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Happy Halloween!

What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die? Learn your fate @ Quizilla [Thanks Lori. Originally posted 2.23.04] ... Have a fun Halloween y'all. Enjoy the weekend. Carve your own virtual pumpkin @ Newgrounds Greetings to Ben Turley on his birthday, October 30th

Sketchbook #1

A series of drawings by Kevin Cornell [via inaminuteago]

The art of drawing spirits into crystals

The

Magic and Philosophy of

TRITHEMIUS OF SPANHEIM;

containing his book of

SECRET THINGS,

and

DOCTRINE OF SPIRITS

with many curious and rare secrets (hitherto not generally known;)

Johannes Trithemius: The art of drawing spirits into crystals [via Plep]

Blood Money

Claim: Blood from KISS band members was mixed with the red ink used to print the first KISS comic book. Find out the truth @ Urban Legends

Does a Moleskine notebook tell the truth?

"When Francesco Piccolo jots down a thought or a cleverly turned phrase into his black Moleskine notebook, the Italian novelist feels steeped in a literary tradition built by such celebrated scribes as Ernest Hemingway and Bruce Chatwin.
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"There is a sense of pleasure knowing they used the notebook," Piccolo said. "It's like a thread that ties you to those writers."

But some critics wonder if the fashionable and financially successful notebooks are trafficking more in legend than legacy.

While both artists and the artsy have sought notebooks with covers made from moleskin for more than a century, the brand Moleskine was officially registered only in 1996, long after the ink stopped flowing from the pens of its unsuspecting pitchmen.

Yet Modo & Modo, the Milan-based company that has reissued the unassuming black agendas, diaries and journals, has no qualms claiming that it is "The Legendary Notebook of Hemingway, Picasso and Chatwin."

"It's an exaggeration," conceded Francesco Franceschi, who runs Modo & Modo's marketing department. "It's marketing, not science. It's not the absolute truth."

Though more figurative than literal, that marketing campaign, which Piccolo dubbed "the commercialization of the Moleskine myth," has nevertheless proved effective. Modo & Modo produced nearly three million Moleskine notebooks last year, up from 30,000 made in the first edition in 1998.

Despite increasingly saturated markets in the United States, Germany, Italy and Great Britain, sales are still climbing. Moleskine generated about €30 million, or $37 million, in revenue in 2003, of which Modo & Modo grossed about €7 million.

Still, some critics wonder if that success has in part been fueled by a fib, and they ask if it is fair to imply that famous writers and artists scribbled and sketched in Moleskine pages long before the brand was ever registered.

"It's subtle - after all, it is an advertisement," said Erminia Cozza, a legal consultant to the Italian consumer advocacy group Codacons. "But if they are trying to lead the consumer astray, that seems like false advertising."

By Jason Horowitz
Read the full article @ International Herald Tribune

[Thanks Joy]

What is in your Moleskine Today?

Slogrl Moleskinerie Group @ FLICKR

Lunar Eclipse Tonight!

"The best astronomical events usually seem to happen at the worst times and places — at 3 a.m. low above your most obstructed horizon, or maybe only in East Antarctica. But not this time, not for observers anywhere in the Americas. On October 27, 2004, the full Moon will undergo a deep total eclipse lasting for 1 hour 22 minutes, when it will be high in the eastern sky after dark but while most people are still awake and about."

October's Ideal Lunar Eclipse
By Alan M. MacRobert
SKY & TELESCOPE

Image: Swedish astrophotographer Bengt Ask, 1.09.01

Moleskinerie @ FLICKR

I opened an account there a few months back and forgot all about it. I was pleasantly shocked to find out that there are now 11 members! Welcome the Moleskinerie Group @ FLICKR !!

Phobias

Cool screensaver @ FABRICA

Travels to Irian

"Irian is the Easternmost province of Indonesia, and is half of the island of New Guinea.

After a long flight via Jakarta to Yajapura, we found a hotel near Sentani where we had to wait for our travel permits (travel to the inland of Irian is strictly regulated, with many locations closed for foreigners). During the wait we took a small trip to Angkasa. There it should be easy to find n. neoguinensis, they stand even close to the road we have been told. We find nothing at the said location, but locals point to a small hill, and confirm that we will find plants there. One of them comes along to show the way, and it helps as the pad quickly becomes a small trail. Immediately we find n. ampullaria, but without pitchers. They stay with us all along the path. However, it takes steep climbing before we find the first n. neoguinensis at an altitude of 430 meter. Then they disappear again, and we find a second group at 475 m. Turning back to go down via another path we find a cluster with large pitchers. The soil here at the hill is red and must contain a lot of iron.

