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"Hi Moleskinerie Team:
Just wanted to let you know that Moleskines are mentioned (spoofed) in the latest Strong Bad e-mail on Homestarrunner.com, entitled "origins." I can't be the only Moleskine-toter that likes Homestar, so I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned by anyone else yet! It's a great site anyway, so everyone should check it out! Here's a link:
http://www.homestarrunner.com
Thanks,
Nadine Anheier"
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And thank you very much Nadine!
Frankfurt Main Station Hauptbahnhof
"My trip to Frankfurt's Paperworld exhibition this year was very rewarding. Not only did I reconfirm the relationship with vendors I met last year but I found some more that I'd like to order from. But the most rewarding is to understand the Moleskine happenings in Europe by going to different stationery/design stores and meeting Modo&Modo."
Full Product Line
"In this year's Paperworld, Moleskine's full line of product is displayed in the German distributor Authentics' booth. In addition to the new Cahiers series, I was finally able to meet the rumoured Reporter series, which contains Pocket/Large sizes of Blank/Ruled/Squared notebooks in vertical reporter formats! It means the elastic band is now at the bottom of your palm when you open the Reporter by flipping the pages upward."
Natural Holding of Reporter
Thanks to Patrick Ng
Read the full report @ his site, Moleskineart.com
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Note:
jkOnTheRun has just opened new discussion forums including one for Moleskine owners. Everyone is welcome!
http://forum.jkontherun.com/
"I think it's the creamy smooth white expanse that fills every single
page. The silky feel of the paper when you brush your fingertips, just
the tips, across it. The sensual glide of the pen across the page that
makes everything you write seem special, even important. The smooth
sound, barely audible but definitely there, that is heard when you move
the pen slowly across the page in nice, even lines. The very smell of
the Moleskine that excites the senses. I need to be alone with my
Moleskine now. "
James Kendrick
JK On The Run
"Every morning I come
downstairs, put clothes in the washing machine, and open the back door for Mary
(Lakshmi comes a little later). I putter around for awhile and then go into my little
office and switch on the computer. Then Mary comes, carrying a small tray on
which are a cup of luscious south Indian coffee and the daily kanakku /
hysaab, the accounting of her previous day's expenditure.
In this case, the items listed are kolamavu
(the rice flour used to make kolam designs in front of the gate and
the door); potatoes; onions; tomatoes; "en selavu", "my
expenditure" -- the vegetables Mary and Lakshmi purchase for the meal they
cook for themselves at mid-day; cabbage. I run down the list with her, and then
dole out some amount for the day -- usually it's not enough, once in awhile I
get some change back and feel moderately triumphant.
That is the first work of the day."
Nancy Gandhi
Visit her blog, "Under the Fire Star"
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Inspired by Alyssa's post @ The Big Red Blog.
Just one last post before we go snowboarding:
"Some days ago I had written a post on Analog blogs. What's an analog blog? This is a method used to utilize your Moleskine notebook as a blog. This is a way to organize it, to link your thoughts together to be able to follow the flow of your thinking through time. It's sure that this method is usable with other notebooks but I demonstrated the concept with Moleskines. Why? Because I lately discovered a passionate community of bloggers that write with enthusiasm about them. They write hacks to enhance their usability; they write about what they write in them, how they use them, where they use them and why they use them. They are passionate, they write on Moleskines with their guts and inspiration. Then, as a neophyte in the Moleskines world and in his immerging community, I wanted to know why they are attracted by them, and overall, why they are fascinated by Moleskines.
After I published my post, I got an unanticipated exposure. I read posts and comments from other visitors and bloggers about it. I found that people seem to love the idea; they seem fascinated by the concept. It was not a great idea; it was just an aggregation of already know hacks with some enhancement based on an emerging communication technology called Blog. The more I read on reactions the more I find that people love the idea of wedding between new and old technologies. They love the paradox created by the situation. They seem to be seduced by the idea; as I am.
Finally I asked to some of these bloggers their fascination, in the present world of technologies, for Moleskines: a technology used by humans for ages. This article is the result of their work; their passion for Moleskines' notebooks. I got their answer and texts one after the other. I I'm astonished by the result, the work they done. They are all great pieces of work. They are more than inspiring."
Frédérick
Read the fascinating testimonials at his site.
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Enjoy your weekend! Here's a treat:
"I used an A5 Moleskine as a logbook/diary on last year’s expedition - it had laminated navigation/timezone calculations, important telephone numbers and the codes for myARGOS satellite beacon glued inside the front cover, while the wallet pocket inside the back cover held photos, letters and a few other sentimental bits and bobs. I started writing my diary in the front, and filled the back pages with lists of things I was going to do when I got home - books to read, films to watch, food to eat, improvements to make to kit, thank you letters to write and a whopping great ‘life goals’ list that stretched for several pages.
As you can
probably tell by the rambling, the sponsor situation for the next expedition is
still up in the air, so I’m keeping schtum for now. More on that soon, but for
now, Robert Peary sums it up best:
‘I cannot tell you how I long for the good old times when souls were a marketable commodity and always in demand by the Devil. I would trade mine very quickly for the money to get to work at once on my preparations.’
Ben Saunders is a record-breaking long-distance skier. He is the youngest person ever to ski solo to the North Pole (at 26) and holds the record for the longest solo Arctic journey by a Briton. Between 2001 and 2004, in three expeditions, he has skied more than 2,000km (1,250 miles) in the high Arctic, often solo. Ben's next expedition starts late 2005.
"I decided to experiment a little today. I wanted to see how water affected the ink of the rotring art pen.
"That’s when it hit me–a dictionary! A writer always needs a dictionary.
The next morning I went in search of a pocket dictionary, with a few
requirements: first it must be cheap, and second it should contain lots of big
words like verisimilitude and embrocation. The first requirement precluded me
from heading to one of the chain stores like Barnes and Noble, so I headed to
the nearest Half Price Books (if you don’t live near a Half price Books then you
should move). As I rounded the corner in the language arts section I spotted the
very thing I wanted. It measured five and a half inces by three inches, the
cover was sturdy and not dissimilar to my precious moleskine. The pages were all
intact and still supple, and since it was printed in 1960 it contains lots of
big words (leaving out all the ifs, ands, and buts leaves lots of room).
My little prize held a few other treats for me. When I finally scraped
together the dollar (tax included) and purchased it, I sat down outside to
examine my find. In the back, along with a section on spelling and
capitalization tips, was a section on U. S. state names and their meaning, a
forms of address primer, time zone chart, and a few others."
"Since the beginning of 2001, I draw in small notebooks 11 cm X 15 cm (approximately), always with a ball point pen, always on same paper, always in black. I contrained myself never to tear a page off, what is done... is done. I put the date at the beginning and the end of each notebook. Each day (or almost) I spend one hour or two drawing in these notebooks. At this day, I made approximately 450 pages distributed in 12 notebooks."
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