I am posting this bunch of used pens from Oakland to point out the dirty little secret in my line of business as the Pen Guy. The truth is that I often receive pencils along side the pens every once in a while and in fact was given a 1 gallon Ziploc bag
Just got these used pens all the way from Bangkok Thailand, some 8263 miles away. Alex from the Raintree Village Apartments sent 10 pens and he now holds the record for longest distance traveled for donated pens. Used pens are not very photohenic so I decided to photoshop up the image with a little forest and the photo of the Raintree Village Apartments I found on Google maps. Hope that works for you and thanks Alex for the pens.
And speaking of pen donations for the million pen project, these used pens just came in from some faithful pen guy fans. Three envelopes with used pens were sent from San Diego, Detroit and the UK. The San Diego one came with two Pilot g2 pens and the one from the UK came in a bag because the envelope burst open and had to be re-wrapped, but it got here OK. The third envelope came over from the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI, so thank you and hope things warm up for you guys soon.
Here is another massive box of pens from the Green Team at Grace Church School in New York. When I opened the box up I found a pen I had never seen before, a Barbie Doll Pen. After surviving her long journey in a dark box filed with messy crayola marker pens she took so time to enjoy the sun. This time our one legged wooden model took some time off to sit with her and pose sitting on the box. Her journey is complete and will become part of the Legendary Mercedes Pens in some way sometime soon. The pens also came with a crayola stained note, I guess the red one still works.
I got this calligraphy pen donated from BJ Broadstone, one of my facebook friends the other day with a story written on the tag, here is what it said:
A little story: This calligraphy pen helped me earn a small income by addressing wedding invitations and creating poster size calendars. Thanks to the high tech printers, and PCs, my pen has been retired:( But hello mural!!
The story on the wooden model is that when I go to the thrift store to collect pens I always take a peak in the garbage can just in case. This one time I saw the one legged wooden model and I had to have it, so I dove and took it home. If I ever wanted to learn how to draw a one legged person, I have the right wooden model for it.
Thanks BJ.
