Tony Bridges 
Faber-Castell has done something extraordinary to promote its Pitt Artist Pens with the help of the creative artist Chan Hwee Chong
The German writing instrument maker had the artist recreate three famous paintings – Van Gogh’s self-portrait, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, and Vermeer’s Girl with the Pearl Earring – using the popular drawing pens.
In and of itself, that’s nothing unusual.
Except for that artist, Chan Hwee Chong did it by using one single line spiraling out from the center of each piece.
Here at The Pen Vibe, we all love our G2s and Jetstreams and EnerGels – but we also love the unusual and unique pens that exist only because someone said, ‘Hey, what if…’
You know the ones, those Swiss Army pens that combine writing instruments, tools and toys into one cool little piece that are always fun to play with, even though they may not be practical for the workaday world. Whether it’s a multi-pen with three different inks and a pencil, or an engineer’s pen with calipers and a ballpoint, we find them fascinating.
And we can usually count on Yochanan at the Multi Pen Dimensions blog to keep us entertained with exactly those kinds of pens.
Totally Random Pen Stuff 11 is a round-up of interesting pen related blog posts that we have recently come across.
I get to see a variety of different writing instruments.The Pilot Spotliter VW is a highlighter with a difference, I look at it as a two for the price of one option because it contains pink & yellow liquid ink in one pen.
Thinking about highlighters, I came across an amusing article the other day on the onion website, it stated that officers in the CIA have been using black indelible pens to highlight documents since the agency’s inception in 1947. This left much of the critical intelligence gathered illegible, whether this is true or false is anybody’s guess but I can’t see how it can be called highlighting.
• Would you pay $50 for a special ink pen if it came with a free ticket to a sold-out college football game?
The Daily Reveille reports that’s the deal scalpers are offering at Louisiana State University, where students buy cheap tickets to the game and turn a profit on them outside the stadium.