Ewing Style Blog Post

Things might be more complex than they seem.

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
-Kurt Vonnegut

We all have our hobbies. For me, one of the hobbies that I have is pen spinning. I got started quite a few months ago, and this was one of the videos that really got me into it. 

This video was posted to YouTube on December 1st, 2012. It shows a person spinning a pen while singing along to One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful,” presumably while also quite drunk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzElkC9y9nk

According to him, he tried to “provide encouragement for the people not in the (pen spinning) world.” Interestingly enough, it worked out surprisingly well. The humor, drunkenness, and general sense of “I don’t care” made it strangely inspiring, and it’s made me want to achieve his level of skill many times before. Although this video wasn’t the thing that got me into pen spinning, it’s definitely one of the ones that made me truly realize what I could do with it.

I’ve spent many, many frustrating hours banging my fist against the table while trying to figure out a seemingly easy trick, just for that little bit of a “rush” that I get when I finally land it. Is it worth the effort? Probably not.

But I enjoy doing it anyway