Here’s a bit of pen-and-paper reading that deserves special mention.
Trent Hamm has written a piece at Lifehacker on using a pocket notebook to simplify your life and increase your productivity, both personally and professionally.
It’s a couple of months old, but still an excellent guide, very thorough and methodical in its approach to making a notebook part of your everyday carry.
The other day, I happened onto the site of Japanese pen guru Russ Stutler. I’d visited it before, but there …
There’s a lot of secrecy around the trailers for the upcoming movie based on the Warcraft games.
The gaming and movie press have gotten to see some of them, including an extended preview at Comic-Con recently, but access outside those circles has been limited.
So a few people with varying degrees of artistic talent have gotten creative by coming up with their own movie trailer drawings.
Bryan Bishop, reporting from Comic-Con for TheVerge.com, was armed with a Uniball Signo 207 and a Moleskine notebook when he saw the preview.
He decided to sketch the movie trailer for Warcraft.
Kit pens don’t get much respect, especially from hardcore pen geeks. And sure, not without reason. They often use generic nibs, fittings and refills mass-produced to less than exacting standards.
But that’s not totally fair, either. Some kit pens have beautiful barrels, lovingly crafted by hand into genuine works of art. Such pens may be less about the writing experience and more about the aesthetics.
These are not those pens. Or, at least, not entirely.
When we think of the loss of handwriting as a common skill, we tend to think of it in terms of English handwriting.
But the Chinese are experiencing a similar issue with regards to traditional Chinese calligraphy. And now, as fewer and fewer people learn the painstaking handwriting craft, a core group of traditionalists are working to keep calligraphy alive.