The weekend before last, I spent a very enjoyable afternoon at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Visits to this art gallery are always great, but experiencing the refurbished building by architect Frank Gehry seemed to take everything to a new level. Even walking through a hallway was an amazing thrill.
At the end of my afternoon I took a look at the gift shop, and saw sets of woodless pencils and some custom edition Moleskine cahiers with Gehry sketches on the covers. I know this type of item can be hard to find and is appreciated by a lot of people. I bought a set to give away on the blog. I hope I’m correct that it may be of interest.
This is another commenter reward draw – only those who have previously left comments are eligible, and the WordPress blog software is set to only allow comments by those who have previously left a comment here.
So to win a set of three Art Gallery of Ontario woodless graphite pencils, three pocket Frank Gehry Moleskine cahiers, and three large Frank Gehry Moleskine cahiers, just leave a comment here before Friday, September 24, 20:00 EDT.
[Update, September 24, 2010]
Thank you to all those who entered. It was great to see some long time commenters enter.
Using the python random number generator on my Mac, we have:
$ python
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Apr 16 2009, 09:17:39)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import random
>>> random.seed()
>>> random.randint(1,34)
19
I wish everyone could win, but this time it is the 19th commenter, awin. Congratulations, awin!
Those look awesome! Please pick me!
Custom Edition! Count me in, thanks.
Wow. Wow. Wow. (One for each set of three.)
God I hope I’ve commented here before!!! I would love to win these!
Those are lovely =)
I worked near the AGO this summer, but unfortunately never had a chance to go in. I did manage to visit Curry’s and Aboveground, though, which was a treat.
Nice offer, thanks. I love Moleskines. Count me in.
Henrik
Great looking kit!
Thanks for the giveaway! These notebooks look great, and I’d love to get my hands on one.
Good call! pretty neat items.
Those look great, thanks for the chance to win!
Thank you for thinking of us! Please count me in to win :) x
Yay – woodless graphite
Please count me in.
Those do look awesome, and woodless graphite pencils are great both for sketching and writing. I wish more good pencils came in that fashion.
These items look incredible. Thanks for this post.
This is terrible! If I win, will I ever use them or just admire them? Oh well, it’s a problem I’d love to have! :)
I like the choice of colors. Very nice.
How fun! Never won a blog giveaway before, but you can’t win if you don’t play, so I’m in.
Very cool, great contest, thanks!! :-)
(Oh, I commented with the wrong email.)
Please count me in? (:
I think I’ve won only one giveaway, but I haven’t won one lately, so I’m due! :)
Hope I win…
Please count me in too. Went to the Music Experience building in Seattle some years ago: typical of the man with sweeping multi-hued metal plates sheathing the structure. Spent some time listening to two maintenance workers as they attempted to make a very minor structural change to the exterior. A frustrating and almost impossible job.
The Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich has an excellent gift shop which among other things sells a lead holder with an enormously thick lead.
Amazing giveaway! I promise to give these a great home!
Rolling the dice again!
The pencils look very much like the Koh-i-Noor Progressos. Do you know whether they are just relabelled Progressos?
Ooh fun. I’ve sworn off of Moleskine overall since their production shift to China (and since I make my own) but these are cool enough that I’m interested again.
Dang, this is generous of you! :)
Those pencils are very lovely!
Nice pencils…the notebooks aren’t bad either!
Wow, count me in. What a fantastic set!
I’m a firm believer in woodless pencils, daily user.
I’m intrigued by the woodless pencils…!
Very nice. I’ve used a woodless pencil once, found it left on the desk at work.
Very nice! Woodless pencils and a Moleskine would be a big change for me!
I´ve just received my Music Journal from Moleskine Passions collection and It’s awesome but, of course It is of a high Interest this Frank Gehry Moleskine cahiers, and absolutely the woodless Pencils, they look very elegant.
Thank you to all who entered! The post has been updated with the draw result.
To answer memm’s question, I regret that I don’t know the origin of the pencils.
My local art shop has Koh-I-Noor Progresso and Generals Pure Graphite Woodless pencils, so they shouldnt be too hard to find. I’m guessing the gallery of ontario pencils are probably rebranded, but I don’t have a Generals pencil here to compare.
I love Frank Gehry
Woodless pencils are so much fun to draw with but so easily broken.