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AltecGreen
November 1st, 2014, 10:12 AM
Time for another Pen Posse where we shall discuss the virtues of airbrushing. Bring Pens.


Sunday Nov. 9th

1:00 pm

Peter's Cafe

Peter's Cafe
10 El Camino Real, Millbrae
CA 94030

Jerome Tarshis
November 2nd, 2014, 01:04 AM
Bringing pens will hardly help us learn the virtues of airbrushing. In a population segment that complains about the Parker Fifth Dimension or some such name because it isn't a real fountain pen, is there going to be much enthusiasm for an instrument that doesn't even make a line? AG himself writes with Nakayas, IIRC, and those do have nibs. Of whatever quality. (Has anybody here heard anything about Nakaya nibs? Is the general build quality supposed to be any good?)

Nakayas do make a line, though. Airbrushes make a fog or wash or cloud. Has somebody at Stanford or Berkeley proposed that the line is an instrumentality of domination? Neocolonialism? Discriminates against the Other? Just wondering.

Farmboy
November 2nd, 2014, 10:23 AM
Jerome,

We are air brushing the fountain pens not substituting the air brush for a pen.

Ricky said something about wanting flames on the hood of his Nakaya.

Farm 'the flame' Boy

Jerome Tarshis
November 2nd, 2014, 02:24 PM
Thanks to FarmBoy for his elucidation. Flames on the hood of a Nakaya could be only the thin end of the wedge. Many a fountain pen might be spiritually transformed if we rectified the manufacturer's failure to put in ankhs, skulls, pinup girls, Chinese characters, flags of proto-nations seeking independence: that list can be expanded, and may be expanded next Sunday in Millbrae.

EclecticCollector
November 5th, 2014, 06:34 AM
Nakayas do make a line, though. Airbrushes make a fog or wash or cloud.

Similar to how Apple claims that a tap is simply a zero length swipe, an airbrush fog could be considered as a collection of zero length lines.

Farmboy
November 5th, 2014, 07:31 AM
Nakayas do make a line, though. Airbrushes make a fog or wash or cloud.

Similar to how Apple claims that a tap is simply a zero length swipe, an airbrush fog could be considered as a collection of zero length lines.

Only if said line makes a 90 degree turn at every point.