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An amazing exhibition held in Hiroshima! I absolutely knew nothing about it except that Kamoi (the principle of MT Tapes) forwarded to me these cool images.
Good friend of mine Wang san from Kamoi told me about this great event not long ago and I wasn't able to imagine what is going on until I received these images. Mass customization on a tram in Hiroshima!
And it seems not only a tram was customized but also a waterfront corridor....
and an exhibition space....
and a few more unique stuffs like these Hiroshima Electric Railway tapes :)
Well, I'm hoping to bring this whole thing to Hong Kong and do a Hong Kong Tram show off to the world, what do you think? Excited! Check out more photos of the event here on my flickr set.
BTW, I have to tell you this, there have been a lot of companies in US and Japan in the past year to copy what Kamoi MT Tapes is doing, but they are no match of its quality really. The leader (and the winner of this year's ISOT stationery award in Japan too) is definitely MT Tapes. You will notice of the quality of the glue they use once you tried others.
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Snoopy Limited Edition Moleskine Journals
We saw the sell sheets months ago but when the samples finally arrived a few weeks ago, they totally exceeded our expectations, I mean they are absolutely beautiful and thoughtful. You've got to check out the details in these photos I took to find out more.
The covers of these Peanuts Limited Edition Collection Moleskine journals all have an embossed "Peanuts 60th Anniversary" logo subtly sits on the top left hand corner of the cover. Illustration of our beloved characters are done in white paint giving a very strong contrast with the black journal.
I'm quite sure customers buying them really wouldn't want to use them, probably a collector's item for many. They come in pocket and large size, both ruled or blank.
Honestly I wish the banderole graphics were actually printed on the journals coz the look so beautiful. Without them, the journals are like naked or missing something.
The inside of the front covers either has a saying from Charlie Brown or Lucy, while the last page of the journal has a very cute Peanuts family tree. The most interesting add-on for me is the stickers, I wish Moleskine had done more.
These journals are selling like hotcakes in our stores right now, I'm guessing that they are far more popular than the Pacman limited edition, but each to his/her own taste.
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Bobber House - Where Bobbers are King. Brass Balls Bobbers builds arm pulling hard core Diggers. Checkout the yellow and black striped Super Bee. From more details about Brass Balls Bobbers logon to www.brassballsbobbers.com or call 405.285.0808.
handwritten on slide, “Britt and Archie Ardoui at Logon Pass, October 13, 1983" date stamped on slide November 1983
Celebrating the Extraordinary
A New Volunteer for the next games? I will pass him for having that genuine smile of his. My respect to the cheerful supporters young and old at the breaking ceremony of the 8th ASEAN Para Games at Marina Bay Singapore.
Inspired by their acts of community support for the event.
I am not an official photographer. Just happen to cruise by and capture some happy moments of the opening.
The smiles and cheerful volunteers from all age groups light up a wonderful start for the 8th ASEAN Para Games event. One up for Singapore
Visit aseanparagames2015.com for their latest news and updates
Logon to singaporeology.com, a NEW Tourism Blog created by a team of Expats living here in Singapore. Fully supported with images from my stream.
Midori is releasing a series of new products relating to the popular Traveler's Notebook. In an attempt to create the same aesthetic of the leather notebook, the development team chose to use brass as the material which radiates the same pleasing quality as it ages. I think it is an excellent choice of material, it gives you the feeling of a trusted old friend, give it a little polishing it comes back to a shiny companion.
The brass series includes 12 pieces of numbered clips, a 15cm ruler with raised edge for easy pick up, a solid brass pen case and bullet pen/pencils. These bullet pen/pencils are available in white or brown barrels in addition to the brass ones. The pens have a ring at one end for strap add-on while the pencils have a large eraser instead.
During the Midori private show I visited, I learned that they are preparing for a "Traveler's notebook & company" exhibition to be held in Spiral Market again this year around March/April. I am glad to be invited to contribute some contents for their on-site newsletter in "what's in my bag" style.
The large size Traveler's Notebook is far more popular than the passport size they released last year. To promote the use of the passport size Traveler's Notebook, which can be used as an actual passport jacket with note keeping capability and kept close to your body, Midori is releasing more add-ons such as new refills, rub-on letters and 2 limited edition refills which looks like a real passport. In the limited edition refill package, they thoughtfully included rub-on letters in passport looking font so you can personalize the notebook on the last page like it is a real thing.
Finally, since document envelope with string closure is very difficult to find in Japan, "Kraft envelopes" are created. It gives a crafty way to store your receipts or coasters collected from travels, either use them individually or make them handy by taping them on the notebook refill cover.
