Since 2014
Peter Ross Hong Kong
Pepe Lozano Cordoba, Spain
Gareth Edwards Stourbridge, England
All but the keenest viewers may have missed the many ballpoint pen cameos on screens big and small over the years. Ballpoints are regulars in Hollywood productions, and not just as set dressing...
Pen In The Neck
・Casino 1995・Director Martin Scorsese
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Lennie Mace Tokyo, Japan
Eric Seaholm Tokyo, Japan
Andrey Poletaev Lugansk, Ukraine
Holly Cappello Portland, Oregon
M.I. Shaikh Mumbai, India
Andrey Poletaev Lugansk, Ukraine
Matt Rota Brooklyn, New York
''Well thank you,'' Wiseguy snaps back. ''Now why don't you take that fuckin' pen and shove it up yer ass you fuckin' jag'off.''
Sam's narration sums up the proceedings and closes the scene: ''While I was trying to figure out why the guy was saying what he was saying, Nicky just hit 'im. No matter how big a guy might be, Nicky would take 'im on. You beat Nicky with fists, he comes back with a bat. You beat him with a knife, he comes back with a gun. And if you beat him with a gun you better kill 'im, 'cause he'll keep comin' back and back until one of you is dead ''・
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Lennie Mace・Tokyo, Japan
Trump White House 2016 (November 9) ・ 6 x 5'' (15.24 x 12.7cm) ・ ballpoint pen on paper
Another ballpoint cameo having nothing to do with drawing. Robert De Niro, as casino boss Sam ''Ace'' Rothstein, finds a fancy ballpoint pen on a bar counter in front of him. He taps the shoulder of a customer to his right. The clearly annoyed man turns as Sam holds up the pen and asks, ''This yours?''
SLIDESHOW
last revised Mar. 22, 2017
Shirish Deshpande Belgaum, India
Nicky, bloody pen-in-hand, shouts down at Wiseguy, ''What's that, you hear a little girl, Frankie? You hear a little girl, Ace? Is that a little fuckin' girl? What happened to the fuckin' tough guy who told my friend stick it up his fuckin' ass, huh?!''
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Dave Warshaw San Diego, California
MalOjo Basque Country
Shane McAdams Wisconsin / Brooklyn
Ler Huang Kaohsiung, Taiwan
NEWDE FACED
''Drew this while watching Presidential Election Day result coverage from the USA, real-time on television in Japan. Britain's BBC was the only channel available providing full coverage (Japan's NHK only broadcasted occasional updates) so I watched the whole shebang through British sensibilities. Interesting; not quite 'unbiased ' reporting! Anyways, the idea for the drawing—a Doonesbury-like line drawing of the White House festooned with Trump Taj Mahal casino neon—had been in my head since during the campaign, but I hadn't had spare time to put it on paper until election day. Among the most 'timely' drawings I've ever done, but if I'd've (sic) drawn it a little earlier maybe it would've been right-on-time to illustrate a headline news announcement of Trump's win? I didn't draw it as any particular comment about Trump either way, just one of those kinda' images that immediately pops into my mind in response to an event. It does illustrate the casino-like mentality Trump has brought into politics and I imagine it could accompany articles covering any of the Trump-related shenanigans we are now all witnessing, but the drawing obviously stands on its own in silent commentary. The neon, by the way, is referenced from the actual lighting of the Atlantic City casino, swapping 'Taj Mahal' for 'White House'. Drawn between sunrise and noonish, Tokyo''・
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Chen Zhen Kaohsiung, Taiwan
No, the drawings presented here have NOT been ''defaced'' or altered in any way. The title of this new section, DE FACED, simply describes the fact that the artworks presented here have been pulled from social media posts such as facebook and, as such, therefore ''de''-faced, as it were. Some of the artists may be familiar to readers, but new faces will also be introduced here. These artists have not been notified of inclusion here, but every effort will be made to credit the artwork as they did in their original posts.
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respective artists
Guy Woodard New York, New York
James Mylne, 1999 London, England
Lennie Mace, 1984 New York, New York
''Yeah, that's my pen,'' the bulky Wiseguy affirms, ''Why?''
''Well, it's a nice pen,'' says Sam. ''I didn't know whose it was. I thought if it's yours, I don't want anyone else to...''
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Being a Scorsese/De Niro film, Joe Pesci can't be far off, this time as mobster Nicky Santoro seated to Sam's left. Nicky turns just in time to see and hear the offense.
Before Wiseguy even knows what hit him, Nicky is jabbing the pen into his neck; 13 times, quick succession. Wiseguy is on the floor by the seventh. Then comes that Pesci Kick, the one popularized in Goodfellas five years earlier. More stabbing, kicking, and a wheezing Wiseguy.
Pepe Lozano Cordoba, Spain