Link Love: Quintessentially Link Love

Whether this is the first time you’ve ever read Link Love (if it is, welcome!) or if you’ve been checking in every week for years (if so, thanks for coming back!), this week’s links are so quintessentially link love as to make me laugh a little. I think the only thing missing is a knitting link, a funny animal photo or cat, and me making fun of Brad from the Pen Addict. Wait… let me see if I can make that happen! Otherwise, we’ve got all the go-tos: ink. Check! Pens? Check! Pencils? Check! Star Wars? Yep. Something Barbie-related. Yes, that too. Calligraphy, NASA and watercolor? Yes, all accounted for. Postal link? I spared you the link about the postal general retiring but I did read it. But you want a funny Brad picture? I got you covered.

Pens:

• Flexy Nib Fountain Pens Compilation (via Gourmet Pens)
• Zebra Sarasa Push Clip Vintage Colors Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Scribo Feel Fountain Pens – 14kt Fine Flex & 18kt Broad (via Gourmet Pens)
• The Difference Between Ballpoint, Gel, and Rollerball Pens (via JetPens)
• First World Fountain Pen Collecting Problems (via dapprman)
• Urushi – everything you always wanted to know (but didn’t know whom to ask) (via Inked Happiness)
• Pen Review: PenBBS 309 Piston Filler (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• White Pen Comparison: Gelly Roll, Posca 0.7 and Pitt 1.5 Bullet Nib (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)

Ink:

• Caran D’Ache Idyllic Blue (via Mountain of Ink)
• Robert Oster Signature Khaki (via InkSharks)
• De Atramentis Great Writers Ink Bottle Charles Dickens Cement Grey (via Gourmet Pens)
• Kala Nostalgia Abstraction Spring Rain Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)

Pencils:

• Review: Pen + Gear No. 2 Wood Pencils 12-pack Black (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
• Pencil Review: America’s Finest No. 2, Natural and Black (via Polar Pencil Pusher)

Notebooks & Paper:

• Field Notes Autumn Trilogy Review (via Lead Fast)
• Drawing or painting in your travel journal (via Quo Vadis Blog)
• Pillars of the community (via Nero’s Notes)
• How I Benefit from Daily Journal Writing (via Rediscover Analog)
• Clarification about Stillman & Birn Acquisition (via Rhodia Drive)
• Endless Recorder Hardcover Notebook (via The Pen Addict)

Art & Creativity:

• “Mastering Modern Calligraphy” Book Review (via The Postman’s Knock)
• 21 Fall Embroidery Patterns and Kits to Get You into the Autumnal Spirit (via Brown Paper Bag)
• Book Review: Jean-Baptiste Monge Sketchbook Vol 2 (via Parka Blogs)
• Cobalt Green PG50 vs Cobalt Teal Blue PG50 (via Parka Blogs)
• iPad sketching with Rob Sketcherman (via Liz Steel)
• Adobe and Amazon launch Alexa skill aimed at creatives, the Inspiration Engine (via It’s Nice That)

Other Interesting Things:

• Personal Records: Phonocut Puts a Vinyl Record Factory on Your Desktop (via Core77)
• Salvador Dalí’s Tarot Cards Get Re-Issued: The Occult Meets Surrealism in a Classic Tarot Card Deck (via Open Culture)
• The Pen Show That Almost Wasn’t (via Writing for Pain and Pleasure)
• My new companion: the Nock Burton (via UK fountain pens)
• Barbie Has a New Career As a Photojournalist for National Geographic (via My Modern Met)
• First NASA All Female Space Walk Marks Major Milestone (via My Modern Met)
• The Final Trailer for Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker (via Kottke.org)