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Hello! This week, we're continuing our deep dive into Philip Seymour Hoffman's oeuvre (we're fancy) and looking at John Patrick Shanley's Doubt (2008), a very different movie than Wild Mountain Thyme, which he made in 2020, and which we have also done an episode about. In Doubt, we see PSH navigate the role of a 1964 priest whom head nun Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep) accuses of abusing a child. This movie makes us so angry, but also impresses the dickens out of us, and we're happy to share our thoughts about it with you.In case you missed it, this is a movie about a priest accused of child sexual abuse, so please take care of yourselves and skip this one if you need to. Otherwise, we'd love to hear your thoughts, so send us an email at thejuiciestbitspodcast@gmail.com or leave a comment on Spotify, and PLEASE don't forget to rate and review us!
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La edición 636 de La Dosis el Podcast explica el problema de compartir chismes. Los sonidos estan a cargo de Ballpoint con la voz de Alejandro Andueza.La Dosis el Podcast es presentado por Global Exchange International tu agencia con el programa internacional de intercambio con el cual puedes migrar si tienes entre 18 a 56 años. Si deseas saber cuales son tus oportunidades laborales en el exterior, escribe la palabra PODCAST al whatsapp que te lleva este link: https://wa.me/13057218760 y de manera muy concreta te pueden confirmar cuales oportunidades migratorias son para tí según las leyes y acuerdos entre embajadas y consulados. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The author's screenplay adaptation of Mr. Ballpoint was awarded a Film Independent (FILM) Fellowship in 2001 by Independent Feature Project / West Screenwriting Laboratory under the working title, "The Big Idea." Inspired by the true story. Included in the Prize-Winning Literary Fiction Series from LaPuerta Books and MediaIn 1945, Milton Reynolds introduced the ballpoint to the United States and triggered the biggest single-day shopping riot in history at Gimbels in Manhattan.The Reynolds International Pen Company made $5 million in eight weeks during the first non-wartime Christmas season. Thereafter, increasing competition from established companies such as Eversharp triggered several years of the "Pen Wars."
La edición 609 de La Dosis el Podcast nos muestra como darle un empuje a nuestra vida. La música esta a cargo de Ballpoint con la voz de Alejandro Andueza.La Dosis el Podcast es presentado por Global Exchange International tu agencia con el programa internacional de intercambio con el cual puedes migrar si tienes entre 18 a 56 años. Si deseas saber cuales son tus oportunidades laborales en el exterior, escribe la palabra PODCAST al whatsapp que te lleva este link: https://wa.me/13057218760 y de manera muy concreta te pueden confirmar cuales oportunidades migratorias son para tí según las leyes y acuerdos entre embajadas y consulados. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
La edición 581 de La Dosis el Podcast nos recuerda que el Amor no mata. La música esta a cargo de Ballpoint con la voz de Alejandro Andueza.La Dosis el Podcast es presentado por Global Exchange International tu agencia con el programa internacional de intercambio con el cual puedes migrar si tienes entre 18 a 56 años. Si deseas saber cuales son tus oportunidades laborales en el exterior, escribe la palabra PODCAST al whatsapp que te lleva este link: https://wa.me/13057218760 y de manera muy concreta te pueden confirmar cuales oportunidades migratorias son para tí según las leyes y acuerdos entre embajadas y consulados. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan Wanot is a self-made real estate millionaire who owns a remarkable portfolio of both residential and mobile home park properties, all by the age of 33!Born in Poland and immigrating to the U.S. at 7, Jan faced immense challenges, including his father's abandonment and a battle with addiction. After a short stint in the corporate sector with Boeing, Jan found hope in real estate and has never looked back.In this episode, Jan shares his journey to real estate success, including the 7-step framework for buying off-market, seller-financed mobile home parks.Jan also talks about:- How he bought 10 rental units in ONE YEAR- His strategy for buying rental properties with owner-occupied loans- His mission to provide affordable housing for 10,000 people- Why he hires cold callers in EGYPT to find Off-market deals- Why he's a huge fan of seller financing and how you can use itBooks Mentioned:- 12 Rules of Life by Jordan Peterson- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle- The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary KellerConnect with Jan: Website: https://wareimastermind.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growwithjan/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WAREI/ Connect with Brandon:
Millie Pendola is a real estate agent and investor who went from zero to financially free in just 3 years. Her secret weapon? A KILLER combination of flipping and rental property cash cows. In this episode, Millie reveals how her background in real estate planning gave her a MASSIVE edge in the real estate game. She breaks down her proven strategies for finding off-market deals, building a cash-flowing rental portfolio, and creating a win-win situation for everyone involved.Millie also talks about: - What makes a good/bad real estate agent?- How she got paid a whooping $70k to “make mistakes”- Why she prefers buy-and-hold strategy over flipping- Leadership lessons she learned from her 7-year-old BOSS- Her “secret sauce” for uncovering off-market GOLD MINES- Her “better rule” for living a better lifeBooks Mentioned:- Atomic Habits by James Clear - Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke Connect with Millie: Website: https://www.milliependola.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/selling_the_smokies/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@millie_pendola Connect with Brandon:
Sam and Rachel Wegert are the king and queen of co-living, with over 200 rooms currently rented to great tenants. Together, they're proving that co-living isn't just a fad - it's a cash cow (and maybe even the future of affordable housing!)But Sam and Rachel's journey wasn't all about making at least $1,000/month on every property. Sam grew up homeschooled on a small Virginia farm, later becoming a 15-year-old martial arts school owner. And Rachel navigated a challenging childhood.In this episode, Sam and Rachel break down their proven system for transforming average homes into cash-flowing machines while maintaining well-functioning living spaces and keeping tenants happy.Sam and Rachel also talk about: - Their ideal tenants (and how they find them) - How to overcome zoning hurdles and navigate tricky legal loopholes- Why co-living could be the answer to America's affordable housing challenges- How they minimize tenant drama and foster community - Strategies for boosting tenant retentionBooks Mentioned:- Loving What Is by Byron Katie- The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer - Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill- Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill- Soar with Your Strengths by Donald O. Clifton- 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss Connect with Sam and Rachel: Website: https://www.scaleyourrealestate.com/ Sam's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samwegert Rachel's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachel_wegert/ Connect with Brandon:
Dr. Rachel Gainsbrugh is a pharmacist turned real estate investor who helps busy professionals escape the daily grind using her signature “two-door” rental strategy.In this episode, Rachel shares how she went from drowning in $500,000 of student loan debt to becoming a highly successful mid-term rental investor with a portfolio that funds her dream of running a wellness retreat in Portugal. Rachel also talks about: - Her “COVER” framework for landing lucrative deals- Why bigger isn't always better in rental properties- The tax strategy that accelerated her path to financial freedom- The marketing tactics she used to land $22k/month tenants- Her upcoming Netflix show, “Buy My House”Books Mentioned:- Who Not How by Dan Sullivan - The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan - The Book on Rental Property Investing by Brandon TurnerConnect with Rachel: Website: https://www.shorttermgems.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/short.term.gems TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@luxury_str_doctor Connect with Brandon:
Dan Martell is a SaaS kingpin who buys a new software company every month. But as a teen, the only thing he was pursuing was a life of crime - until a stint in rehab introduced him to his first love: coding.In this episode, Dan shares the philosophies behind his "buy back your time" approach, his top strategies for hiring and training teams, and his counterintuitive takes on parenting, fitness, and building real wealth.Dan also talks about: - Top mistakes founders make when hiring (and how to avoid them)-The "train don't tell" approach to leading teams- The 10-80-10 rule for empowering your team- His thoughts on God, spirituality, and living a purpose-driven life- Strategies for recruiting top talent- Why building wealth for others is the path to true riches- The power of constantly taking on new challengesBooks Mentioned:- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill- Love is a Killer App by Tim Sanders- A Happy Pocket Full of Money by David Cameron Gikandi- What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark ReiterConnect with Dan:
