For someone known for her love of vintage, my two most formative moments in cinema as a child were seeing Star Wars and then seeing Bladerunner. Bladerunner was set in the near-future 2019 with a slightly-retro, brutalistic architecture and 1940s-inspired fashion. But, as of this week, Bladerunner is now showing us what the past looks like. Austin Kleon provides a link to a wiki list of other stories now set in the past-future.
- A list of stories set in a future now past (via Austin Kleon)
What do these stories tell us about what our past selves thought we could accomplish and haven’t? Or what we would destroy but didn’t?
Pens:
- Eureka Symmetry and Asymmetry Pens (via dapprman)
- Where It All Started: The Transparent Pelikan Fountain Pen (via The Pelikan’s Perch)
- Pilot Dr. Grip: A Comprehensive Guide (via JetPens)
- Review: Pentel Stylo Sketch Pen (JM20-AE) (via Parka Blogs)
- Video Review: Sailor Pro Gear (via nib & ink)
- Tactile Turn Gist Delrin Fountain Pen Review (via The Pen Addict)
- The Montblanc M as product design thought experiment (via UK fountain pens)
- Diving in to the world of Ferris Wheel Press (via UK fountain pens)
Ink:
- Ink Review: Vanness Pens / Joey Feldman “Inktober” and “Good Evening” (via The Gentleman Stationer)
- News: TWSBI joins the fountain pen ink game (via Rediscover Analog)
- Diamine Inkvent Calendar (via Mountain of Ink)
- Retrospective: Sunday November 3 (via Macchiato Man)
- review: noodler’s v-mail burma road brown (via ink between the teeth)
- Lennon Tool Bar 2019 Autumn Inks (via Mountain of Ink)
- Berlin Notebook Blue No 1 Fountain Pen Ink (via Fountain Pen Love)
Pencils:
- Sharpener Review: Deli No. 0668 (via Polar Pencil Pusher)
- Caran d’Ache Bicolors: Wish List Fulfilled! (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
Notebooks & Paper:
- Hobonichi Techo Planner, Weeks, and Cousin Comparison (via Anderson Pens Blog)
- Time management Monday: How to use habit trackers to achieve your goals (via Quo Vadis Blog)
- How to Use the Alastair Method Weekly Spread (via Boho Berry)
- Patricia Highsmith’s Diaries (via Notebook Stories)
- Midori MD Notebook for Fountain Pens! (via Gourmet Pens)
- Moleskine Star Wars Pocket Weekly 2020 Planner Review (via Writing at Large)
Art & Creativity:
- Complementary colours for Stephen Quiller Watercolor (via Parka Blogs)
- Inktober 2019: Report (via Apple-Pine)
- Doodling Art Supplies (via Doodlewash)
- Celebrating Autumn (via My Giant Strawberry)
- Vintage Colored Pencils: Nearly Antique Caran d’Ache Prismalo? (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
- Embroidered Calligraphy by Olga Kovalenko Plays with Notions of Time and Gesture (via Colossal)
Other Interesting Things:
- Muralist Elian Chali Envelopes Building Facades in Enormous Abstract Fields of Color (via Colossal)
- Start before you think you’re ready (via Austin Kleon)
- A Yellow Brick Road is Paved in Chicago to Mark Former Home of ‘Wizard of Oz’ Author L. Frank Baum (via Colossal)
- 5 good books I read this summer (via Austin Kleon)
- Get all the fall feels with FREE November 2019 digital wallpapers (via Think.Make.Share.)
Both movies are among my formative, too, though perhaps for different reasons. I still listen to the soundtracks for both often, and they are still my favorite soundtracks of all time. It’s kind of scary to think that the future (which seemed so far in the future back in the ’80s) is now the past. Yikes.