Editing The Pen Addict 484/transcript (section)

== Antarctica Challenge ==


'''Myke:''' Fill it out if you're from Antarctica and send us some, an image, some kind of proof, you know? Yeah. Yeah. You know, like you filling it out with the newspaper next to you or something, you know? Yeah. One of those things. Yeah. Go outside.

'''Brad:'''  Take me an outside picture. You know? Yeah. We're going to need proof if you reply that you are in Antarctica or no one's going to believe you. You get nothing for this, by the way. No, no, no, no. Just our eternal gratitude. Yeah. So we can check all the boxes, check all the continent boxes. Twisby's checking all the boxes, Myke, with their custom colors and interesting pins. And this one popped across my feed first and foremost because of the artwork. And the artist's name is Karashi Soil. I, you know, my apologies. I didn't check on the pronunciation of this, but they're an artist who basically draws stationery, like for the most part. They draw like real life products, right? Yeah. Let's say that, you know, they could draw like cameras or phones or whatever, like that type of artwork. And it's really fun artwork. I really like the style and the detail. And they worked with Twisby to make their own, I guess, I don't want to say, it's not custom, but like a limited, yeah, like a limited colorway for Japan only with the artist's artwork. And the first question that comes up is, well, haven't we seen this color before? And for Twisby and the artist to actually have a comparison photo in the marketing, it cracks me up. It just does.

'''Myke:''' I think that this is the artist's like personal brand color. Yes. Like going through their account, they seem to share, I believe that this is in Japanese and it seems like they share a lot of pens that are yellow, you know, like, which I'm imagining. Twitter's failing me on the translation here, which is a shame. Yeah. I've had that too. But it's, I imagine they're like, you know, like this is my color and now they work with it. It looks like a lot of their artwork is done with fountain pen as well. Like just looking at the way the lines look and stuff. So I think that they draw with fountain pen. So actually their profile. I think this is super cool.

'''Brad:'''  Yeah. Their profile on Twitter says most of the artwork is done with fountain pens. So I did get that.

'''Myke:''' Oh yeah. Look at that. That's cool. I think that this is a great idea from Twisby. Like this is just like, this is what I want to see. Like I would like to see a pen brand embrace limited editions with creators and influencers. So like, again, comparing it to keyboards again, as I like to do these days, like a lot of the key cap designs and stuff, they are from particular designers, like not companies. And it's that person's design that they then get manufactured. They partner with a manufacturer and it gets made. And I think it would be kind of cool for a company like a Twisby or even a Kaweco if they did it right. Like to say like, for example, like the way that you do it, but you have to maybe do a lot more work than would be normal, right? Where you're having to like, hand these companies down, buy them in advance or that kind of stuff. I think it'd be kind of cool if like, you know, Twisby just partnered with a bunch of artists and creators and influencers. Like what color would you like? You know, what color would you like to sell to your audience? I think that would be a really cool idea. I think it would do well.

'''Brad:'''  So here's what I want to see. It's along your lines, but this is the real reason I wanted to bring this up. So the color itself is, you know, like you mentioned, artist representative, right? It's their color. It's not, it's, you know, it's a little bit more of a mustard yellow compared to more of a, just a more lemony yellow of the original one.

'''Myke:''' And the box features original artwork from the artist too, which is amazing.

'''Brad:'''  So that's my thing. So the selling point here to me, as we mentioned last week on the show, is the garbage we create. The selling point is this artwork. So what I want here is I want a print. I want a t-shirt. I want a tote bag. That makes me feel better about them using a similar color for the eco because this is killer artwork.

'''Myke:''' Yeah.

'''Brad:'''  And all it is, is on a box that's going to sit in my closet, if not go in the trash can for some people. And it deserves more than that. So that's what I wanted to say about this. I love the idea. I love the correct collaboration. I love the product. Give me this artwork somewhere besides on the garbage that we create.

'''Brad:'''  And that's the point I want to make for Twisby. If they're going to continue to do this and have these, you know, you know, next, next shade down the line color collaboration, right? To where they're going to end up using up all the colors like Kaweco did and have to like rename the product line. Oh no, this is now the eco classic, right? So we can use the color again on the barrel. Give me something else. Give me a notebook print, you know, give me a notebook cover with this printed on it and sell that in collaboration. It'll make me feel better about having a same color Twisby eco that comes at a premium, right? So this is 8,800 yen. So it's around 77 US dollars, which I think I've only I've bought the Japanese orange limited edition. I think it was around like 65, something like that dollars, maybe $70. So that's kind of the going rate for these, these limited edition Japanese Twisbys. But I would like to see more collaborations, but take them a little bit further than just box artwork. Yeah. And, and any, honestly, any regular color, this is any regular color. Like this could have been done anytime by Twisby. Make me feel more special. So anyway, I love it.

'''Myke:''' I want a Myke Hurley Twisby. Yeah. I want a Brad Doughty Twisby. Pick a color. Like let me pick a Pantone color and we'll go wild with it. You know? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I think I would like to see them do it. They've clearly done it. I don't know if it's just like maybe, you know, someone in the Twisby art department just loves this artist. Right? Yeah. And, and just wanted to like, don't mean it's in a weird way, like get close to them, you know, like, like, oh, now we know each other. We are collaborators. Like it's a cool thing.

'''Brad:'''  Oh yeah. No, we all have, we all like super fan over people we'd like to like to work with and people who have some, some cool stuff. So yeah.

'''Myke:''' Like Brad Doughty. Mm. That's what, that's what, that's what I did.

'''Brad:'''  I, I found what you're getting for Christmas, Myke. It's not the Twisby that we just mentioned. It's the, I'm getting you a, a, a PP for Christmas. Stop this now. The, the, the PP1 pencil precision. It's a lot of piece. Mm-hmm. Um, you can make your own wooden pencils, Myke. I had a listener or reader send this to me and I was like, it kind of blew me away. Cause I did, there's no way when they sent me the link, I was like, this is going to be just garbage. Right. This is not going to be a thing and it's going to be dumb. And then I started looking at it and I'm like, oh my God, this thing is crazy. And it looks like really, really legit. So I reached out to, uh, the erasable guys. I'm like, have you, certainly you guys have heard of this. And they said, they said that they had an Andy was trying to get like a loaner unit. But what this is, is this really involved woodcase pencil maker machine, like a self, like your own tabletop pencil maker. Right. And let's, I'll just go ahead and say upfront. So, you know what we're dealing with. If you can't see the link right now, it's like a $600 unit. Right.

'''Myke:''' So it's all these tools. Yeah.