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Make your own Holy Grail Diary
"Should You feel the same need for a Grail Diary, there are two way to get one. Buy one from one the "amateur" prop-makers. They often offers their work on E-bay. Just be prepered to pay around $500 - 900."
"The other way is to make one Yourself. It is not that difficult."
[Thanks Sophia]
Le Cascate di Iguazù
"Giaguari, puma, serpenti corallini e pseudocorallini ci sono ma non ne vedrò uno (non è come alle Cascate Vittoria, in Africa, ove chi ti attraversa la strada è un elefante o un antilope e non un turista giapponese). Per fare una foto qui bisogna combattere tra frotte di sudamericani, nordamericani. Qualche volta il traffico umano si dirada ed il fiume riemerge dallo sfondo sonoro anche quando si concentra lentamente prima del salto, il più largo al mondo. Il fiume Iguazù, affluente del Paranà - dopo le cascate - , compie una ansa sul pavimento basaltico che ricorda un tornante di strada montana: dopo la curva si ritrova a saltare sul piano sottostante spaccandosi in tanti fiumi e fiumiciattoli, tutti destinati alla caduta fragorosa, alta una ottantina di metri. Tra Brasile e Argentina si divide la platea e l'orchestra: dal lato brasiliano si apprezza il prorompente scenario che è tutto argentino, con al centro la Isola di San Martino, che in realtà è una penisola. Ecco lo schizzo rivelatore così come disegnato sul moleskine..."
Le Cascate di Iguazù
dr. Livingstone 2003
indiecultura
eBay Item # 6923119758
"...All night long June 5, we heard the bombers roaring over the hospital. Everyone remarked that something big must be doing. At 7:30, [someone] said paratroopers had landed behind German lines in France. 8am news confirmed it. Everyone stopped work for a few minutes. It was a queer feeling. It made me feel sort of sad. I was thinking of all those guys over there dying --for us..."
"This Diary of Lieutenant Sally Trotter, a young woman on a two year overseas tour of duty with the Number 12 Canadian General Hospital Unit from August 31st, 1943 to July 26th, 1945, can truly and accurately be classified as one of a kind. She documented her tour with not only many entries, but also with hundreds of comical amateur illustrations, artist's sketches, newspaper clippings, political cartoons, magazine pictures, ship tickets, numerous personally shot photos of friends and superiors (some are hand watercolored), group photos, professional photos, coinage, French Francs, watercolor painting postcards, poems, brochures, programs, dinner menus, even pictures of German patients! The size and scope of the memorabilia is substantial, arguably the greatest of which may be the embroidered insignia cut out from a German Tank Corps Uniform and a ribbon from a German Iron Cross! Captions under most of the pictures and many of the aforementioned items abound throughout the diary."
Diary -Authentic Pictoral+Written WWII Account -UNIQUE!
Starting bid: US $1,999.99
eBay Item # 6923119758
Image: © 2004 thecaptains1
Wandering Moleskine Logo Proposal
A study for the Wandering Moleskine Project logo
by Joachim
Wandering Moleskine Project
To all those interested in sending logo proposals for the "Wandering Moleskine Project", please consider adapting the Moleskinerie logo (stylized notebook with sleeve) for graphical consistency. Include the words "Wandering Moleskine Project".
A.B.F.
Dragon Skies
"Some of the world's oldst stargazing tools, used by the royal astronomers of ancient China, are on display in Oakland, California; in their first appearance in the United States, at the Chabot Space and Science Center."
Dragon Skies
The Astronomy of Imperial China
Moleskinerie @ ORKUT
Brandon:
What did you use before moleskines?
So what notebooks, sketchpads and folios did you use before you discovered the moleskine?
Álvaro:
"Premier Notebook 100 pages", a small notebook in electric blue. I bought 5 of them in a small shop when I was on a trip to Scotland and I used them before I found a Moleskine..."
Ongoing discussion @ Moleskinerie/ORKUT
Worldwide Vintage Postcards
Coucher de Soleil en rade de Papeete
Possibly the mother of all vintage postcard sites.
