Goulet Pen's July 2011 Ink Drop - Part 1

For their July Ink Drop Brian and Rachel Goulet came up with an unusual theme. It is “Flashlight Tag”. The ink samples in this drop share the property of reacting to Ultra Violet light. All of the samples are made by Noodler's. They are highlighter inks, well at least three of the four are. I'm not sure what the Blue Ghost ink is used for except for black light poster making, unless you happen to be a spy and need to write secret messages with an invisible ink . For our fun and enjoyment they included a refillable highlighter pen and a blub to use in refilling it. These are very cool. And most cool of all, a mini UV flashlight so that you can light up your inks. Hence, the name Flashlight Fun. This Ink Drop is absolutely brilliant!!!

The ink samples are:

Noodler's Blue Ghost

Noodler's Dragon Catfish Green

Noodler's Dragon Catfish Pink

Noodler's Firefly

So this is what it looks like. You can see the four ink samples, a highlighter pen, a blub for refilling and a little flashlight.

Now I will confess that I was at a loss as to what to do with these inks at first. Then I realized that I could at least use them for their designed propose of highlighting. Soon I will begin posting my second maze which I needed to check to make sure that the solution was correct. So I spent more hours than I want to tell you tracing out the solution path of this 90 page maze. It is a good thing I checked, because I had made a mistake when I put it together last year. It was fairly easy to correct, but I had spent quite a long time on the wrong path.

Here is sample page of this maze where I used Noodler's Dragon Catfish Green in the included pen to trace out my path. Is this part of the solution? Or part of the wrong detour? I'm not telling!

Last year when I was editing and solving I used a colored pencil to do the work and the same page of this maze looked like this.

Anyway this is the rather pedestrian use of these highlighter inks and it is rather boring. Maybe not as boring as highlighting important passages in your economics textbook, but pretty close. The highlighter ink works better than the colored pencil, but of course it is ink, so you need to look ahead before you draw. Next I want grow my hair long and let my beard grow, put on some ELP or Pink Floyd and see what my mazes look in black light.

Until next time!

Jonathan