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unusual facts about Ink


F*INK

In June 1996, Dunedin, New Zealand, Caroline McCaw and Martin Kean together with Allan Thommason (aka OziBsy) published the first issue of f*INK, in response to a lack of entertainment listings for band events and dance parties in the usual media outlets such as the Otago Daily Times.


13th century in literature

It is said that the waters of the Tigris run black with ink from the enormous quantities of books flung into the river and red from the blood of the philosophers and scientists killed.

Afghan parliamentary election, 2005

During the 2009 Afghan elections, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald E. Neumann recalled that the "indelible" ink used in the 2005 election to prevent people from voting more than once had turned out to be washable after all.

Alex Robinson

Along with Mike Dawson, Tony Consiglio, and a few other cartoonists, Robinson is part of a loosely associated comics collective called The Ink Panthers.

Allie Bates

In the early days of the internet, she worked in Writer's Ink and Macintosh BBS on GEnie.

Andrew R. Heinze

His first full-length play, Turtles All the Way Down, although unproduced, was praised by Soho Theatre (London) as "an accomplished first effort...sharp and highly enjoyable... very theatrical: fast moving with lots of humour." His second full-length play, The Invention of the Living Room, was a Finalist for the 2012 Blue Ink Playwriting Award given by the American Blues Theater in Chicago and was presented in a public reading by the Orlando Shakespeare Theater (2011).

Barenaked Ladies Are Me

In 2010, Steven recorded a new arrangement of Running Out Of Ink with the Art Of Time Ensemble for their collaborative album A Singer Must Die.

Blotter

Blotting paper, used to absorb ink or oil from writing materials, particularly when quill or fountain pens were popular

Boneless

Mogu, "boneless" wash painting, a type of painting by ink washes without outlines

Braille embosser

This is often the case regardless of the type of printer being discussed (e.g., thermal printers being called "ink printers" even though they use no ink).

Chua Ek Kay

Chua continued to practise Han calligraphy and ink-brush painting, as he believed that while a contemporary painting had to keep up with the times and embody an artist's temperament and the ideals he stands for, in creating art he should be rooted to certain basic rules and formats.

David Macaulay

His first book, Cathedral (1973), was a history, extensively illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings, of the construction of a fictitious but representative Gothic cathedral.

Dawn DeKeyser

She is credited on a number of prime time TV series including Ugly Betty, NewsRadio, The Geena Davis Show, Conrad Bloom, Ink, Becker and Samantha Who?.

Document

Through time, documents have also been written with ink on papyrus (starting in ancient Egypt) or parchment; scratched as runes or carved on stone using a sharp apparatus (such as the Tablets of Stone described in the bible); stamped or cut into clay and then baked to make clay tablets (e.g., in the Sumerian and other Mesopotamian civilisations).

Exeposé

A scanner and an A3 ink-jet printer and Adobe Photoshop 4 on the PowerMacs allowed substantial amounts of pre-production to be done in the editorial office.

Hedcut

The Wall Street Journal adopted the current form of this portraiture in 1979 when freelance artist Kevin Sprouls approached the paper with some ink dot illustrations he had created.

Higashiyama period

Based largely on the ideals and aesthetics of Zen Buddhism and the concept of wabi-sabi (beauty in simplicity), Higashiyama Bunka centered on the development of chadō (Japanese tea ceremony), ikebana (flower arranging), Noh drama, and sumi-e ink painting.

Island Ink-Jet

It was second-largest ink-refill chain, behind only Cartridge World.

Item Unique Identification

Metal tag with a permanent adhesive or durable polyester label are suitable for many environments but other marking items such as laser etch, dot peen, Metalphoto photosensitive anodized aluminum, chemical etch or ink jet can also be used for direct part Unique Identification.

Iz U Down

On January 14, 2014, Kid Ink performed "Iz U Down", along with special guest Tyga, on DJ Skee's SKEE Live.

Jamie Bulloch

Recent literary translations include The Sweetness of Life by Paulus Hochgatterer (MacLehose Press), Ruth Maier's Diary (Harvill/Secker), and three titles for Peirene Press: Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Christian Delius, Sea of Ink by Richard Weihe, and The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke.

Jon Cone

In 2006, Cone introduced a new concept in ink formulation by developing an ink set for Epson printers that was "color-managed" during formulation by matching the color gamut produced by the OEM's printer driver, rather than attempting to imitate single ink positions that would later be controlled by ICC profiles.

Joyce Carlson

Carlson created a pen-and-ink portfolio of her sketches several months after she began working at Disney, and presented it to her employers.