Scadi Etienne is one of the most INSPIRING real estate investors in the game, earning eye-popping returns while serving as a compassionate landlord to his low-income tenants.Born in Brooklyn to an immigrant mother, Scadi's family was evicted 8 times throughout his childhood. Despite those challenges, he excelled in school and joined the military, where he discovered the transformative power of real estate investing.In this episode, Scadi shares his unique "human first" approach to investing in C- and D-class properties, emphasizing the importance of understanding and connecting with tenants from similar backgrounds. He discusses his strategies for finding deals, building relationships with wholesalers, and navigating the challenges of investing in New York and Baltimore.Scadi also talks about: - Why he ate tuna fish EVERY DAY for 6 months after buying a condo (despite having 6-figures saved!)- The CRAZY appreciation on his Bed-Stuy 3-Family (now worth over $2 million)- His secret to being INSANELY selective and only doing 30% cash-on-cash deals- Why compassion is his secret weapon in the dog-eat-dog world of real estate investing- Why he REFUSES to raise money from others (and how newbies get burned)Books Mentioned:- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki - Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki - The Bible Connect with Scadi: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamscadi/ Connect with Brandon:
La edición 537 de La Dosis el Podcast explica el porque SI tenemos tiempo para TODO. La música esta a cargo de Ballpoint con la voz de Alejandro Andueza.La Dosis el Podcast es presentado por Global Exchange International tu agencia con el programa internacional de intercambio con el cual puedes migrar si tienes entre 18 a 56 años. Si deseas saber cuales son tus oportunidades laborales en el exterior, escribe la palabra PODCAST al whatsapp que te lleva este link: https://wa.me/13057218760 y de manera muy concreta te pueden confirmar cuales oportunidades migratorias son para tí según las leyes y acuerdos entre embajadas y consulados. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
With a college degree in electrical engineering, a young Indar Lange thought he'd take the “W2” path to wealth. That is, until he started paddling with a group of multimillionaires, and realized they all happened to invest in real estate…Today, you'll hear how Indar went from not knowing a thing about real estate to becoming Hawaii's biggest house flipper, building a huge rental portfolio, and even developing a coworking space on the Big Island. Plus, how he's able to raise tens of millions of dollars for his projects and get great deal flow without spending a dime on ads.Indar also talks about: - His “hippie” upbringing on a marijuana farm - Launching his business with seed money from the sale of a condo- Teaching his young kids about money using Legos- Steadily progressing from 1 flip per year, to 2… to 30!- Buying a shopping center from a seller with FAKE tenants!- Risks of high-dollar commercial investing- BRRR'ing a coworking space in Hawaii- And much more!Books Mentioned:- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki - Red Rising by Pierce BrownConnect with Indar: Website: https://indarhawaii.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indarhawaii/TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/indarhawaii/?hl=enConnect with Brandon:
Jude Jean Paul Bernard is a real estate investor, business owner, and philanthropist who's bought and sold $100 million of property in New York City. In this episode, Jude shares how he bought his very first property with student loans, then “bet on himself” and went all-in on real estate in one of the most competitive markets on earth. Plus, how he's crushing it with short-term rentals in a city that famously outlawed them!Jude also talks about: - Why getting arrested at age 20 was “the best thing that's happened to him”- Quitting his job and an MBA program to become a full-time investor- Flying to Jamaica to track down a seller and making $1M+ on the deal- Gambling addiction and losing $140k at the blackjack table- Finding detail-oriented “doers” to bring his vision to life - Printing money by turning boarding houses into short-term rentals in NYC- Founding the Brooklyn Bank to bring financial literacy to the inner city- The most common fatal mistakes in real estate investing- Why he's selling off a large chunk of his portfolioBooks Mentioned:- Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger - Undisputed Truth by Mike Tyson- The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoJude's charitable cause (100% of ad revenue goes here):- The Brooklyn Bank, the nonprofit he founded to foster financial literacy in urban communitiesConnect with Jude: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jude-bernard-15228b61/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mr.judebernardConnect with us!Website: https://abetterlife.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterlife/?hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/beardybrandonShow Sponsor: - TurboTenant - Get leads, screen tenants, create leases, and collect rent — all in one place. Use the code BRANDON10 to get 10% upon sign-up at TurboTenant.com.- Ballpoint Marketing - The leading provider of direct-mail marketing strategies designed to increase your response rates. Visit them at ballpointmarketing.com or send a DM to Brandon on Instagram, @beardybrandon, with the word BALLPOINT, and he'll connect you directly.This show is also brought to you by the BetterLife Tribe. Interested in building wealth without losing your soul? Join us here: https://join.abetterlife.com/tribe
La edición 506 de La Dosis el Podcast presenta trucos para la vida que debemos conocer desde muy jóvenes. La música esta a cargo de Ballpoint con la voz de Alejandro Andueza.La Dosis el Podcast es presentado por Global Exchange International tu agencia con el programa internacional de intercambio con el cual puedes migrar si tienes entre 18 a 56 años. Si deseas saber cuales son tus oportunidades laborales en el exterior, escribe la palabra PODCAST al whatsapp que te lleva este link: https://wa.me/13057218760 y de manera muy concreta te pueden confirmar cuales oportunidades migratorias son para tí según las leyes y acuerdos entre embajadas y consulados. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
La edición 483 de La Dosis el Podcast presentamos algunos principios del Estoicismo con reglas para una buena vida. La música esta a cargo de Ballpoint con la voz de Alejandro Andueza.La Dosis el Podcast es presentado por Global Exchange International tu agencia con el programa internacional de intercambio con el cual puedes migrar si tienes entre 18 a 56 años. Si deseas saber cuales son tus oportunidades laborales en el exterior, escribe la palabra PODCAST al whatsapp que te lleva este link: https://wa.me/13057218760 y de manera muy concreta te pueden confirmar cuales oportunidades migratorias son para tí según las leyes y acuerdos entre embajadas y consulados. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
La edición 468 de La Dosis el Podcast explica como puedes tener exito con tu cuenta en Instagram logrando vender sin necesariamente vender. La musica esta a cargo de BALLPOINT con la voz de Alejandro Andueza.La Dosis el Podcast es presentado por Global Exchange International tu agencia con el programa internacional de intercambio con el cual puedes migrar si tienes entre 18 a 56 años. Si deseas saber cuales son tus oportunidades laborales en el exterior, escribe la palabra PODCAST al whatsapp que te lleva este link: https://wa.me/13057218760 y de manera muy concreta te pueden confirmar cuales oportunidades migratorias son para tí según las leyes y acuerdos entre embajadas y consulados. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, the hosts are joined by Josh from Ballpoint, a growth marketing agency. They discuss various topics including the challenge of making people aware of a solution when they are only aware of the problem briefly, direct mail strategies, and creative approaches to paid ads. They also touch on the early days of a blood test company, Thriva and their experience at Money 2020 in Amsterdam where they will be doing live podcast recordings. Tune in for insightful discussions and interesting insights! Chapters
Photo credit: portrait Melvin Way 1994, ARS artists rights society @ 2024 photo Andrew Castrucci, Melvin Way estate. This is an interview with the curator Andrew Castrucci. CO₂ Blues, scheduled since mid-2023, is the first exhibition of the enigmatic art of Melvin Way (1954-2024) since his passing, and the third solo show of his work with the gallery. It serves as a retrospective for a visionary who was one of the most admired self-taught artists in the contemporary art arena. Way's mostly small-scale drawings are strange and alluring concoctions of science and art that seem intent on revealing the secrets of the universe. They contain chemical and mathematical formulae, musical notes, abstract designs, and cryptic words and phrases. It is hard to look at one without becoming entangled in trying to figure out what it means. “I felt like I was seeing another kind of infinity, thought made visible, wild nerves, optical barnacles coming to hermetic life, delirium legible,” wrote New York Magazine's senior art critic Jerry Saltz in a 2015 review in Vulture. The exhibition includes some of Way's most memorable creations including forays outside of his better-known ballpoint pen drawings, especially a selection of the artist's xerography— he routinely carried his original ink drawings on his person for months at a time and was reluctant to release them for sale because they functioned as protective amulets. His raincoat pockets might be filled with as many as two hundred drawings. At times, his sweat, or a hard rainfall, would cause the ink to bleed, adding complexity to the already dense works. Andrew Castrucci, his lifelong advocate, has likened this process to a kind of baptism, a rite of passage before the works headed off into the world. Before the artist did surrender his works, he often made Xerox copies of them which inspired a new approach—Way then added blue and/or black ink to the copies. These xerographies comprise a small but significant portion of his oeuvre. Melvin Way (1954 - 2024) Fauvi, c. 1989 Ballpoint pen and Scotch tape on paper 10.75 x 8.5 inches. Melvin Way estate ,ARS artists rights society @ 2024. Melvin Way (1954 - 2024) Loki, 2020 Pen and paint on paper 12 x 9 inches. Melvin Way estate ,ARS artists rights society @ 2024. Melvin Way (1954 - 2024) D' SAIREN COPOTE, 2023-2024 Ballpoint pen and Scotch tape on paper 12 x 4 inches. Melvin Way estate ,ARS artists rights society @ 2024.
