Will

@willdarden.bsky.social

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Maverick progressive version of Ron Swanson with less drinking. Man of conviction. Prone to writing with fountain pens. Portland, Oregon. GirlDad | Visual Artist (📷🖋️🎨) | Musician (🎸🎹) | Woodworker | Linguist (🇺🇸|🇯🇵) | Foodie | Xennial | Storyteller

A pedalboard in a carrying case. A total of 7 pedals are shown: - A moog expression pedal - Ernie Ball volume jr - Chase Bliss Audio Automatone Preamp MK II - Boss FZ-3 Fuzz - Boss TU- 3 tuner - Chase Bliss Audio Clean - Strymon Timeline - Strymon BigSky
A Chase Bliss “Clean” guitar pedal is shown displayed on top of its packaging.
Front page of the 12/24/24 Wall Street Journal print version.
A man’s hand is holding a gray pipe with a funnel in the top. The background is a wide shot of the interior of a home with a Christmas tree featuring prominently. The pipe and funnel is an engineered tool for watering a Christmas tree directly into the stand without spilling from a jar or watering can.
A small guitar sits on a man’s lap in a family room. The guitar has a single coil pickup in the neck position and a volume knob. Cut into the guitar is a circle with a speaker grill and speaker. The guitar itself has a maple neck with black dot inlay. The body is a strat-style double cutaway finished in zebra stripes.
A needlepoint is pictured features caricatures of different pathogens. It is adorned with the phrase, “What doesn’t kill you mutates and tries again.”
A bedspread is covered in multiple pieces of musical equipment. To the right is a surf green Fender Telecaster. Center left is a pedal board with four pedals, a Strymon TimeLine, a Strymon BigSky, a Boss tuning pedal, and a Chase Bliss Automatone Preamp II. These pedals are resting on a bamboo tray. In the upper right corner of the photo is a Scarlett 18i8 interface.
A journal is shown with an open fountain pen. There’s and entry written and a photobooth strip is laid across the entry. The pen is a Sailor ProColor 500 Shikiori “Frosty Night,” a deep, glittery turquoise with a pearlescent white top on the cap and gold trim. The nib is a stainless steel fine nib with coloring to match the other trim.
A music room is show. With a number of guitars, amps, and a keyboard
A bearded man sits on a couch with a guitar in his lap. He’s wearing a pink graphic tee and a black zip up hoodie. The guitar is a Fender American Performer II Telecaster in surf green with an ebony fretboard and a brown leather strap.
An open fountain pen is laid across a notebook page. The pen is a Sailor Pro Gear Slim with an extra fine nib. The body and cap of the pen are a deep, pearlescent green with black end caps and gold trim. There is text on the page listing the date and names of the pen and ink, written in the ink as named.
A large variety of fountain pens are displayed on a table, laid out on a large piece of leather. Also displayed are an array of nibs, pen rests, and rulers.
A selfie of a middle-aged man with a shaved head and full beard. The man wears a pair of tortoiseshell glasses perched on a bulbous nose. He is wearing a blue and red checked bow tie, gray patterned shirt, and navy blue sweater.
Four writing samples from different styles using the same pen. Each is written on a piece of gridded paper in Diamine Honey Burst ink, a honey yellow ink that shades to an orange brown. The four samples each include a title, “Architect”, “Cursive”, “Print”, or “Type” as well as the pangram “Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.”
A fountain pen is laid across an open notebook with the nib exposed. The pen is an Opus 88 DEMO “Veri Peri” with a custom-ground nib — the body of the pen is translucent periwinkle-colored plastic with red ebonite caps and section. The pen has a black metal clip.
A picture of Animal, from the Muppets, with the following caption: Stranger: nice to meet you Me: give it time
A green fountain pen (Sailor PGS Shikiori “Manyo” <EF>) with gold nib and trim. The body of the pen is a deep pearlescent forest green. The pen is being held in a man’s hand with a laptop in the background.
A hand-built wooden tool chest is resting under a workbench in a garage. There are four drawers with simple metal handles, two large, two small. The tool chest appears to be a rough cube measuring 3’ on a side.
A black fountain pen sits on a bamboo pen rest, sitting across a notebook. The pen is a Pilot Custom 912 with a waverly nib. There is writing in the notebook as follows: “11/13/24 Pen: Pilot Custom 912 <WA> Ink: Diamine Eclipse Diamine Eclipse One thing I love about this pen is the ability to be inverted for a very fine line.”
A screenshot of Rosa from Brooklyn 99. A Latina female police detective stands in a cluttered police precinct. She is wearing a black sweater and a shoulder holster and has curly hair that falls around her shoulders. She is holding up a young, cream-colored puppy named Arlo and speaking to her coworkers about the puppy. A closed caption reads “I’ve only had Arlo for a day and a half, but if anything happened to him I would kill everyone in this room and then myself.”
Before photo of the guitar. A zebra-striped travel guitar sits on a striped rug. The strings are detached from the tuners. The guitar has a lone single coil pickup, a volume knob, and a built-in speaker with a power switch. The neck of the guitar is a lighter wood, maybe maple, with black dots. A decal on the headstock of the guitar indicates it is a “Littel Lyon by Washburn” (SIC).
Black block letter text on a pink background that reads: YOU VOTED TO HAVE MY FRIENDS KILLED FUCK YOU
An ink sketch with watercolor of Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, Oregon. A large rock protrudes from the ocean in the shape of a haystack. Some smaller rocks surround it and all appear floating due to waves and mist. The abstract silhouettes of people walking on the beach are scattered across the frame in dark ink against the tan of the beach. Whitecaps are visible in the rough surf. The artist’s signature is prominent in the lower right corner.
The band Darlingside plays on a raised stage in a historic church. Four people with various stringed instruments stand at microphones, their feet obscured by audio cabling and electronics. A drummer and keyboardist stand behind them and a rack of guitars sits on the left side of the image. In the background, an old pipe organ looms, lit in pink and yellow from below, casting a shadow onto the arched ceiling.
Sunset beach photo on the Oregon coast. A family is gathered around a bonfire on the left side of the photo and there’s a small hill with trees on the right. A few people are silhouetted against the fading sunset, which fades from bright orange near the horizon to a light indigo near the top of the photo. Sparse clouds dot the horizon in the distance. In the foreground is the darkened sand, pockmarked with footprints and debris.