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WMP Notebook #1 Robin Mellor

Robin Mellor
U.K.

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Today on Notebookism

Greetings to our friends in Tipperary, Saint-Guillaume-d'Upton, Florianpolis, Salem, OH., Santander, Xiamen, Phra Pradaeng, Luxembourg, Kraljevo, Pauatahanui, Harrogate, Riga, Nokia, Devil's Lake, ND, Carabobo, Koeln, Berne, Keta, Addis Ababa, Bangkal, Bistrita, Siston, Medellin, T'ai-pei, Dushanbe, Zapopan, Madras, Jakarta, Kapaa, HI, Chaguanas and Malta.

Basic Boxskin

The Basic BoxSkin's are a great way to display and organize your
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choose. More styles to come.

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Scoop on Scoop

"Scoop: Focus Features is sending out a pretty high class promo item for their Woody Allen flick "Scoop" opening today. Embossed moleskine notebooks, the kind the likes of Hemingway and Picasso used, have been handed out to media and press for the film and are being talked about on radio - rare for these kind of schwag items..."

Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

LINK
Official Movie Site

[Thanks J. Godsey]

Recent Comments: Writing As Punishment - A Rant

From our post of January 23rd on "Writing As Punishment":

"Personally, I believe all of us turn too quickly to punishment to solve behavior problems when other approaches might work better. But I concede that there may be times when punishment is necessary. At those time, when punishment is administered I very strongly believe that the "punishment should fit the crime." I absolutely DO NOT consider having students write an essay in response to a behavior problem to be an appropriate punishment.

...I am not a teacher, so I can barely begin to understand or appreciate the challenge of maintaining discipline in a classroom. However, as a parent concerned with the use and overuse of punishment, my thinking has been radically affected by the works of Alfie Kohn, especially his book _Punished by Rewards_. He takes a very critical look at, and offers alternatives to, the popular methods of punishment and reward used in our culture. You may find some food for thought in his books"

- RAE

"I see nothing wrong with using writing assignments as a punishment. It is used in the UK in some private schools. State schools have banned it, along with everything else.

As a teenager, I was made to go to a saturday detention where I had to copy out one line for ever and ever. 3 hours in the morning, lunch break and 3 hours in the afternoon. You wouldn't want to do that again the following week would you ?"

- Mckensie

Link to original post

AFK*: "Chicago Botanic Garden"

Pretty Prairie. Purple Cone Flowers - a native Illinois specie. All together now..."I'd like to teach the world to sing..."

Call me paranoid but I had the distinct feeling I was being watched. Whitespire Birch trees at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Weeping Willow crying  a river?

Chlorophyll Chromatics 1

Chlorophyll Chromatics 2

Chicago Botanic Garden
Glencoe, Illinois
© ABF

© 2006. All Rights Reserved.

*Away From Keyboard

An acronym used in online chat, e-mail, and newsgroup postings. Also the name for this section of photos from weekend trips, meetups, safaris and other pixel moments from friends of Moleskinerie.com. To be featured, send us your images with captions.
...
Update:

Norman wrote to tell me: "Said trees do blink here. Just scroll left."

From Sketch to Canvas

Luis Colan shows us his painting process. From this Moleskine sketch

to this finished painting.

" I must say there were times I doubted myself and this painting, and came very close to leaving it unfinished. But I decided to keep working on it and not let it beat me. Finally, after posting so many stages of the process I can say "this painting is done." A year and a half ago I had painted the very same image in a smaller scale. I was pleased with the result but not happy. At that moment I accepted the painting as it was since I had just started painting representationally for the first time after three years of abstraction. I felt it turned out cramped and decided to repaint it in a larger scale and give it more air. What I didn't realize, or admit to myself, was that the composition was not good. Everything was huddled up together and having a potato in back of the cabbage did not do anything flattering to the painting. I needed the viewer to read the painting from left to right and the size and placement of the potato was more of a block. In the end I painted over the potato thus eliminating it from the composition forever. ..."

Luis Colan
Painting Process 10
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English Standard Version Journaling Edition Bible

Gareth Russell reviews the Moleskine-esque ESV Journaling Edition Bible, complete with an elastic band.

It even lays flat!

"The Journaling Edition comes in an attractive plain black hardcover, with the only writing and decoration on the cover being some silver writing on the spine that says, “ESV || Journaling Bible || Crossway”. There’s no tacky crown of thorns on this cover or Celtic crosses, instead just a thick black elastic band that provides a touch of decoration. The elastic band is of a good quality too, I was initially concerned that the elastic band would be able to come loose from the cover but upon closer inspection it seems to be firmly attached to the back cover..."

ESV Journaling Edition Review
By Gareth Russell
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[via J. Godsey]

Mourning Mandu

"Last night, Glenn cuddled Mandu on our sofa and gave her some comfort. It appears that she has likely gone blind, as she looks around in a disoriented way and does not react to visual stimuli as she once did. We will probably put her to sleep as soon as our vet gets back into town next week. She doesn’t seem to be suffering or in any pain, but being deaf and blind and unable to jump up into her favorite sunbathing spots is no way to live. At 22, we’ve just kept her comfortable and healthy as long as we could, but time has now run out..."

Karen Winters
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Mike Sheehan's Long Tale

Mike Sheehand has a long story to tell:

"This is my commute sketchbook. From the train, bus or bike ride to and from work. You'll have
to scroll sideways to see it. Was fun to do, just started another one."

Moleskine Fold-out Commute Sketchbook
By Mike Sheehan

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Moleskine at REMO

Remo, our friend in Oz is finally selling "The Notebook"

"To be candid, there was a time when we thought that we might develop our own range of notebooks under the REMO brand (never say never, maybe one day); BUT, the more we looked into it, the more we came to feel that what we were imagining already existed. Credit where credit's due.

We're talking about Moleskine..."

Get yours now @ REMO General Store