Here's my 2 cents about material use. I love the brass application on the hardware (pen case, clip, pen and ruler), while Midori is proud of its range of high quality paper products, application of tougher material on the notebook covers or even envelopes and document holders will add similar aesthetic and durability to this overlooked area. I would recommend to use jean label material in the form of cellulose fibre in combination of leather and paper to create a new range of pleasing products under the Traveler's Notebook collection.
More on Scription blog: moleskine.vox.com/library/post/what-materials-age-well-br...
Here's some more photos of the real Moleskine Surprise boxes I've received on Monday. Last year when the Volant series was launched, collaborating with Moleskine Asia, we created beautifully designed envelopes for people to put colorful Volants in and send as Xmas gift. From our experience with huge Moleskine display during City Notebook's TOKYO/KYOTO release, we know people would love a gift box in the form of a Moleskine notebook for this Xmas. In addition, the retail price is almost like 30% off buying the contents individually. Its never done before.
What's unique about these boxes is that when sending them as gifts, you can almost certain they are on the top of your can't-go-wrong gift list, no matter what the content is. That's one big achievement as a brand. But don't get it wrong, these boxes aren't one of those dirty ways a retailer would do to clean up old stocks, they are thoughtfully designed into themes for customers to choose easily when they think of their recipient.
For a more elaborated present, you may find it hard to stuff these big boxes into a Xmas hamper, but that's the point isn't it, a hamper full of discovery… and surprises. I can tell you the Luxury, For Him and For Her sleeves are the most handsome, they can be easily adapted to your hamper's color theme.
To give you an idea how large these boxes are, I've put some pocket and large sized Moleskines beside the box. There's plenty of space still to add more stuffs to your present, and again the box is not only a nice packaging but can be doubled as a storage box approximately the size of an A4 paper (unfortunately because of the round corners, an A4 paper cannot be laid flat inside).
It will be great fun to assemble your own perfect stationery Xmas gift box based on these. Put in a few more interesting products like MT masking tapes, Amadana calculator, rubber stamps, etc and a personal note written with ink and paper, voilà! A thoughtful and useful gift. The Moleskine Surprise Boxes are going to arrive city'super and LOG-ON before this weekend. For a list of available countries in Asia, please contact Moleskine Asia.
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Lovely Stationery Stuffs From Tokyo - Heading Seoul In A Few Hours
Just spent a week in Tokyo and as usual, not enough time to explore the deeper part of the city for stationery and, well beyond. Not wanting to bore you with only Instagram treated iPhone photos, here's a better look of some of the nice stuffs I got, which some of them will make it to city'super/LOG-ON stores in the next couple of months.
From left to right: a retro key decorated with acrylic crystal and tassel, OTHO ball pen, ICO 70 ball pen from Hungary, Faber Castell perfect pencils with metal caps, Lyra pencil extender, Cathay Pacific souvenir pen (I once again agreed to fill in their survey form), scissors charms, elastic thread/string, KUM pencil sharpener for larger diameter leads with sand paper and sponge.
Some other things above: Pilot Capless fountain pen, Moleskine, tin box from Convent Garden Bazzar, fishing reel tape measure, KUM brass sharpener, bronze hook from Italy (for a leather messenger bag I'm planning to make)
A few hours from now, I'll be on a plane again but this time heading to Seoul for an intensive research and meetings. Keep notice of my tweets so that you get to know what I find in real time.
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Moleskine Covers for iPhone/iPad
Since the announcement of Moleskine's iPad and iPhone case, which is a hybrid concept under the Folio line, I've been seeing different configurations or material use. It is still unclear what the final configuration of these cases will be.
The final design will probably look like those shown on Moleskine's page, which I will be able to verify in a few days when I see the samples. I assume those shown below were prototypes coz it is a lot more logical to have Volant notebooks inside these cases than stickies, considering the fact that the StickNotes is still having trouble with the glue IMHO (the glue residue problem was probably solved but my stickies stacks fell off from the cover on one hand but very hard to pull out one stickies from the stack on the other).
I hope Apple Computer is going to release a smaller sized iPad which should be more portable especially when I tend to buy into the concept of a hybrid case.
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Southern Strobist Club meet 18th April 2010 @ California Barn, Swanage, UK
Model - Emma Sutton
MUA's Racheal Platt ,Nicola Redman , Kristie Moles
Big thanks to Lotty for supplying all the wonderfull clothes.
Nikon D300 (manual, Srgb) iso 200 f/4 1/250th
Lens Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 (DX=55mm (FX=82mm))
Elinchrom Quadra fitted with a 1m Rotalux softbox with diffuser
as main key light to right of model. power adjusted to achieve
an f/4 stop. Rotalux also fitted with Gold deflector
SB-800 set behind model within the barn and gridded to give a slight hair light
Lastolite Tri-Flip with sunfire reflector used to add some colour/tone to the models
Face...
