Sunday Reads: June 30. 2019

Stuff I Looked At Elsewhere & Read

• Upcoming Toronto Pen Company workshops:
• San Francisco Pen Show - Calligraphy & Lettering with Letters & Textures
• San Francisco Pen Show - Calligraphy & Lettering with Lines & Tines
• Montreal Pen Show - Calligraphy & Lettering with Letters & Textures
• Charming Portraits of Hong Kong’s Shop Cats - Atlas Obscura.
• Shadowy animals - Colossal.
• 8th annual Moleskine project - Colossal.
• Every Year Bobcats Give Birth to Kittens on His Roof, This Year He Set Up a Camera - Twisted Sifter.
• This Brush You Hold With Your Mouth Lets You Lick Your Cat - Sad and Useless.
• Aerogel's are the world's lightest solids - Twisted Sifter.
• Light Shines Through a Rainbow-Tinted Geometric Panel Installation - Colossal.
• Honey wheat muffins - Cookies and Cups.
• Cute bunny butts - Sad and Useless.
• Brown butter chocolate chip cookies - Salt and Baker.
• David Lynch Made a Disturbing Web Sitcom Called “Rabbits”: It’s Now Used by Psychologists to Induce a Sense of Existential Crisis in Research Subjects - Open Culture.
• Dancing hair cell (ear) - YouTube

Stuff I Apparently Did This Week

• Cult Pens Diamine Deep Dark Blue Ink
• Pentel RSVP RT & Colors Ballpoint Pen
• Aurora 88 Urano Fountain Pen

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Aurora 88 Urano Fountain Pen

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Pentel RSVP RT & Colors Ballpoint Pen

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Cult Pens Diamine Deep Dark Blue Ink

Cult Pens has a line up of Diamine Deep Dark inks - and they are deep and dark. Very fair price, good value in my humble opinion, and the colors are definitely saturated. They are heavy on the cleaning and maintenance because of the saturation but they also have a lot of sheen and character, if that is something you look for.

The Deep Dark Blue is basically a supersaturated blue-black, so it may not appeal to everyone. It isn't my favorite of the series because I tend to like lighter blues that have more shading, but it has some wicked sheen on it. Due to its maintenance in things that are not so easy to clean - like snug piston-fillers - I tend to not use this color and favor an easier-to-clean blue-black ink (Waterman Mysterious Blue). One thing that may appeal to some is that it holds some water resistance. I don't think it's actually water resistant, but the saturation allows some dye to stay behind even if the top layer is washed away.

Price: £5.90 inc VAT
Price: £4.92 ex VAT
Where to buy: Cult Pens

That is a pretty good looking swab with some deep blue-red sheen. It's not a boring color, at least.

Sunday Reads: June 23. 2019

Stuff I Looked At Elsewhere & Read

• Old-Fashioned Blueberry Coffee Cake - Bon Appétit.
• An Illustrated Guide to San Francisco’s Hidden Gems - The Bold Italic.
• “Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Losing a Friend - Brain Pickings.
• Best German chocolate cake - The Brown-Eyed Baker.
• This endangered monkey is one of the world’s most colorful primates - Nat Geo.
• The Best Drone Photos of the Year - Nat Geo.
• Cat Thieves Caught In The Act - Sad and Useless.
• A 3D-Printed Press Brings Printmaking to the People - Colossal.
• Hyperrealist Rorschach “Paint” Blots Rendered in Colored Pencil - Colossal.
• Tres leches confetti cake - How Sweet Eats.
• 25 spectacular patterns in nature—and where to see them - Nat Geo.
• Creepy Russian playgrounds - Sad and Useless.
• People smiling like they're dead inside - Sad and Useless.
• Nickelodeon and The Pantone Color Institute Launch SpongeBob Yellow and Patrick Star Pink in Commemoration of SpongeBob’s 20th Anniversary - Business Wire.

Stuff I Apparently Did This Week

• Graphilo Notebook Review & Fantastic Fountain Pen Friendly Paper
• Franklin-Christoph Leather Wrap
• Graf von Faber-Castell Event at Laywine's in Toronto

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Graf von Faber-Castell Event at Laywine's in Toronto

Thank you to Laywine's and Graf von Faber-Castell for a wonderful evening event! If you're ever in the area, don't pass up a chance to attend an event. They're always super fun, you get to meet fantastic people, try out things you might not try otherwise, and in general, make some super memories.

Pen of the year(s), new leather products, and more!

Stunning calligraphy by Salman Khattak, Toronto Pen Company.

Salman was on site to offer calligraphy postcards!

Graf von Faber-Castell Tamitio Calligraphy Set

Stunning calligraphy by Salman Khattak, Toronto Pen Company.

Oh. There were goody bags.

Franklin-Christoph Leather Wrap @1901FC

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