Editing The Pen Addict 142/transcript (section)

== Anderson Pens Store ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, yeah. So our next T-shirt will be in Fuyugaki orange. Thank you. All right. So now starts the awesome batch of links that I have for this episode because I get lots of really, really good emails. And it's stuff that I haven't seen before. And people are finding this stuff and send it to us. And I want to share it with everyone else so everyone else can see it. And the first thing is this crazy Google Maps walkthrough of the Anderson Pens retail store. Did you even know that you could do this on Google Maps, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I knew you could do it in general. I didn't know you could do it at the Anderson Pens store.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I didn't even know you could do it in general necessarily. And Brandon sent us this link. And you click on this link. It takes you to Google like you would assume Google Maps or whatever. And it's essentially like that. But it's like someone walked through their store with a camera. And there's you can basically 360 degree their store in Appleton, Wisconsin. And I thought that was really, really cool. I've never seen anything like this before.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So it is exactly literally exactly what happens. Somebody walks through with a camera. Actually, if you go right down to the bottom. So if you like pan the image down to the bottom, you can see a tripod in the bottom of the photos.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Really?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I didn't even realize this was a thing. I mean, I knew the whole Google Maps and the cars and taking on the map data. I didn't know there was actually a physical inside presence that they were starting to do. And that they've done it in Appleton, Wisconsin. Inside Anderson Pens just trips me out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, I don't know if you're able to get people to come and do it for you or submit your own. But I know that Google were doing it. They were actually going to stores like big places. I don't know. San Francisco, New York and stuff. And going in with people that had these camera backpacks and doing it. So I'm interested to see how they got theirs done. Because it's clearly being taken from a tripod. And obviously with nobody in the way. And I don't know how that was possible.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I should probably listen to some of your other podcasts to learn about these things.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What I like now is I'm looking at there's like a poster of Mont Blanc. And the guy's face is blurred out in the Mont Blanc poster.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Just automatic face recognition equals blur.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There's even a picture like a really old photo on the wall. Like it's clearly a meaningful picture that I can't see what it says. But it's even picked that out and blurred that person's face out too.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so our friend Dan Bishop who's actually coming up next in this document that I'm going to talk about. He said he talked to Brian Anderson at the LA Pen Show. And they requested Google to come do that for them. So that's very, very cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So it is Google. John Holland. Whoever John Holland is. Okay. It's an old picture of him. John Holland something. It's in Specialty Fountain Pens. It's like a picture in a nice frame.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I've heard of him. I won't pretend that I know who that is. But I know the name from reading things on the internet.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So the images are in such great quality. You can zoom in. So you can take a real good look at the Anderson's pens that they have for sale.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's really ridiculous. I thought it might be like a nice inside shot, but it's literally the entire store, including the display cases and what's specifically in the display cases. It's pretty, pretty nice. So very cool. Very cool. So I mentioned Dan Bishop from Karis Customs. He was at the LA Pen Show this week. And my feed, I got a lot of enjoyment reading my Twitter and Instagram feed this weekend to see everyone that went to the LA Pen Show. And saw a bunch of people there that I recognized in images and was, you know, pinging Dan, making sure he was having a good show and things like that. Because this was Karis Customs' first pen show. And Dan mentioned how well it went and things like that. So I just wanted to point anyone to who wanted to see some links and feedback from the LA Pen Show. You can go on Instagram, the FP Geeks feed. If you're not already following that, they did a really good job of taking a bunch of pictures. You can kind of get a feel for what a pen show looks like. But if you're coming to Atlanta, it's not nearly that size. It's really – LA is really, really large. Between LA and DC, those are the two biggest pen shows. So don't get freaked out by the size of that if you've never been to a pen show and you think you're going to be intimidated. It's nothing like LA at all. But the FP Geeks Instagram feed did a really good job of capturing a bunch of big names in the fountain pen world, a lot of names we've talked about on the show. And I have an announcement to make, Myke. Next Monday, we're going to hear a recap of the LA Pen Show from Mr. Dan Bishop himself. So we have that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Where is he going to be?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He is going to be on Skype.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, not this show. Not Dan Bishop.