All triggered via elinchrom skyport.
Sekonic Flash master L-358 used to take the light measurements....
Post Edit in Photoshop CS4
Many thanks to Howard from Southern strobists for setting the event up and the many models and MUA's for all the hard work & my two team mates Andy & Graham for making the day a buzz.......
Lo apna jehan duniya waloon, hum Iss duniya ko choor chalay
Jo ristay naatay joray thay, wo ristay naatay toor chalay
Kuch such kay sapnay dekh chalay, kuch dukh kay sapnay dekh chalay
Taqdeer ke andhi gardish nay, Jo khail khilaey khail chalay
Haar cheez tumhare lota de, hum lay kaynaheen kuch sath chalay
Phir doosh na dena aey logon, hum dekh lo khali haath chalay
Ye raah akeli kattee hay, yaan sath na koe yaar chalay
Iss par na jaen kiya paeen, Iss par tu saab kuch haar chalay.
Sahir Ludhiyanwi.
Taken @ F9 Park, Islamabad.
Construit en 1959 à Stockholm sur plans Olle Enderlein pour l'équipe suédoise de l'Admiral's Cup.
Designed by Olle Enderlein and built in 1959 in Stockholm for the 1963 Admiral's Cup Swedish team.
Travel Photo Cafe 2010 Starts!
Thanks to my Stationery and Moving department teammates, each of us went to different stores to help set up the event and it went smoothly. I wish I could add more of some craft examples to show newbies how things work, but I only have 24 hours a day, I guess smart people can figure out by themselves without much explanations.
Apparently these stamps are so popular we will be running out of postcards on the 3rd day of the event in some stores. This year's stamps are so beautiful people do feel like missing something if they don't collect all 6 of them on their postcard or journals.
If you are in Hong Kong between the period 18th June to 1st July, do visit Times Square and New Town Plaza city'super or Festival Walk and APM LOG-ON to find out more coz the event is morphing itself as some of the new Korean stationery designs such as those from Pony Brown are arriving stores as soon as we are receiving them from port. Our limited edition Strida bike is also attracting a lot of attention, so go play with us!
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After months of preparation, we now present you Back To School 2010!
Everything simulated on computer became real to the exact measurement, thanks to my great teammates, store colleagues and friendly partners like Apple Computer, Japanese stationery brands and Korean partners. To get a glimpse of what categories we offer, check out this Back To School 2010 leaflet downloadable in PDF (and soon as an iPad app!)
This year's big hit is of course Apple Computer's great teacher/student offer, Chocolate Rain's brand new Fatina USB memory and accessories, smoothest pens in the world, Korean stationery and our famous Put Together A5 personalized notebook system.
Check out these demonstrations from UNI and Pentel competing with each other to be the smoothest pen in the world. UNI's test platform allows you to pick any other brands' pen to compete with Jetstream racing down the slide, the time it takes for the pens to finish the race is displayed in the monitor behind. This platform is going to be in our Times Square only for a week's time then it will be sent to France for another event.
Check out the Flickr set of Back To School 2010 for some highlight photos. In the mean time, here's some amazing offers in the fair:
Apple Computer in Times Square, Festival Walk and New Town Plaza promotion. Exclusive free cases for computer purchase, teacher/student price, citibank installment plan
Chocolate Rain new range of products including cloth changing Fatina USB memory sticks and iPhone cases
iPad and iPhone 4 cases show down
4 major Korean stationery brands: Indigo, Antenna Shop, Magic Soup, Pony Brown
Toy Story booth where loads of USB gadgets and stationery products
and more
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Celebrating the Extraordinary
What do you know? We have cheer leaders too! My respect to the cheerful supporters young and old at the breaking ceremony of the 8th ASEAN Para Games at Marina Bay Singapore.
Inspired by their acts of community support for the event.
I am not an official photographer. Just happen to cruise by and capture some happy moments of the opening.
The smiles and cheerful volunteers from all age groups light up a wonderful start for the 8th ASEAN Para Games event.
Visit aseanparagames2015.com for their latest news and updates
Logon to singaporeology.com, a NEW Tourism Blog created by a team of Expats living here in Singapore. Fully supported with images from my stream.
We used to sell larger versions of these beautiful paper storage boxes from PLUS, the series is called Living Post which is very good for organizing your home and work desktop. This year they released a smaller version which is also cheaper at about HK$98 per piece. Instantly they became our top sellers in Xmas.
Most people have their stationery stuffed in a drawer without classification and eventually a lot of them are not used on regular basis, they are just lying there to be thrown away one day. The problem is, like most of your other stuffs, that without organization, things are not being used to their potential and this is such a waste.