Postcardman.net
Worldwide Vintage Postcards
"Quality Postcards for your Hobby"
[via BoingBoing]
Rose Dale Farm Bed & Breakfast
"Rose Dale Farm Bed & Breakfast is located in Piggott, Arkansas near the Hemingway Pfeiffer Museum where Ernest Hemingway wrote 'A Farewell to Arms.' Piggott, Arkansas is on the scenic Crowley’s Ridge Parkway, a National Scenic Byway. Rose Dale Farm Bed & Breakfast is surrounded by 16 acres of pastoral fields that speak from a time long ago. Relax to the simpler and slower life of Piggott, Arkansas where friendly people wave and are glad to see you!"
Rose Dale Farm Bed & Breakfast
[Thanks bnb]
The Book of Urizen
William Blake. The Book of
Urizen..Lambeth, [ca. 1815].
The Lessing J. Rosenwald
Collection, catalog no. 1807.
The Library of Congress
[Thanks Luigi]
This is Grand
"THE TIE THAT BINDS by Jenny Inzerillo
The 54A is bizarre. It's either regulars going to work in smocks or starched pants, or it's strangers in shirtsleeves fidgeting, sweaty and pale. The route starts at the Irving Park Blue Line, weasels west to Cicero and then bullets north to the Skokie Courthouse. Those of us lucky enough to ride because we have to, because we work somewhere north, notice the misanthropes daily. Drug possession, joint custody, DUIs and running a red: these boys (and they're always boys) reek of pessimism and wear the inconvenience of the judicial system on their ironed sleeve.
Today I rocked steady, frantically flipping the pages of Try and letting the filling stations melt past my periphery. But this guy, this John Leguizamo's less-fey-younger-brother fella, was tying his sharkskin tie for 40 minutes. From when I boarded at the Blue Line, until only two stops before I dismounted at 7300 North, and he STILL didn't have it. He's stood up repeatedly, readjusting, untying, starting over, but never angering, never looking to other riders for help. (Though, 40 minutes, I could anchor a clipper ship faster than that.) Finally, the stop before I pull my cord, he turned to me. "Excuse me," he said, Hispanic inflection on the last syllable. "Is this straight?" Scared to look at the tie knot, fixed on his full lower lip, I dipped my sight down and gazed upon his tie. It was perfect. Tugged the cord, "Yes, actually. It's great," I told him. He smiled and said thank you.
Court. Totally court. I hope for joint custody."
Pen on Fire
"In her years of teaching, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett has found aspiring writers--especially women-- blocked not by fear of the blank page but by the lack of time. We're sure we need an afternoon to do any real writing, yet finding even an hour free of work, children, or chores seems impossible.
But you don't need an hour. Start looking for just fifteen minutes a day--minutes spent stalled in traffic, waiting for water to boil, stuck on hold with the phone company--and DeMarco-Barrett will help you turn them into productive sessions that get and keep your creativity flowing. In short, inspiring chapters, she offers classroom-tested exercises and innovative techniques for generating ideas, as well as advice from well-known authors.
Give her fifteen minutes: She'll ignite your pen and help you become the writer you have always wanted to be."
Pen on Fire
by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
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Barbara DeMarco-Barrett was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and at 11 moved to Lansdale, just outside Philadelphia. She attended Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, where she earned a bachelor's degree. She has published fiction, poetry, articles and essays in such journals as the Los Angeles Times, The Writer, Poets & Writers, Sunset, Westways, Orange Coast Magazine and the San Jose Mercury News . Her work has been anthologized in two books: The ASJA Guide to Freelance Writing (St. Martin's Press, 2003) and Conversations with Clarence Major (University Press of Mississippi, 2002). She is host of Writers on Writing, a weekly radio show that airs on KUCI-FM (88.9) and at www.kuci.org and teaches creative writing at the University of California, Irvine Extension.
She lives in Corona del Mar, California, with her jazz and blues musician husband, her 10-year-old son, two tanks of fish and one cat. Her first book is Pen On Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide for Igniting the Writer Within (Harcourt/Harvest, October 2004).
The End of QWERTY?
"The XPeRT Keyboard Solution: 2003
* XPeRT is a keyboard Built for Speed ..... AND ...... easy transition from Qwerty.
