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Pen Guy makes it on the Smithsothian Blog

Girl in her toy pen car
My youngest daughter gets her very own Pen Ride

Wow how cool is that, I made it on the Smithosian Channel with a great article called Recycle Your Pens by Andrea Michnik. Great Job!!I have been taking it easy lately but have continued to collect pens often wondering what the next step will be. Just today I got charged up again and determined in my mind that I needed to get a hold of more pens. The funny thing is that this article came out for the world to see and know that I am man on the hunt for the worlds supply of old pens. Funny how things work out for good in the grand scheme of things.

I don’t know why I got in my head to do this and put it out there, but sometimes you have to follow that inspiring dream and not worry about the how. The journey is much more important than the end result and so far this journey has been amazing. I have met so many people who I would never had met if not been for the Mercedes Pens Art Car.

The only real plan for now is to just keep going, collecting and going after my dream. I do need all the help I can get and that is why I need you out there to collect and send in those pens. At some point I will need building space to house all these pens, to sort and begin the process of transforming these old pens into art and other useful stuff. I will need supplies, expertise, funds and a vast network of people who have caught the vision and want to be a part of something really big and at the very least, a pretty darn interesting experiment.

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It is time to prepare for the future

If you were wondering, probably not but I noticed that there has been very little said on the Pen Guy blog. I have been taking time to build and work on other projects like Art Car Central which is a blog with many art car photos, art car videos and other strange and wonderful vehicles. I am also working on updating a site called Envisionary Design which is my graphic design business. I have a bunch of my work up and will continue to write articles about design and other useful information. I feel it is now time to get organized, update, contact, network, build to get ready for the interesting times that are coming. I am very optimistic because I believe difficulty will cause many of us to rethink our lives and make positive changes that have long been long overdue. I am still collecting pens even now and I thank all of you who are sending pens from near and far. All the best. Costas Schuler.

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Collect A Million Pens – Pen Guy’s plan for re-using pens


Recycled Felt Tip Marker Bag

In the past three and half years I have managed to collect over 10,000 pens that I glued on my Mercedes Pens Art Car and people ask, “now what?” So far I have not found anyone out there who has a better solution for the millions of pens that end up in the land fill each year. There was a recent article called Refillable vs disposable pens written by Michael Bloch that addressed this problem and according to his article the number of disposable pens used each year in the USA is a staggering 106 billion. He concludes by mentioning that the “Pen Guy” yours truly, is the only one out there re-using and recycling pens. If I am the only solution out there then why not kick it up a notch by collecting a million pens and then make stuff out of them. I have a journal full of ideas, pen art, pen sculpture, pen furniture, pen jungle gyms, and my favorite “Pentopia” a road side attraction to house all my pen creations.

Whether its the ball point pen, the marker, the dry erase, the felt tip, what ever you call it, the boring pen to the fancy pen, I want to fill an entire warehouse and then spend the next twenty years figuring out and making beautiful things with them. How about a house built entirely from old pens? Insulation made from the crayola foam part that holds the ink? what of clothing died with ink extracted from old pens? what of pillows filled with pen springs? An article written by DIY life called 15 uses for old pens is another 15 ideas I found thus far but we need more.

The One Million Pen Project starts today, so collect your old pens and send them in.

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Pen Guy Article in Today’s Vintage

An article by Geets Vincent just came out today in this months Todays Vintage called A Different Kind Of Pen Pusher,. Geets is a retired journalist who still finds time to write came by work last month to interview me for the auto section of the magazine. When she came we went over and sat in my car for the interview, and she really enjoyed it because her article came out great. Thank you Geets, it was a pleasure to meet you.

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Pen Guy Article in Today’s Vintage

An article by Geets Vincent just came out today in this months Todays Vintage called A Different Kind Of Pen Pusher,. Geets is a retired journalist who still finds the time to write about vintage cars for the magazine. I met her last month when she came by for the interview as we sat inside the my Mercedes Pens Art Car the whole time. She definetly had a good laught at the car and wrote a great article as well, thank you for a job well done.