We finally get our permits for the highlands, and fly to Wamena. Wamena is true Papua country, and we see the people walking around in traditional dress. Despite their pride, the Papua are a poor people in the highlands, condemned to beg for a living, having their picture taken by tourists for 10 cents (this was before the economical crisis). The shops and businesses in Wamena are in the hands of immigrated Javanese or Balinese, and the old owners of the land can only watch. I will say no more, but the Papua (which is one of the gentlest people I have ever met) deserves better, and people interested in more than carnivorous plants should do some reading."

The Carnivorous Plants and Travels of Jean Dewitte

Images: © JdW

Moleskine in "I HEART HUCKABEES"

John:

"Moleskine in I HEART HUCKABEES.

I saw the new "existential comedy" I Heart Huckabees today, and there was -- without doubt -- a Moleskine sighting.

I won't give anything away, but Dustin Hoffman's character positively has a pocket-sized Moleskine in a scene wherein he is in someone's (saying whose gives away too much) kitchen taking notes. By the way, the film was excellent. If completely harsh language is not your cup of tea, however, you might want to sit this one out. Otherwise, it was a bit of amazing."

Link: I HEART HUCKABEES

Discussion @ Moleskinerie/ORKUT

Fall

"The idea for Fall came to photographer Christopher Griffith while he was living in a Manhattan brownstone, finalizing the design for his first monograph, States (powerHouse Books, 2000). “It was mid-November,” Griffith recalls, “and the ivy on the side of my building seemed to be literally glowing outside my window. I picked a single leaf off the vine and saw that, dependent upon the angle of light and the position of the leaf, I could see the most incredible texture and color through the leaf.” Excited by this discovery, Griffith spent the next couple of days experimenting with how to capture it all onto film. That was four years ago. He has now perfected the technique of both photographing the foliage and getting it to his studio and on film before it wilts or turns brown, quite a feat as many of these fresh and delicate leaves were collected and transported personally by Griffith from hundreds of miles away.

A hyper-macroscopic analysis of the color transformations characteristic of tree foliage in the northeastern United States autumn, Fall features vivid and brilliant images of nature’s gifts, which we often take for granted. Fantastically backlit, glowing colors are transmitted through the leaves, illustrating structural and textural elements of nature never before captured on film. For this former student of research biology, the project transported Griffith back to his early days of plant biochemistry, but this time as an artist, not a scientist. “When you look at a tree that is turning, it appears to have an overall uniformity of color,” Griffith observes. “But it is only when you literally get into the tree and get personal with the individual components of that breathtaking color, that you see the truly astounding variety of that color transformation. For me, leaves are like snowflakes; no two are ever the same.”

Fall
Photographs by Christopher Griffith
Verse by Walt Whitman
Text by Dr. Philip A. Rea

#6 & 7

Moleskine notebooks #6 and #7 are on the way. For the latest update, go to The Wandering Moleskine Project.

Sightings: Moleskine on CSI?

Alia:

"Last night's CSI had a large moleskine! I don't have the means to grab an image (work is strict and I'll probably be in trouble for this email), but when Nick and Catherine are in the dead woman's place, looking over her "beautification" implements, the first item Catherine picks up is a large black notebook where the deceased kept notes on her youth regiment. The smooth black cover, rounded corners and general dimensions were a dead tip off, plus I spotted the elastic band tucked about 2/3rds of the way back in the pages."

CSI on CBS

Chekhov's Mistress

"Mol-a-skeen-a

Obsession is a word that I can't seem to help using all the time. I recently wrote about my obsession with reference books, and in the past I've written about how I used to read while driving; that is, until the incident.

Most everyone is obsessive to some extent, but some of us more than others, so it's nice to have your condition validated once in a while, by others that share your obsessions. That's where my friend Mitch comes in.

We met in a coffee shop (an Upper West Side Cosi, to be nearly exact) talking about Macs and soon found, among other commonalities, our mutual dependence on notebooks.

Not just any notebook of course, but Moleskine notbooks."

Chekhov's Mistress

Photo: Mike Shea

# 4 & 5

Notebooks #4 and #5 are ready to go. Bon voyage! To join or learn more, go to The Wandering Moleskine Project.

Time for a new Moleskine.

