Link Love: I Like Books

This weekend, Bob and I watched a film called Booksellers which is a documentary film about the antiquarian book dealers and the antiquarian book world. Amusingly, there are a lot of parallels between the book world and the pen world. So much of the book world has changed in the last 20 years as a result of the rise of the digital age and ebooks and the internet. In the same way that the stationery and pen world changed in the same 20 years or so. But the people who collect vintage pens or are excited by the history of these items are similar to the people in the book world. There are good things and bad things about the collecting culture in both worlds and the resurgence in interest in the physical object. I recommend this film for all of the lovers of tactile, analog experiences. (Available on Amazon Prime)

Pens:

• Video-Review: Montblanc M (via Scrively)
• Review: BlueDew flex nib fountain pen (via Parka Blogs)
• Review: Sailor Cross Concord Specialty Nib Fountain Pen (via Parka Blogs)
• Sailor Specialty Nib: New 2018 vs Old Pre-2016 (via Parka Blogs)
• Behind the pen: Mark Braun, designer of the Otto Hutt designC (via UK fountain pens)

Ink:

• Ink Institute Bannan Line (via Mountain of Ink)
• Ink Institute Circular Line (via Mountain of Ink)
• Sailor Manyo Sakura Ink (via Gourmet Pens)
• Diamine Autumn Oak (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
• De Atramentis Standard Coral Red (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)

Pencils:

• Review: Musgrave Harvest Professional 320 No. 2 (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
• Egg-citing Edition of Plumbago (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)

Notebooks & Paper:

• Journalling in Difficult Times (via Writing at Large)
• Lemome Dot Grid Notebook Review (Including Pen Test) (via All About Planners)
• 5 Things to do when you get a new bullet journal notebook (via All About Planners)
• New Arrivals: Field Notes “United States of Letterpress” Edition and More! (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Henry Moore’s Notebooks and Sketchbooks (via Notebook Stories)
• Baron Fig’s New “Idea Toolset” (via Tools and Toys)

Art & Creativity:

• Sketching My Everyday Life. (via Apple-Pine)
• Inktober Days 11-15 (via Apple-Pine)
• Go to Your Own Stitchy Island With Animal Crossing Embroideries (via Brown Paper Bag)
• Four hand lettering types for beginners (via The Pen Company Blog)
• “If you stay curious, inevitably, your work will evolve”: Adébayo Bolaji takes us on a tour of his latest solo show (via It’s Nice That)
• The everlasting charm of illustrator Dick Bruna’s Miffy (via It’s Nice That)
• Short Stories in Field Notes (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)

Other Interesting Things:

• Holiday Parcels in World War I (via National Postal Museum)
• Big Changes Ahead (via CW Pencil Enterprise)
• Getting Inky in October (via The Pen Addict)
• Do you still read pen blogs? (via Leigh Reyes. My Life As a Verb.)
• Now Available: “The 99% Invisible City” Coffee Table Book by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt (via Tools and Toys)
• Olivetti Valentine Portable Typewriter Instruction Sheet (via oz.Typewriter)
• Photographer Captures the Playful Personalities of Curious Red Squirrels (via My Modern Met)
• Townscaper: Build Your Worries Away With This Instantly Gratifying Island City Construction Game (via Colossal)
• Cat Takes Shelter From the Rain Under a Sacred Japanese Cat Shrine (via My Modern Met)
• How to store your zines (via Austin Kleon)
• The Way I See It, a Documentary Film About Former White House Photographer Pete Souza (via Kottke.org)

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