Editing The Pen Addict 65/transcript (section)

== Kickstarter Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Ed, do you get into the Kickstarter pen thing, like, like Myke and I do, or do you, you stick more to the fountain pens, which haven't been like really as well represented on, on Kickstarter yet? Have you gotten involved in any of these projects at all?

'''Ed Jelley:''' No, no, I haven't. And now after looking at this one, I kind of wish I did. Yeah. And should probably start paying attention. Uh, yeah, I did. I bought one of those, uh, was it, was it big eye design? Um, yep. They, they did a Kickstarter thing, but I bought after the fact, um, what is it?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's the TI big.

'''Ed Jelley:''' No, I didn't get that one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I got the, Oh, you got the PA, the PHX one. Yes.

'''Ed Jelley:''' The stainless steel, uh, weapon. Of a pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You bought, you bought, you bought the add on one, which was just the pen without the weapon, without the business end. Um, or you, you're, you got the one with the exacto blade end.

'''Ed Jelley:''' Oh no, I didn't get that one. Uh, I just say, cause it weighs a ton and the cap is, is, it's like a, I don't even know. Yeah. It's heavy. It's really heavy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's like a bullet. It's really heavy.

'''Ed Jelley:''' Yeah. Um, that after seeing the, the TI pen and a few of those, I'm like, Oh, maybe I'll check it out. Um, and since I don't, I don't really write, I, I, I usually stick to fountain pens, but, um, I do like the high tech C. I like the uni Sino. Um, and then this takes both of those easily. So I figured why not? And now looking at the Ajoado that's, and hearing it's a nice pen, it's definitely something to keep on my radar now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. I think since pen started appearing on Kickstarter, there's really just been, uh, uh, a steady, you know, one of the straight line up of improvement in, in pen designs, even, you know, from the big eye design guys who I talked to frequently, you know, their first pen did really well, but by the time they got to their second and third pen, the first pens are almost unusable compared to the, the second batch, the TI pens, there's so much better. And, you know, I think some of these people that are doing this are, are, are learning as they go and that's good. That's, that's actually what Kickstarter is for, you know, for these people to come up with these designs and, you know, test them, sell them and prove them and things like that. So yeah, that's good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I, I definitely don't, um, search or like, uh, browse Kickstarter for this stuff. People suggest to me anything that I back or look at backing. Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Agreed.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like the, uh, I believe that, uh, Stuart Hasley, Hazley, uh, I do that every time I say his name. Same here. Um, I'm going to say Hazley and again, he'll say, yes, you got it right. Again. Um, he, he turned me on to the Agiotto. He got one himself. He loves it. Um, we, we, we were talking about it with a DM. Well, he was telling me what I felt, what he felt, and I wouldn't tell him that you have to wait for the show. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You're so mean.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, uh, we're not even done with the follow-up yet. I know. I know. But I want to, I want to talk about a new sponsor that we've got this week, Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, awesome. I want to hear this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's, that's a great, I mean, that's a great thing. Everyone loves to hear that, right? New sponsors. Yeah. So, uh, cause that, what does that mean, Brad? It means we can continue to make the show. That's right. More sponsors mean we don't go away. That's right. So, uh, we have a, we have a great new sponsor this week, Brad. It's Shutterstock.com. Right. So, Shutterstock, should I, should I tell the listeners about Shutterstock?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Please, please. And I'm going to do some typing and, and check it out myself while you're, while you're reading.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Shutterstock is where you'll find over 20 million stock photos, vectors, illustrations, and video clips. You can start searching at Shutterstock.com and you will find the perfect image for your website, ad, publication, or any other creative project. Shutterstock gives you a global image collection to find images from across the world to suit your project. You can choose between image packs and monthly subscription packages. You can choose whatever fits your need and you never have to compromise. If you, but if you just need one image for a blog or a mock-up or something, you can do that too. They have an a la carte option as well as their monthly subscription packages. Every time you visit Shutterstock, you will be bound to find something new since they add 10,000 new images every single day. 10,000 a day. And it's much more affordable than you'd think. There's no extra charges for large files. You just download any image in