Again featured on best of art car fest 2007 by Wealth TV
Pen Donation Barrel Now at The Bay Model in Sausalito
Last Saturday I went down to Sausalito to drop off my 5th pen recycling barrel
Submitted by Shelley Champine
Mercedes Pens on the Smithsonian Channel
Interview by the Smithsonian Channel during art car fest 2008 and a feature on their blog.
Pen Guy and his Crazy Pen Covered Wool Jacket – Art Car Fest Video
This is a video was taken at last years Art Car Fest opening night for Harrod Blank’s movie Automorphosis in ElCerito CA. Here I am sporting my funky pen covered wool jacket that I created just for this special red carpet event to see an art car movie, only I didn’t see any carpet. We did manage to get some free pizza from a guy a few business down from the movie theater running for supervisor. So it was a good night and I kept warm with my jacket. In the video there is also another car that was Halloween themed, very nice.
Pick of the Litter Silent Auction with Debbie Abrams & Brent Farris – June 28th, 2009
Video of my trip to pick pens up from the Pick of the Litter Thrift Store
I really can’t say enough good things about Pick of the Litter, a thrift shop dedicated to getting feral cats off the streets and finding loving homes for the forgotten felines of the Santa Rosa community. They have a spay/neuter program for tame, stray cats and formerly feral kittens pulled from the wild; Then they give them the opportunity to go through “Good Samaritan” clinics. There is a nominal fee for this service, but for the most part it is subsidized through a bequest left by Jean Mekemson.
To make a long story short Pick of the Litter has has basically adopted me the Pen Guy and have now for over two years collected stray pens and given them to me for the Mercedes Pens Art Car Project. I went in there one day looking for old dead pens and now go there every couple of weeks to collect a big bag of recycled pens that would otherwise get thrown in the garbage. The video I did was on one of those days when I went to pick up some pens.
They are having a fundraiser this Sunday June 28th from 11a.m – 4p.m, called Pick of the Litter’s Rollin’ out the Red Carpet & Puttin’ on the Ritz! a Celebrity Silent Auction featuring donations by Debbie Abrams, Guy Fieri, Levi Leipheimer and Odessa Gunn “What does Debbie do?” Luxury Silent Auction. There will be Music by North of Malibu and special guests Debbie Abrams & Brent Farris of KZST. Pick of the Litter was voted Sonoma County’s Favorite Thrift Store by KZST Listeners and so KZST is promoting the event all week. Hope to see you all there, go an support a great cause, and don’t forget to bring all your old and unwatned pens.