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Featured Artist: Sebastian Waters

The first collages for my ‘gluebook’ were created two weeks before the begin of my three month internship at an advertising agency in Dusseldorf.  During these two weeks I arranged twenty pages in my Moleskine ‘gluebook’ just to get “creative”. The following seventeen collages (until now, June 21^st )  were made up at the weekends  or in the nights after work.

 

Inspired and motivated by the works and collages of a friend of mine, Patrick Beser and other artists portfolios and I tried to create my own works with or without statements and hope to learn and get better by doing further on. For the collages I  use newspaper articles, cutouts and snippets from magazines, my Moleskine (small sketchbook) as gluebook and some acrylcolors.

 

Some of the works have a primary statement, others are just ‘art’, nonsense or ‘dada’. In addition the titles of the collages  often – not always – play  an important role, because they lead the viewer’s mind to other aspects and views  and might give the works a completely new direction.

 

In the end the gluebook stuff  is in fact just a spare time job for me.

Sebastian Waters

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Patrick Beser
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PicoPad

"Everyone has an office desk, kitchen drawer or stationery cabinet full of pens, notebooks and paper pads. Sure, they come in handy at home and work, but how many times have you found yourself on-the-go and in need of something to write with? You either have a pen and no paper, or the back of a receipt and no pen. From social situations to random thoughts that need to be captured, those crazy days of being unprepared are over. Introducing PicoPad Wallet Notes: a tiny pen and a pad of tacky notes contained in a stylish case, all of which conveniently fits in your wallet..."

Said to be thin enough for your Moleskine pocket, too!

PicoPad

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[Thanks Anthony!]

Meal Moles: Scotland, France and Malaysia

"A friend from Vienna joins me for coffee, planning with Moleskine trips around Scotland"
- Lost in Scotland

"Moleskine with Angelina's Mont Blanc"
- Paris Breakfast

"The O'Briens sandwiches"
- Adibi

MOLESKINE-TOTTING FOODIES AND OENOPHILES OF THE WORLD UNITE!
The MEAL MOLES Group @ FLICKR is now OPEN.
You are cordially invited.
Images: © 2006 by respective photographers

Orange PARIS, Vivid Purple AMSTERDAM

" I had an orange encounter with Hermés, 2 years ago in Bordeaux. I went in to see the calligraphy exhibit upstairs and then bought a sparkly eye pencil. They gave me a GIP (gift with purchase!) - a wonderful pendent promoting their new cologne, Eau des Merveilles. I thought it was filled with water. Then 2 months ago a french parfumeur came in the store and noticed it. When I said it was water, she was shocked. Hermés would NEVER put water in their products! She miraculously opened the stopper I'd couldn't open for 2 years and I got my 1st sniff of this delicate fragrance...."

Carol Gillot
paris breakfasts

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"I’ve been a Moleskine freak for several years after discovering this addictive little black notebook at a paper goods store in New York. How could I resist their simple marketing line: “The legendary notebook of Hemingway, Picasso, Chatwin.” And me!

I filled my first Moleskine with deep thoughts at a café in Paris so I didn’t feel quite so lonely eating alone. I bought my second Moleskine with a vivid purple cover at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. I really wanted a yellow one (suggestive of Van Gogh’s sunflowers) but a colleague beat me to it. I have since tried to find the yellow one online. But alas, the colored covers seemed to be a Van Gogh Museum exclusive…until recently..."

"Make Mine Moleskine"
Mimi @ Pocket Change

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Killdeer Copyright

While looking for a print of my favorite bird, I  noticed 2 almost identical images on eBay:

0riginal antique color lithograph that has been removed from the publication Birds of Pennsylvania, published in 1890.  Item number: 7421220542

Originally published in the 4-volume work The Birds of America (1838) this lovely print is from Abbeville's "Baby Elephant Folio" edition. Item number: 7402496689

I guess copyright laws were different then.

Back to the killdeer:

"Seeing fluffy killdeer chicks is one of the pleasures of summer. Although they are lively right away, just-hatched killdeer are like new fawns, a bit tottery and clumsy on their overly-long legs. It's worth keeping an eye out for killdeer over the next couple of months, on the chance of glimpsing the endearing infants...

 

You sometimes see an adult killdeer on a dirt road or along a rocky railroad easement. As you approach, the killdeer may suddenly develop a broken wing. It struggles in front of you, as if it can barely walk, let alone fly. One or both wings drag pitifully on the ground.."