In this episode, we catch up with Bryce Gillett from Luxury Brands of America, who also happens to sponsor this multi-dozen-dollar podcast empire. "Biryce" spills the tea about the acquisition of Laban Pens in the USA, and hypothesizes about why the Platinum 3776 Chai Latte is selling so well. Is there such a thing as too much sparkly Benu? Find out in this fun interview. If you'd like to shop for a new pen or try to get Tom fired, head over to our retail sponsor, Goldspot Pens at: https://goldspot.com/?aff=3 Listen to the sponsorship section to get a discount code for 10% off throughout the Goldspot Pens store. *Excludes Sailor, Retro 51, Montblanc, Visconti, Edison Pen Co., Esterbrook, Narwhal, Leonardo, and TWSBI products.* Also, be sure to put #firetom in the order comments and you might get a special Pentertainment Podcast sticker with your order. You might be able to still find the Platinum 3776 Shape of a Heart Chai Latte at pen retailers like Goldspot when they arrive in March/April of 2024. The third in the "Shape of a Heart" special editions, "Chai Latte" has a matte finished resin body and cap with warm, cozy colors accented with rose gold trims and a 14kt rose gold nib. The cherry on top is the literal crown of the pen. The cap's finial has a dome that encloses zirconia with three gold hearts that were punched out from the nib manufacturing process. Gorgeous! Only 2,000 pens made. Plus, the wait is almost over for the Endless Alchemy inks. The Alchemy ink bottle designs "ink"-courages you to play with your ink. Each bottle includes a special base. On one side of the base, you can tilt the bottle and roll it on its side. On the other side of the base, the bottle stands upright to allow direct vertical access into your ink. Ballpoint pens suck. But, if you're going to write with a ballpoint pen, you might as well write with one that helps save the cute animals in the rainforest. This Rainforest Retro51 is a Luxury Brands of America exclusive and is limited to 500 units worldwide. Inspired by the animals in the rainforest, Luxury Brands wanted to create a pen that you would love and give back some love to the world. With this in mind, Luxury Brands of America has partnered with the Rainforest Trust, one of the world's leading Rainforest and Endangered Species Conservation organizations, and is now a member of the Rainforest Trust Corporate Conservation Circle. With the purchase of this pen, a percentage of the proceeds has been donated to the Rainforest Trust, ensuring that these beautiful animals and landscapes are here to stay for generations to come! Get the Retro 51 Rainforest here - https://luxurybrandsusa.com/product/retro51/
It's Outside/In's annual winter “Surthrival” show, in which a panel of podcast and radio journalists serve up their personal tips for staying warm, cozy, and active all winter long. From ice-fishing to spicy novels, we've got suggestions that'll get you outside when the adventurous spirit takes hold, and others for days when it's too darn cold out. This year, we're joined by Berly McCoy, producer of NPR's Shortwave podcast, Olivia Richardson, reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio, and Nick Capodice, co-host of Civics 101. You can read our full list of suggestions on our website. We'd also love to hear from you! Send your suggestions, ideally as a voice recording, to outsidein@nhpr.org, or call our hotline, 1-844-GO-OTTER. We might even play them on the podcast or share your tips in our (free) newsletter. Featuring Francis Tarasiewicz, Weather Observer at Mount Washington Observatory. SUPPORTOutside/In is made possible with listener support. Click here to become a sustaining member of Outside/In.Follow Outside/In on Instagram or join our private discussion group on Facebook. LINKSLearn more about the science and history behind wind chill.Go to our website to read our full list of 12 tips for embracing winter. CREDITSHost: Nate HegyiProduced and mixed by Felix PoonEdited by Taylor QuimbyOur team also includes Justine Paradis.Rebecca Lavoie is our Executive Producer.Music for this episode by Fasion, Jules Gaia, Thea Tyler, Real Heroes, Mike Franklyn, Josef Bel Habib, Jharee, Jay Varton, DJ Denz The Rooster, Frigga, Ballpoint, Dusty Decks, and Arthur Benson.Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio.
Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:15:00 GMT http://relay.fm/penaddict/591 http://relay.fm/penaddict/591 I'm Thankful for Ballpoint Pens 591 Brad Dowdy and Myke Hurley It's Thanksgiving week in the US, and Brad wonders “What stationary are we thankful for?” He and Myke discuss that, why there aren't more interesting ink cartridge sampler packs, and the next pen Brad must have. It's Thanksgiving week in the US, and Brad wonders “What stationary are we thankful for?” He and Myke discuss that, why there aren't more interesting ink cartridge sampler packs, and the next pen Brad must have. clean 3527 It's Thanksgiving week in the US, and Brad wonders “What stationary are we thankful for?” He and Myke discuss that, why there aren't more interesting ink cartridge sampler packs, and the next pen Brad must have. This episode of The Pen Addict is sponsored by: Wildgrain: Get FREE croissants in every box and $30 off your first box. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PENADDICT. Links and Show Notes: Support The Pen Addict with a Relay FM Membership Submit Feedback Kaweco ART Sport Fountain Pens – Pen Chalet Kaweco ART Sport Review — The Pen Addict Pen Chalet Holiday Gift Guide 2023 TWSBI ECO Cream and Rose Gold – Instagram A Gathering of Curiosities Pen frustration, pen magic — A Gathering of Curiosities Uni Jetstream x Karimoku – Instagram YSTUDIO Ocean Sustainable Rollerball Pen Review — The Pen Addict YSTUDIO Ocean Sustainable Rollerball Pen Review — The Pen Addict Pineider - Ink Cartridges Blue Kaweco Cartridge 10 colors – Vanness Diamine Mixed Ink Set - 20 Cartridges | JetPens Cortex Brand (@cortexbrand) – Instagram Spoke Design Spoke Design (@spokedesign) – Instagram
Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:15:00 GMT http://relay.fm/penaddict/591 http://relay.fm/penaddict/591 Brad Dowdy and Myke Hurley It's Thanksgiving week in the US, and Brad wonders “What stationary are we thankful for?” He and Myke discuss that, why there aren't more interesting ink cartridge sampler packs, and the next pen Brad must have. It's Thanksgiving week in the US, and Brad wonders “What stationary are we thankful for?” He and Myke discuss that, why there aren't more interesting ink cartridge sampler packs, and the next pen Brad must have. clean 3527 It's Thanksgiving week in the US, and Brad wonders “What stationary are we thankful for?” He and Myke discuss that, why there aren't more interesting ink cartridge sampler packs, and the next pen Brad must have. This episode of The Pen Addict is sponsored by: Wildgrain: Get FREE croissants in every box and $30 off your first box. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PENADDICT. Links and Show Notes: Support The Pen Addict with a Relay FM Membership Submit Feedback Kaweco ART Sport Fountain Pens – Pen Chalet Kaweco ART Sport Review — The Pen Addict Pen Chalet Holiday Gift Guide 2023 TWSBI ECO Cream and Rose Gold – Instagram A Gathering of Curiosities Pen frustration, pen magic — A Gathering of Curiosities Uni Jetstream x Karimoku – Instagram YSTUDIO Ocean Sustainable Rollerball Pen Review — The Pen Addict YSTUDIO Ocean Sustainable Rollerball Pen Review — The Pen Addict Pineider - Ink Cartridges Blue Kaweco Cartridge 10 colors – Vanness Diamine Mixed Ink Set - 20 Cartridges | JetPens Cortex Brand (@cortexbrand) – Instagram Spoke Design Spoke Design (@spokedesign) – Instagram
Have you ever searched for a pen to make note of your brilliant, world-saving idea you had in the middle of the night? Or maybe you took a moment to write a nice note to someone? Ballpoint pens have been making it easier to connect, write, explore, take note, and more for decades! Time for a little bit of gratitude for ballpoint pens!
Tom and I discussed one of our first beloved pens in this week's pen discussion when we started the fountain pen hobby. Then, as we talked about a variety of Edison pens, we started a debate. Does the term "handmade" fit these pens? Or, is it more accurate to say "hand-finished." Tom shares some of his experiences at the Lamy and Pelikan factories in Germany to describe the differences in manufacturing pens. We'd love to read your comments and answer your pen (and fish) questions on a future episode. E-Mail us at pentertainmentpodcast@gmail.com If you'd like to shop for a new pen or try to get Tom fired, head over to our retail sponsor, Goldspot Pens at: https://goldspot.com/?aff=3 Use promo code PARIS to get an additional 10% off throughout the Goldspot Pens store. *Excludes Sailor, Retro 51, Montblanc, Visconti, Edison Pen Co., Esterbrook, Narwhal, and TWSBI products.* Also, be sure to put #firetom in the order comments and you might get a special Pentertainment Podcast sticker with your order. Ballpoint pens suck. But, if you're going to write with a ballpoint pen, you might as well write with one that helps save the cute animals in the rainforest. This Rainforest Retro51 is a Luxury Brands of America exclusive and is limited to 500 units worldwide. Inspired by the animals in the rainforest, Luxury Brands wanted to create a pen that you would love and give back some love to the world. With this in mind, Luxury Brands of America has partnered with the Rainforest Trust, one of the world's leading Rainforest and Endangered Species Conservation organizations, and is now a member of the Rainforest Trust Corporate Conservation Circle. With the purchase of this pen, a percentage of the proceeds has been donated to the Rainforest Trust, ensuring that these beautiful animals and landscapes are here to stay for generations to come! Get the Retro 51 Rainforest here - https://luxurybrandsusa.com/product/retro51/
In this episode we discuss how to make the jump from collecting modern fountain pens to vintage fountain pens. JJ Lax is our esteemed guest, despite the fact he's not wearing his PenBoyRoy t-shirt. We'll forgive him because he makes some great points about looking at vintage pens. We'd love to read your comments and answer your pen (and fish) questions on a future episode. E-Mail us at pentertainmentpodcast@gmail.com If you'd like to shop for a new pen or try to get Tom fired, head over to our retail sponsor, Goldspot Pens at: https://goldspot.com/?aff=3 Use promo code LUCY to get an additional 10% off throughout the Goldspot Pens store. *Excludes Sailor, Retro 51, Montblanc, Visconti, Edison Pen Co., Esterbrook, Narwhal, and TWSBI products.* Also, be sure to put #firetom in the order comments and you might get a special Pentertainment Podcast sticker with your order. After getting Tom fired at Goldspot, you can buy one of his notebooks so he doesn't have to rely on unemployment checks to feed his family. He just released the new Endless InkJournal for all you fountain pen enthusiasts who love trying out different inks. If you order one of these notebooks, add a #firetom in the order comments. He really can't fire himself. But, at least you can get a Pentertainment Podcast sticker to attach to your notebook. https://www.inkjournal.com/products/endless-recorder-inkjournal-special-edition-a5-notebook Ballpoint pens suck. But, if you're going to write with a ballpoint pen, you might as well write with one that helps save the cute animals in the rainforest. This Rainforest Retro51 is a Luxury Brands of America exclusive and is limited to 500 units worldwide. Inspired by the animals in the rainforest, Luxury Brands wanted to create a pen that you would love and give back some love to the world. With this in mind, Luxury Brands of America has partnered with the Rainforest Trust, one of the world's leading Rainforest and Endangered Species Conservation organizations, and is now a member of the Rainforest Trust Corporate Conservation Circle. With the purchase of this pen, a percentage of the proceeds has been donated to the Rainforest Trust, ensuring that these beautiful animals and landscapes are here to stay for generations to come! Get the Retro 51 Rainforest here - https://luxurybrandsusa.com/product/retro51/
