross your mind when you’re working overtime on a Sunday. The EF nib felt – normal. I pulled it out of the …