Fresh Links – Get ‘Em While They’re Hot!

It’s only Tuesday but a few fresh links might help the week pass a little faster…

• Noodler’s Ink 2011 Artist Contest (h/t Gold Spot)
• Reader’s Digest: How To Have Beautiful Handwriting (h/t Flax Pen To Paper)
• Zero calorie chocolate? Try Choco Magnets from Jet Pens
• Office Supply Geek: Noodler’s Ahab Flex Nib Fountain Pen
• Nikira’s Moleskine Art especially this portrait
• 35 Examples Of Stunning Macro Photography

Links to Artists Who Put Pens to Good Use

Need a mid-week boost? Mostly pen use related links this time but a few other tidbits as well.

• Notebook Loves Pen has some beautiful and artistic journals here, here and here.
• Leigh Reyes – Ink ménage à trois
• Javi Alfonzo – Calligraphy Collaboration
• Mia and the Calla Lilies
• Writer’s Bloc has Clairefontaine French Ruled Notebooks (my fave for practicing calligraphy)
• Platinum Mix Free Ink will land in the U.S. soon.
• Have you met Quora?
• The Pen Addict has a new gig.
• Are you a fan of fountain pen artist Mattias Adolfsson?

Sunday Morning Linky Goodness

The Visconti pen is nothing short of amazing…

• Visconti Declaration of Independence Fountain Pen at Penoply and Art Brown
• Pete Scully gets the most out of a Moleskine
• Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast shares some yummy illustrations
• Chrome propeller pen at MoMA
• Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period
• A Place to Flourish
• Field Notes adds a steno to the mix
• Montegrappa Pays Homage to the Legendary Bruce Lee

New Links To Start The New Year

A few links to start the New Year right…

• Reacquaint yourself with the pleasures of a hand-sharpened pencil
• Chocolate Vodka Recipe from Withoutink
• A better Post-It
• My Year in Journaling from d’blogala
• Being A Good Writer
• Paper Art by Hunter Stabler
• Do you love turquoise?
• UK science journal publishes study by 8-year-olds
• Thrifty Flair: New Year’s resolutions for the home
• Pels and Lamys invade the Philippines (h/t HisNibs.com)
• Beginner Fountain Pens from Office Supply Geek
• Jack the Cat

Links – Music, Moleskine, Pens, Paper

A few are totally off topic but worthy of mention…

• Leigh Reyes – The Waterman 52V
• Moleskinerie – Because It Is There
• Common Errors in English Usage
• Office Supply Geek – Custom Journals from Brandbook
• SciCafe: Life, Universe & Everything with Neil deGrasse Tyson
• DIY Sara on a Sunday, Sunday
• Julie shares her Writing Down the Ink
• Sunshine in my Mind by Laura Ault
• Moleskine Day with artist Jessica Findely via Molecover
• Visual Journalism 101 in a Watercolor Journal with Pam Carriker

Lots of Links + Moleskine in the Mix

• RICHARD OSBORNE: Letter writing helps improve ability to shape one’s thoughts via CCorrada
• White-Gold Montblanc Black Widow Fetches $20,740 at Busy Bonhams Pen Sale via Bloomberg
• The perfect journal? Share Moleskine®
• Blind Dog Has Her Own Seeing-Eye Dog
• Notes on a Visual Life: Longing for a rainy day…
• Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked
• Paul Carr: Thnks Fr Th Mmrs: The Rise Of Microblogging, The Death Of Posterity (Moleskine)
• Urban Sketchers > Portland: Alanna’s experience at the Symposium! (Moleskine)
• Cruzine: High Speed Photography – The Frozen Motion
• Office Supply Geek: Moleskine Folio Professional Printable Paper for Inkjet and Laser Printers

More Links for July, 2010

The last few weeks I’ve found inspiration in a wider variety of places than usual. Maybe one of them will help bring out the artist, writer or just the dreamer in you.

• Dirty Footprints Studio – 30 Journals 30 Days: EFFY WILD
• Smockpaper – Custom Letterpress Social Notes
• Palimpsest – Portable Writing Desk by Thomas Jefferson
• The Atlantic Wire – On Twitter, a Brief History of White House Pens
• Paint My Photo
• eHow – Holding a Calligraphy Fountain Pen Correctly
• Althouse – 1 sunset… in 3 parts.
• Suzanne Dugal
• Drawing with a Squirrel – Schmincke Watercolor Box
• Wild Junket – 6 of Europe’s Most Enchanting Coastal Towns
• Leigh Reyes – The Osmiroid Drawing Pen Set