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Drawing John Malkovich

Uncle Kimono
John Malkovich

Moleskine sketchbooks and watercolors

"It is no secret that Moleskine sketchbooks are not very friendly to watercolor. First it beads up, then if you rub it a bit it settles down, but it's still very unpredictable and hard to control. Since this paper was apparently intended for dry media such as pencil, I decided to try watercolor pencils. First I had to borrow back my watercolor pencils from my 7 year old daughter Izumi (I gave them to her when I thought I'd never use them again)."

Russell Stutler
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Thank you Mr. Bickers

Thanks to James Bickers for the notebooks!

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Cheap Girl Draws

"OK all, here are my current findings. While the Moleskine is cool, expensive and oh, so spylike - which is good for the quick idea, the sad truth is I'm addicted to my Uniball Microfine Inkpen..."

Cheap Girl Draws

You gotta love her style!

New Arrivals

Cool notebook pouches and totes
@ International Arrivals

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And for those volumes of accumulated Moleskine:

The SwissAir-boy Storage

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""Yes, I'm a pen freak. I'm that guy at the pen section, mumbling about pen tip sizes, gel inks and barrel design. It's been an addiction of mine since grade school days, when Parker Jotter retractable ball pens were all the rage.

In high school, I became a fan of Flair pens for drawing and writing. I used to eat through those pens, drawing, writing reports and for everyday use. I read somewhere that Quentin Tarantino uses Flairs to write his scripts.."                                           

Today on Journalisimo

We All Have a Life. Must We All Write About It?

In 1884, Ulysses S. Grant, desperate for money and terminally ill with cancer, did what countless statesmen and military leaders had done before him: he sat down to write his memoirs. Racing against the clock, he turned out two substantial volumes on his early life and his military experiences in the Mexican and Civil Wars.

By any measure, he had a lot to write about and a lot to tell. He produced a classic memoir, as the genre was then understood: important events related by a great man who shaped them.

But that was then.

Today, Grant's memoirs fall into the same sprawling category as "Callgirl: Confessions of an Ivy League Lady of Pleasure," "Bat Boy: My True Life Adventures Coming of Age With the New York Yankees" and "Rolling Away: My Agony With Ecstasy," to pluck just three titles from the memoir mountain looming in the next month or two."

"We All Have a Life. Must We All Write About It?"
William Grimes
The New York Times [Reg. required]

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The Fountain Pen Forum

Vintage Fountain Pen Ad

"I have recently launched a Fountain Pen site that has in depth articles and reviews on fountain pens and things related to fountain pens such as ink and stationary.  I am working on a couple of articles about journals and think folks who view your site might be somewhat interested in my site."

Ed Svoboda
www.fountainpenforum.com

Write Place

You. Moleskine. Here.

Imagine.
The Provence Gallery

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moleskine-blogged

"the new team blog for former starbucks employees will be up by the end of the week.  it will be amazing.

D.C. trip cancelled.  we had faux meat instead.  i moleskine-blogged the night.

Lauren wanted us to play a game on the road, and she started telling me about it, and stopped. the only words she mentioned were 'Michael' and 'regret.' this is what i had to say. "so all i know so far is 'Michael' & 'regret.' that'll be interesting."

Michael
all is fair in love, and we're in love
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Remember: moleskine-blogged

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Update 4.5.05

"While preparing this entry, which by the way was originally written longhand in a Moleskine, I found two earlier references to the term "moleskine-blogging" online. The first entry is found at Hacks, Blogs, Rock 'n' Roll in the entry Moleskine-Blogging (non-english) dated January 14, 2005. The term was also found in ...pickhits... post Blogging with Moleskine dated January 25, 2005".

Professional Lurker

Amicus Consuasor

"I have a pathalogical fear of being sued. As a consultant I kept hearing stories of how a client would end up hating what the consulting firm had done and decide to sue them for damages. Ever since I heard these stories, I decided to keep detailed written records of every client meeting I ever had and keep them carefully in the event I got dragged to some courthouse some where.

The problem with keeping notes is that you need a book that's sturdy enough to last for say, five to ten years. The floppy little Mead notebooks won't really cut it. Lab books are better, but the hardboard is hardly hard and the ink just seeps through the pages if you use a felt tip or rollerball pen.

On a trip to Belgium I found some really nice notebook by a company called Claire Fontaine. I bought about a dozen of those and went through them in about a year.

Then I read about the Moleskine books..."

Zinodog Beacons

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