* Hunt & Peck keyboard users can reach touch typing speeds with no special training.
The XPeRT Keyboard moves only two high frequency letters, A + N (not six) and adds a second E key (the most common letter at 13%). The change is easy to learn. AND, it optimizes key sequences to be struck by opposite hands, the fastest way of typing. With these 3 elegant moves, the XPeRT keyboard goes from digraph disabled to speed enabled."
[via Norman]
Lights of the City
"The Goddess Insomnia takes many forms: she may tease mercilessly as you toss and turn, or torture you gleefully as you lie perfectly still, hoping in vain to fade into slumber. Either way you're mired between sleeping and rising.
This morning I danced again with that goddess, my mind churning enough to keep my body from slipping into deep sleep and finding myself at that pivotal moment: too close to wake-up time yet too far from going back to sleep. So I let my mind wander, hoping my loosed imagination would be the mental equivalent of reading a book that usually invites drowsiness and the blessing of deep sleep."
Gary Varner
Inkmusings
Image: © 2004 GV
Photographic proof
"Here you have it, ladies and gentleman. Photographic proof that God, after wandering the streets of Boston and Cambridge with chalk in hand, has finally come home to roost here in Keene, NH. I'm glad to see that God has moved out of his monochromatic phase in order to embrace all colors of the chalky spectrum. I'm also heartened to see that God likes to play hopscotch along the bikepath that skirts alongside Keene's own Beaver Mills: it's better than having the Divinity playing in traffic."
Lori Schaub
Hoarded Ordinaries
Image: © 2004 LS
AFK*
Bantayan Island
Cebu, Philippines
Photo by R.S.G.
© 2004
View a larger image @ AFK*
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Enjoy your weekend everyone!
Henry's Grail Diary
Lucasfilms
"Henry's Grail diary remains one of the most interesting props seen in the Indiana Jones Trilogy. The Williams Collection claims to know of at least six in existence; three of them have allready passed through there hands, and have been sold for the tune of $18,000. Another is in the possession of George Lucas."
Indygear
"Here we see the page known as "The Grail Mass & Omphalos". We can see at the back the top of the Los Angeles Railyard ticket of which we have a complete photo at the Inserts section."
Lucasfilms
"The Grail Diary is one of the most sought after props from the Indiana Jones Trilogy. It was written by Henry Jones (Indy's Father) during forty years of research, traveling etc. The journal is filled with clues to the whereabouts of the lost relic. Found within this work of art are notes, sketches, maps, all the musings of an intellectual in pursuit of a legend of history. "every clue he followed, every discovery he made, the complete account of his quest for the Holy Grail" as Indy sais in the movie.
The Lucasfilm Archives states that the book measures 17x10cm, but I know there is a one cm error so the correct measurments are 16x10 and 3 cm wide."
Henry's Grail Diary
@ The Props Section
Write by the river
"Travelland by Oliver Beckert, is a table designed to defuse the stresses in life. The river continually flowing across the surface provides a smooth and satisfying element that will calm any room. This piece is made to order, so please allow 10-12 weeks for delivery. Shipping is included ."
The Travelland River Table
@ Urbanpeel
[via Gizmodo]
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Quantity in Basket: none ^_^
Code: WZ-0645
Price: $4,320.00
Symbol signs
"This system of 50 symbol signs was designed for use at the crossroads of modern life: in airports and other transportation hubs and at large international events. Produced through a collaboration between the AIGA and the U.S. Department of Transportation, they are an example of how public-minded designers can address a universal communication need.
Prior to this effort, numerous international, national and local organizations had devised symbols to guide passengers and pedestrians through transportation facilities and other sites of international exchange. While effective individual symbols had been designed, there was no system of signs that communicated the required range of complex messages, addressed people of different ages and cultures and were clearly legible at a distance."
Symbol Signs
AIGA
Genghis Blues
"In an evening's discourse with Paul Pena, you're liable to learn these things: he's been a blues musician for thirty years (and he's played with B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, and T-Bone Walker). He is blind. He's a student of Spanish, Hawaiian, Korean, French, and Russian, though he gravitates to "wingwalker," or endangered, languages. He's a Cape Verdean-American, born on Cape Cod. And in 1995, he made his way to Tuva, in the high, arid steppes southwest of Siberia, where he trounced contestants from fourteen countries to win his division in UNESCO's International Throatsinging Competition.