So instead of putting stuffs in drawers, Living Post offers to have your gears accessible on your desktop. Yes you have to create a space for such storage boxes but the payback is guaranteed. You make things beautiful so that they become useful.
I now use a square orange box to store clips, craft related stuffs such as MT masking tapes, leather tools. The large drawer is just the right size for postcard or 4x6 photos, a calculator, Field Notes and Moleskine pocket size notebook fit perfectly well inside. My other narrow black box is used for photo related stuffs such as shutter release, 35mm film canisters, tapes, etc. It also serve as a place to put miscellaneous or temporary stuffs.
The Living Post drawers are tiny but enough. If you are not a stationery freak, chances are you will find it useful in your own ways. Say for storing daily cosmetic stuffs, for a dedicated place to store all your keys and cables, etc.
I wish they have a version with wood pattern which fits perfectly with my desktop theme at home.
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Lomo's Latest Stick Grenade - Spinner 360
Wow, be sure to be prepared for questioning in airports if you bring this with you. The latest and coolest camera from Lomo looks just like a stick grenade, just look at the profile and you can imagine what it looks like in an X-ray scan.
Hold the handle with one hand, pull the ring with the other and release, you get your 360 shots at a price far cheaper than a Horizon. Of course after 5 or 6 spins, your 36 frames run out, definitely a grenade to burn films. You also have a choice to spin the camera with your other hand in a constant fashion instead of using the built-in spring.
The cool thing about this is that there is no shutter in this thing, the ~66 degree lens (with a shooting distance from 1m to infinity) behind the slit is directly exposing film without any shutter leafs in front. So you shoot not by a click but by a spin.
Simple as a Holga, there is just the sunny vs. cloudy setting to adjust for the amount of light entering the camera. The same switch is used for film rewind. At the bottom of the handle is a tripod mount.
It is a bit heavy comparing to a typical Lomo camera mainly because of the weight of the metal hood. In addition to reducing light entering from the lens, the hood is made of metal to compensate the centripetal force generated by the body when it spins. Unscrew the hood and spin the camera, you will see what I mean.
There is a cute lever on top of the camera with a Spinner Dolphin, well now you know why is it named Spinner 360. A hotshoe exists but there is no contact points for your typical flash. It makes sense because a typical flash will only fire when there is a shutter release and there is no shutter on Spinner 360. I am guessing that this is for you to mount your bike headlight on it so you can lighten up your photos in low light conditions.
I've passed along the sample to our new colleague to try so I haven't gotten any experience developing the film. Oh BTW, the film compartment expose the entire film so you will get the cool sprocket holes effect by default. We could only reserve about 20pcs in city'super/LOG-ON for our Travel Photo Cafe 2010! I hope the next batch of new stock will arrive soon.
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Lagertha oil/chemical tanker inbound for Eastham.
IMO: 9410143
Vessel Type - Detailed: Oil/Chemical Tanker
MMSI: 215506000
Call Sign: 9HA5147
Flag: Malta
Gross Tonnage: 12619
Summer DWT: 19999 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 161.65 x 22.4 m
Year Built: 2009
Ship manager/Commercial manager & ISM: BESIKTAS LIKID TASIMACILIK
Registered owner: LOGON SHIPPING LTD
Shipyard: TURKER GEMI YAPIM SAN.VE TIC. A.S., Turkey
Hull Number: 11
Keel Laying Date: 09-Feb-2008
Delivery Date: 21-May-2009
Main Engine: x1 MAN B&W 6L48/60B 6cyls @ 500RPM
Engine Max Continuous Rating: 6300kW
Cargo Oil Tank Capacity:
Volume(CuM): 23592.42
Weight(Tonnes): 36159.16
Kendall dhe Kylie Jenner janë paditur nga një kompani rrobash “Island Company” me pretendimin se i kanë vjedhur logon.
Dy motrat e famshme janë paditur nga kjo kompani e themeluar në vitin 2002, pasi ato i kanë vjedhur logon e cila thotë: “Lërë punën. Bli një biletë. Nxihuni. Dashuroni. Mos u pen...
www.eportali.com/roze/paditen-per-vjedhje-kendall-dhe-kyl...
Midori is releasing a series of new products relating to the popular Traveler's Notebook. In an attempt to create the same aesthetic of the leather notebook, the development team chose to use brass as the material which radiates the same pleasing quality as it ages. I think it is an excellent choice of material, it gives you the feeling of a trusted old friend, give it a little polishing it comes back to a shiny companion.
