If you have to have a cable, make it a cable with a mind of its own. The Une Bobine cable is flexible but strong enough to support your phone like a stand. Une Bobine started as a Kickstarter project and now is available from Photojojo for $30, for iPhone 4, 4s, 5 and Android.
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Damn You, Art School and Procreate (it’ll make sense when you read the whole article)
Damn You, Art School is a web site organized by art school disciplines like architecture, fashion, illustration and others that will give you a list of recommended digital tools for a given discipline. The recommendations range from note-taking and sketching apps to business management tools like faxing and time accounting (in the Illustration tab). There…
On the topic of pencils…
I went down the pencil rabbit-hole yesterday and found a few interesting tidbits: There is more information about the new Blackwing Pearl available on the Pencils.com site and on Timberlines. The Pearl is designed to fill a spot between the original Palomino Blackwing which was described as “soft and smooth” and the Palomino Blackwing 602…
Link Love: Inkscellany
This week is another hodge-podge of pens, paper and digital tools but mostly a lot of ink reviews… mmmm… ink! Paper: Midori Traveler Star Edition Review (via Gourmet Pens) Pens and Ink: Pen Hack: Converting a Kaweco Sport into a bulb filler (via Comfortable Shoes Studio) Diamine Dark Brown Ink Review (via Inkophile) A Fire-Starting…
Pantone Wallpapers
I always get tickled by the goofy stuff designers do, myself included, like proudly showing their affinity for a particular color, right down to its Pantone designated number. So, yeah to Pantone for offering this lovely array of “chips” available as computer desktop wallpapers. I, of course, chose PMS 382C… but really, who is surprised…
Link Love: Eraser Day and His Bradness Goes to a Pen Show
For me, the big news this week was The Pen Addict’s trip to the Atlanta Pen Show so if you read nothing else, check out both of his recaps from the show. Atlanta Pen Show Recap, Part 1 (via Pen Addict) Atlanta Pen Show Recap, Part 2 (via Pen Addict) Pens and Pencils Pens and…
Finding a Google Reader Substitute
After whining and moaning and crying a little, I went ahead and tried just about every Google Reader substitute I could find. While there is no perfect solution yet that bridges across mobile and web options that all syncs together, I have found my temporary workaround. I do most of my RSS reading on my…