If you live anywhere within earshot of NPR, you've probably heard a few minutes' worth of Tuvan throatsinging. It can sound something like a gale wind blowing over the top of a steamship's funnel, accompanied by the oscillating moan of a European ambulance siren, or like a vacuum cleaner/pennywhistle duet. Most throat music is overtone music, in which one voice provides drone or harmonics and another the melody, both emanating from a solo vocalist. As a formal musical style, throatsinging is integral to traditional Tuvan culture; almost predictably, it's an endangered form in its own land. But the technique isn't confined to northern Central Asia; given a world full of people with music in their heads and time on their hands, varieties of overtone singing were certain to be heard elsewhere. Such as in the Mississippi Delta, the source of Paul Pena's first taste of throat music."
From Tuva to Tupelo
An American bluesman takes throatsinging home to Central Asia.
By Allison Levin and James Donnelly
(Whole Earth Summer 1997)
Related links:
[Thanks Tatsuo]
The Ancient Greek Olympic Program
"In ancient Greece, the Olympics would be over by now
Though far more culturally important to the Greek world than the modern Olympics, the ancient games took place over the course of just five days. Below is a reconstruction of the ancient Olympic program, taken from Tony Perrottet's The Naked Olympics:
The Ancient Greek Olympic Program
The original format of the ancient Olympics was such a success that it hardly changed after its main contours were established around 470 B.C. There were a few ill-fated experiments, but by and large the schedule remained consistent, a beacon of Greek tradition in a world transformed by conquests, plagues, exotic religions, and grasping empires. Historians still argue about the details, but a consensus has emerged on the basic schedule of the five-day program:
Day One
A.M.
* Opening ceremonies: Swearing-in of athletes, trainers, and Olympic judges before a statue of Zeus wielding a thunderbolt.
* Contests for heralds and trumpeters in the Echo Colonnade.
* Athletes make their private sacrifices to the gods at one of the site's altars and consult oracles."
Rolf Potts
Vagabonding
Link: Tony Perrottet
The Naked Olympics
Dale Sinderson
Image: A.B.F.
A quirky roadside surprise awaits you on Route 173 in Harvard, Illinois. Artist Dale Sinderson's "Chemung Tech" is filled with his carvings, yard art and other unique creations.
Image: chemungtech.com
Dale Sinderson
Route 173, Harvard, IL
Online at www.chemungtech.com
View larger images @ the Moleskinerie Gallery
Write space
© 2004 A.B.F.
Moleskinerie@ ORKUT
We have received requests for invitations to the Moleskinerie community @ ORKUT and have already sent those out several days ago. However, Orkut seems to be experiencing intermittent server problems recently. Until this technical issue is resolved, we will all have to wait.
Thanks for your patience.
Discuss Amongst Yourselves
"I am typing my strong and biased opinion without even reading any of your postings. Irregardless of my rudeness, whether or not masses purchase the moleskin won't change it's history, quality or inherent coolness. Therefore, I don't give a damn about the "brand." For those who care that much about image, just buy a new pda."
Jess @ Discuss Amongst Yourselves
The Notebook of Jonathan Caroll
The Notebook of Jonathan Caroll
View a larger image @ the Moleskinerie Gallery
Visit Jonathan Caroll's website
[Image courtesy of Verz. Thanks!]
Libros
EPS Sets
If it's not a Dingbat or a Font, it's an EPS set. EPS stands for encapsulated post-script file; these files contain artwork that can be imported, manipulated and implemented by any major graphics program, raster or vector based.
Libros
26 book/magazine outlines by Carlos Segura
by Carlos Segura
@ t26.com
[Thanks Christine]
Recent Comments
"I plan to wax political here, so please bear with me. I don't usually like to bring politics into a hobby but here I think its appropriate since it is actually what got me into Moleskines.