The brass series includes 12 pieces of numbered clips, a 15cm ruler with raised edge for easy pick up, a solid brass pen case and bullet pen/pencils. These bullet pen/pencils are available in white or brown barrels in addition to the brass ones. The pens have a ring at one end for strap add-on while the pencils have a large eraser instead.
During the Midori private show I visited, I learned that they are preparing for a "Traveler's notebook & company" exhibition to be held in Spiral Market again this year around March/April. I am glad to be invited to contribute some contents for their on-site newsletter in "what's in my bag" style.
The large size Traveler's Notebook is far more popular than the passport size they released last year. To promote the use of the passport size Traveler's Notebook, which can be used as an actual passport jacket with note keeping capability and kept close to your body, Midori is releasing more add-ons such as new refills, rub-on letters and 2 limited edition refills which looks like a real passport. In the limited edition refill package, they thoughtfully included rub-on letters in passport looking font so you can personalize the notebook on the last page like it is a real thing.
Finally, since document envelope with string closure is very difficult to find in Japan, "Kraft envelopes" are created. It gives a crafty way to store your receipts or coasters collected from travels, either use them individually or make them handy by taping them on the notebook refill cover.
Here's my 2 cents about material use. I love the brass application on the hardware (pen case, clip, pen and ruler), while Midori is proud of its range of high quality paper products, application of tougher material on the notebook covers or even envelopes and document holders will add similar aesthetic and durability to this overlooked area. I would recommend to use jean label material in the form of cellulose fibre in combination of leather and paper to create a new range of pleasing products under the Traveler's Notebook collection.
More on Scription blog: moleskine.vox.com/library/post/what-materials-age-well-br...
cette photo a été prise lors d'un concert, (l'escale à logona 2) cet été! beaucoup d'émotions...............
merci pour vos commentaires et bon weekend! :)
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Ben oui quand on a rien d'autre à ce mettre sous la dent...et ben il y a ma chienne Patate...à défaut de trouver une demoiselle... ;)))
Excellent weekend tout le monde!
Merci d'avance pour vos commentaires fav et invitations.
Yeah when you have nothing else to put in their mouths ... and my dog ben there Patate ... failing to find a girl ... ;)))
Great weekend everyone!
Thank you in advance for your comments and invitations fav.
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Logonna-Daoulas, la jonque vietnamienne Haï-Phong attend patiemment à Moulin-Mer les fêtes de Brest 2012.
Croix des 12 apôtres, Logonna Daoulas
Située près du hameau de Rungléo, cette croix se dresse sur l'ancien chemin reliant Logonna-Daoulas et L'Hôpital-Camfrout.
Elle est composée d'un socle arrondi et d'un monolithe trapézoïdal de 2,20 m, probablement un ancien menhir ou une stèle de l’Âge du Fer, retaillé et christianisé.
Sa face principale présente douze apôtres en bas-relief, surmontés du Christ bénissant.
Datée de la fin du XVIᵉ siècle, elle pourrait s’inspirer du canon romain du rite tridentin (1570) et montre une influence des hautes-croix irlandaises.
Unique en Bretagne, aucune croix similaire n’a été recensée dans la région.
N48.32647 W4.27246
Mamiya C220 + Kodak Tri-X 400
The Minack Theatre.
Taken on the 14/11/2012 at 14:10:56HRS GMT using a Nikon D300s camera with an AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR+ a 52mm UV Filter.
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PONY BROWN - My Little Friend, Korean Stationery
My lack of post is only the evidence of more amazing stationery adventures coming up, this time Korean stationery. Yes it was crazily busy to implement yet another successful year of Back To School promotion in city'super/LOG-ON, yes there is the preparation of Xmas 2010 and an upcoming new store in Langham Place in November, but all these melt when I was in Seoul last week looking at the innovations from some of the most creative souls in the world.
PONY BROWN is a new Korean stationery brand only started since 2008. The key character which has no name, gained popularity in our Hong Kong market. According to the creative pair Mrs. Lee the owner and Mr. Oh the designer, the name PONY BROWN is not the name of the character at all, it came from Mr. Oh's birth year zodiac as a horse thus PONY and his love of brown color.
I had a great time spent in PONY BROWN's house, a 2 stories tranquil cat heaven in the middle of Seoul. It has all the elements I love right there, great sunlight, woody, quiet and space to think and relax while connectivity is not a problem at all.
As for why the main character has no name, Mr. Oh told me that the idea is to have people loving the character fuse their life and spirit with the character's attitude, to be bright and positive with attitude. The super cute character has a nick name though, since the series is called "My Little Friend", in Korean language fusioning with English, the character is called "Mylipu" (My Little Pu, "Pu" means friend in Korean).
