My videos tend to highlight a particular obsession of mine at the time they’re made. This one is all about the shimmer. Tyrekickers is a dreamy song, and it makes me think of afternoon sun slanting into abandoned cars and bouncing off mirrors. When I make these videos, I steady elbow and forearm against the table. …
When a market is diversifying, it’s thriving. On that basis, 2015 was a healthy year for pen addicts everywhere – an especially happy observation to make in the fountain pen segment, which is almost two centuries old. The Year of Personalization Bespoke bodies and custom nibs have been around a while, but personalization was truly the …
It’s a delight to see the custom pen market growing with the demand for non-disposable writing instruments. My first bespoke pen, a Shinobi from Shawn Newton, is a wonderful workhorse. My second bespoke pen is by Yoshi Nakama, who did fabrication for conceptual artist Sol LeWitt for almost three decades. His background in materials is impressive. …
It was Thomas R. Hall (@penucopia on Instagram and enabler to the enablers) who lent me his Shinobi pen and first told me about Shawn Newton. He’d asked Shawn to use translucent acrylic in blue and grey, and make a custom section for a Pilot nib ground to a 0.2 mm needlepoint. The pen came with a flat …