Link Love: … and Bears

In an effort to get back on schedule, this week’s Link Love is being posted without an editorial intro. It’s also not being published after 4pm. You’re welcome!

Pens:

• Taking myself out of my pen and ink choices (via mnmlscholar)
• The Best Gel Pens for Planners (via JetPens)
• Conklin Endura Abalone Shell 1898 Limited Edition with Gunmetal Trim (via dapprman)
• Foreign (and also Domestic) Urushi (via Crónicas Estilográficas)

Ink:

• Kobe 37 Minatojima Island Blue (via Mountain of Ink)
• Hot Stuff! Sailor 50 State Ink Series – Louisiana! (via Anderson Pens Blog)
• Robert Oster Cities of America Miami Fountain Pen Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Wearingeul swatch tests (via FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART)
• Wearingeul Jekyll to Hyde (via FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART)
• Papier Plume Midnight Blue (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
• Wearingeul: high-concept inks from Korea (via UK fountain pens)

Pencils:

• Blackwing Volume 6 (via Stationery 🍕 )

Notebooks & Paper:

• trying out: kobeha graphilo paper (via Ink Sharks/ink between the teeth)
• A look back at Basildon Bond writing paper. (via Fountain pen blog)
• How Compact is Compact A5 (via Philofaxy)
• Flatability – What is that all about…. (via Philofaxy)
• Paper Review: What Is Bank Paper, and Why Is It So Popular? (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Review: Rembrandt watercolour brush (series 100) (via Parka Blogs)

Art & Creativity:

• My $25 Sketch Kit (Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• Layers in my sketchbooks: Part 3 – Materials (via Apple-Pine)
• Stars, Circles, and Symbols in Primary Colors Form Astrological Maps and Coded Works by Shane Drinkwater (via Colossal)
• “Almost too beautiful to be true”: Inside Hayao Miyazaki’s genius (via It’s Nice That)

Other Interesting Things:

• Photographer Suzannah Gabriel on how postgrad study helps you grow professionally (via Creative Boom)
• Arresting Photos Document the Polar Bears Occupying an Abandoned Weather Station in Russia (via Colossal)
• How Cascatelli, the Hot New Pasta Shape, Is Made (via Kottke.org)
• An Annual ‘Giant Letter’ Installation Displays a Heartfelt Note from a 100-Foot-Tall Boy Named Bobby (via Colossal)
• Job satisfaction, happiness and work-life balance for creatives is lower than national average (via It’s Nice That)
• Look away from the pit (via Austin Kleon)
• Please, for goodness’ sake, start a mailing list (via Austin Kleon)
  

  ---

We need each other. Please support our sponsors, affiliates or join our Patreon. Your patronage supports this site. Without them, and without you, we could not continue to do what we do. Thank you!