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5 Ways to Go Green This Year – Recycling Used Pens at #5

Eco Etiquette: 5 Wacky Ways To Go Green In The New Year - Recycling used pens for the Mercedes Pens Art Car at #5
Jennifer Grayson green writer for the Haffington Post wrote an article called “Eco Etiquette: 5 Wacky Ways To Go Green In The New Year” and collecting used pens for the Mercedes Pens came in at #5. I am very grateful that I made the top five for this years Eco list but I am really torn up about loosing the #4 spot to “peeing in the shower”. It’s tough considering everyone in Brazil is doing it, but If I get the entire country to send in their used pens for my million pen project, I might have a fighting chance for the #4 spot next year. Thanks for your support and keep sending in those used pens, and lets beat those Brazilians. The other top three spots were:

  1. Going to bed an hour earlier
  2. Stop using shampoo
  3. Eating a PB&J sandwich
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Jason Winshell – “Creating Sanctuary” with the Mercedes Pens

This is what joy look likes to me
Pen Guy taking a breather on a sunny Saturday afternoon
The Inside of the Pen Car on the Road Again.
The Inside of the Pen Car on the Road Again.
Last weekend at Maker Faire I had the pleasure of meeting some really interesting folks and one of them happened to be Jason Winshell, an amazing Photographer from San Francisco. During the event Jason approached me about letting him photograph the Mercedes Pens and me as part of his latest photo essay project called “Creating Sanctuary“. Jason is on a journey to explore the things that we do in order to create sanctuaries around us as we deal with the day to day stress, demands and routines of everyday life. Basically a world in which we rejuvenate and recharge our batteries, by looking into our passions, interests, and vices.

Jason came up last Saturday and he spent about four hours driving around with me in my Mercedes Pens Art Car and taking photos in different settings in order to capture what it is that I do. He managed to capture my every day sanctuary on wheels on a sunny Saturday afternoon in my front yard, Walmart, the gas station and on the road. I love the picture of the inside while I am driving, because It’s a perspective I have never seen before.

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Maker Faire Bay Area 2009 Video Montage

Maker Faire Bay Area 2009 Video Montage

Here is the best video montage I found of Maker Faire 2009 so far, that gives a good flavor of what the event was all about. The guy playing the snow shovel guitar is Isaac Frankle the ‘Shovel Man’ a Guitarist, Singer, Lyricist, Percussionist, Harmonica Player Instrument Inventor Artist/Scientist & Sound Sculptor. In the video you can also see the Hennepin Crawler, Whirlygig Emoto, Neverwas Haul a three story Victorian house on wheels, and the famous Radio Flyer Art Car. There is also the giant metal wings and of course the Mercedes Pens makes a brief appearance.