I just read 1984 about a year ago and remember Winston Smith fearing death for buying a blank notebook and a pen. I went to Barnes and Noble and bought my first unlined sketch-book based Moleskine. I paid in cash and felt good about buying a book, a weapon that George Orwell used to help crush communism when he wrote Animal Farm, with no trace back to me. It was a weapon of mass destruction in my hand. A telepathic link between me and an unknown reader in an unknown place and time.
It was a fun gag. I ended up writing some fun little stories in it, nothing too political or challenging. Nothing like Orwell's "Politics and the English Language". Certainly I never thought that owning a book would ever be illegal again. It was all just for pretend.
And then I read this..."
by Mike
More @ "Inappropriate".
Thread Colors
"August 04, 2004
Good-bye, Colorado!
Some members of the Everyday Matters group are currently discussing drawing on airplanes. I did these two sketches of fellow passengers on the way to my vacation (black & white) and on the way home (color). I think the "coming home" picture is more relaxed, less up-tight. "
Lisa @ Thread Colors
Images: © 2004 LR
AFK*
Wild Carrot Flowers, Northern Illinois
© 2004 A.B.F.
In the Wake of Charley, How to Help
Saturday, August 14, 2004 — In the largest storm response effort since Hurricane Andrew, the Red Cross is coordinating a massive response effort focusing initially on providing safety and shelter for the now homeless, as well as food and dry clothing to tens of thousands of people. At the moment, hundreds of trained disaster volunteers are converging on the affected areas, where already some 80 Emergency Response Vehicles are moving though damaged neighborhoods offering food and drink The Red Cross will also be providing clean-up kits and other relief supplies.
You can help the victims of Hurricane Charley and thousands of other disasters across the country each year by making a financial gift to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, which enables the Red Cross to provide shelter, food, counseling and other assistance to those in need.
Visit the American Red Cross website.
Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece
As religious rituals, rites of passage, and celebrations of the body, athletics were deeply woven into the fabric of ancient Greek life. Modeled after physical exercises and competitions that existed in earlier Near Eastern cultures, hundreds of athletic contests took place throughout the ancient Greek world. In the eighth century B.C., the games held at Olympia began to surpass all others in their fame and glory and gave rise to a sporting tradition that engages and enthralls the world to this day.
Published to coincide with the return of the Olympics to Greece in 2004, this thoroughly researched book studies sport in ancient Greece over a span of a millennium and a half—from the earliest mentions of athletics in Homer's Iliad and other literary sources, through the Classical age, and into the Hellenistic, Roman, and late antique periods. With more than five hundred illustrations, the book tours the monumental stadiums, bathhouses, temples, and other structures built to host the athletic events and to house the wealth of art created to pay tribute to the athletes, gods, and heroes of the games.
Panos Valavanis studied classics at the University of Athens and at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Würzburg, Germany. He teaches history and archaeology at the University of Athens.
Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece
Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens
Panos Valavanis
J. Paul Getty Museum Bookstore
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Immortal spirit of antiquity,
Father of the true, beautiful and good,
Descend, appear, shed over us thy light
Upon this ground and under this sky
Which has fits witnessed by unpersihable fame.
Give life and animation to those noble games!
Throw wreaths of fadeless flowers to the victors
In the race and in the strife!
Create in our breasts, hearts of steel!
In thy light, plains, mountains and seas
Shine in a roseate hue and form a vast temple
To which all nations throng to adore thee,
Oh immortal spirit of antiquity!
The Olympic Hymn
Composed by Spirou Samara
Lyrics by Costis Palamas of Greece.
Enjoy games of the XXVIII Olympiad !
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Have a nice weekend everyone!
Update
Stephen:
The picture here looks as if it's now a tall vertical day-of-the-week rather than the normal weekly layout. What a pity - there's no room for notes unless one writes sideways...
I hope the Australian ones follow the 2004 layout.
Álvaro:
I agree with you Stephen, I think it is too much better the 2004 layout than the 2005... I would like to use a weekly diary, but if it has the vertical layout I think I'll have to choose the daily one. That's a pity :(
Discussion on the Moleskine 2005 Diary @ Moleskinerie/ORKUT
Image: MoleskineUS
High Five, Julia !