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As boring as it might sound, Tom and I had a deep discussion about reading now that I bought a new Kindle Paperwhite from Amazon. We come full circle later in the podcast when we bodyslam Amazon. In between, we discuss inking comic books, and my new green screen. We'd love to read your comments and answer your pen (and fish) questions on a future episode. E-Mail us at pentertainmentpodcast@gmail.com If you'd like to shop for a new pen or try to get Tom fired, head over to our retail sponsor, Goldspot Pens at: https://goldspot.com/?aff=3 Use promo code LUCY to get an additional 10% off throughout the Goldspot Pens store. *Excludes Sailor, Retro 51, Montblanc, Visconti, Edison Pen Co., Esterbrook, Narwhal, and TWSBI products.* Also, be sure to put #firetom in the order comments and you might get a special Pentertainment Podcast sticker with your order. After getting Tom fired at Goldspot, you can buy one of his notebooks so he doesn't have to rely on unemployment checks to feed his family. He just released the new Endless InkJournal for all you fountain pen enthusiasts who love trying out different inks. If you order one of these notebooks, add a #firetom in the order comments. He really can't fire himself. But, at least you can get a Pentertainment Podcast sticker to attach to your notebook. https://www.inkjournal.com/products/endless-recorder-inkjournal-special-edition-a5-notebook Ballpoint pens suck. But, if you're going to write with a ballpoint pen, you might as well write with one that helps save the cute animals in the rainforest. This Rainforest Retro51 is a Luxury Brands of America exclusive and is limited to 500 units worldwide. Inspired by the animals in the rainforest, Luxury Brands wanted to create a pen that you would love and give back some love to the world. With this in mind, Luxury Brands of America has partnered with the Rainforest Trust, one of the world's leading Rainforest and Endangered Species Conservation organizations, and is now a member of the Rainforest Trust Corporate Conservation Circle. With the purchase of this pen, a percentage of the proceeds has been donated to the Rainforest Trust, ensuring that these beautiful animals and landscapes are here to stay for generations to come! Get the Retro 51 Rainforest here - https://luxurybrandsusa.com/product/retro51/
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This week, our special guest is Ben Walsh of Gravitas Pens. We talk about how he got into using fountain pens, his early boxing career, and a new filling mechanism he's working on for CY of Tokyo Station Pens. We'd love to read your comments and answer your pen (and fish) questions on a future episode. E-Mail us at pentertainmentpodcast@gmail.com If you'd like to shop for a new pen or try to get Tom fired, head over to our retail sponsor, Goldspot Pens at: https://goldspot.com/?aff=3 Use promo code LUCY to get an additional 10% off throughout the Goldspot Pens store. *Excludes Sailor, Retro 51, Montblanc, Visconti, Edison Pen Co., Esterbrook, Narwhal, and TWSBI products.* Also, be sure to put #firetom in the order comments and you might get a special Pentertainment Podcast sticker with your order. Ballpoint pens suck. But, if you're going to write with a ballpoint pen, you might as well write with one that helps save the cute animals in the rainforest. This Rainforest Retro51 is a Luxury Brands of America exclusive and is limited to 500 units worldwide. Inspired by the animals in the rainforest, Luxury Brands wanted to create a pen that not only you would love, but also gave some love back to the world. With this in mind, Luxury Brands of America has partnered with the Rainforest Trust, one of the world's leading Rainforest and Endangered Species Conservation organizations, and is now a member of the Rainforest Trust Corporate Conservation Circle. With the purchase of this pen, a percentage of the proceeds has been donated to the Rainforest Trust, ensuring that these beautiful animals and landscapes are here to stay for generations to come! Get the Retro 51 Rainforest here - https://luxurybrandsusa.com/product/retro51/
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In this episode, Ty Hatch, who started sketchnoting as a practice to pay attention and stay awake shares why he still loves the art and his work on creating headshot illustrations and creating sketchnotes for meetings and conferences.Sponsored by ConceptsThis episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast is brought to you by Concepts, a perfect tool for sketchnoting, available on iOS, Windows, and Android.Concepts' vector-based drawing feature gives you the power to adjust your drawings — any time you like. You can nudge the curve of a line, swap out one brush for another, or change stroke thickness and color at any stage of your drawing — saving hours and hours of rework.Vectors provide clean, crisp, high-resolution output for your sketchnotes at any size you need — large or small. Never worry about fuzzy sketchnotes again.Concepts is a powerful, flexible tool that's ideal for sketchnoting.SEARCH “Concepts” in your favorite app store to give it a try.Running OrderIntroWelcomeWho is Ty Hatch?Origin StoryTy's current workSponsor: ConceptsTipsToolsWhere to find TyOutroLinksAmazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.Ty's websiteTy on TwitterTy on InstagramTy on LinkedInTy on MastodonTy on PinterestTy on Artist Trading CardsTy On DribbleUX Week 2008 SketchnotesInktoberTy's Son's Pokémon DrawingsToolsAmazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast. Mechanical pencilBallpoint Rotring 600 pencilKaweco fountain penPost-It-NotesGlobal Art Materials SketchbookMoleskine Art sketchbookSketchnote Idea bookPaper by WeTransferiPad ProApple pencilProcreate Adobe FrescoTipsEverybody is creative in their own way, and that's okay.Enjoy what you do. You can like a range of different things, and that's okay.Set boundaries for the things that are really important to you, in your life that are not work-related. Set those boundaries, talk about them, and live your life in a way that reflects your priorities. CreditsProducer: Alec PulianasTheme music: Jon SchiedermayerShownotes and transcripts: Esther OdoroSubscribe to the Sketchnote Army PodcastYou can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.Support the PodcastTo support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!Episode TranscriptMike Rohde: Hey everyone, this is Mike, and I'm here with Ty Hatch. Ty, welcome to the show. It's so good to have you.Ty Hatch: Thanks, Mike. It's great to be here.MR: Ty, we've known each other for years and years. We were talking about when we thought we connected, you had a pretty pinpoint accurate time-point.TH: Yeah. It's funny. Back in 2008, I went to a UX Week, which was a conference put on by, for those that remember Adaptive Path, I think they got purchased and became the in-house UX department for Capital One a few years ago. I was there and I was like, "I need to pay attention." Did some sketch notes, or just did notes, I wasn't thinking about it. Got an email from you after I posted them up on the OG photo-sharing Flickr, and you're like, "Hey, can I put these into my Sketch Note Army?" And so, we just stayed in touch throughout the years since then, so.MR: Yep. Well, that leads right into telling us a little bit about who you are and what you do.TH: You bet. I am a UX manager for O.C. Tanner, which is an employee recognition company. I help create the space for employee recognition. I Work with a team. I have three people on my team. We're part of a larger experience group, and we focus on how can people feel appreciated at work by the employers. It's a really fun thing to do. I also, as you know, do sketch notes at times and random doodles and whatnot when the time allows. That's me. I enjoy UX design. It's a fun problem space to be in.MR: Well, I can relate to that as a UX principle, UX designer. I find it fascinating as well. I focus on software, but there are tons of opportunities to make things better, always, seems like. It's good to hear you're focusing on that, and that's such a critical space, especially now with all the challenges of hiring people and maintaining employees, and having them not leave by recognition. Huge, huge opportunities there, I would think.TH: Yeah. It's huge. You, like me, it's hard to feel sometimes like you're moving the needle and you're making a difference for people. One of the things that really gets me going is knowing that the work that I'm doing is actually helping people feel that appreciation, that they get that recognition from not only their peers, but from their leaders and whatnot.MR: Yep. Super important. It's something that often goes under the radar and managers might not think much about it, but is so critical. Often it doesn't cost you much other than time and a little bit of thoughtfulness. So, that's really cool. I would love to hear a little bit more about how you ended up in the space where you are both professionally, but also as a sketchnoter. Had you always drawn since you were a little kid? What's been your history? Let's start from when you're just a little guy.TH: I spent a lot of time outdoors growing up. I grew up in Southern Idaho and southeastern Washington. Miles outside of my small town. There wasn't much to do there. We were too far out to get TV reception. We often joked we got matching ants on our TV screen because this was back in the days before cable. We had terrible TV reception on our black and white TV. We did have indoor plumbing, and electricity, so that was always good.My brother and I, we would leave the house, go out in the backyard. We didn't have neighbors at the time, and so, we would just go out sometime after breakfast and typically we'd come back around dinnertime 'cause we were hungry. We would always have some sort of adventure and whatnot. I think at some point, a friend of ours introduced us to Dungeons and Dragons and I became a really big fantasy nut.This was the early days of D&D. I used to have a first edition, Monster Manual and Player CanBall and DMS Guide and all that. We colored them, I coloring books 'cause they were all just black and white illustrations. I loved it. Got into reading books and whatnot. Wanted to play football, but didn't seem to get enough interest for college people. We were in a small town, nobody really knows what's going on with a small town.I served a mission for my church for a couple years and then returned home. I was visiting my grandparent's house, and this is probably my favorite story about what got me into what I do today is there was this really awesome a couple of these burly looking pirates on it. I was like, "Well, this is cool, visual stimuli to get someone board at grandma and grandpa's house, right? It said the white family, I said, "Oh, that's a Piratey name."I was like, "Oh, let's read about these pirates." It wasn't pirates. It was a story about the artistic legacy of NC Wyatt and his son Andrew, and his grandson Jamie. I just got hooked and in fact, I have a self-portrait from that issue that I took out of the magazine. I think I found a couple copies over the years. But there was a really little self-portrait that he did that I have hanging on my wall.There was some painters tape. And I was like, "Oh, you get paid doing