Since 2014
All but the keenest viewers may have missed the many ballpoint pen cameos on screens big and small over the years. Ballpoints are regulars in Hollywood productions, and not just as set dressing...
Back to school Ballpointer
・Clueless 1995・Directed by Amy Heckerling
Early in the movie that made Alicia Silverstone a star (as Cherilyn 'Cher' Horowitz), frumpy new student Tai (Brittany Murphy) is introduced to the fashionable students of Beverly Hills High School. She carries with her a certain blue looseleaf binder, which gets lots of screen time to show Tai as an arty outsider clutching it like a security blanket...
At the bottom of a page where it seems she was practicing drawing cartoon facial expresses she wrote, 'Why is it so hard to draw happy!!' punctuated rhetorically with not one but two exclamation points...
Sadly, Brittany Murphy died in 2009. But what about those binders; do they still even make them?・
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Sept 8—Oct 28, 2017 NOW UP
Another Slipping Glimpser solo exhibition
Carl Hammer Gallery Chicago, IL (USA)
Indiana-born & -based artist CJ Pyle presents approximately twenty-two new works (Mrs. Burt of Encino pictured) seemingly 'woven' in ballpoint and mixed-media onto paper and other surfaces. More info.
BALLPOINTBRIEF by E. Lee posted October 5, 2016
Bíró's Birthday・September 29・
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March 7—11, 2019 THIS WEEKEND
Art on Paper art fair
Pier 36 New York City
''All new ballpoint pen drawings'' by Nicolas V. Sanchez at what the artist describes as his ''favorite fair'', presented in a booth of his own by Art Market Productions. More info.
INKBLOTTER last revised October 9, 2016
Ballpoint pen artwork & more, now on display or coming soon.
Support the Starving ARTS, Ballpoint and Otherwise.
Wikipedia included Bíró's birthday within their On this day... front-page listing, causing a ripple-effect of second-hand traffic to the site's Ballpoint Pen page and Ballpoint Pen Artwork page.
The Ballpointer, also celebrating a birthday of sorts as we enter year-three of publication, benefitted from Bíró's beneficence, as well, with daily traffic spiking dramatically two days in a row.
László Bíró invented something we each hold in our hand every day, and I'm not just talking about the drawing ballpointers among us; I'm talking about each and every person walking this planet. Plenty of other people have invented plenty of other things, but does each and every person get to ride in a limousine every day? Does each and every person get ride that limo to the Academy Awards ceremony wearing Armani with front row seats awaiting them? No. But every single one of you gets to write 'sweet- nothings' to your lover, or pissed-everythings to your enemy, thanks to Mr. Bíró's creation.
Dear Mr. Bíró, Hip-Hip-Hooray and HAPPY BIRTHDAY !・
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Google archives all of their Google Doodles. See their animated entry dedicated to László Bíró as originally 'aired' on September 29.
The Ballpointer memorializes László Bíró by permanent inclusion in our artist registry on the BULLPEN page, with a drawing by Bíró, himself, proving him to be the first to test the creative application of his invention.
Photo of Bíró and Google Doodle graphics © respective artists.
Oct 6—16, 2016 NOW UP
The London Ibiza Collective group exhibition
S Artspace Gallery New York City
Ten artists from London and ''the party island of'' Ibiza, ballpointer James Mylne among them (pictured), occupy a ''massive art space'' in downtown Manhattan. More info.