"NEW YORK (AP) -- Julia Child, whose warbling, encouraging voice and able hands brought the intricacies of French cuisine to American home cooks through her television series and books, died in her sleep three days before what would have been her 92nd birthday."
Image: Epicurious.com
Recent Comments
I use the Pilot P-700. For day-in, day-out reliability and long lasting ink supply, it works for me. No problem with bleed-through in my Moleskine. Happiness.
Andy
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I use fountain pens especially Pelikan. Of course, bleed through is a big problem of Moleskine paper but it appears less when you refuse using blotting paper. Furthermore you have to chose various inks. I think only a few make bleed through so it is not impossible to use a fountain pen in a moleskine.
Hugo G
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I have been using Moleskines for a couple of months, I have found that .1mm pens like Rotring and others give a nice feel while writing, plus I like the sound of the pen on the paper. It has a very "anti-high tech" feel and sound. The ink drys fast and is permanent.
michael t
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I use a Pelikan M400 with a fine nib, and Waterman black ink - no bleed through to speak of.
Of course, it kind of depends on your style, but I think the right nib/ink will be fine.
I'd like to try the Noodler's Legal Lapis - it's permanent. It's waterproof once it's dried on paper, but water soluble until then. It's designed for fountain pens.
bob
Discussion on "Moleskinerie Pens"
Image: MisterArt
American Artist Drawing
American Artist Drawing - 3rd Issue
The new issue of Drawing, focusing on renaissance materials & techniques is on sale now.
American Artist
Online Store or your local bookstore.
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This is a very good issue - don't miss it!
A.B.F.
On the M 2005 Diary
"Yesterday, on my way to the cinema after work I passed the Guild, our local moleskine shop, to see the tantelising sign in the window "Moleskine 2005" and the man locking up the door for the night.
So today I walked over to pick one up (and restrain myself from buying more) - going for the pocket-day-a-page as I've found it invaluable in my work, but I never quite fill up the large one in a day (using it more to log my tasks and reminders than my meetings, 'cos as a PA I don't have that many). I'll probably start using the address book part now - what a great idea!
If, like me, you're lazy (or have rubbish handwriting) and don't want to write everything in, make stickers for events and stick them in, or use the ones at stila (www.stilacosmetics.com - looking in stila style/ calendar girls).
And, two quick recommendations - go see Before Sunset (new film with Ethan Hawke&Julie Delpy) - it's a wonderful conversation with two old friends (going to try and rewatch Before Sunrise now), and when Celine talks about keeping a journal, as a Parisien you imagine her to be using a moleskine and writing in her favourite cafe with a citron presse - and another Parisien set thing, "Claudine in Paris" which I was recommended and quite enjoyed (especially if you like journal writing, Paris, and cats) - but be warned, not suitable to everyone's taste ;-)"
Sophia @ Moleskinerie/ORKUT
8/11/2004 10:59 AM
Image: Mojolondon
"Inappropriate"
We don't usually post current affairs stuff on Moleskinerie but this item from BoingBoing caught our attention:
"This morning, they're doing bag searches again to get on the ferry. And the guy doing the searches pulls me aside and says, "Sir, I feel that I need to confiscate this book."
I pause and say, in that tone of voice that most people would recognize as meaning, "have you lost your grip completely, chuckles?": "You need to confiscate... a book."
"Yes. I feel it's inappropriate for the other people on the ferry to be exposed to it."
Now, I had the book IN MY BAG. It was not open. And while the Maiden of the Mirthless Smile is displayed as improbably proportioned, well, this is not, as far as I know, illegal to have. I mean, there was a guy carrying a copy of Maxim, and some of the women in THAT are improbably proportion. (All right, I admit: they're not wielding a huge sword and dressed in a bustier studded with human finger bones. But really.)
My response: "Well, let me call the ACLU and have them come down here, and see what they think about your attempt to confiscate a book that was not in the plain sight of others due to your feeling it's not appropriate." And I pull out my cell and start scrolling down the list - ACLU-NJ is at the top, actually, before 'Amanda' and 'ardaniel' since it sorts alphabetically.
He gets all pissy at me and says, "Don't you understand this is for your safety?"
