Thanks to Kottke.org, I was able to keep a Star Wars link in this week. It’s a link to the preview for all the Star Wars movies that will be available on Disney+ starting May 4 (May the Fourth Be With You, of course! Stay tuned, we will have a special sale in the shop in honor of M4BWU ). As such, it is my job to point out the “Machete Order” for watching the Star Wars films. Discuss amongst yourselves the validity of this method.
While you do so, I will be finishing watching the Marvel Universe films in “Chronological Order” — as the events would have occurred. We have been calling this “Spaghetti Order” since it is not the order the films were filmed but rather the timeframe that the films supposedly occurred. The official “Spaghetti Order” for the MCU films is actually the order they were filmed, which I don’t think would make them more enjoyable. There is also a deep chronological order that include extras from the DVDs and the Agent Carter TV Series, if you really want to go deep. I don’t have acess to all the shorts but I sure will watch Agent Carter again.
There’s a link about Lee Miller who was a photographer and a well-known artist. I have a biography about her that I need to read. You can get the abbreviated info about her there. I don’t know about anyone else but I have been voraciously reading since the lockdown. I even updated my GoodReads reading challenge because I was already 11 books ahead. Are you reading these days? What are you reading?
Pens:
- How To Use Your Fountain Pens More Often: Try The 5 Whys (via Fountain Pen Love)
- Conway Stewart Model 100 Fountain Pen (via Gourmet Pens)
- Staedtler 0.05mm Pigment Liner Pens (via Tools and Toys)
Ink:
- Standard Bindery Stargaze Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)
- Van Dieman’s Tasmania Vine Purple Ink Review (via Pen Chalet)
- Top 10 Shading Inks (via Mountain of Ink)
Pencils:
- General’s Semi-Hex, Badger, and Supreme (via Letterspace.org)
Notebooks & Paper:
- The Best Paper for Everyday Writing, Part V: Writing Pads, Notecards, and Even Some Looseleaf (via The Gentleman Stationer)
- A Hockey Player’s Notebook (via Notebook Stories)
- Pocket notebook catch-all (via Quo Vadis Blog)
Art & Creativity:
- Europe 20 Virtual trip begins (via Liz Steel)
- Book Review: The Addictive Sketcher by Adebanji Alade (via Parka Blogs)
- Sketch Kit: Pandemic Edition (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
- Chris Ware’s NYC Still Life (via Kottke.org)
- My Europe 2020 trip is on… virtually! (via Liz Steel)
- Lee Miller: Fashion Model, Surrealist, and Fearless War Correspondent (via My Modern Met)
- Colours in my palette: Blue (via Liz Steel)
- A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine (via Hperallergic)
- Free Knitting Pattern: Daffodil Lace Wrap (via Purl Soho)
- Meet the Maker: Julie Arkell (via LoopKnitlounge)
- Selling the Imperfection of Handmade Art Paper (Via Kottke.org)
Other Interesting Things:
- The Complete Skywalker Saga | Star Wars | Disney+ (via YouTube)
- You’re Wanted on Set! (via Field Notes)
- Semikolon Sticky-Tab Page Markers (via Tools and Toys)
- Tom Hanks Sends Eight-Year-Old Aussie Kid Called Corona a Corona Typewriter (via oz.Typewriter)
- “I had to constantly pinch myself”: Krzysztof Domaradzki on his custom lettering for Pearl Jam’s latest album (via It’s Nice That)
- Living with Plants Happily Ever After: Q+A with Plant Tribe Book Author (via decor8)