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'''<span style="color:red;font-size:12pt;">Class is on hiatus until the new year. See you then!</span>'''
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[[File:Eachday.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Ball point pens can be beautiful too.]]
[[File:Eachday.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Ball point pens can be beautiful too.]]
[[File:Colapen.png|300px|thumb|right|Colapen. Make a great pen from a soft-drink can.]]


===What===
===What===
Learn to use pen and paper for all they're worth. Make beautiful words. We'll start with basics of using a pen, exercises in making marks on the page, and introductions to forms of italic and blackletter. In later classes we'll make our own [http://www.popcanpen.com/how_to/howto_make%20_pen.html cola pens], 3D print letters, or laser-cut a letterpress font. Would you like to help design a NoiseBridge font?
Learn to use pen and paper for all they're worth. Make beautiful words. We'll start with basics of using a pen, exercises in making marks on the page, and introductions to forms of italic and blackletter. In later classes we'll make our own [http://www.popcanpen.com/how_to/howto_make%20_pen.html cola pens], 3D print letters, or laser-cut a letterpress font. Would you like to help design a NoiseBridge font?
====What to bring====
Recommended, but not required:
* A phone/mp3/music player, headphones, and a few of your favorite songs
* A ball point pen and blank printer paper
* Any calligraphy pen, markers, ink you already have
* Clothes that you don't mind getting a little ink on, a smock, or a very steady hand.
I will have some pens and paper too, so don't sweat it if you come last minute.


===When===
===When===
Thursday Evenings at 6:00pm.  
Thursday Evenings from 7:00-9:00pm.
 
Except on the 3rd Thursday of each month, when we have a shortened one-hour class. ([[Five Minutes of Fame]] starts at 8:00pm.)
 
===Where===
Church classroom at [[Noisebridge]]. (In the far back, around the corner from the Kitchen.)


''There will be '''no class on July 18th''' as I'll be out of town, but people are welcome to come and practice together.''
2169 Mission St., San Francisco, 94114 (at 18th St., near 16th St. BART station).  


We are just getting started, so if this doesn't work for you, please [http://wanderingstan.com/contact contact me]. Sunday afternoons were another possibility.
First time visitors should read this for getting in: [[Getting Here | Explicit directions and how to get inside]]


===Where===
Noisebridge, 2169 Mission St., San Francisco, 94114 (at 18th St., near 16th St. BART station). Map: [[Getting Here]]
===Cost===
===Cost===
Instruction is free! It's a myth that you need expensive tools to make beautiful letters. We'll learn how to do it even with a ball-point pen and paper. (Many banks provide such pens for free. :) However, use of traditional pens will also be covered, and a few will be available for loan during the class.  
Instruction is free!  
 
And the materials are almost free--it's a myth that you need expensive tools to make beautiful letters. We'll learn how to do it even with a ball-point pen and paper. (Many banks provide such pens for free. :) However, use of traditional pens will also be covered, and a few will be available for loan during the class.
 
===Instructor===
===Instructor===
[[User:wanderingstan|Stan James]], a longtime letter lover, current refuge from the startup world.
[[User:wanderingstan|Stan James]], a longtime letter lover, current refugee from the startup world.

Latest revision as of 17:51, 31 December 2014

Class is on hiatus until the new year. See you then!

Variegated.jpg
Ball point pens can be beautiful too.
Colapen. Make a great pen from a soft-drink can.

What[edit]

Learn to use pen and paper for all they're worth. Make beautiful words. We'll start with basics of using a pen, exercises in making marks on the page, and introductions to forms of italic and blackletter. In later classes we'll make our own cola pens, 3D print letters, or laser-cut a letterpress font. Would you like to help design a NoiseBridge font?

What to bring[edit]

Recommended, but not required:

  • A phone/mp3/music player, headphones, and a few of your favorite songs
  • A ball point pen and blank printer paper
  • Any calligraphy pen, markers, ink you already have
  • Clothes that you don't mind getting a little ink on, a smock, or a very steady hand.

I will have some pens and paper too, so don't sweat it if you come last minute.

When[edit]

Thursday Evenings from 7:00-9:00pm.

Except on the 3rd Thursday of each month, when we have a shortened one-hour class. (Five Minutes of Fame starts at 8:00pm.)

Where[edit]

Church classroom at Noisebridge. (In the far back, around the corner from the Kitchen.)

2169 Mission St., San Francisco, 94114 (at 18th St., near 16th St. BART station).

First time visitors should read this for getting in: Explicit directions and how to get inside

Cost[edit]

Instruction is free!

And the materials are almost free--it's a myth that you need expensive tools to make beautiful letters. We'll learn how to do it even with a ball-point pen and paper. (Many banks provide such pens for free. :) However, use of traditional pens will also be covered, and a few will be available for loan during the class.

Instructor[edit]

Stan James, a longtime letter lover, current refugee from the startup world.