"Confiscating someone's gun or bomb is for my safety. PErhaps confiscating someone's pocketknife or nailfile may be for my safety. What's so damn dangerous about my book?"
"It's INAPPROPRIATE!"
Sea and Sky and Land
@ Livejournal
[via BoingBoing]
From the Logbook
Wow! Omigod!Is this my real home?
After being constantly ridiculed for my obsession with stationery, my long term partner decided to round up all the pens and notebooks and journals i had accumulated over the years. (Being a hoarder I never throw stuff away and to me, any medium that serves to catch my imagination on paper, is sacred. )
Half an hour later he emerged from the bedrooms, clutching at reams of paper largely unspoilt.
"What can you possibly need all these notebooks for?!"
he exclaimed. The puzzled look and half smile that lingered on his face showed his amusement confusion and disbelief.
He just didn't get it, still doesn't. He's a minimalist guy. Only buys what he needs. One at a time. Never hoards things. Throws them out when he's done. Has no emotional attatchment to 'things', instead saving all his affection for 'real people'.
Rebekah @ the Moleskinerie Logbook
M Sighting
This just in:
"First Official Typographica Desktop
Stephen’s totally going to hate this but I felt a huge need to share with you, our friends out there on the Intarweb, the first official Typographica desktop image, as inspired by last night’s festivities. Works best tiled."
By joshua lurie-terrell
Image: © 2004 Typographica
[Thanks Christine!]
Panathenian Stadium
Panathenian Stadium, the site of the first modern Olympic Games, 1896
earthphotography.com
© 2004 Peter Visontay
[via Stephen]
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Best wishes to Moleskinerie contributor Fazal Majid on his birthday today.
Steve Mumford
Memorial Service for for Pfc. Jason Nathanial Lynch
Pfc. Jason Nathanial Lynch was a 21-year-old gunner from St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. He was killed in a firefight on June 18 in Buhriz, just north of Baqubah. After the service two Apaches flew by, then the soldiers filed past to pay their last respects
Shi'ites demonstrating for a popular referendum
BAGHDAD JOURNAL
by Steve Mumford
@ Artnet
Images: © 2004 S. Mumford
Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908-2004
"A few years ago, we saw a Cartier-Bresson retrospective. I had never seen his photographs from Mexico and China and Russia in a group, and I remember being stunned by the humanity in every shot. There was nothing sensational or grabby in his work, and you never felt like either the subject or the viewer was being manipulated or exploited. They were records of moments in human lives, where the subjects were not judged or labeled or ranked. I can't express it exactly. I simply always felt with Cartier-Bresson, the humanity of each person was elevated by his own humanity, his own anonymity even though, in real life, he was far from anonymous. But when he took his pictures, I am sure there was no sense of personal celebrity, rather an identification with all people and a desire to be an eye, not an ego."
Image: Henri Matisse by Henri Cartier-Bresson
[Thanks "m"]
AFK*
Christmas Tree
Sold to the Lady in the Beetle!
Vintage Clothing
Snapshots from a Yard Sale
Millburn Creek, IL
8.8.04
© 2004 A.B.F.
View larger images at the AFK* Gallery
TGIF!
It's Friday! Turn up those speakers and
Move Your Feet!
@ Veer
[Quicktime]
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Have a great weekend everyone!
Recent comments
"I have the same issue. When I write with a fountain pen which uses much ink or if I use special ink, for example the brown shaeffer ink, there is very much bleed through at moleskine paper. Curiously there isn't by using rollerball ink.
I hope very much Modo & Modo will change this problem: Taking paper as smooth, beige coloured and acid free as this is but without bleed through problems. Bleed through destroys the pleasure I have with Moleskine and I refuse to forgo the pleasure of writing with much ink on the paper or with gel pens."
Posted by: H.G. | August 5, 2004 08:43 AM
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Writing High
The Notebook of Capt. Rizalindo S. Gigante
Singapore
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Image: © 2004 RSG
WW II Water Color Envelopes
"Right Island", Water Color Envelope [12/1/44]
Experiencing War
Illustrated Water Color Envelopes
The Library of Congress
[via MeFi]
The 2005 Moleskine Diary
MOLESKINE DIARY 2005
Day per page
New: a removable address book, a monthly planner
The Sea's Work #2
"If you hang out around the municipal docks late, late at night - a notion which sounds far more improper than it is, as the docks have well-lit benches where I could read O. Henry's Collected Stories while I waited - then you can be there when the boats come in, a swarm of seagulls following them."
