This is a good week. News that Retro51 will continue was announced this week. Scientists discovered Cookie Monster faces inside an agate stone. There’s a video showing the 10-billion pixel scan of the Girl with the Pearl Earring painting, there’s a new shade of blue, animals help photographers, learn genetics with gummi bears, new Star…
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Link Love: Visual Wonderland
This week, Link Love is so full visuals that I urge you to click on the links just to see the photos, illustrations and graphics. I promise you it will be worth it. The images below are just a taste of the amazing things you’ll see if you CLICK through. It’s from the Creative Boom’s…
Link Love: Some Links for my Friends
Some weeks I realize that I earmark links for Link Love that I think will be interesting to specific people in my life. I’m sure you do this too… you have a friend or family member who loves something… like say soccer. So, anytime you find a blog post or newspaper article, maybe a book…
Link Love: Virtual Hive Mind
In the past, links have coalesced into a sort of hive mind of the pen community. Sometimes this hive behavior is due to the release of a new product but, sometimes it seems more random. This week, the feed seemed filled with a collection of posts single-handedly targeted for my particular needs right now. If…
Link Love: The Future is Now the Past
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…
Link Love: Doing ALL the Things
This was a week of to-do lists. They were the things I actually accomplished, things I still need to do and things I wish I could do. On the list of things I accomplished was preparation for the St. Louis Pen Show including unveiling the newest Col-o-ring product, The Col-o-ring “Oversize”. It’s a 4×5.5″ spiral…
Link Love: Crazy Days of Summer
This week, there are ballpoint pen reviews and witty crosstitch designs. Is this the end-of-times edition? No, it’s just the wild-and-crazy days of summer. Nick Stewart shows off a giant calligraphy brush and Mono paints a city bus to loon like their iconic eraser and packaging. In more normal posts, there are also reviews of…