Sunday Reads: Pens, Writing And Some Birds

Need a new pen? There are several here that I would enjoy. How about you?

• The Well-Appointed Desk: Notebook Review: Compoco Airplane View Journal
• Ferris Wheel Press (pens and inks)
• Benu at Pen Chalet
• The home of Ranga Pens
• United Inkdom: Italix Chaplain’s Tankard
• Kaweco shows frost has a place even in spring
• Quick Fountain Pen Review: What’s In My Pen Case Today?
• Notedian: Why English Author Neil Gaiman Writes with a Fountain Pen
• How to write with a brush pen
• T.K. Coleman: Am I a Writer? Are You? Does it Really Matter?
• This Genius Woman Created a Photo Booth for Birds in Her Backyard

From the archives

Sunday Reads: The Perfect Crime, Neil Gaiman And Ink

The Perfect Crime tells a complete story, beginning, middle and end, in twelve seconds. It’s YouTube storytelling at its best.

• Playing by himself
• Low Battery
• Neil Gaiman: Never Again
• Fountain Pen Love: How to Photograph a Fountain Pen

How to commit the perfect crime. pic.twitter.com/vzF8litIVu

— D Attenborough (@Attenboroughs_D) January 23, 2018

Gaiman On Bowie And Other Links

Some weeks are longer than others. This was one of them, but there were a few memorable links…

• Polaroid Hits CES With a Super-Cheap, Super-Cute Camera
• Analog Is Back From the Future
• Want to save money by buying your own modem? Comcast will attack you with unstoppable pop-ups.
• New iPhone Feature Can Drive Bill Up
• Neil Gaiman and David Bowie: The Return of the Thin White Duke
• Bronze Age houses uncovered in Cambridgeshire are Britain’s ‘Pompeii’

Links From Moleskine To Neil Gaiman To Doctor Who

If ever there was an eclectic group of links, this is it.

• Nock Co. – Pen Cases Hand Made In The USA
• Jean Madden “Winter Jewels” – Watercolor meets realism
• Neil Gaiman and the Lamy
• Goldspot Pens Pen of the Year
• Cult Pens: Pens for Kids
• Mitografia makes best use of a Moleskine here and here
• Nibs.com: Waterman Carene Black Sea Gold Fountain Pen
• Sarah Perez: Gmail’s “Quick Action” Buttons
• Ed Jelley’s Trading Post – for inkophiles who want to trade inks
• Cathy Johnson makes good use of a Noodler’s Creaper and Lexington Gray
• How To Cook Fluffy, Tasty Quinoa
• Cult Pens: Diamine Ink Competition
• Posting negative reviews can get you in deep doodoo
• Art journal pages
• inFORM – Interacting With a Dynamic Shape Display
• Tissue Animals (h/t Cynthia Niklas)
• A Neil Gaiman-penned short film about a girl who tries not to fly
• The entire alphabet, photographed on butterfly wings
• Steampunk bunny is soooo cute!
• Gentian’s art at auction to benefit typhoon victims
• Best Doctor Who and Companion
• Jean-Claude Van Damme and the backstory on the epic split (Over 17 million views in under three days.)

Dragon Art, Paper Trends, Inky Links And More

There should be something for everyone in this lot…

• Quo Vadis Blog: Reusing old planner covers
• Daisy Yellow: Inky Collaboration (h/t European Paper)
• 10 Inspiring Social Networks for Writers
• Leigh Reyes: Serious Fountain Pens for Serious Beginners
• Writers and Their Literary Estates: Story Reprints (h/t Neil Gaiman)
• 12 Paper Trends In ’12
• For the Year of the Dragon, Jeff Nishinaka’s paper dragons (h/t JP Panter)
• Giant, Handwritten, Hand-Illuminated Bible here and here
• Craftgasm: Coining a word is nerdy work. Are you a philepistlist?
• Tiger Pens Blog: Write to your iPad in real time!
• How to Make Pinterest Work for Your Business
• Mattias Ink Does Netsuke

Cursive, Sculpture and Hummus?

From paper to pens and the future of cursive, enjoy the gallimaufry.

• Paper sculpture artist Calvin Nicholls: CalvinNicholls.com –> Paper Sculpture Galleries –> The Follett Collection
• Carol Nelson Falcone at Shawangunk Journal: Dear Pen Pal…
• The Best Hummus
• Thanks to Computers, Cursive No Longer Necessary (Oh, really!)
• Neil Gaiman and the Delta
• Curvy (My new fave online game.)
• Nice thank you from OfficeSupplyGeek plus a list of good pen people to check out.
• Kate Gladstone: Is it still cursive if …
• Why Does Writing Make Us Smarter?