"So I filled up another Moleskine notebook yesterday, the one I started in Baltimore right after the Focus massacre of May 2004. This one has lots of scribblings on using wooden pencils versus gel pens but then how I read my journals all of the time and how I would be afraid to touch them in pencil but also how Pilot G2 ink is messier than a fountain pen. Yes, I told myself, Hemingway used pencils in the notebooks that are allegedly Moleskines, but his only other portable choice in 1920s Paris would have been fountain pens, and not the relatively neat kind we have today. But Pilot's gel ink is archival safe and so black, and their blue is my favorite blue ink ever."

John @ Pragmatik

© 2004 JG, Jr.

The Snooze

"Against the office walls sit eight white fiberglass pods, looking for all the world like giant cue balls lined up just so. Tiny speakers on the floor play the constant drone of white noise. Welcome to MetroNaps, the Midtown home of the midday nap. For $14, worker bees fighting the early-afternoon drowsies can buy 20 minutes of solitude. (Longer than that, the company says, will leave you feeling groggy.)

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, I visited MetroNaps to try and answer the question: In the city that never sleeps, who pays for a nap?"

Frontiers of Free Enterprise: The Snooze
New York Times
[Registration required]

Random Moleskine

PowerBookG4 12inch, Moleskine Notebook Large

Motoe Lab, MYU

[Japanese characters]

# 3

I just received a notebook donated by Diane to the WMP. Thanks! This Moleskine now becomes #3 and will be on its way soon.

Check out her Amazon Storefront
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To join, go to the Wandering Moleskine Project Updates.

Many different hungers

"This underground eatery serves up more than mere food

You might have trouble finding the new restaurant U Jednoho pokoje (At the One Room), a.k.a. Chez Julien. There's no sign out front marking its location or operating hours. Nor, for that matter, is there an advertisement in any newspaper or magazine or on any Web site. You can't find it in any guidebook or restaurant listings. U Jednoho pokoje is an underground restaurant, and strictly speaking, it's illegal. You'll find out about U Jednoho pokoje only if someone tells you about it.

When you do find out about U Jednoho pokoje, you dial the number or send an SMS to make a reservation -- drop-ins are not allowed. If you're accepted, you'll be given the address and the name to look for on the buzzer.

When you get there, there's a good chance you'll be let in by Julien himself, a short young Frenchman in a clean white chef's coat. He'll lead you upstairs two flights to the restaurant, hidden on a busy street inside a typical Vinohrady apartment building. In fact, U Jednoho pokoje is an apartment, a high-ceilinged one-bedroom located not too far from namesti Miru. Julien might apologize for the mess, as the only entrance to the dining room is through the tiny kitchen where the meals are prepared. (It is called At the One Room for a reason, after all.) And then you're seated -- by Julien himself, naturally."

"Many Different Hungers"
By Evan Rail
Staff Writer
(October 7, 2004)
Read on at The Prague Post
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From the upcoming food blog, The Literate Chef.

TPB, Esq.

2004 Tattoo Show
Meadowlands Expo Center
Secaucus, New Jersey

Best wishes to the photographer and good Moleskinerie friend TPB, Esq. who has some health concerns at the moment.

The Whys, Whens & Whats of Moleskines

Lise: "Question: How did you find your first Moleskine? Were you deliberately looking for it it? How long ago? Was it love at first site?"

Bemsha: "I found the Moleskine by chance at a huge stationery store near my workplace in Tokyo earlier this year. I had just finished buying a large padded envelope in order to send some LP records to a DJ friend in Perth, Australia during my lunch break and was strolling around the same floor of the store. When I saw the stacks of Moleskines, I remembered that I'd been looking for a pocket size, no-nonsense and non-spiral notebook for sometime.

After reading the usual marketing anecdotes about Chatwin and etc. on a small advertising board placed beside the notebooks I was hooked but decided to wait awhile to cool down and figure out whether I really wanted one. When I got back to the office, I did a search on the web about the notebook and found out a few more facts, including the Moleskinerie [www.moleskinerie.com] site.

After work that evening, I had my first Moleskine in my hands."

Diane: "I have Metafilter to thank

I am a member of the Well, and in one of the discussions in the Writers conference someone mentioned Moleskines. I'd never heard of 'em. Someone else pointed to a discussion of them on Metafilter, which I read and which intrigued me so much the next time I was in a Bookstar I bought one of the small squared pocket notebooks. I wasn't that impressed. I didn't have a good place to keep it, and the squares were somewhat annoying. That notebook is still 99% empty. No idea where it is, in fact.

