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.

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.

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.

Pen Guy on Smithsonian TV- ArtCar Fest 2006

I was fortunate again to be featured with my Mercedes pens Art Car on a piece by Smithsonian TV that was called America Wild & Wacky about some of the country’s most unique festivals. They covered Art Car Fest 06, Roadkill Cook Off in Marlington, WV, Lawn Mover Mud Racing and a Pumpkin Blast Off. Some of the other amazing art cars also featured in this video were: The Vain Van, Camera Van, Phantom, Daisy Singer, Carthedral, Von Tiki and the Colt Mobile.

Someone more addicted to pens than me, I don’t think so!

Today I was thinking it would be great to actually write about pens and write reviews of ones that I like the most. Before I started blogging I journaled a lot and have kept the practice now since 2000, with 22 filled journals thus far. I am so in to it, that I journal about the things I blog about, its sick I know. Anyways I found this great pen review blog called The Pen Addict which has an extensive list of pen reviews and links to other pen addicts of various flavors. Maybe what I should do is review the pens after they have been glued on my car for about two years and talk about how they held up in the sun and rain. Anyways I have to go, it’s late and I am tired, good night.