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As computers become more and more prevalent, writing has come to mean typing on a keyboard. But there is a man, known as the God of Fountain Pens by pen aficionados, who still continues to handcraft pens nibs even now.

WITH its brass-trimmed halogen heating elements, glass globes and bamboo paddles, the new contraption that is to begin making coffee this week at the Blue Bottle Café here looks like a machine from a Jules Verne novel, a 19th-century vision of the future.
Called a siphon bar, it was imported from Japan at a total cost [...]

As a lover of printmaking, typefaces and woodcuts, this project blows my mind. It would have been cool if they hand carved it.

A collection of bears turned inside out and restuffed.

Amazing and freaky.

What?

I absolutely love this.

Design is to Art as Slam Poetry is to Poetry.

Beautiful, although not as visceral an experience online compared to RL.

I prefer the phrase, You are my asymptotic line!, although it never got me anywhere.

Detailed, meticulous and gorgeous.

Supports both OxFam and lil’ Baby Jeebus.

“Burning Man 2005″:http://www.scottlondon.com/photo/burningman2005/: I’m used to grainy, poorly taken shots of wasted, glassy eyed friends in the desert. These on the other hand are the best photos I’ve _ever_ seen of Burning Man. Kudos bars to the artists and photographer.

Beautifully painted children’s drawings

Beautifully done and well documented. Your morning octane never looked so delicious.

The Gates from outer space or ants marching.