A little while later I needed a larger notebook to keep with me, and I decided to try one of the larger Moleskines, this time with lines. I've been hooked ever since! Good paper, great binding, the pocket in back...what's not to like?"

Excerpts from a discussion at Moleskinerie/ORKUT.

Imitation Moleskine, Genuine Art

"i've got some true moleskines and a new one still like a virgin...but I love also fake moleskines...and I'm sending some drawings I did this last summer in my fake squared moleskine I bought in Paris 3 years ago........and I sincerely hope i like it because it shows swimming pools and the hot summer in some hot hot place............

best wishes

André Bonito
Portugal"

Paper Source

Its that time of the year again. PAPER SOURCE

Trick or Treat!

"Jungle Book"
The Halloween Moleskine
© 2004 A.B.F.

So, what will your Moleskine be for Halloween? ^_^
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Enjoy the weekend, M people!

This just in:

Could it be a large blank..... :=)

[George Bush Bulges/via BoingBoing]

Related link:
"Can't Cover the Bulge"
On The Media, WNCC

WMP Update

So far we have 4 notebooks on the way to their launch off points in Australia/Asia, Europe and North America. The waiting list is long and it may take time for a notebook to reach you so please be patient.

Thanks for all your donations and support.

To help out and read the latest update go to The Wandering Moleskine Project .

George H. Brett II

The Moleskine of George H. Brett II Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 and here.

Olivier Théreaux

"Small collectors of emotions, facts, sensations... and little notebooks,
We collect and absorb information, making it ours, eventually giving it
back.

Moleskines are not just friends, they're our alter-egos."

olivier, vendredi 20 fevrier 2004, 12:00

Visit his gallery

© Olivier Théreaux

[Originally posted 3.26.04]

Imp of the Gimp

"One wonders that the tithing-men and fathers of the town are not out to see what the trees mean by their high colors and exuberance of spirits, fearing that some mischief is brewing."
- Henry David Thoreau, Journal Oct. 7, 1857"

Mischief, indeed! October wouldn't be what it is without a bit of mischief and impish behavior. Most of the year the trees remain their stout, stoic green yet this month they begin their impish display of changing colors, in a wild fall-fest to see who can outdo whom. And need I remind everyone that the end of this month brings the grandest of all impish behaviors? All Hallow's Eve is the night for imps of all sizes to flex their feisty wits and trick us as they wont.

I confess to having an impish mind at times, delighting in the occasional barb or trick to make myself and others laugh. And while issues of late make things less than funny most of the time, there’s nothing like a well-placed tease or verbal torture to wring a smile out of a seemingly lifeless face. Like a good sneeze, grinning just feels so damn good. I don’t know why more people don’t try this holistic remedy to what ails ya, but I guess some people can’t let go of taking life too seriously. When that starts to happen, you know that trouble is not far away.

Gary Varner
Inkmusings

Image: © 2004 GV

Jewelboxing

I felt the same excitement when I handled my first Moleskine.

Jewelboxing.com

The Journey Begins

I'm sending the first couple of Moleskine to Joy today for the "Wandering Moleskine Project". Eventually, there will be a few notebooks circulating at any given time to accommodate the requests we got from around the world. To participate, email Joy Rothke.

Watch for updates and scans (hosted by Joachim in France).
The Wandering Moleskine Project

New Moleskine?

"The new brown "cahiers moleskine"

I discovered a whole new range of moleskine notebooks, not wrapped in black oilskin but in light brown cardboard..the have the sizes of composition books used in schools, though the paper and lining are the same as in the black ones..and they have a back pocket, but no elastic band...anyone has any experiences with these new cahiers? any thoughts?"

Nils at the Moleskinerie Community @ Orkut

After apple picking

"After Apple Picking" is one of my favorite Frost poems. (Sometime I'll talk about the oft-overlooked masturbation imagery in the seemingly innocuous "Birches," but that's a topic for another day.) Frost's speaker describes apple picking as work, not leisure, and there's more than a hint of guilt tinging his words as he describes the apples he's failed to pick and bushels he's failed to fill:

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.

Although he still has apples to pick and barrels to fill, Frost's speaker is weary: he admits he's "done with apple-picking now." As autumn ripens more apples than the speaker can pick, autumn's chill also skims his morning drinking trough with ice, a lens which makes his surroundings look far-off and strange. In the autumn of his life, his sight dimmed with both age and regret, Frost's speaker finds his dreams filled with unpicked apples. No longer a tasty promise, these fruit are a reminder of work undone and youthful potential unreached: "For I have had too much / Of apple-picking: I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired." Looking ahead to a long-awaited sleep that comes after his labors, the speaker of the poem isn't sure whether he is falling into mere physical slumber or the death that such sleep emulates. Either way, he realizes his dreams will be troubled with apples, reminders of the tasks he's left undone and promises he's left unfulfilled."

