Andy Welfle is a marketing professional at a small nonprofit arts organization by day, and by night is a blogger, an amateur technologist, a writer, a reader, a designer, and a jack-of-all-trades. Email him, why don't you?
GASP — The Blackwing is returning!
I just saw on BoingBoing that the legendary and highly sought-after Blackwing is returning! Mark Frauenfelder reported that California Cedar, who makes the Palomino (one of the best quality woodcased pencils you can get today) has bought the trademark for the Blackwing earlier this month, and is re-releasing the Blackwing under the Palomino brand! This is extremely exciting news.
A card carrying member
Check it out, Internet: That’s right. I’m a card-carrying member of the American Pencil Collectors Society. Read it and be jealous. The society is about 55 years old and currently has about 200 active members or so. See that little number there, #2099? That’s my membership number, which I have all my life, even if [...]
The Once and Never Dinosaur: In which the triceratops was ripped from my childhood like a band-aid from a gaping wound
Look at this face. Just look at it. In case you weren’t a child of the 80s like me, this is Cera. She was a baby Triceratops from The Land Before Time, an iconic (if not paleontology incorrect) movie about baby dinosaurs. I was 5 when the original movie came out (it spawned a whole [...]
Winona Lake: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and learned how to stop worrying
Katie and I took a few days off last week to spend a long weekend at a friend’s compound series of cottages at Winona Lake. It was absolutely beautiful. Despite the stifling heat, the lack of air condition in the main house (luckily our cottage had AC), and the fairly ouchy sunburn that resulted, I [...]
A realist’s review of the legendary Blackwing 602
I’m sure those pencil enthusiasts out there know what I’m talking about. It is the Holy Grail of Pencils. What the DeLorean is to cars, is what the Faber Castell Blackwing 602 is to pencils. It’s the hard-to-find, insanely-expensive, out-of-production pencil.
And many people out there give it a perfect 10 rating.
My introduction to Maker culture
I’m what you would call a consumer. I use an iPhone which I’m sure I’ll replace every two years. I eat out a lot. I buy cheap clothing that wears out in a few years. You can find me at Target at least a couple times a week. I’m not proud of it, but take [...]
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