It’s a Monday at the end of summer. We could all use something to help us get our week started right.
So…here are cats playing with pens.
Is that the Stephen Colbert pen?
General Interest
A Dracula Pen Coming From ACME Studios?
We’ve been looking for an excuse to mention ACME Studios – one of our favorite fantastical pen designers – and recently found one on the HorrorTalk.com site, of all places.
If you aren’t familiar, the Hawaii-based ACME designs some of the coolest pop culture pens ever, from the desk pen that looks like a ray gun to the Blue Man Group-inspired limited edition rollerball. We dare you to go their site and browse the pens without salivating at least a little.
These Extraordinary Artists Use Ballpoint Pens To Create Works Of Beauty
I swear I will never look at Bic ballpoint pens with the same jaundiced eye ever again.
Samuel Silva is an attorney in Portugal whose ‘hobby’ is creating art. He uses Bic pens to draw brilliant, vivid images so lifelike, they look like photographs.
Now I can’t speak for the rest of the Pen Vibe crew, but I couldn’t draw a stick figure if I had to – even a legless, armless one. That’s why those who can draw fascinate me so much…because they have this magical ability that runs from their eyes through their imaginations and down to their fingers to create the most amazing things.
Like this guy. Just look at what he can do.
5 Great Pens for Geeks
Regular readers know we have a fondness for novelty pens, the ones that are usually more cool than useful. So, we get extra excited when we see pens that are both fun and functional.
These are some of our recent favourites.
One Editor’s Perfect Pens – A Q&A With Literary Agent Janet Reid
Janet Reid writes a brilliant blog providing advice and chastisement – in more or less equal parts – to would-be novelists learning how to approach a literary agent. She also has fierce feelings about her ink pens, which she keeps in mint julep cups in her office.
We, of course, wanted to know what she thought about finding the perfect pen for the exacting art of editing. She graciously agreed to answer a few questions. Read on to find out what Janet had to say about her ongoing journey to pen heaven.