Link Love: (Week Seven) 10/10/10

For the folks here in the Kansas City area, today marks the first day of relaxed restrictions on the stay-at-home order which has been dubbed by our mayor as 10/10/10 for non-essential businesses. Whether this will actually keep people healthy while restarting our economy remains to be seen. Being essentially “self-employed”, I don’t have to leave the house except for the occasional grocery run or postal pick-up so I am going to try to keep those as minimal as they’ve been in the past month.

In less pandemic news, Sunday I met, virtually, with the Lone Star Pen Club which was very cool. We talked about recent pen acquisitions, favorite shades of pink ink, why we made the new Col-o-ring Dippers and what’s on the horizon for The Desk Shop. Stay tuned. It was such a nice group of people with a great collection of pens from Viscontis to Jinhaos. It reminded me a lot of our local Kansas City group. All pens welcome!

One other topic we discussed was the news about Crane paper mill. I promised the group I would include the link from the news coverage here. The link is in Paper & Notebooks. I hoped to get more information by the time this post went live but unfortunately, the information I found online is still largely contradictory and hazy. Hopefully, there will be more information available from Crane and Mohawk in the coming weeks.

Pens:

• Vintage Kaweco Sport (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• 10 pen experiences to try before you die (via UK fountain pens)
• Rotring 600 Levenger Fountain Pen and Rollerball Review (via Writing at Large)
• OMAS 360 ‘New’ (via dapprman)
• Montegrappa Elmo Fantasy Blooms Blue Cross Gentian Fountain Pen (via The Pen Addict)
  Pen design red flags: seeing the bigger picture (via UK fountain pens)
• Amazon Basics Fountain Pen Review (via The Poor Penman)
• Initial Thoughts: The Platinum Curidas (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• This Just In: Sailor King of Pen Royal Tangerine (viaFountain Pen Quest)
• Our Thoughts on the Platinum Curidas (via Penquisition)
• Fountain Pens Worth Replacing. Really? (viaFountain Pen Quest)

Ink:

• Against Inks (via Crónicas Estilográficas)
• Maruzen Athena Inks (via Mountain of Ink)
• Tono & Lims 1 Year Anniversary Inks (via Mountain of Ink)
• The Mystery of a Medieval Blue Ink Has Been Solved (via Atlas Obscura)
• Montblanc Ladies Edition Pearl Pink Marilyn Monroe (via Gourmet Pens)
• Standard Bindery Road Trip Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Colorverse Inks 59 & 60 Ginkgo Tree & Golden Leaves (via Gourmet Pens)

Pencils:

• Vintage Colored Pencils: Caran d’Ache Polycolor (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• The Hard Truth About 2H Pencils (via CW Pencil Enterprise)
• Castle Arts Colored Pencils (Urban Collection) (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)

Notebooks & Paper:

• Crane Stationery Plant In North Adams To Reduce Workforce By 85% In June (via WAMC)
• The Thinnest Paper in the World (via The New York Times)
• How Does Paper Color Affect Ink Color? (via Fountain Pen Love)
• Colorverse Rainy Day Ink: A Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Baron Fig Do Work Journal Overview (via The Poor Penman)
• Glue Notebooks Together… Without Glue? (via Notebook Stories)
• How to Keep a Reading Journal (via Notebook Stories)
• An Art Critic’s Notebooks (via Notebook Stories)
• Why It’s Important to Experiment in your Bullet Journal (via Rediscovering Analog)

Art & Creativity:

• The calm of collage (via Austin Kleon)
• Review: Schmincke Aqua Drop (Liquid Watercolour) (via Parka Blogs)
• Pencil Artist Spotlight: Sena Kwon (via CW Pencil Enterprise)
• 5 YouTube Channels That Demonstrate Embroidery Stitches (via Brown Paper Bag)
• Free online art workshops hosted by Urban Sketchers Hanoi (via Parka Blogs)
• Two Prompts in One: Our Kitchen (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• How Women Helped Revolutionize the Art of Printmaking (via Hyperallergic)
• DIY: how to make your own stamp (via Flow Magazine)

Other Interesting Things:

• To roam his dominion (via Boston Society for Architecture)
• Football Type 2 celebrates the beautiful typography of the beautiful game (via It’s Nice That)
• Turning the iPad Into Something New (via The Newsprint)
• Volin Crik Self-Adhesive Pen Holders for Notebooks and Journals (via Tools and Toys)
• Brighten Your Day With Typewriter Illustrations (via oz.Typewriter)
• Ghibli Museum offers rare glimpse inside via virtual tours (via It’s Nice That)

Somewhat Coroanavirus/COVID-19-related:

• Work from Home Resources (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
• Work from Home Resources, Sound (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
• Work from Home Resources, Lighting (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
• Notebooking Through the Coronavirus (via Notebook Stories)
• Chicago Potholes Are Filled with Pandemic Essentials in Humorous New Mosaics by Jim Bachor (via Colossal)
• Star Wars Video Call Backgrounds (via My Modern Met)
• Social Distancing As Demonstrated in Wes Anderson Films (via Kottke.org)
• Letterform Landscapes (via Letterform Archive)