Lori Schaub
Hoarded Ordinaries

Nimba Creations

"Nimba has been responsible for quality work seen on the BBC, National Geographic and Sci-Fi Channel, and has also created groundbreaking exhibits for outdoor and indoor display - Nimbas' full size animatronic T-rex being the most sophisticated of its type anywhere in the world.

Based in Banbury, our workshop (indicated by the white dot on the map) is convienently located a short hop from London and a simple motorway journey from both Leavesden and Pinewood Studios.

Nimba Creations creates special effects for the film and TV industries, and is now offering a range of products for sale....Along with crew caps and aprons, we are also looking to provide 'how-to' guides on FX techniques and how to get into the industry, along with professional materials."

Nimba Creations

[Thanks Siobhan!]

The Wandering Moleskine Project

We are happy to announce the launching of the "Wandering Moleskine Project" @ Moleskinerie. Several notebooks will be sent on their way from various points around the world, and scans of pages will be posted as they are filled.

To join, please email your name and postal address to Joy Rothke. Names will be added in the order they are received.

Miscellaneous notes:
-Participants are entitled to use one page of each notebook and to send it on to the next recipient within one week of receiving it.
-The notebooks are to be mailed/passed along to the next person on the list.  Please use Air Mail or US First Class mail.  This is not an expensive service, and it will not only deliver the notebook to its next recipient faster, it will help to safeguard the notebook from getting lost in bins of Parcel Post or Media Mail packages that can take weeks or more to arrive.
-You are pretty much free to write/draw whatever you desire, provided your entry does not deface or alter the notebook or others' entries.
-Participants are requested to scan their entry and to send it to Moleskinerie when mailing it to the next recipient.  Local and university libraries, copyshops and some post offices have scanners that can be used for free or for a nominal cost.
-The last recipient of each notebook is requested to send it back to Moleskinerie at the address provided.
-Remember, this project is for posterity's sake, and the notebook has to survive through multiple treks across the globe.  Please refrain from excessive pasting, and please use acid-free/archival-safe materials when possible.
- Moleskinerie reserves the right NOT TO POST scans it deems racist, pornographic and generally offensive or illegal..

Privacy notice:
All names and addresses will be kept confidential and will be used solely for this project. Participants have the option of using their real or fictitious name in their entries.

© Copyrights to material contributed to the Wandering Moleskine Project are retained by the author/creator and remain such contributor's sole property.

The Wandering Moleskine Project was initiated by Johanna of Happeningfish/Finland.

This project is supported by Kikkerland Design, Inc.
U.S. Moleskine Distributor

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Update: 2.20.05
The List is closed at the moment. Please wait for further announcements. 
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VIEW THE NOTEBOOK SCANS AT "JOURNEY", THE OFFICIAL WMP GALLERY courtesy of Joachim du Beleg.

WE NEED LARGE BLANK SKETCHBOOKS FOR THIS PROJECT. PAYPAL OR DONATIONS IN KIND ARE WELCOME. EMAIL US FOR DETAILS.  THANKS!

Ancestors

The moon's reflection helps illuminate the past. © 2004 A.B.F. View a larger image at the AFK* Gallery

Note: Pardon the light posting, I'm busy with a project until the weekend.

Snowblink

" have always decorated my notebooks with a Bone trading card. I haven't many left of shiny series 2, so I thought I'd move on to the Dragonslayer series.

I will be buying more of these notebooks for future trips, as they are just the right size for travelling."

Snowblink
Visit his blog.

Mokele-mbembe

Artwork by Bill Rebsamen

"In the jungles of central Africa countries of Congo, Cameroon, and Gabon are reports of animal an animal with a long neck, a long tail, and rounded shape tracks with three claws. The closest known animal that has these characteristics is a sauropod dinosaur.

When some of the local people of the Likouala region would draw in the dirt or sand a representation of Mokele-mbembe they drew the shape of a sauropod dinosaur. Then when they were shown a picture of a sauropod dinosaur they said that picture is Mokele-mbembe.

Mokele-mbembe means "One that stops the flow of rivers." French priest in the region called it "monstrous animal."

