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Despite my recent grumblings about the paper quality of Moleskines, I’m pleased enough with the design to have a few in my current rotation. I’m embarrassed by how many notebooks I have started right now, each with its own dedicated purpose, at least vaguely. The one that I’

This past weekend at Flax’s pen fair I was able to put my hands on the Waterman Edson Diamond Black [https://splicer.com/2007/03/31/edson/]. There is in fact something really amazing abut the pen. I can’t put my finger on it and it may just

For some time I’ve marveled at the consistency that calligraphers are able to maintain when doing their work. Everything else is just knowing how to move a pen to get a particular shape, flourish, or effect. No individual part of calligraphy is all that mysterious, but actually getting the

Saturday afternoon I went to the Pen Fair and Sale at Flax Art for one purpose: to give the Parker representative a hard time. I should back up and explain why that was necessary. The first fact you need to know is that Parker is owned by Sanford, the company

[http://ghostdev.splicer.com/content/images/wordpress/2007/05/photo_051407_003.jpg]Woke up this morning to the sound of my upstairs neighbor hollering and banging on the door. When I wandered out to see what was going on, it turns out he wasn’t banging on my door,

One of the things I feel best about from this past weekend’s Open Studios was giving out promotional freebies. In my last order to Photoworks, I included a run of 100 4″×6″ prints of a photo of the Mount Davidson Cross and all weekend I gave them out.