Kathryn Lomer

Her first novel, The God in the Ink was published by the University of Queensland Press in 2001.

Level 27 Clothing

Bert McCracken of The Used can also been seen wearing Level 27 in their video for Taste Of Ink.

London Ink

Glamour model Emily Scott appeared in the first episode of London Ink, in which she had a Koi fish tattooed on her right arm by Dan Gold.

Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25

Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 is a 2011 young-adult/science fiction novel by Richard Paul Evans, and published by Glenn Beck's owned Mercury Ink.

Mike Gersher

He had to rely heavily on assistants, notably future head Blondie artist Denis Lebrun, who was soon brought in to ink backgrounds and improve the lettering.

O'Sheas Casino

In 2006, Vince Neil, lead singer of the band Mötley Crüe, opened Vince Neil Ink, a tattoo parlor inside of O'Sheas.

Otis Kaye

He also created ink drawings of currency, and made etchings after Rembrandt, Whistler and Picasso, as well as other artists.

Paul Reinman

By his early twenties, he was creating pen-and-ink drawings of such subjects as the Rashi Synagogue, which was shortly afterward destroyed by the Nazis.

Peter Maivia

Maivia's grandson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson revealed that they were done with traditional Samoan instrumentation: a small hammer, a needle, and ink.

Peter Spier

Like other children's illustrators such as Beatrix Potter or Christopher Wormell, Peter Spier demonstrates his talent and skills as an artist/illustrator using pen, ink and watercolour on paper.

Pierre Pinoncelli

He has also thrown a bottle of red ink over André Malraux, the French minister of culture at the time, robbed a bank in Nice of 10 francs using a sawn-off shotgun, and cut the tip off one of his own fingers at an art exhibition in Colombia, V Festival de Performance de Cali, in protest at FARC guerillas holding the French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt hostage.

Red letter day

The term came into wider usage with the appearance in 1549 of the first Book of Common Prayer in which the calendar showed special holy days in red ink.

Reichsmark

The Soviet Union demanded copies of the engraving plates, ink, and associated equipment in early 1944, and on 14 April 1944 Henry Morgenthau and Harry Dexter White of the U.S. Treasury Department authorized the immediate air transfer of these to the USSR.

Richard Horie

He would pencil and ink for Stephenson several times over the next year, on titles including Supreme, various Youngblood titles, Brigade, Bloodstrike and Deathmate.

Robert DeMott

Until the age of eight, he lived with his parents on the estate of well known political artist and fine-art illuminator Arthur Szyk, who published The New Order (1941) and Ink & Blood (1946) and illustrated numerous Biblical and literary texts, as well as the 1948 Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel.

SignNow

The signatures within SignNow are legally recognized in the same way as traditional "wet ink" signatures as the company’s technology follows the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act signed into law by former President Bill Clinton in 2000, as well as the European Union’s Directive on eSignatures.

Southern Rhodesian general election, 1980

Voters had their fingers marked with an invisible ink that showed up under Ultraviolet light to detect attempts to vote twice.

St. Louis Wrestling Club

Matysik and KPLR director Ted Koplar would both ink deals with Vince McMahon in 1983, giving the WWF a foothold in the St. Louis area and the traditional "Wrestling At The Chase" timeslot.

Star Trek: The Next Generation U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints

They also transferred the ink-drawings of the exterior of the ship, which had been used in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, to the computer for greater detail since the plans were going to be so much larger this time.

Supermodel Me

In 2010, Supermodelme became the first television showout of Asia to ink a deal with popular location-based application Foursquare.

The Silent Gondoliers

Paul Giovanopoulos provided 20 pen-and-ink illustrations for the story.

The SoundEx

The band signed to Red Ink (a division of Sony) in January 2006, and completed the recording of their second album with Paul Reeve in October of that year.

Thomas Pendelton

The Ministry of Ink refers to 35-year-old artist and entrepreneur Thomas Pendelton of A&E's Inked fame.

Tricontinental

From the founding of OSPAAAL and Tricontinental in 1966 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which led to a rapid recession in the Cuban economy, propaganda posters were folded up and placed inside copies of the magazine, however, this was stopped, along with publication of Tricontinental, due to ink shortages and financial trouble.

Unable Heir

Unable Heir took place in Rock The Ink Fest along with many national acts, including Godsmack, Bret Michaels, Killswitch Engage, Saliva, Sevendust, and many more.

Water jet

Water-jet printer, a printer that makes use of water instead of ink


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