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AFK*: At the Town Fair

"Caloric Colors"

"Master of Gravity"

"Watts Tower"

A town fair somewhere in middle America.
© 2005 ABF

 

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George Brett, August 3
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Barbara Demarco-Barrett recently asked me a few questions. My email interview is posted on her blog, Pen on Fire.

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Lock Up Your Private Writing

"If someone has read your diary, or even rifled through your desk drawer looking for it, you can relate to my feelings of anger and betrayal. In an ideal world, we would all respect each other's privacy and wouldn't dare to read another's diary, even if it were lying open on a table. However, human nature is curious, and so our private writings are vulnerable. This doesn't mean we should abandon them, though. It just means we must become more determined — and creative — in our resolve to protect our diaries from prying eyes..."

"Lock Up Your Private Writing"
Guard your diary from trespassing eyes with a little creative protection.
by Diane Weiner

writersdigest.com

Image: © 2005 ABF

Roswitha Guillemin

Roswitha Guillemin

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Pigeons pigeons pigeons

Photo: Auburn University

"St Mark’s is like this – rows and rows of pillars with curtains draped in the arches, and glass globules on the tops, looking like pawns, like round domes.  The pillars are darkish, grey rather than gleaming white, and the black etchings on them look like they have been drawn with an inky black pen, much like I am using now – oh the funny thing is that upon arrival in London, I found both Em and Lyn had moleskin diaries too, and I was laughing at how similar we are, and how much I love these girls, that they understand this deep desire to write…  And at how poseur we are in a sense, wanting to be like Hemmingway, which is of course the great selling pitch of such stationery…  And we insist on using black ink pens, but mine is running out!  The black looks like it is smudged, pulled downwards.
 

There are so many tourists milling about, all t-shirt clad, riots of colour and languages, people with black camera straps around their necks taking photos, and one of them is Emily, but this time she has her green lomo out."

chronic malcontent

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Kathrin Jebsen-Marwedel

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Kathrin Jebsen-Marwedel
© All rights reserved. Used with permission

See more of her art @ Moleskinerie/FLICKR

Happy Birthday Clotilde!

Best wishes to Clotilde @ Chocolate & Zucchini.

Joyeux anniversaire !

From your friends at Moleskinerie

Notebook note holder hack

"This idea came to me a week ago. By folding a paper in a zig-zag pattern and flatten it you'll get two, three folds that can be used to keep notes available and readable without falling out of the notebook...

Its made of regular copier paper and fastened with scotch tape. I think this is a good alternative to Moleskines accordion pocket, and you can keep loose notes in the notebook without having to use clips."

Mekkaniak

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100 Photographs that Changed the World

"Words. Ever since chisel was taken to slate, it has been accepted that words can and do change the world. Whether it be the Torah, the New Testament or the Koran, the Magna Carta or the Declaration of Independence, J’Accuse, Oliver Twist or Catch-22, Common Sense or Silent Spring, the effect of words can reach so many hearts and minds that it impacts the human condition and the course of mankind. Speeches incite, editorials persuade, poems inspire.

Can photographs perform similarly? 

LIFE solicited an-swers to that question on its own Web site (www.LIFE.com) and that of the highly regarded Digital Journalist (www.digitaljournalist.org), an online publication affiliated with the University of Texas. We received many opinions, most of which supported our conceit that a photo could change the world—music to our ears—along with one detailed, intelligent rebuttal. “I really do not believe that photographs actually change anything, least of all the ‘World,’” wrote Joshua Haruni. “To suggest that photographs, like the written word, have had a profound effect on our lives is simply wrong. Just imagine suggesting that Picture Post or Time or LIFE had as much impact on our lives as Das Kapital, Mein Kampf or the Bible . . . Photographs can be very beautiful, informative, ugly or anything else the photographer chooses to show. Photographs can definitely inspire us, but the written word has the ability to spark the imagination to greater depths than any photograph, whose content is limited to what exists in the frame.” Mr. Haruni is, by the way, a documentary photographer.

His argument forced us to once again confront our premise. We compared Mr. Haruni’s thoughts and those of other respondents and finally determined: A collection of pictures that “changed the world” is a thing worth contemplating, if only to arrive at some resolution about the influential nature of photography and whether it is limited, vast or in between. We do not claim that LIFE’s 100 are the 100 or the top 100, but that they, and the other related landmark images presented here, argue on behalf of the power of pictures."

100 Photographs that Changed the World - LIFE

digitaljournalist.org

Benjamin is the New Black

" It's kind of scary how literal and intense the phrase "consumer culture" really is. It's not just that we are a culture of consumers, but in fact our cultural icons and symbols and sources of meaning and identity are often brands and consumer products. I wonder why people's performances, practices, and understandings of their identity and group membership are often so easily tied to objects -- be it a Jesus hanging from the rearview mirror, or a Moleskine notebook. For devout Catholics and serious Moleskine fans, these are much more than mere objects or decorations. Though Lovemark's articulation of it is a bit over-the-top, these "brands" do inspire intense feelings of love and respect in their fans. If the object is so much more important than its rational material use would dictate, then it might be that associating oneself with it provides a special feeling of being close to greatness, or confirming/creating some aspect of identity."

Benjamin is the New Black

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Image: yeahboone @ Moleskinerie/FLICKR
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The Paper "Wrap"

"the moleskines come with that brightly colored strip of paper wrapped around the cover.  i love the "graphic" look it gives the books.  i can also see the benefits of color coding [i use multiple moleskines in multiple formats].  but, they never last.  once or twice out of my bad and the things are in tatters.

has anybody been able to keep their's intact?

oh, and hi.  i'm relatively new to the group, though i've been using moleskines [mostly the sketchbooks] in both sizes for about 4 years."

david @ Moleskinerie/GOOGLE GROUPS