The Precocious Killdeer
By Diane Porter
Birdwatching.com

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The Incredible Shrinking Newspaper

"Whatever you do, don't mistake the decline of newspapers with the decline of journalism. Much of what we're witnessing is the delayed right-sizing of newspapers and newspaper publisher and editor egos in the multimedia age. Many papers, the Los Angeles Times in particular, are still paying for expanding their circulation areas too far beyond their geographic cores. The closures of foreign bureaus and downsizing of Washington offices by newspapers are much lamented by journalists, but how essential are they in an age when any reader can call up on his screen free coverage by the top U.S. dailies and the foreign press?

Like the ailing—but much alive—character prematurely tossed onto the meat wagon in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, newspapers are right to shout, "I'm not dead!" In their dying, the best newspapers are plotting—and experiencing—rebirths as multiplatform news companies. They're building out their Web sites, investing in free daily tabloids, partnering more extensively with radio and TV, sending advertiser-supported news to cell phones, and frantically devising business models to make the new equation work...."

Jack Shafer
Slate

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[Thanks John!]

The Sartorialist in Milan

"With a keen eye and ever-present camera, Scott Schuman—better known by his nom de blog, The Sartorialist—has developed a loyal fashion world following for his portraits of well-dressed New Yorkers. We decided to turn him loose on the streets of Milan during Fashion Week. Here's what he found..."

Menstyle.com

[Thanks to Raluca in Germany]

Notebook cocaine

Eclipse-watching and Moleskine. Priceless:

"Monish took this photo of our happy band of eclipse-companions. Here is Pluvialis and her natty hat. Look, we've set up my spotting scope on the base of a broken column. And what you can see there, on the ground, is us in the process of focusing an image of the sun onto my Moleskine notebook. Which is exactly what Van Gogh, Hemingway, Bruce Chatwin or Céline would have done, if they'd wished to project an eclipse onto a flat surface.

Yep, Moleskine notebooks really hack me off. Aaaargh. Have you reached the Moleskine Event Horizon yet, where you are? Maybe it's a curse of academic towns. I don't think you can get them anywhere else. Moleskine parasitises insecure writers and academics. Every bugger in Cambridge has one of these little black books. And the most irritating thing about all of this is there is reason behind it: they're by far the best notebooks around..."

Helen MacDonald
Fretmarks

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Closing out a Journal

"I reached the final pages of a beloved moleskine today. Black, like all the others, with off-white pages and a little ribbon marker. This one, I decorated with a white Apple sticker and dubbed it my Mac Book Faux.

 

Somewhere along the line, I learned a little journalling tip...number the pages as you go, and then when you're done, save a page in the back. On that blank page, jot down page numbers and one line descriptions of memorable entries or events so you can find them at a moment's notice. In closing out this journal, I noted things like "p.11, financial miracle" and "p.27, prophetic word from Ed Hackett". If I never read them again - and that would be a tragedy - at least I enjoyed revisiting them as I catalogued them

 

Reading an old journal with the perspective of "if I knew then what I know now" is probably unavoidable. In some ways, I think it's healthy. In reading what has been written over the past few months, you see those times when destiny was winking at you...giving you a sideways glance, flirting with you, but never enough for you to be sure at the time if it was her or your own imagination..."

"Closing Out a Journal"
Randy Bohlender

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© 2006 RB
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Hi to Jamie Gumbrecht @ It's All About/Kentucky.com

Reinvention through retail

".. if you sell a bunch of black notebooks that all look the same, how do you announce a diverse product line? You could start with color. Moleskine uses brightly colored paper strips to package each product. And who knew there were so many types of people taking notes? There is a unique color for music notebooks, Japanese notebooks, lined, blank, squared, sketch, address, diary, reporter and storyboard notebooks. A lot of colors, yes. But if you are buying one for your brother the music student, you know to go straight for the aqua.

This makes the display simultaneously lively and clean. No crazy retail devices are needed - just a solid white stand. I know color-coding is an in-store trend, and that there's always this backlash reaction of, "It adds to the clutter." But Moleskine has managed to use up to 10 colors at retail, and I see no cause for alarm..."

" Reinvention through retail"
By Sara Cantor
The Curious Shopper

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© 2006 SC