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How to Sell a Raisin: An Interview with Mark Keller

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Mark Keller, the Creative Director at Loudville Studios. In this interview, Mark gives an inside look into the advertising business, explains just how spot on [...]

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Dick Clark, Creativity and the American Bandstand

Just two days ago, Dick Clark passed away at the age of 82. For the current generation of youngsters, Clark was known as the host of the New Year’s Eve ball-drop special on NBC. For anyone [...]

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Introducing the Mad Men Water Cooler!

Welcome to the first of a new series here at Studio 602: The Monday Morning “Mad Men” Water Cooler. Why is a site about pencils devoting so much column time to “Mad Men,” you might ask? [...]

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Christian Tamburr’s “Places” Climbing the Charts

Two months ago, Studio 602 introduced the inaugural episode of The Blackwing Sessions, featuring our first Blackwing featured musician, Christian Tamburr. Blackwing Sessions chronicled the recording and creative process of one of the album’s original compositions, [...]

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Pencils and Pop Culture: High Fashion at Half Time

So there I was, watching the Super Bowl, nominally interested in the game itself (I was busy paying attention to the commercials), when they announced that the half-time show was upon us. “Madonna!” the announcers bellowed. [...]

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Words On a Page: Remembering The Day the Music Died

This is a story about a box. Or, rather, this is a story about her box. When I was younger, I often wondered why people felt the need to keep knick-knacks and keepsakes from years gone [...]

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Unhook the Stars: The Lyrics of Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes, born 110 years ago today, has been called “The Poet Laureate of Harlem” for his works depicting the everyday struggles and triumphs of the people of Harlem during the 1920s through the 1960s. Harlem [...]

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Long Live the King: The Songwriters who made Presley a legend

This past Sunday would have 76th birthday of the King of Rock and Roll himself, Elvis Presley. The very name of this pop music icon immediately calls to mind a host of images from his unprecedented [...]

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The Kennedy Center Honors Take Wing

The Kennedy Center Honors, which recognizes a select few recipients for their sterling contributions to culture through a lifetime in the performing arts, airs tonight on CBS throughout the United States. Though the awards gala actually [...]

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The Blackwing Sessions: Christian Tamburr

Today, Studio 602 at Pencils.com is proud to introduce our first Blackwing Featured Musician and the inaugural episode of The Blackwing Sessions, a series that will showcase how using a Blackwing pencil inspires art and facilitates [...]