art? What? Completely radical concept for me. I'd always loved comic books. My brother and I collected comics over the years. I figured, I was like, "Oh, what can I do with art?" I started exploring the different art-related careers and I stumbled upon graphic design because as I learned about illustration as a career, I was like, "That's really competitive. I don't know that I'm good enough to compete there, but I can definitely think visually and solve problems." So, I tended toward that.That was about the time I was a junior at state school in Washington State where I'd met my wife and I applied for an art school in Portland and I'm like, "There's no way they'll let me in." But surprisingly, they did. I finished a BFA in graphic design. My senior capstone project there at the time was a website, this is what? 1998 I wanna say. Right about the time my oldest was born. And my senior project was an informational website on typography, which is still out there.I did a really quick redesign of it the next year 'cause it was a hideous thing when I got looking at it in reality. But it's still fitting there, 20-some-odd years later. It was an informational website about typography. Cause actually, I fell in love with typography in school. That's one of the things I absolutely loved. I was like, "Oh, could I make money doing typography?" I was like, "No, I can't." Type is another one of those professions, it's a very niche specialty.MR: Yeah. You can do it, but you have to really work at it.TH: Yeah. But I love design. I love the visual solving of problems and communicating clearly with design. For several years, I did that and slowly over time morphed into more of an interaction UX designer. Just as the industry changed, I'm like, "This is a good thing. This can provide for me and my family and I enjoy doing it." You slowly over the years gravitated into technology and doing UX.That was the thing that got me where I'm at. Particularly doing sketchnotes, like the sketch note that I did at UX Week was the first time that I actually shared anything that I'd done like that. I would do 'em in my sketchbooks 'cause it helped me process what was being communicated, presentations that I would go to.I really took off though, I wanna say about 2014, 2015 when I got my first iPad. There's this little app that was really cool. I'm like, "This is cool." I was trying to use it with my finger, but the company that made the app, which is Paper. The company at the time was called, FiftyThree.MR: FiftyThree. Yep.TH: I think I got one of their styluses, which looked like a carpenter's pencil. I was like, "This is cool." But I didn't like the drag of the rubber on it, but it made my finger drawings not as crappy. I'd used that stylus. I tried to play around with it a bit more. Then Apple introduced the pencil and it was a game changer for me.I've dabbled a bit with other applications, but the Paper is still my go-to when it comes to sketchiness because of how it works. I still maintain sketchbooks. I have one now. It's more random skulls and patterns and headshots. Like you see I participate in October each year, which is a drawing challenge. If you go over into my Instagram, you'll see that I have a few. I think I actually made it through all 31 days this year.MR: You did.TH: Which is like maybe the second or third time that I've done it. I've completed Inktober. But that's just fun. It's a good challenge to just do random headshots. I enjoy the personalities that come out of those headshots. That's a bit of how I got into it, what I've been doing.MR: Wow. And now, do you still do sketchnoting from time to time?TH: I do. I haven't had as much with the pandemic. Right before the pandemic, I was actually doing a fair amount of it. I was getting contacted by conferences to help with that. I did a Mind the Product conference and did a plural site live as well. They were a lot of fun. Did the thing with—what I like about—my particular process with sketchnotes is I prefer being in person at any one event 'cause processing that real-time is the thing that I did. I've tried to do it with different random, YouTube presentations and stuff like that, but I don't get quite the energy and the vibe off of a live event.MR: Interesting. When I look at your style, I see you have a very unique ink style, I dunno how to describe it, but it looks like you're using a brush pen or something. There is some single-line work, right, but there's some that looks like it's kind of thick and thin. What is the tool that you're using to achieve that? I assume you're still on Paper, right?TH: Yeah. Looking at the ink over stuff, I typically, I'll pencil it out, I'll sketch out in pencil and then I just use fine liners. I use a fine linear and then like a 0.8. Sometimes I'll go in with the smaller one. One little tool that I saw, a Kaweco.MR: Oh, yeah.TH: I was like, I put it in my cart and it's really hard to justify that experience. Not a cheap thing, hey. But it got low enough and I'm like, okay, it was my birthday. And I was like, I told my wife, "I'm gonna splurge and get this." And like, okay. I love it. I haven't done much drawing with it. I got an extra broad nib and it's a little too thick for me. My pen addiction, my writing instrument addiction is breathing and well, and I collect art supplies when I'm trying to figure out something I wanna do. I ordered a broad nib off of Jet pens, which is not a good site if you like ready instruments. It's not good for your wallet. It's a great size.MR: Great site, and yeah, you spend a lot of money there pretty easily.TH: Oh yeah.MR: Paper now is owned by, WeTransfer the file transfer company, and still is maintained and has had some updates. Like you, I use Procreate for illustration work, but if I'm doing sketch notes, I go right to Paper. At this point, it feels really natural, the tools, I'm very aware of them. When you do sketchnoting in Paper, what are the tools that you like to use there? I'm just curious about that. Looking at, just have one of your samples up here on my screen. Looks like you're—TH: I have an iPad Pro that I use with an Apple pencil. Typically, when I do it, I'll—what I love about Paper is the intuitiveness of the tools. They have a paintbrush, they have a ink pen or fountain pen. They have a couple different types of markers and a pencil. Typically, I like to do a little sketch of the presenter. And so, if you look at it, you'll see that most frequently. Then notes around the topics they're talking about.Often, I'll get the sketch of the presenter. I do that in the quiet moments of their presentation. I'll either use the ink pen, the fountain pen version, a medium nib. It's relatively inexpensive to pay for the pro version for Procreate or for the Paper.MR: Right. It's $12 a year, I think.TH: Yeah. I'm more than happy to pay that 'cause it's given me a lot of opportunities. The thing that I love is the color mixing. They've nailed color mixing like nobody else has, and I think it's one of the best things that they've done in software. I'll use that or I'll use a one the fine liner to do the block letters and whatnot.Every now and then, I have little people pop up that are just a head body and arms, legs to sometimes self-characters and concepts that the designers are doing. Because the thing that I found really interesting with sketch notes is that it's that real-time synthesizing of the concepts that they're presenting that I get the most out of 'em. Largely, it started as a selfish practice to pay attention and stay awake, but I found that I still love doing that because it really helps me to get something outta these presentations as well. But yeah, Paper is hands down the most intuitive tool, I think, for just sketching out in general. I love it.MR: I agree. Well, we're talking a little bit about Sketchnoting specifically. We've done who you are and what you do. We got your story of your origin. Tell us a little bit about something you're working on now, whether it's work or personal that you're excited about that you can share with us.TH: Well, let's see. One of the things I'm really excited about, I have no clue how to do it, is I want to try and figure out how I can work a little bit more in conversational device. Conversational device seem to be taken a lot. There's the ChatGPT bot that everybody's talking about. All these AI-based tools, which have their place, I think. But how can I build a conversational way to present my work or to present myself?I've done some really terrible things. Experiments that will never see the light of day. One of the things I love about design is that's experimentation is part of trying to figure out a solution. You and I both know as designers, it's like, you can't really come up with a good solution unless you know what the problem is. And so, trying to figure that out from my perspective, like, okay, how can I make something like this happen and in a way that I can somehow manage, right?I will fully admit to being an old school. It's like my personal psych is there. I think I got a redesign out last year that I'm really happy with. That was the seven-year cycle of refreshing a personal site. It seems like seven to eight years is about the time it takes for me to get around to saying, "I should probably redesign my personal site." And actually, finding the time to do it.I want to, being able to maintain that in a way because with all the different social media things, it's really hard to improvise where your content is in a good way. 'Cause if you post on social media, you don't have a real centralized location for any of the content that you can put out. You have to say, "I'm gonna focus on this platform."That's really the dangerous thing, I think. How do you position yourself not only as a working professional, a design professional like we're as an artist you know, and give yourself a home where people know, "Oh, if I go here, I'll be able to find and go look at all the other things."'Cause as much as I love social media and Instagram, I'm tired of seeing an ad every third post in Instagram as I scroll through my feed. Then you have other social media services that kinda self-destruct. I want to have a good centralized location, and I haven't been able to get that fully done yet.'Cause as much as everybody loves WordPress and it powers so many sites, you have to really want to put in that time and effort to make WordPress work. There's other platforms and stuff too, but it's like, how can you make your content your own and have it in a place that everybody can know, "Okay, if I go here, I'll find their stuff." I'm trying to figure that out for myself.MR: That's something that challenged me as well. Years ago, I decided to go to Squarespace just because I could build what I wanted and not think too much about it, and constrained me a lot. Paper does provide, and it's grown to meet my needs over time. That's been really good to secure as well. I had an instance where I ran websites on WordPress and didn't update, and someone was running a legal pharmaceutical site buried in my website, and I was like, "All right. Not doing that anymore."I was out on WordPress self-hosting and switched to Squarespace, and it's been a good experience. But yeah, I felt the same way you talk about, you know, scrolling through Instagram, it feels like more and more of its ads and less and less of its actual content. I have to really fight through the ads to actually get to my friends for interesting things, and that's frustrating. Someone's going to hopefully solve that problem soon.TH: There's a lot of different platforms out there, you know, Mastodon is taking off, but it's like, in my mind, it's a little too complex for the normal person. Just about everything, you have to feed the algorithm. You have to continually be putting stuff out there to maintain any audience. People have lives outside of posting on social media.One thing I think in general that people don't think about too much is I have a life that is very important to me with my family, and it's like, I'm not gonna be posting all the time for these different platforms. It's great. I love doing it, but it's like, that's not my primary, one of my key focuses.MR: That's the question everybody has to ask, right, to what am I gonna feed this thing? What are its expectations of me? 