It seems the Museum of Modern Art disagrees: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/82141
It seems the Museum of Modern Art disagrees: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/82141
welch (December 30th, 2021)
Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur. — Horace
(What are you laughing at? Just change the name and the joke’s on you.)
amk (December 30th, 2021), Sailor Kenshin (December 29th, 2021), Yazeh (December 30th, 2021)
Bad taste is selling EVERYTHING nowadays... one look at the over-designed cars tells us that. I think it's generational.
(and whoever said good taste vs bad taste is merely personal should realise that there is 'Educated taste').
Schaumburg_Swan (January 1st, 2022)
A common mismatch in "arty" pens is the scale: design elements that work at one size (on a sketchpad) are hard to discern at the smaller scale of a pen, especially if they're not precisely delineated with adequate contrast.
TFarnon (January 2nd, 2022)
My other pen is a Montblanc.
And my other blog is a tumblr!
And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM2NGSSD
The Lamy 2000 is about as much pen as any company makes. Anything much more expensive than the L2K is mostly glitz and glitter, but glitz and glitter sells. Sadly.
I go into museums and look at Medieval beakers and say "Wow. They don't make em like that any more."
Truthfully, who knows if that beaker was ever actually used, or only displayed? Or used only on a ceremonial occasion? The fancy stuff has a higher chance of surviving than the everyday stuff, item for item.
I know I still have my wedding gown, but I am sure my husband's Hanes, or Fruit of the Loom, or whatever brand he had on under the tux are long gone.
So in a few hundred years let them all picture the 21'st century as defined by people who use computers writing with the Chaos... we can watch from beyond and laugh...
Have you seen more recent Montblanc's writers editions? It seems like this sells. No idea to whom, but it seems like it does.
welch (January 5th, 2022)
What kind of a person is he? Let's take this pen for example, which I find particularly gaudy. Who can pull this out in a meeting or at a bank or whatever, and not feel embarrassed?
welch (January 5th, 2022)
My other pen is a Montblanc.
And my other blog is a tumblr!
And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM2NGSSD
Consummate artists are able to get away with pretty much anything. The same can be said about brands. They have their audience and they know that this audience expects extravagant items (some are happy as long as the logo is there).
For all I know, they could wrap a 146 in barbed wire and make your hand bleed when you hold it, call it the Easter LE and sell out in a week.
alex
LOL!
I was not questioning the person's intelligence or confidence, but rather taste. I also do not believe "he does not care what anyone thinks of him", because that's impossible with a pen like this. This pen is made to draw attention, and people that demand other peoples' attention are precisely the people that do care what others think of them.
"When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."
~ Benjamin Franklin
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