any size and pay one price. They don't nickel and dime you because you want to have it high res, because you want it to look great on a retina display or something like that. They just, you just pay one fee, one, one price. If you need them, take them. You can easily curate and share your pictures via light boxes. You can choose your favorite pictures or videos and add them to your light box gallery in just a few clicks or taps, because you can use their iPad app to do this as well. There's something called enhanced license access that they do. So if you need an image, if you love an image and you want to run it on print or swag for trade shows, that sort of stuff, you can get an enhanced license for any of the images that they do. They have a great huge library of vectors, icons, infographic templates and video clips as well if you need any of those. It's not just images. And if you need any help over at Shutterstock, you can get an account rep dedicated to you who can answer any questions. And they also have 24 hour support during the week. I want you to go and sign up for a free browse account now. Go to shutterstock.com. No credit card needed. When you find the images you like and you decide to purchase, you want to use the code PENS7, P-E-N-S and the number 7, and you'll get 30% off any package. 30% Brad. A third. Incredible. I like it. Thank you, Shutterstock, for supporting the Pen Addict and all of 5x5. We really appreciate it. And if you enjoy the show, go check out Shutterstock. Buy some images. Support us. You can put them on your website, and we'll talk about that a little later on.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, yeah. We can talk about that, too. Yeah, so I went and searched for pens on Shutterstock while you were talking, and these vector images are great. I could see those coming in very much in handy. I like the way they've done these. They did a good job. So, yeah, I will check that out further. Thank you, Shutterstock.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's incredible. I'm going to put a link to a search for pens on Shutterstock so people can see. And what we've got, 2,685 pages of images. Yeah. Just a few.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Just a few.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's on the Popular tab.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, there's 268,491 results.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So just, you know, they have a couple of pen images. One or two. Oh, they have, oh, I just saw this cool, they have this grid, they have some ballpoint pen on grid paper vectors. Those are pretty cool. All right, sorry, I'll stop playing around because we're going to be long as it is on this episode because I've got a lot to talk about.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think I just sold Shutterstock to someone.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, sweet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right, let's rip through these next follow-ups because I want to get talking to Ed. I got a link on Twitter the other day. Someone sent me saying that someone on Facebook, there's always been, you know, Field Notes has always been well represented on Facebook just on the standard Field Notes business page. Someone went and created a Facebook group dedicated to Field Notes trading. I've gotten like three emails alone in the past week in how do I start collecting Field Notes, totally unrelated to this group on Facebook. And I just kept, literally, I think three emails in the past seven days about how do I start collecting, how do I find the old editions. Well, your place has now arrived, it seems. This group is already, it's invite only, I guess. I'm not a Facebook guru. I actually recreated my Facebook account just to join this page, if that tells you anything. But you just ask to join and they approve you and you're in.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But it's really cool. It's got a lot of people that I've traded with already, a lot of familiar faces, familiar names. And if you're looking to get into the Field Notes obsession, this is a good place to start to try to find some of the older or rarer editions that you are looking for. So we'll have the link in the show notes to this page.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I posted a link. Definitely check it out. I posted a link to my collection page on my website. A couple of people say, oh, you know, I just said, you know, I'm like a noob compared to some of these guys. Some people saying, you know, loving some of the editions, which you've helped me source. But then I had a couple of listeners basically chasing me away from the page because the reason that they were there is because they'd heard about Field Notes on this show. Yeah. Cool. So people get angry at me no matter where I go on the internet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know. I know. And I just joined it last night and I just made my first post about, I don't know, 20 minutes before we started recording today. And yes, I've already got a bunch of answers. Like, where did you get this one? I mean, a bunch of questions. Where did you get this one? So I got to go back and answer it. So, you know, Ed's a big, huge Field Notes guy, I know, just from talking to him before the episode. Right, Ed? Yeah.