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Year of the Pencil

Pencils and Pop Culture: The Year of the Pencil

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Pencils and Pop Culture: The Year of the Pencil Earlier this year, Kat Brown of Night and Day, The Spectator's Arts and Culture magazine, called 2012 "The Year of the Pencil"  (Be warned, the sketch at the top of the page is probably NSFW).…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Nicole Hamilton

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This week’s featured pencil artist is Nicole Hamilton, a self-taught photographer and pencil artist with a background in graphic design. Nicole started out like most artists, sketching cartoon characters from TV, movies and comic strips in…

The Walt Disney Family Museum and History of Animation

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The Walt Disney Family Museum and History of Animation Seventy-two years ago this month, Walt Disney released his second feature-length animated film to the excitement of fans and the dismay of skeptics around the world. Today, Pinocchio is…

Pencils and Pop Culture: Martinis with a Dash of Blackwing

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Pencils and Pop Culture: Martinis with a Dash of Blackwing It’s the cocktail of Bond, James Bond, and swell sophisticates everywhere. The signature glass, with its slender stem and geometrically simple bowl, make it as fun to look at as it…
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln… Vampire Hunter?

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Abraham Lincoln... Vampire Hunter? February 12th marked the 203rd anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth and, while his birthday is recognized with every passing of the calendar, 2012 marks an historic year in the legacy of the Great Emancipator.…

Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Man Who Made an Icon

Breakfast at Tiffany's and the Man Who Made an Icon By far the most iconic image in the film adaptation of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, strolling down 5th Avenue in the early, empty hours of the morning…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Rebecca Stahr

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This week’s featured pencil artist is Rebecca Stahr, a pencil artist and designer from Chicago, Illinois. Rebecca began studying art at a young age and went on to study advertising, graphic design and illustration at the American Academy of…

Of Hand and Heart: In Defense of the Love Letter

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Of Hand and Heart: In Defense of the Love Letter I’ve got a bone to pick with Valentine’s Day. And, no, it’s not because I was left eating a box of chocolates alone on Tuesday night. It’s because of the plastic coating the whole…
Academy Awards

Pencils and Pop Culture: The Oscars is Fixing What Isn’t Broken

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Pencils and Pop Culture: The Oscars is Fixing What Isn't Broken I have a love-hate relationship with the Oscars. On the one hand, my family and I throw an Oscar party every year, as we will do at end of this month when the awards air on…

Christian Tamburr’s “Places” Climbing the Charts

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Christian Tamburr's "Places" Climbing the Charts Two months ago, Studio 602 introduced the inaugural episode of The Blackwing Sessions, featuring our first Blackwing featured musician, Christian Tamburr. Blackwing Sessions chronicled the recording…