'Cause sometimes you come to realize that these platforms have expectations for what they want you to do that doesn't align with what you wanna do. You have to make that decision because you only get so much time. It keeps going away. That's really fascinating. Well, I hope that redesigning your website goes well. I know what that feels like. I haven't done it for a while, so I know what a challenge it is.TH: I appreciate that. One thing I'm really interested in trying out, and maybe I'll be doing it a little bit this week a bit if I can, is AWS has this thing called Amplify Studio where they've pre-built some components and whatnot, in React powered by a Figma template. And so, you change your components in the Figma template, connect your account, and you should be able to launch out some app or whatever.I have the template, it's been taunting and mocking me for several months since I discovered it. An inanimate software can't do that. AI might be able to do that, but inanimate software doesn't necessarily do that as you're constant saying, "Hey, you got this, are you gonna do something at some point?"MR: For those who don't know, Figma is a design tool, vector-based design tool where many designers build often their prototypes and their mockups with. What Ty's talking about is he would build a mockup of his site and then use React, which is kind of a backend technology, I think is a fair way to describe it populated by—TH: It's a JavaScript framework—MR: Framework, that's the word I was looking for.TH: Yeah. Just help build out components. AWS is Amazon Web Services, which is the—basically simple way of looking at it is they provide a lot of the Cloud hosting services for a lot of providers. When your services aren't working, there might be an AWS outage somewhere causing some of that stuff. When the internet services go down, sometimes there's outage with some of these cloud providers—MR: Well later in the show, we'll definitely have a link to your website. Maybe by the time this episode launches, you'll have a new site up there that people can look at.TH: It gives me a goal to work on.MR: There you go. There you go. Let's take a little shift now and talk about tools. We've hinted at some, you talked about Paper by WeTransfer as a digital tool. Let's jump back into analog, and more specifically, are there brands of pens that you like, brands of paper, notebooks, pencils, so that people who are listening can dig them up and maybe experiment a little bit?TH: Absolutely. Right now, if I look at my desk, I have a mechanical pencil, and I'll send you some links so you can put these in show notes. It's a mechanical pencil, 0.51 with a metal coral is by Uni. The nice thing is, when you have a metal pencil, you'll often have this little nib that kinda gets bent and breaks. But what's nice about this pencil is that it retracts. It's fairly affordable. I think it's like maybe about 15 bucks. It's not a polymer is on the back of it.I also love fine liners. I've gotten the rounds with a whole bunch, I have some, Copics. The current one that I'm using is a Uni pen fine liner. I've found that I really like these really good waterproof so I can lay down watercolor washes or alcohol on so on. I got this one earlier this year. We did a team offsite. We got a rotating 600.MR: Those beautiful pens.TH: It was a Ballpoint. I'm not such a huge fan of ballpoint pens. But I discovered that Kaweco makes a gel pin insert refill, and so, I got a Kaweco gel pen insert in there. Then have a Kaweco fountain little porch fountain pen. The thing that amazes me-- yeah, it's tinier than I thought it was, but the thing I love about it is that the ink just flows and it's beautiful. It's really great.As far as what do I draw on, in the day, it's often post notes, making lists, and whatnot. I have sketchbooks. Right now, I'm using one. I've been experimenting a little bit with what I want to use for sketchbooks and stuff. This one's by a company, Global Art materials. It's just a generic kinda sketchbook.For years and years, I've used Moleskin's Art sketchbooks, which are great. I love that size. I got a eight by eight, or seven and a half by seven and a half watercolor sketchbook. I found that that was a little too precious. I was like, "Oh, I gotta do art in this stuff." I got the Kickstarter for "The Sketchnote Idea Book."MR: Thank you.TH: I love it, Mike. It's fantastic. The pages are bright white, which I absolutely love and they held all sorts of things. I got some watercolor in my old one. I have one somewhere, an Emergency Kit in case I have to go somewhere. I have another one somewhere that I'm like, lemme experiment with this stuff, and then maybe I'll get back to the Idea book. I found that that notebook that you guys put together was really one of my favorites in recent years.MR: Great.TH: The quality of the paper and the whiteness and the thickness made it really, really flexible. The only thing for me is maybe it was a hair too big, a little too wide. I like a little bit smaller, but I absolutely love the paper quality you guys did on that. Then like sketch notes or not sketch notes, but on the Ink Tobra drawings, I found a five by seven Strathmore 400 pad of paper that's really thick that I absolutely love.All of the years, and 2021s, I only did like 16 of them. I have all those originals hanging out on a piece of paper somewhere. One my goals with my personal site is to be able to set up a way to sell some of these 'cause that's fun or good if this is just sitting and collecting dust in your house. If you do it, I think that one of the real choices of making art is sharing it with people and helping them appreciate it. One of the things I wanna get going as well.MR: That sounds good. As far as digital, you talked about, of course, Paper. We got into that a little bit already. Are there any other tools that you like to play with? Or is that your go-to for pretty much everything?TH: I do have Procreate on my iPad. My kids use it a lot more than I do. One thing I found is I don't like the glossy slide of the Apple pencil on just a make a screen so I have a textured screen protector on it to give it that textural fill of paper. I found that that makes a huge difference for making marks on iPad. That's really it. I've toyed with, Adobe Fresco, Concepts app. There's one that the Icon Factory does, I can't remember it's Ben's go-to tool.MR: I think Ben Crothers likes that—Ben Norris likes that one.TH: Norris, yeah. I dabbled that a little bit. What I like about Paper is the ability to go from pencil to ink to watercolor. The brush that they have in Paper is fantastic. How you can lay your color, make it deeper and rich if you want.I haven't been able to get Procreate to do that. Procreate's a fantastic tool. I love it. But for Sketch notes, to me, it feels like it's a little too powerful. What I love about Paper is Paper's really good at just capturing your flow of thinking, whereas you have to be a lot more deliberate in your usage of Procreate. Although, if you're a Concept artist or somebody that's doing stuff like that, then absolutely that's a great place.My son does a lot of—he loves Pokemon, he loves Mario. He's been doing it. He's gonna be turning 25 this next year. And I'm like, "Dude, you could do commissions of people's Pokemon on teams." He does this fantastic stuff. I'll send you a link to his Pokemon stuff. He'll do characters and whatnot. He's drawn so many Mario things. He's drawn hundreds of Pokemon and he gets them scaled. I just absolutely love looking at his stuff. I'm like, "Dude, you could probably do something with this. "But he's like, "Yeah, I know Dad, but I do this for fun." Which is great.MR: That sounds like a great variety of tools. You had quite a span. Some that I hadn't thought about, especially the Kaweco. I think it was the Kaweco insert that goes into the Rotring, I think you talked about. 'Cause I'm not a ballpoint fan either. There's a Schaffer insert that I use in my Retro 51s that I really like too. Probably a similar insert, I suppose.TH: I really like the Kaweco one. There's another one that seems to get pretty good reviews that I've seen on, I wanna call it Otto.MR: Oh yeah. Otto. I've had otto. Yeah, those are great. That's Japanese, I think.TH: Mark-making on a budget is a big deal for me. It's not necessarily the tools that make the person, it's what you do with the tools that you have. I think having a widely available set of tools is really important, but also making sure that they're budget-friendly, right?MR: Mm-hmm.TH: Is an important thing too.MR: Yep. I totally agree. Let's make one last shift into tips. The way I frame this is to imagine someone's listening. Maybe they're kind of at a plateau, or they just need some inspiration, little inspiration, little boost. What'd be three tips you would give that person to encourage them in their sketchnoting or visual thinking or just thinking, doing visual work experience.TH: The first tip, and I think this is a pretty important one. I've had a lot of people, when they find out I'm a designer, they throw, "Oh, I'm not artistic." And to me, it's not about being artistic. It's about being creative. I like to tell people everyone's creative in their own way. How you express your creativity is going to be different than how I express my creativity.My creativity comes out in the form of sketch notes and these random headshot illustrations that I do. Your creativity may be that you are a fantastic accountant and you can come up with really great ways to make things better and more efficient. Other people may just be fantastic books or bakers. Everybody expresses their creativity differently.It's not about being artistic, it's about expressing yourself in the work that you do. I think it's perfectly okay to admire for somebody's work and say, "Oh, that's fantastic," and be a fan of it, but also not beat yourself up like, "Oh, I'm not that good at because I can't draw like my sorority and illustrate all these school books." I can draw my own thing and I can be happy with it. And so, I think my first one would be, everybody is creative in their own way, and that's okay.With that, it goes to what I would say is my second tip is enjoy what you do. That it's really hard, I think, especially today for people to feel like, oh, I can enjoy this. I think you need to give yourself permission to enjoy those things that you find pleasing. There's so many things out there today, it's easy to get overwhelmed with them.I think it's okay to be nerdy and geeky or really into sports or, you can like a range of different things. If my kids were tell you what I like, they'd rattle off a list of dozens of things 'cause I don't think it's good to limit yourself to liking just one thing. You can like a range of different things, and that's okay. That would be my second one.The third one is, there's a script quote from Iron Glass. You've probably heard this. You can find a YouTube video on it somewhere, but he's talking about the work that you want to do when you—everybody has a particular taste and style in their head that they imagine. But then when you try and do it, it doesn't meet those mental expectations, but you can get there by working at it.I really think that everybody's capable of doing really great stuff, but you need to work to get to that point. Don't give