Trollop Press is selling ink in tubes. They cost less than a pound can of Van Son ink and are easier to keep from drying up. Or, as the description of the ink says “Ink in a tube means no skins & no waste!” Unfortunately they aren’t carrying many colors, but I’m going to check there the next time I need ink.
 The websites Serious Eats and Instructables have held a Pi Day Pie Contest the past couple of years. (Pi Day commemorates the mathematical constant π — 3.14159… — and is held on March 14.) That’s the winner from 2010 to the left. A friend gave me a Pi pie plate several years ago, and I’ve been making a special pie in it every March since then. While many of the entries for past years have nothing to do with Pi (just pie), I liked this One-Hundred-Digit pie
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And especially the ingredients for Pie to Seven Decimal Points, 3.1415926:
In honor of Pi Day (3/14)
3 different fruits
1 basic pie crust recipe
4 ingredients in the crumb topping
1 nutty ingredient
5 unique layers (bottom crust, three fruits, crumb topping)
9 added flavors in the fruit layers (3 in each)
2 ingredients in common in all the layers (butter and sugar)
6 (or 7) ingredients in the pie crust recipe, depending on whether you count water as an ingredient, and whether you round up (the next digit is 5.)
This year on their website, Curiosity, a marketing group in Portland, is featuring a monthly paper toy calendar that you can print and construct. That’s February to the left, with a groundhog popping out of his hole. Download it here and also sign up to get them emailed to you.
When I was a teenager I listened to a lot of folk music and one of my favorites was Bob Dylan’s first album The Freewheeling Bob Dylan (I even still have the record). I never thought much about the picture on the cover until about two years ago when I heard this interview on Fresh Air with Suze Rotolo — turns out she’s the woman on the cover. She had just published a book about her relationship with Dylan, A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties. My interest was even more piqued when Rotolo said she makes artist’s books — you can see them on her website. Sadly Rotolo died this week, her obituary is here.
The Exquisite Book: 100 Artists Play a Collaborative Game. The book is a project based on the Surrealist game called the Exquisite Corpse. The book is split into ten “chapters.” For each chapter, ten different artists contributed one page. The first artist was given a few words to inspire their drawing. Each of the following artists only saw the page that immediately preceded their own. Each artist used images (and optionally, words) to create the continuation to the story, and the inspiration for the next artist in line. The process took approximately five months.
Each “chapter” is on a fold-out accordion page, so viewers can really see how each artist continued the story. There’s a video here showing a bit about the book and an example chapter.
