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The Kennedy Center Honors Take Wing

The Kennedy Center Honors and Blackwing Pencils The Kennedy Center Honors, which recognizes a select few recipients for their sterling contributions to culture through a lifetime in the performing arts, airs tonight on CBS throughout the United…

Follow the Bouncing Ball: Mark Frauenfelder and Boing Boing

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The Internet is a mysterious place full of memes, message board wars and countless cat videos. Then, amongst the confusion and disorder, there’s BoingBoing.net. Headed by co-founder Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing has been creating order out…

The Blackwing Sessions: Christian Tamburr

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Today, Studio 602 at Pencils.com is proud to introduce our first Blackwing Featured Musician and the inaugural episode of The Blackwing Sessions, a series that will showcase how using a Blackwing pencil inspires art and facilitates the creative…

An Interview with Christian Tamburr

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I had the esteemed pleasure of sitting down with Blackwing Featured Artist Christian Tamburr on the heels of his newest album "Places." Interview with Blackwing Musician Christian Tamburr Where did you grow up? I was born and raised…

From Blackwing to Blue Eyes – Happy Birthday Frank Sinatra

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From Blackwing to Blue Eyes - Happy Birthday Frank Sinatra The 1950s were a turbulent decade for legendary singer and actor Frank Sinatra. Early years saw him lose his voice due to vocal chord hemmoraging, he divorced his first wife and entered…

Lighting the Fire: The Poetry of Jim Morrison

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Lighting the Fire: The Poetry of Jim Morrison “The time to hesitate is through,/No time to wallow in the mire,/Try now we can only lose,/And our love becomes a funeral pyre.” These words, whose rhyme and meter evoke images of Byron,…

Christmas Carols: Creating the Sounds of the Season

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Christmas Carols: Creating the Sounds of the Season “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…Jack Frost nipping at your nose…” Chances are you are probably singing the rest by now; ”The Christmas Song” is one of the most popular Christmas…

When Words Aren’t Enough: Music in Film

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When Words Aren't Enough: Music in Film There is a story surrounding composer John Williams and the score for “Schindler’s List,” one of the most moving and memorable instances of music in film. As both director Steven Spielberg and Williams…

How to Get to Creativity? Take a Walk Down Sesame Street.

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Since its debut forty-two years ago today, Sesame Street has been inspiring viewers of all ages with its messages of imagination, tolerance, love and creativity. In honor of the show's anniversary, Studio 602 has compiled a list of some of Sesame…