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Penthusiasm!

November 18, 2011

Quinn at QuinnCreative experiments with refilling the versatile Pilot Parallel Pen for artwork. Mark at Good Kit names the Sharpie Stainless Steel as the best cheap alternative to a tactical self-defense pen. Rhonda at the Blog of Rhonda Eudaly points out the benefits of the micro Pilot Hi-Tec-C 0.25 mm in editing. Nancy at Tattered Garden [...]

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Pilot FriXion Goes Retractable in the UK (And There’s a Contest, Too)

November 17, 2011

The Pilot FriXion is a nifty little erasable ink pen that has gotten lots of love since it was launched a few years ago. It’s popular with editors, artists, quilters and most every kind of writer, and has consistently received decent reviews. Except for one common complaint – the positioning of the eraser. The FriXion, [...]

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How Do You Recycle Ink Pens?

November 16, 2011

What do you do when you’ve finished with a used ink pen – toss it in the trash? Probably, because that’s what we all do. It’s about the only thing you can do with an old pen. Complete pens can’t go into normal plastic recycling bins because they contain bits of metal, as well as [...]

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Penthusiasm!

November 11, 2011

Yochanan at Multi-Pen Dimensions revels in the intricacies of the ACME 4FP Multi Pen. Judith at Kats-in-Klompen shares her Moleskine notebook drawings from a vacation in France. Tyler at 777 Pen Repair reviews the Pilot Vanishing Point fountain pen in painstaking detail. Keep on Truckin’, Nattosoup briefly explains how to refill the Kuretake and Pentel brush [...]

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Totally Random Pen Stuff

November 9, 2011

• We always love these little features that magazines do, peering into the working bags of random VIPs. PC World got Claire Chambers, founder and CEO of luxury lingerie maker Journelle, to share what kind of tech she deems essential to running her business. In addition to a Blackberry, iPad and MacBook Air, she also totes [...]

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Vintage Pen Collector Supplies Props to ‘Mad Men’

November 7, 2011

Just read a brilliant story about a man named George Fox who collects vintage ink pens from the 60s and 70s and loans items from his collection to the TV show ‘Mad Men’ to use a period props. (If you haven’t seen Mad Men on AMC, it’s about the people at a New York ad [...]

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Pilot Pens for Children in Sri Lanka

November 3, 2011

We recently heard from a wonderful lady named Margaret who’d bought some Pilot Super Color Silver Markers for a trip she was taking to Sri Lanka. Margaret works with a charity called Ocean Stars Trust, which was established in 2005 to help children and families whose lives were devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunami. She [...]

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Artist Reproduces Masterpieces with One Line from a Faber-Castell

November 2, 2011

Faber-Castell has done something extraordinary to promote its Pitt Artist Pens. The German writing instrument maker had an artist recreate three famous paintings – Van Gogh’s self-portrait, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Vermeer’s Girl with the Pearl Earring – using the popular drawing pens. In and of itself, that’s nothing unusual. Except that artist Chan [...]

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Totally Random Pen Stuff

October 24, 2011

• PC World magazine is reporting that Wacom has introduced the first digital pen designed specifically for artists. The Inkling uses a receiver that clips onto the top of the page and records the signal from the pressure-sensitive pen. Then, the receiver connects by USB to your computer, where the images can be turned into bitmap [...]

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Inappropriate Uses of Pens

October 19, 2011

• Would you pay $50 for a special ink pen if it came with a free ticket to a sold-out college football game? The Daily Reveille reports that’s the deal scalpers are offering at Louisiana State University, where students buy cheap tickets to the game and turn a profit on them outside the stadium. Selling a ticket [...]

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