The most popular items we sell at city'super/LOGO-ON of PONY BROWN is their free diary. They have just released some new post-it and diary stickies which will be in Hong Kong market soon. Lastly, we have worked with PONY BROWN to prepare a super attractive Xmas gift set with very nice packaging for the season, stay tuned!
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I was arranging store displays the other day and suddenly realized we had been selling these different versions of Boston sharpeners over the years. They are all out of stock now, what's remaining in store are now for display only. Except for Dulton's sharpener (second from the left in this picture) which we only have a few pieces left. According to Dulton in Japan, they also stop producing this mechanical sharpener too.
Boston Pencil Sharpener Company was founded in 1899, acquired by Hunt Manufacturing Company in 1925, X-Acto bought Hunt's Boston sharpener line, Elmer's bought X-Acto. Today if you want to get a relatively low priced, metal, hand-cranked planetary Boston style sharpener, you can still get a new one from X-ACTO either in desk or vacuum mount. Although these X-ACTO branded sharpeners have their origins from the original Boston Pencil Sharpener Company, they are now made in China and the charisma is almost all gone.
Some retailers like Blick may still have old stocks of Boston sharpeners but it won't last long, they will soon be eBay items. I would recommend to get one now while you still can. Have money to spare for luxury desk accessories? Try El Caso sharpeners from Spain.
Talking about mount, even though Dulton's sharpener is strong like a brick, the butterfly screw mount is its weakest point, you can't sharpen a pencil without holding the body. Perhaps that's the reason why Dulton is discontinuing it. It could be such a great product if it were vacuum mounted for desk use.
Of these sharpeners, Boston Ranger 55 (the black one in picture) is the most durable, heavy-duty and virtually indestructible, it is like a single piece of metal casted right from the factory furnace. While I like the steadiness of a self feeder, adjustable pencil guide is more like a classic to me.
The death of Boston Pencil Sharpener Company's classic happened slowly over a hundred year. The sad thing is the disappearing of its name which once touched so many people's life especially in America. Elmer's should immortalize the Boston brand instead of burying it's dignity in its ever growing brand list. Worse, check out the "Visit Site" link of Boston under Elmer's web site, you will be directed to www.bostonschoolpro.com/, an under-construction site with several pop up windows of Chinese online game advertisements. I feel so sorry about this and I've emailed to Elmer's a moment ago for this.
If you are into the history of mechanical sharpeners, Early Office Museum has great coverage and collection of photos for sharpeners dated as early as 1860.
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Pony Brown's Visit to Hong Kong
We had a great time with Pony Brown's president, illustrator and the translator when they visited our Korean Stationery fair and met their fans in Hong Kong. I was particularly happy to be able to chat with as many fans as possible, they all love the postive messages and cuteness of the main character. One of the fan was upsetted by something this very morning, but when she found out Pony Brown's presence and came, she felt way better. That's why we love to bring positive energy and pleasure through these events.
Contrary to many's perception, the person behind this cute character is a tall handsome hard-bodied guy Mr. Oh. You can pretty much see the similarity of him and the character, cool from the outside, bright and positive but sometimes shy within. We were expecting him to just give out signatures on postcards but for each of the fans whom came, he drew something special and worked very hard in details to make every stroke counts. I believe fans were not disappointed, at all!
After the event today, we've brought the Pony Brown team to a seafood restaurant in Lei Yue Mun (鯉魚門) tonight and enjoyed a great time chit chatting. What a lovely evening, nice weather too.
Last year when I visited Seoul, I found out their project with a Korean music instrument brand called Countess. Upon Countess' request they made these lovely Ukulele prototypes! They are finally available in music instrument stores in Korea now. Excited about this cross over with music, Mr. Oh brought along 2 Ukulele so that we can gift them to Pony Brown fans through a small competition.
So far, Pony Brown is the most successful Korean brand we've brought to Hong Kong, I hope in the future we will have a lot more collaborations and bring more happiness, no matter how tiny, to many.
Realizing the hard work Mr. Oh and the team went through.... you know what, for the past few weeks they've only slept for 2 hours every single day, working hard on projects, so we admire a lot of the Korean speed and dedication really..... last night I decided to make personal gift to them, leather jackets for Cricket lighters, embossed with "PONY BROWN" and "city'super stationery" on them. Took me hours to design and made, until 4am, but I'm happy that it was a perfect gift for them. Looking forward to more PONY BROWN stuffs!