up, but that's the whole—and I think follow your passion is really bad advice, but I think do what you enjoy because it may be that you may not enjoy your job which is providing for you and maybe your family. But if there's something outside of that that brings you joy and that you enjoy doing, do that in a way that helps you be happy.Over time, what you do with that will match what you see in your head. There may be opportunities that come up as a result of doing that because you never know. Opportunity—I forget who said this quote. Opportunity is often masked as hard work. If you're not doing the work to prepare for the thing that you want to do when that opportunity comes, you're gonna be ill-prepared to do that, that you want to do.And so, it's important to do the things that you feel are important that you love and you'll have an opportunity at some point. Timing is really important. I'll do a fourth one because this one I feel—and I've mentioned a little bit. You need set boundaries for yourself on what you do. You need to be able to say, this is what's important to me, and these other things aren't so important.And so, when it comes down to it, you know, I won't be doing this, this, or this because it conflicts with my more important thing. For me, personally, my most important thing is my family, and everything that I do, I do—I love design. I find that an extremely fulfilling, rewarding career, but it's a means to be able to provide for the family and make sure that they're taken care of.I think that a lot of people are like, this is my hustle. This is my thing. If you put so much of yourself into that, that you identify that with that, and if that thing goes away, where are you left? Set the boundaries for the things that are really important to you in your life that are not work-related. Because I can guarantee you everybody has something that's very important to them, that it's not work-related.Set those boundaries, talk about those boundaries, and live your life in a way that reflects your priorities because as you do that, people will see that, they'll understand that, they'll respect that. And as you do those things and you express yourself through whatever creative means you have, you'll gain those opportunities to be able to do those things and then lead a more fulfilling life and that you're you're happy with. You won't be living with regrets if you do those things.MR: I love the fourth tip. That's really great. Really encouraging. Well, thank you for all those tips and we appreciate your wisdom for all of us here. It seems like just minutes and suddenly we're near the end of the show. I'd love to hear where's the best place for people to find you? Websites, social media, whatever you think would be the best place to start and connect.TH: You bet. I do have a personal site as we were talking about. It's at tyhatch.com. That's gonna be where you can find me. I have links off to all my socials. I'm on Twitter for however long that's still up. I'm on Instagram. You can find me at both of those. Most social media, you can find me at Ty Hatch. Instagram, Twitter, those have been my mainstays. I do have a profile on Mastodon as well. You can find me there tyhatch@mastodon.online. And then also most of my schedule archive of at this point in time lives over on Pinterest. You go to pinterest.com/tyhatch.com/sketchnotes. I think I have a collection of about 300 different sketch notes that I've done.MR: Oh, that's great.TH: You can find me there. I'm always happy to field any questions. If you see something you like, send me a note. Say, "Hey Ty, I really like this sketch. Do you have it?" And if it's something from October, happy to do that. I did a thing years ago, oh gosh, it's been almost 10 years. Really, Mike, I'm getting old. I did this thing about 10 years ago called Artist Trading Cards, or ATC. I think it might still be up if you go to apcs.tyhatch.I did a bunch of Artist Trading Cards. It started off ostensibly as like, "I'm gonna do a little Christmas present for coworkers." And it turned into a four-month project that I had a daily post of thumb little sketch that I did. I'm happy to sell these or trade with you if you want to trade physical objects. There's a whole range of those out there as well. It's fun. I enjoy doing random doodles and I think some point, there will be an opportunity for 'em, but until then I get to enjoy them.TH: Yep.MR: Cool. Well, we'll definitely get show notes put into the episode. So if you're anything in or any of these things pique your interest, you can go check it out. We have links to it. And thanks so much, Ty for being on the show. I'm so appreciate the work you do and the representation you put into the world and your leadership really need people like you doing that. And I'm so glad that you do it.TH: Thanks, Mike. It's been a pleasure. It's been fantastic talking with you today.MR: You too. Well, and for everyone listening, that'll wrap another episode of "The Sketchnote Army Podcast." Till the next episode, this is Mike. Talk to you soon. All right. I'm gonna stop my recording.
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 11th, 2023.(00:45): I worked at Google for -10 daysOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35525294(02:22): Substack Notes LaunchedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35526768(03:45): We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossibleOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35521704(05:13): SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres QueueOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35526846(07:11): Anthropic's $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAIOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35523859(08:38): Supabase Edge Runtime: Self-Hosted Deno FunctionsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35525222(10:28): The Best Pens for 2023: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain PensOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35527873(11:53): Colorado passes agricultural Right to RepairOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35532479(13:23): People with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional systemOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35524881(15:10): Distributed Machine Learning Notebooks with Elixir and LivebookOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35525661This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai
In this episode Mike and Eric review the podcast "Stuff You Should Know" hosted by Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant. Coming up on 15 years and now over 2,000 episodes Josh and Chuck have managed to continuously challenge each other while providing information you should know in a non-pretentious manner. Now with a large and loyal following of everyday people they are able to host live shows as well as leverage the brand across books and even a board game collaboration. So, why has this been so successful? Is it just two nice guys who are sufficiently curious about everyday things with great chemistry? Not surprisingly, yes. Combine that with a great podcast title and a bit of a foundation from a formerly-related educational website on which you can hit the ground running and maybe you too can repeat their success. The SYSK guys can be found on Twitter at @SYSKPodcast. We specifically focused on the episode "Ballpoint pens? Heck yes, ballpoint pens!", which can be found here on iHeartMedia: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/episode/ballpoint-pens-heck-yes-ballpoint-pens-29741397/ Follow us on Twitter at @noharmaskingpod so you don't miss a review or interview with the best in the business! Eric also publishes his podcasting journey titled "A Podcasting Journal" on Substack at https://ericbyron.substack.com/ Please check out our sponsor: Qollab.me -- the free to use interview planning, preparation and collaboration tool at https://qollab.me/
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People wonder about Stephen King's pencil. Writers (including me) want to know what writing instrument he uses. Why? Maybe we all harbor a secret hope that if we get the same pencil as Stephen King, we'll end up as prolific and successful as Stephen King. Or if we discover what Annie Dillard writes with, we'll produce the same type of literary prose as Annie Dillard. Or if we use the same writing program as, well...fill in whatever writer you admire. If you use the same pencil, pen, writing program, or paper as your favorite writer, do you imagine you're becoming a little bit more like them? Stephen King's Pencil I poked around, and it sounds like King's favorite pencil is the classic Blackwing 602, favored by such luminaries as John Steinbeck, Vladimir Nabokov, and Truman Capote.1 But while researching Stephen King's pencil, I realized I wanted to hear from you—real writers at work. What do real writers use? Through social media, my newsletter, and a coaching call in my writing community, I asked: What's your favorite writing instrument? And you told me. I found out: There's no one perfect pen for all writers. There's no one perfect program for all writers. There's no consensus on the best tool or writing instrument out there for every single writer to use. Everyone's simply using what they love. Your favorite writing instruments People seem evenly split between pens and pencils, and some weren't picky at all. Any old ballpoint pen was fine with them, even the kind they swipe from one of the businesses they frequent. Others were more precise on brand, color, and tip, preferring fine, medium, or thick. Curious to hear what these real writers use to do the work? Your favorite pens Let's dive into the pens. Ballpoint pens are at the top with BIC. Yes, that common brand is a favorite option. They're easily found, they're really cheap, and they come in fun colors. And a lot of people prefer one particular color, like blue, or one particular tip, like fine point. Coming up right after BIC is the PILOT brand. The PILOT Precise V5 seems to be the favorite. Good gel pens are adored by a lot of people (and hated by a few). TUL pens are also coming in hot with a lot of writers who are addicted to them. I also heard from writers who love Paper Mate InkJoy, Sharpies, and Flair pens, as well as a couple of fountain pen users. If you're curious, when I grab a pen, I like the Pentel RSVP pen in black, fine point. They're easily found and affordable, kind of like the classic BIC ballpoint. Your favorite pencils As for pencils, well, again, BIC comes in strong with their mechanical pencils that a lot of people mentioned. Others love mechanical pencils in general and aren't particular about brands. The Blackwing 602 is used by a few people who tracked it down and love it. And a lot of people said they don't have a preference—they'll snatch any pencil within reach and start writing. More specifically, I did hear about Paper Mate's Mirado Black Warrior. A writer heard it recommended by author Daniel Silva and had trouble finding it, but once she did, reported that it's excellent. Someone mentioned they love writing with graphing pencils. What are people writing on? Whether they're using a pen or a pencil, people are writing in all kinds of notebooks, and a few people love the freedom of writing on scrap paper with no lines. Your favorite writing programs Now let's switch to writing programs. Microsoft Word and Scrivener are neck and neck. A lot of writers are using one or the other and sometimes both. After you export a Scrivener document as a Word document—and send it off to your editor—it's much easier to track changes in Word. Google Docs shows up as the next most popular option. A few people use Open Source LibreOffice, and one person mentioned using Final Draft for screenplays.
