Farb Circus

As of May 19th, Farb Circus has GRADUATED!! Georgetown past, present, and future, we love you.

Woohoo!! We are uploading our thesis to YouTube as I write. We have turned a 66-minute rough cut into a 34-minute (!!!) watchable film, so spirits are high as we submit for the first deadline today. We plan to take a break from this room now and return to the film next week to address some structural changes we have been discussing. In the meantime, here are some pictures of our lives in Suite 7. So many thanks to all the people who have given us feedback, visited us, and kept us going.

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AluPen Stylus Review

Gelardin now has two AluPen Styluses circulating! We will be getting more styluses soon of a different brand, so this is the first review on the pens. The AluPen can be used on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.

The Alupen serves as a general stylus for moving your iPod/iPad apps and typing, but serves even better as a drawing tool.

It is slightly chunky, but it doesn’t made it difficult to hold. The AluPen is styled to look like a chubby pencil, so it has a simple design meant to be charming but professional at the same time.

Your fingers easily wrap around it, and it isn’t difficult to get a grasp on drawing with it.

The pen is a bit heavier than expected for a stylus made of aluminum. However, it’s not so heavy as to detract from your drawing at all.

The rubber tip is rather wide for a drawing stylus, but the width of your drawing really depends on the setting on your sketching app, so it doesn’t matter. For fun sketches, drawing games, and general notetaking, the AluPen works and is easy to carry.

It certainly won’t be the best in making crucial small details on a work, as tiny details would be difficult given the width of the rubber tip, but if you were doing a professional graphic design you would not be sketching on an iPad. That is what $300 professional Wacom tablets are for.

The AluPen can come in several different colors, and here we have navy blue (Hoya Saxa!). Along with a sleek leather case and a Midori Mesh Bag, the AluPen is great for sketches, notaking, or avoiding using your finger to check your Facebook.

-Melissa Riggio COL 14