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The new Glass Museum in Baoshan district on the grounds of a former glass factory
planned by logon architecture, designed by Mario Barkley
It has a facade of imported industrial glass that has a special coating on the black with words sandblasted in the coating
Construction is almost finished, I took some first photos for the architects
This year marks the third year of an interesting event to be held in city'super and LOG-ON. In this concept cafe (particularly in Festival Walk's LOG-ON), you will find:
Stationery and photography travel gears (19th June - 2nd July 2009): Canon, Fuji, Lomo, Moleskine, Midori, KOLO, MT-tapes, LUXE, Kodomo stamps, Staz-on inpads, etc
Travel Talks: 3 different sessions on 20th June 2009 presented by traveler and photographers. Learn how to steal time and write better on your journal, life hack tricks included. Why a trip to Cambodia changed a portrait photographer's view on life and how a traveler's mindset is different from a tourist's. How imagery and text combined can create lasting memory through photo journaling. Only a few days left for registration!
Mini Game with interesting prizes: Follow the instruction on the postcard and go to Festival Walk LOG-ON store, find the hidden message which is a travel quote written by G.K. Chesterton, write it down and submit. You get a chance to win nice gifts from great brands (check out this Flickr photo and move your mouse over to see what they are)
Stamp your notebook/postcard: Yes stamps, bring your notebook or use our postcard. I've made these icons into self inking stamps for your fun: Moleskine, LCA, Travel Cafe logo, fountain pen. They sort of summarized what this event is all about. Also, Designphil (Midori) in Japan made these two stamps for our event too! They are only available in Hong Kong during this period, so collect them while you can!
And finally, special thanks to Lie Fhung from Ztampf.com allowing me to use her great digital scrapbooking graphics on the postcard and backdrop of the event. More photos coming up after setting up the event.
Enjoy!
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Model - littlehiney - purestorm
Hair/make-up: Caitlin Palmer
Nikon D300 - Lens Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8
Elinchrom Quadra - Main light fitted with 18cm grid & honeycombed (model top right)
Nikon SB-800 model left (bounce card) used as catchlight
metered using Sekonic Flashmeter L-358
Post edit PS CS5 including grid window reflection
Moleskine Trade Show Covering Products for 2011
Today I spent a wonderful morning in a great exhibition space organized by Working Unit (the Moleskine Asia people). This is by far the best Moleskine trade exhibition I've ever visited, I couldn't believe I spent 3.5 hours there. The following video was shot and edited on iPhone so that you can have a quick look at what are to be offered in 2011. Better photos will be uploaded soon.
The most waited for and probably going to be sold most is writing series IMHO. Refillable ABS matte black finished, the roller pen has a special rubberized metal clip for attaching to the cover of your M. It works great for both classic and reporter notebooks. Basically you don't remove the cap from the notebook, just pull the pen out and start writing, no need to worry losing the cap coz it hang on to the cover pretty strongly.
Fine tip at 0.5mm, medium tip at 0.7mm, the refills come in 6 different colors: black, blue, green, red, violet and brown. Its a pity for 0.5mm tip, you only have black and blue color to choose from. I personally love the dark brown color, wish they would make it to 0.5mm as well. If you plan to get a few roller pens with different color refills, there is a way to distinguish between them since each pen comes with 24 adhesive labels with different patterns. There is a spring at the end of the pen barrel so your refill is "springy" when in use, it is supposed to give you a smooth writing experience, but the feature sounds a bit trivial when comparing to typical Japanese writing instruments.
Sold separately is this "3 slip-on grips + pen holder" accessories set. To me it looks bulky to carry 3 already thick pens on a notebook, but it works, not exactly sleek but its functional. I can't help thinking about UNI's StyleFit or Pilot's Colleto which can accommodate 4-5 refills plus mechanical pencil in one single barrel about the same size as this pen. But I guess a Moleskine pen is not interested in competing in that direction, besides it is somewhat cool to accept being simple. Well, back to the pen holder, you simply snap the pens on the grooves that's it. Great to carry 1 pencil and two rollers. I hate the rubber sleeve though, how it destroys the contour of a perfectly matched rectangular round cornered aesthetic. But guess what, you may really need the rubber. Because of the clean barrel design, I have a tendency to constantly re-adjust my pen holding position, up and down, up and down, almost like I couldn't find the correct way to hold the pen, that is until I slipped the rubber on. Try and you'll see what I mean.
The metal roller pen in silver feels solid, a handsome matte grey lacquered brass and aluminum surface looks sharp on black notebooks. As with the ABS roller pens, I wish the cap and clip is a single piece of cast or at least looks like one, that would make an even cleaner signature IMHO.
The "2 pencils + cap + sharpener" set is surprise. The 2B graphite at 3mm diameter is actually very good for sketching, the broad cedar wood body gives you a firm grip even without a rubber sleeve, especially when you hold the pencil sketching horizontally using the lead's widest surface. The sharpener of 12.5mm opening operates smoothly. I assume I can use this pencil until its last inch without much need of a pencil extender.