Mokele-mbembe is also used as a generic term to refer to other animals like Emela-ntouka, Mbielu-mbielu-mbielu, and Nguma-monene."

Mokelembembe.com

[via Plep]

Paper Faces, Paper Cities

"If you live in New York, you probably have passed by Swoon’s work. Her cutouts and block prints decorate walls all over the city, remaining until they flake away or simply rot. She lets the weather wear down her work, even though making most pieces takes hours, not to mention meticulous attention, detail, and even pain, because years of carving have exacted a toll on her hands. The paste that keeps her work on walls loses its strength. The printed or cutout faces yellow and then fall apart. The arm of a woman decays into ribbons.

Her subjects are almost always people, chosen from the burble of the streets. She singles out those characters who give cities their visual slang, but who often are taken for granted as part of the everyday fauna. A kid riding on a low-riding bicycle may go unnoticed. A man sitting on a milk crate doesn’t attract attention. Swoon retrieves them, for a moment, from the blur of the city. The boy on the bike takes a bow as one of the city’s many essential cast members."

Pitchaya Sudbanthad talks to the street artist known as Swoon
The Morning News

The PDA goes back to the future

"Between its elegantly formed, hard black oilcloth covers rest 90 leaves, available blank, ruled or squared. Naturally, I chose the squared——why should order only be horizontal? There's also a neat expanding pocket in the rear, to house, I'm sure, the receipts from your favourite Parisian café. In it you'll find the history of the Moleskine, in French, German, Italian and (no doubt with some reluctance) English. There's a quality thread binding with bookmark, and a tasteful elastic closure to maintain discretion.

It's odd that something so quintessentially French should now be made in Italy, and predictably it comes at a premium——expect to pay about $22 Australian, £8 or $11 Stateside. But this is no mere notebook. It's an intimate connection with the creative current of history, a blank novel waiting to be written (just add words), a magnificent mythology. And as an entry ticket into the aspiring literati club, it would be cheap at thrice the price.

Most of all it's a beautiful anachronism, and the more I immerse myself in technology, the more I hanker for such things."

Clive Conway
Adelaide, South Australia
Visit his blog, eebahgum!

Uneasy Kingdom

"August 30, 1778 …

A Surprise to some people happened here last week. A humming bird catcht sheltering itself from the weather was kept in a cage for more than a fortnight on honey and water from a wooden sender spoon. At last it got out & went away.

After much labour to catch it in vain, I said–great Chance but it comes tomorrow to the cage.
Lord how the improbability was laughed at by the greatest Ass–my son–in sacrifice to his cursed Malice and revenge.

But the next day–as I said–it came, was catched & fed voraciously indeed–and continues in confinement by hunger, the only passion every Man is subject to, that must inevitably enslave."

Landon Carter's
Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation
by Rhys Isaac
Oxford University
Press, 2004

The weekend is over!

"The weekend is over"

"i've been drawing since second grade, and i have been keeping a sketchbook since 1999. I learned to watercolor then, too, and everything blossomed from there. If i had stayed away from the arts, i would have been an avian science major at UC davis or somewhere now. I raise exhibition chickens (aseels and old english game bantams) back at home in Arcata. Now, i go to art school in oakland, at california college of the arts. I'm deciding whether to be an illustration major or a painting/drawing major."

Allison
Javachickn
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[Thanks Tricia!]

The Wandering Moleskine Project

We are happy to announce the launching of the "Wandering Moleskine Project" @ Moleskinerie. Several notebooks will be sent on their way from various points around the world and scans of pages will be posted as they are filled.

To join, email your name and postal address to Joy Rothke. Names will be added in the order they are received.

More details next week!
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Birthday greetings to our Moleskinerie community members:

Jim Six October 2
Tricia Leach October 4

Join us!

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon 1923-2004 Image: Patrick Demarchelier/Reuters

Bockcay

This, I would have to say is "THE Moleskine blog" :

Bockcay

MarieBelle NY

"Adorablog representatives visited the MarieBelle chocolate store in New York in August to pay homage, sample the wares, and meet Lifesasong's charming filipino cocoa pimp." MarieBelle

[Via Adorablog]

Elegant Halloween mood music

Selections from their acclaimed score to F.W. Murnau's 1922 vampire classic "Nosferatu," conjuring up creeping shadows and gorgeously sinister landscapes with hints at Satie, Debussy, Tom Waits and Bernard Herrmann. Elegant Halloween mood music.

Into the Land of Phantoms
Jill Tracy and The Malcontent Orchestra