Link Love: Cracks in the Sidewalk

Can I tell you how mesmerized I am by the guerrilla crack repair done by the aritst Ememem (see the link below in “other interesting things”)? I love random acts of art like this. I love trees wrapped in knitwear, sidewalk chalk paintings and beautifully created murals. I love when the neighbor decides to repaint the garage door with flowers painted by their children. I love yards covered with statuary. I love the Watts Towers. This is art for the sake of art and for making the world a more beautiful place. Its like planting flowers in an abandoned field. What random acts of art making can I do? Or you?

Pens:

• Giving last week’s six pens a second chance (via mnmlscholar)
• Platinum Prefounte Fountain Pen Review (via The Pen Addict)
• A Home For My Desk Pens (via An Inkophile’s Blog)
• Waldmann Xetra Vienna (via Mountain of Ink)

Ink:

• eye candy: troublemaker foxglove (via A Fleeting Ripple)
• Dominant Industry Inks Comparison #1 (via Penultimate Dave)
• thINKthursday – Pelikan Edelstein Jade (via Anderson Pens Blog)
• Esterbrook Aqua & Aqua Shimmer (via Mountain of Ink)
• Krishna Rainwater Waterproof Ink Review (via Pen Chalet)
• Diamine Writer’s Blood on Kokuyo Perpanep Tsuru Tsuru (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Colorverse Kingdom Part 1 (via Mountain of Ink)
• Ink Review #778: Wearingeul Pride and Prejudice (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)

Pencils:

• Staedtler x Star Wars (via Bleistift)
• Back to School Pencils (via Wonder Pens)
• Vintage Colored Pencils: Canada-Made Berol Prismacolors (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)

Notebooks, Paper & Planners:

• Sharing Katherine May’s piece “How to keep a writer’s notebook” (via From the Pen Cup)
• START YOUR 2024 AGENDIO (via Agendio Blog)
• The planners I didn’t go for (via Stationery Pizza)
• Memory & Muse: Maruman Mnemosyne A5 Notepad (via Dime Novel Raven)
• 7 Bullet journal daily spreads to try this week (via All About Planners)
• Ring Size and Capacity (via Philofaxy)
• MakseLife Goal Planner Review (quarterly weekly and daily undated version) (via All About Planners)
• It’s Planner Season, and I’m Not Really Using One: Checking in on the 2023 Notebook Carry (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Notebook Review: Virtuo Journal (via Notebook Stories)

Art & Creativity:

• Schmincke Liquid Charcoal Review (via Doodlewash)
• Free Buildings Intro Lessons – available for a short time only! (via Liz Steel)
• N.C. Wyeth Painting Was Purchased at Thrift Store for $4 (via My Modern Met)
• Overview of the Sketchbooking Tools I Took With Me on a Recent Trip to Europe (via Apple-Pine)
• Stolen Van Gogh Painting Returned in IKEA Bag (via Hyperallergic)
• A Visit to Tulsa’s Center for Queer Prairie Studies (via Hyperallergic)
• 8 things I wish I’d known before breaking into the creative industry (via Creative Boom)
• 32 affordable tools to keep costs down when you first go freelance (via Creative Boom)
• Diebenkorn’s 4-Color Bic (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• On My Table: Beginning of September 2023. (via Apple-Pine)

Other Interesting Things:

• Old notes to myself (via Austin Kleon)
• Deadly Earthquake in Morocco Destroys Cultural Heritage (via Hyperallergic)
• The best standing desks for creatives in 2023 (via Creative Boom)
• Knitting Comfortably: Simple Stretches (via Modern Daily Knitting)
• Thank You Orlando! (via The Pen Addict)
• Hayao Miyazaki’s New Film ‘The Boy and the Heron’ Wanders Into a Magical World of Life and Death (via Colossal)
• Learn About the Survivors’ Stairs at the World Trade Center (via My Modern Met)
• Ememem Playfully Revitalizes Cracked Pavement With Vibrantly Patterned Tiles (via Colossal)

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