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Edgar OtraVez, Cousin Primo, and Fredo riff on other geeky properties in media. The Guyver: Bio-Booster Armour, sci-fi storytelling tropes, "flipping" old video games, and old technology. Prey Director: Dan Trachtenberg Starring: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Stormee Kipp, and Dane DiLiegro Follow Us On: Fredo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fredosvideogames/ Cousin Primo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dantasticsizzler/ Edgar OtraVez on Instagram: https://instagram.com/edgarotravez/ TheFlowRoll on Instagram: https://instagram.com/theflowroll/ The Flow Roll Website: https://TheFlowRollPodcast.com/ Affiliate and Sponsor Links Music "Destroyer" by Crunchy and Ballpoint Use my referral link for this track and more music at Epidemic Sound: https://epidemicsound.theflowrollpodcast.com Blue Host The best hosting service for a great price: https://www.bluehost.com/track/edgarotravez/podcastDescription/ Monday Plan, organize and track your team's work in one place. Work Without Limits https://mondaycom.TheFlowRollPodcast.com #TheFlowRollPodcast #TheFlowRoll #FlowRoll #preditor #80smovies #flippingGames #flipping # Guyver #storytellingTropes #cassetes #VCRTapes #rewinding #rewind #expendables
Edgar OtraVez, Cousin Primo, and Fredo review the movie Prey. Prey is a period piece set 300 years in the past in the Camanche Nation. There are plenty of homages/references to the original films. What an entertaining piece of cinema. Prey Director: Dan Trachtenberg Starring: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Stormee Kipp, and Dane DiLiegro Follow Us On: Fredo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fredosvideogames/ Cousin Primo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dantasticsizzler/ Edgar OtraVez on Instagram: https://instagram.com/edgarotravez/ TheFlowRoll on Instagram: https://instagram.com/theflowroll/ The Flow Roll Website: https://TheFlowRollPodcast.com/ Affiliate and Sponsor Links Music "Destroyer" by Crunchy and Ballpoint Use my referral link for this track and more music at Epidemic Sound: https://epidemicsound.theflowrollpodcast.com Blue Host The best hosting service for a great price: https://www.bluehost.com/track/edgarotravez/podcastDescription/ Monday Plan, organize and track your team's work in one place. Work Without Limits https://mondaycom.TheFlowRollPodcast.com #TheFlowRollPodcast #TheFlowRoll #FlowRoll #DanTrachtenberg #AmberMidthunder #DakotaBeavers #StormeeKipp #DaneDiLiegro #preditor #80smovies
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The very talented director, writer, and producer Rick Gawel is on the show to talk about his experience in making movies. He also tells OtraVez and Not-My-Cousin Dan all about where he got his love for the horror movie genre, how he learned the craft of filmmaking and the very curious "Disturbing Movie Iceberg". Find Rick Gawel on: - YouTube Channel - Ad Nasueum XI: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXbQGUV-H14TElGekeyGaww - Watch "Michael Myers: Absolute Evil" at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMTgn66Z5zE - Facebook Page for Rick's Mockumentary - "Michael Myers: Absolute Evil": https://www.facebook.com/michaelmyersabsoluteevil Find Not-My-Cousin Dan on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dantasticsizzler/ Follow the Flow Roll on Instagram: https://instagram.com/theflowroll/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theflowroll/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheFlowRoll/ Website: https://theflowrollpodcast.com/ Music: "Night Driver" by Ballpoint, Cushy Use my referral link to find this song and more at Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/0xv18c/ #HumanCentipede #DeadGirl #Necromantic #MichaelMyersAbsoluteEvil #DisturbingMovieIceberg #ToolboxMurders #SlaughteredVomitDolls #LuciferValentine #ReGOREgitatedSacrifice #SlowTorturePukeChamber #DavidLynch #TheQ&AwithJeffGoldsmith #DarrenAronofsky #BlackSwan #RequiemForADream #AlCapone #AlCaponeSpeakeasy #AlCaponeTunnel #AlCaponeTunnels
Nyah Terrilyn, an alumni of our Bluapple Poetry community is now a degree-seeking sophomore journalism major at Howard University. She is an on-air personality on her school's radio station and a current writing fellow with the Washington Independent Review of Books. She is also an award winning spoken word poet, nationally recognized by the National Young Arts Foundation and the U.S Presidential Scholar in the Arts. In conjunction with the nonprofit ArtPrevailsProject created by Mr. Darius Daughtry, Nyah works in her community performing at events such as plays, poetry open mics etc inspiring others to be a voice! She also acts as the co-host for the ArtPrevailsProject Podcast which you can find a link to in their bio @ArtPrevailsProject on instagram or go to Artprevailsproject.org
Summer Walker, dirty floors and looking through phones....(Music: Pigeons x Ballpoint, Cushy and Dylan Sitts)
We need to revisit some events that we all moved on from too fast. Also...simps are very different from "nice guys."(Music: Pigeons x Ballpoint, Cushy and Dylan Sitts)
Join Taylor Lane as she gives a snippet of what to expect in episodes to come. Trigger warning for the 90's babies. Music by Ballpoint, Cushy, Dylan Sitts
In this episode, the guys discuss how BIC pens tried to differentiate themselves by launching pens specifically for women. This landed them in some hot water, we take a look at why this happened. Nico fires shots at Chad and Chad impresses us with his knowledge of pens. Let's go back in time and look at the history of the BIC pen company. Often brands will try to do something new and exciting to differentiate themselves. And maybe just as often that turns out badly for them. In 1944, near the end of WWII, French entrepreneur Marcel Bich bought a factory in a suburb south of Paris, and started the company that would become Société Bic. The BIC pen was introduced in December of 1950 - and introduced to the American market in 1959. Originally priced at 29 cents (the equivalent of $2.54 in today's dollars), the company's slogan was “writes first time, every time.” The inexpensive BIC ballpoint pen with the transparent body (known elsewhere in the world as “BiC Cristal”), is the best selling pen in the world. In 1961 BIC introduced the BIC Orange pen - featuring a fine 0.8mm point, and an orange barrel instead of the translucent “Cristal.” In 1965 the French ministry of education approved the BIC Cristal for use in all French classrooms. In 2006 BIC sold its 100 BILLIONth pen. Bich was always a believer in strong advertising. In 1952 he hired poster designer Raymond Savignac to create ads, and subsequently won the French “Oscar de la publicité” award for excellence in advertising. In 1953 Ad executive Pierre Guichenne advised Bich to shorten his family name to Bic so the brand name would be memorable, and would translate globally. Early BIC ads referred to the BIC Cristal as the “Atomic pen” And the Ballpoint really drove the shift from fountain pens to ballpoint pens in the late 20th century. Fast forward 60 years. In 2011, BIC decided to launch a product line specifically targeted at Women. They called it “BIC For Her.” The campaign attempted to speak to individual expression - re-styling existing pens (largely in pastel colors), and with packaging and ads that touted “BIC for Her - Always the perfect accessory.” Campaign materials highlighted: “BIC for Her pens and pencils allow you to add a touch of personality and a pop of color to your day with beautifully smooth writing and bold trendy designs.” The pens were described in the product descriptions as being "designed to fit comfortably in a woman's hand" with an "attractive barrel design available in pink and purple" Yes. Really. Jezebel's masthead tagline is “A Supposedly Feminist Website,” and their always snarky take on feminism found the perfect target in BIC. The article, titled “BIC For Her: Finally A Pen Ladies Can Use,” included such pearls as: "Oh thank the heavens above! My feeble, female hands were just a-strugglin' with those bulky man pens." And perhaps most visibly - comedian and TV talk show host Ellen Degeneres picked it up. She savaged the product in her monologue. Listen to some quotes here. Here is an example of another offensive BIC ad used for Women's Day. After yet another round of backlash, they decided to pull the ad, but never released an apology. As is often the case when a brand makes a huge misstep like this, a chorus of voices cried out “How could they have let this happen?” One writer provided some perspective in an article for Forbes entitled “BIC For Her - What they were actually thinking, as told by a man who worked on Tampons.” Now, aside from the troubling fact that this article amounts to further man-splaining - with David Vinjamuri explaining to us all how this could happen, including lines like: “I am uniquely qualified to comment on this as a former brand manager who worked on feminine hygiene products.“ But he does couch his comments as having been “personally responsible for some awful, painful advertising.” Maura Judkis, of the Washington Post pointed out that if BIC had put out the same pe...
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