In today's "Moments of October: Sky and Water Merging", you will find a couple of haiku from a garden, wisdom from Zen Master Hongzhi, Basho's playful moon haiku, a cup of coffee, a bunny, and a sumi-e painting.
I hate Twitter but, to be honest, Mastodon feels a lot lonelier. I like learning, books, mental models, pens, pencils, paper, notebooks, tools, knots, DIY, EDC, productivity advice, coffee, beer, software development, Tolkien, rucking, soccer, chilly weather, etc. Where are my people at??
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of moderate means and questionable taste
I've been around for a long, long year
I've seen too much and I've lost faith
Apologies to the Rolling Stones but I've updated it for the general malaise that is #GenX life in the early 21st century. General #introduction post here as I've just migrated from mastodon.social. I'm the homebody type who's very content to just curl up with a good #book. I enjoy #movies and most types of #music. Love good #food but I have a lifelong hatred of olives. I'm mostly here to meet fun, funny people and have a good time while taking the serious stuff in small doses for the preservation of whatever sanity I have left. I imagine I'll update this as more things occur to me to add. Below are some more specific interest. Glad to be here and beige bless!
#calligraphie#calligraphy#fountainpens
Diamine Starlit Sea, shimmering ink.
Stub 0.8 and rather soft (for a steel) nib can have problem with line thickness consistency. Shimmering parts can stuck between nib and paper and then reduce line thickness. I will try Speedball dip nib, however it is no less tricky to use, bc you need to shake ink very often😓
#fountainpen and #artistsonmastodon I found a case of ORIGINAL Tomoe River 52gsm paper from 2013 (the original machine) tucked away and I need to reduce. Size is A4 Novi made for printing industry - 8-5/8 in x 12.2 in (219x310mm) so large enough to cut down to either 8.5x11 inches or A4. 2 colors: cream and off-white. $20 for 100 sheets + actual S&H. Quantity discount. DM if interested. Great for calligraphy, letters, journals. https://www.fudefan.com/2021/06/tomoe-river/#artists#calligraphy#FountainPens
The cochineal lives and reproduces on prickly pear cacti. They coat themselves and the #cacti in a fuzzy white coating. After being harvested and dried, carminic acid is extracted but usually
further stabilized into carmine (lake) with aluminum salt. It is also known as E120, Natural Red 4, Crimson Lake, and Cochineal Extract.