TPB
Unbillable Hours
Image: © 2004 TPB
Konichiwa!
There seems to be a lively discussion going on at Teacup in Japan about us. Thanks for visiting Moleskinerie!
[Arigato Russ Stutler for translating.]
Moleskinerie welcomes Jonathan Carroll
We welcome author Jonathan Carroll to the Moleskinerie Community @ ORKUT. Its an honor to have you with us.
Visit his website.
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[Updated 8.5.04 11.01A C.S.T.]
Dear Moleskinerie,
Many thanks and a big tip of the hat to you for including my website. Since discovering you (via Irma Vermaat's list at Orkut), I'm a dedicated constant visitor, fascinated by the range of sites and sounds you choose to feature. I write all my novels by hand (Parker 51) and for years have done first drafts in Moleskines. Everything good that needs be said about these almost-magical notebooks has been said at your site and I can only nod my head hard in agreement.
Keep moving, keep dreaming,
Jonathan Carroll
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[Updated 8.06.04 9.54A C.S.T.]
M is mentioned in Mr. Caroll's blog entry today. Thank you Sir!
Hemingway's notebook
"My name is Ernest Miller Hemingway I was born on July 21 1899. My favourite authors are Kipling, O. Henry and Steuart Edward White. My favourite flower is Lady Slipper and Tiger Lily. My favourite sports are Trout fishing, Hiking, shooting, football and boxing. My favourite studies are English, Zoology and Chemistry. I intend to travel and write. (Ernest Hemingway's notebook, Oliver Wendell Holmes Elementary School, 1908)"
Hemingway Adventure
by Michael Palin
[Thanks John]
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"I first found moleskine whehn I moved to live in Italy some years ago. I always had a love of pens. since being a little kid: so I was ineveitbaly drawn to art shops and the like: I found a shop on the Corso Vannucci in Perugia where they had the full range!: I loved the little note books, but at first only bought the very slim notebooks, having used these as notes for shopping etc. I felt that this was an unworthy use of them (you know EXACTLY what I mean!!) so I bought some of the 'proper' notebooks. I moved back to Mnachester after a split in my long term relatioship: and encouraged by a therapist I began to use these books as a journal: but then only a month ago I had a cathartic moment: I realised that I was using the norebooks to catalogue negative stuff in the main and suddenly realised that I could and should use them to record things that happen; things I've seen etc. I 'm also a photopgrapher and have takem to posting small versions of some of my work in the book,as well as newspaper cuttings etc : another thing I've always wanted to do was to draw, so that's also been included in the mix! I have to say that it has become a part of my life in only a month! No time ever seems wasted, and the pleasure of recording 'my life' is very therapeutic!"
Rowland @ The Moleskine Obsession
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
"To rediscover this sense of connection with the world is easier than one might imagine. You can do it anywhere, any time. Just open your eyes, look around you, and try to feel what is around you. If you open up your heart and allow what you might normally think of as “inanimate” (notice the insistence of not having spirit that our language has instilled in us… a vocabulary that does not exist in most Asian languages) to generate a kind of presence, strangely it immediately comes alive and occupies a undeniable place in your sense of the whole. If you take a step further and inject the idea of a deity into that object, suddenly it is more than just an item; it is alive, and has a name. The more “items” you inject with spirit the richer the world around you grows, and the more imbued with meaning it all grows into. The world suddenly blossoms with presences, with a great richness of meaning in which you no longer feel alone… as Duncan calls “the sphere of eyes”.
Laughing: Knees
The Blog of Miguel Arboleda
Image: © M.A.
Moleskine in Brazil?
Topic: Someone from Brazil knows...
"Alguem do Brasil sabe se estes cadernos existem por aqui ?
(Someone from Brasil knows if these books are available here?)"
Hugo @ Moleskinerie/ORKUT
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