This first batch is mostly nib porn. Shooting these made me sad I did not own a tripod. Share and enjoy.
Ink is like chocolate. You feel a little guilty about having so much but it makes you so happy. Welcome, Okamoto Pink and Arima Amber. Okamoto Pink is flushed cheeks, Arima Amber is all shades of beer. No wonder they look good together. Thanks to RayVi for bringing them back from Nagasawa, and to this …
(based on Karen Kingston’s Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, which is the richest, most helpful book on clutter, the origin and removal thereof, and which I need to read every year – more about her on spaceclearing.com) Clutter pulls people down and keeps them stuck. After tripping over yet another box in my office, …
(I usually write about pens and art, so this is amazingly out of place on this blog, but I can’t think of where else to put it now, as I have been working for 3 days straight and am only 1% more alive than zombie. So do visit all the lovely pen, ink and paper …
Featuring the talents of: 1 The Hicks fountain pen 2 The Swan Pen 3202 3 Moore Safety pen 4 Waterman 12 5 bamboo pen 6 Private Reserve Arabian Rose 7 Caran d’Ache Caribbean Sea 8 Lots and lots of Platinum Carbon Black 9 Water bottle
Do your own thing, not just the client-paid-for-it thing. That thing isn’t yours, no matter how many hours you wrote it, shot it, retouched the hell out of it. The client paid for it, but it’s not theirs either, it belongs to a brand they’re paid to watch over, and someone called a consumer will …
I bought a Sheaffer Copper Legacy from Jim Gaston early in my fountain pen collecting days. The pen is now with a dear friend, and Jim Gaston’s site has now been turned over to the family resort; nothing on the front page links to any of the beautiful Sheaffers he used to sell. When Dennis …
“A-scavenging we will go, a-scavenging we will – what’s that?” The Scavengers didn’t like taking anything that wasn’t useful. Or edible. This object was certainly a puzzle. It seemed to be made of shiny, mustardy celluloid. The two Scavengers stared at Pennie. “Dude. It’s a box.” “Yeah. Chill.” Pennie snarled. “You don’t survive in the …
Stephan LePodd, Explorer Extraordinaire, came upon a most peculiar cylindrical object in his extensive travels. He decided to bring it to Mr. Head, his friend and Puissant Philosopher. Surely it had been machined by the survivors of a long-lost advanced civilization! Perhaps even the famed Atlantis. Why else would it have “Waterman” impressed upon it, …
Maruman’s Mnemosyne line takes its muse very seriously. “Today’s Act†is a simple list and to-do notebook. It is slightly bigger than the small Moleskine, with a stiff plastic cover and double spiral binding. In the don’t-leave-anything-to-chance spirit of the Japanese (remember, my Enveloop pen case came with a diagram), there is a bright yellow …