I've covered the Writing series above. For Reading and Traveling series, which consists of reading glasses, booklight, reading stand, backpacks, tote bags, etc., it takes time to actually use the products in order to give an honest review, besides I don't have them with me, so I'll just give you a surface remark :) They all look handsome and smart. Usability and quality, I can't tell.
Now that Moleskine is venturing away from a pure notebook brand, the concepts encompassing these new categories becomes so much more important, in order not to loose focus. I think the Reading, Writing, Traveling concepts works pretty well together, in addition to Organizing, the brand has a sound approach to expansion. This direction also gives retailers much more opportunities to explore new grounds. The past two years we tried to create box sets for Christmas but the response was, as expected, not encouraging, after all, these box sets were just boxes of notebooks. But now it gets more interesting when new product ranges compliment the notebook category, finally some meaningful box sets came out.
Writing Set: 1 pocket black ruled notebook, 1 ABS roller pen with cap
Drawing Set: 1 pocket black sketchbook, 2 pencils, 1 sharpener, 1 cap
Gourmet Box: 1 recipe journal, 1 wine journal, 20 gourmet notes for food tasting, 20 coaster notes for wine tasting
Gardening Box: 1 gardening journal, 1 gardening pocket, 12 seeds envelopes
Travel Box: 1 travel journal, 2 luggage tags
I'm sure there will be more interesting sets to come in the future.
As for the Organizing series, Peanuts limited edition found its way to the 2012 diaries! Here in Hong Kong, The Little Prince limited edition sold much much more than Peanuts, but I heard that customers in Japan love Peanuts far more than the rest of Asia, which probably explains such addition. 4 SKU will be released, weekly and daily, both in pocket and large size. Cahier also made into the Organizing series, I love these thin diaries, you can be really flexible adding them to your pocket size notebook or simply use it individually.
Finally, Star Wars limited edition! Gee, soon after I posted this photo on twitter, I got quite a number of retweets, proves to be popular :)
We had a great time today in the show, thanks to Arnault and Carlos, the two heads of Working Unit. Always a pleasure for city'supre/LOG-ON to work with these guys and their teams. And somehow in this show, I was being interviewed as a die hard Moleskine fan by Phoenix TV :)
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Event organized by Elie UKphotography Events at Ferndown, Dorset, UK
Model - Rocio Hodder - model-mayhem purestorm
Make-up & Hair - Nicola Redman
Hair - Racheal Platt
Wardrobe - Charlotte Lynch - chichichic
Stroby & Camera info
Nikon D300 / Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 @ f/8 1/160th 48mm iso 200
Elinchrom Quadras (A heads)
Main light model left fired thru Elinchrom Rotalux 1m bare (gold diffuser)
Second light model right fired into a 43" Westcott used in reflective mode (outer blk fitted)
White Vinyl Backdrop
lit with a Nikon SB-800 (flagged for flare) & at about 1/4 power (triggered eli skyport)
Metered using a sekonic Flashmaster L-358
Post edit Photoshop CS5 (bkgrd tweaked in PS)
Moleskine will launch 6 different journals in a series called Passions in the coming February. Beautiful paper sleeves and for the first time in the brand's history each of these journals are fully embossed with a tight texture of themed images and writings. The 6 themes are Recipes, Wine, Book, Film, Music and Wellness.
When I first saw the prototype of the Wine journal, I wondered why the space for wine label is so small which looks quite impractical for wine lovers to collect peeled off labels from their favorite wine bottles. An enquiry was made to Moleskine headquarter and here's their reasoning behind:
At the very beginning of the project, we thought about a “space” to glue the label on each page but then we talked with sommeliers and they suggested us to add other grids (to have more information on the wine), instead of the grid for the label. I can assure that we had this suggestion from very expert persons. Anyway, there are the ruled and plain pages that can be used for this case.
They made the choice to break away from the norm and perhaps people can download and print their wine label a lot easier these days so the space gives you more room to record your experience. As for the paper, the quality is exactly the same as typical Moleskine notebooks.
I took the wine journal to a sommelier, perhaps she is not the type to record anything, the journal simply didn't click on her. I'm yet to bring the recipes journal to an executive chef to see her response, I guess it will be fun. The journals themselves are actually a big leap from the previous Info book, music notebook and story board notebook, much more sophisticated with built-in specific framework for certain passions. You can argue though that this is a completely new concept and draws different customers.
Moleskineasia is now organizing a very unique exhibition to show off how people use their Passions journal, it will happen in 40 major traffic stores in 12 Asian cities. Each participant will receive 2 notebooks, one title for their discipline, one for another passion, call it cross-disciplinary sharing. The exhibition system is said to be huge Moleskine display boxes standing on floor which visitors can flip through huge pages with exhibits inside.
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