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Featured Artist: Antonio Marras

Antonio Marras is one of the most interesting of today’s fashion designers. Born in Alghero in Sardinia in 1962, Antonio Marras had no formal schooling in fashion but, via his father’s fabric store, developed enough of a passion for textiles to convince an entrepreneur from Rome to back him to create his first ready-to-wear collection in 1988 named Piano Piano Dolce Carlotta - after the Robert Aldrich horror movie of the ’60s. Winning the Contemporary Linen prize for a wedding dress that revealed the Sardinian influence which is his trademark, in 1992 he decided to concentrate on one collection, finally making his haute couture debut under his own name in Paris in 1996. Ready-to-wear followed in Milan in 1999, with the shapes and colours of Sardinian costume again a major influence, together with Byzantine symbolism. Marras continues to make Sardinia his home, living and working with his extended family in a home-workshop overlooking the sea.

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The Art of Gabi Campanario

I discovered Moleskine a couple of years ago. Bought my first one in 2004 but didn't really use it until recently, then I was hooked. I use it mostly during my commute to my job as news artist at the Seattle Times to sketch fellow bus riders and people on the street waiting for their bus. It's always on my backpack.

I went to Journalism school in my native Spain and have worked in newspaper art departments since graduating from college in 1992.

Gabi Campanario

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Books without words inside.

"Those us out there who use Moleskine, we do have an attachment to them — in front of us stands a finite number of lines to trace the circles of our own stories. A sense of ownership of the words written within, even though the book itself is just another product in the current of commerce and stream of marketing. That fact aside, there are some elements about the book that make it the only option, at least for now. (After all, Innovation is always close by.)

Some of those elements include: a pocket to collect the scraps of experiences, and a hard cover that protects the pages from the elements and travails of travel. It’s a sturdy thing, at least on the construction side. Even when I’ve crammed the pocket full or ripped out blank pages for quick notes and such, I find that the elastic-banded pages get out there and back, with lines to spare for an address, a number, or an anecdote (rarities in this era of “Let-Me-Get-Your-Number-In-My-Phone-So-I-Can-Scroll-Over-It-Every-Few-Days-Good-To-See-You-Again.”)..."

AJM
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[Originally posted 6.29.05]

"Those us out there who use Moleskine, we do have an attachment to them — in front of us stands a finite number of lines to trace the circles of our own stories. A sense of ownership of the words written within, even though the book itself is just another product in the current of commerce and stream of marketing. That fact aside, there are some elements about the book that make it the only option, at least for now. (After all, Innovation is always close by.)

Some of those elements include: a pocket to collect the scraps of experiences, and a hard cover that protects the pages from the elements and travails of travel. It’s a sturdy thing, at least on the construction side. Even when I’ve crammed the pocket full or ripped out blank pages for quick notes and such, I find that the elastic-banded pages get out there and back, with lines to spare for an address, a number, or an anecdote (rarities in this era of “Let-Me-Get-Your-Number-In-My-Phone-So-I-Can-Scroll-Over-It-Every-Few-Days-Good-To-See-You-Again.”)..."

AJM
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[Originally posted 6.29.05]

GTD Moleskine with Inverted Tabs

I love my moleskine notebook, it just feels nice. I need a way to structure my books, and get to sections quickly but I hate those sticky tabs GTD addicts use to organise them. They just get bent, or pushed out of place, or lose their stick. I carry my notebook in my bag, my pocket, in my cycling backpouch. Anywhere. Stuff just gets bashed.

I would much prefer a simple cut out ‘inverted tab’ like you get in old diaries to mark the months. A tool to achieve these would be amazingly useful, like a mutant stapler or nail clipper. To test the idea I got out the trusty Stanley knife:

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Vacation Moleskine

My wife Virginia napping while I sketch her during a vacation
on Cape Cod

        I  run a small family owned art store in  Massachusetts I am very busy and although surrounded by creative supplies and inspiration, I hardly find time to express myself creatively. I stumbled on the Moleskinerie site one day a few years ago, and since I new the product, I started doing a little art play in a Moleskine of my own. through this site, and some other sources, I've been inspired and now I keep it with me wherever I go.

  Most recently I vacationed on cape Cod, and found a little bit of time ( I have 3 kids) to sketch and write.

I primarily use Copic Multiliner sketch pens and watercolors (even though the sketchbooks are not exactly watercolor friendly paper). I especially enjoy how a moleskine bulges after 6 months or so of adding to it.

Andrai Whitted

The Sketches of Fernando Cinquegrani.

Pages of beautiful drawings by Fernando Cinquegrani.

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10 Things to Write in Your Notebook

I have been a long time fan of using a notebook as a tool for self-improvement, as a journal or just as a place where I can do some brainstorming. I am a proud Hipster PDA and Moleskine user and with that in mind here are 10 different things I like to write in them.

1) New words that I have learnt that day.

2) Mind maps of my goals for the week, month, year.

3) Creative writing such as poems and short stories.

4) Mental stresses and tensions that I notice I feel during the day, the thoughts I felt that caused those stresses and alternative more positive thoughts in order to reduce those stresses for the future.

5) Sketches to exercise the right side of the brain.

6) Reviews of movies, music or television etc.

7) Books I want to read in the future, movies I wish to see and music I wish to listen to etc.

8) General “dear diary” prose including my observations, thoughts and feelings relating to the day.

9) Any physical tensions and what may have caused them.

10)Ideas for my blog.

What do you write in your notebook?

"10 Things to Write in Your Notebook"
By Allen.Galbraith

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Indian Summer by Tim Baynes

JET BOY

I am travelling into the interior, from Mumbai to New Delhi (700 miles) with three Chinese ladies. All this courtesy of Jet Air a full flight in the world’s smallest 737 replete with screaming two year olds placed strategically throughout the aircraft.

I had arrived in Mumbai on Thursday midday and was disappointed not to find pigs in the airport car park as reported by Mike. I billeted at the Taj Lands End in Bandra. The Bandra district is home to most Bollywood stars so I felt quite at home in this massive hotel with mock regency interiors.

I have been assiduously following sundry ‘Advice to Travellers’ - only bottled water, keeping tooth brush in a sealable polythene bag, avoiding salads and fruit (never a chore).  Therefore, so far, I have experienced no untoward feelings in the downstairs department.

METRO MUMBAI

The experience so far has been strictly metropolitan; two upscale restaurants, the later serving exquisite sea food (curried strongly) and on the first evening a visit to a disco. Given my paranoia in relation to diet and staying off the toilet, I was concerned about the name of the venue; the invitation to the ‘ice breaker’ party was at a club called Poison

QUOTE “Poison is one of the most famous night spots of Mumbai, and probably one of the very few place that are likely to be active on a Thursday Night J However, being more of a lounge / night club, they do not serve dinner. We have made sufficient provisions for appetizers…but just thought ill point this out so that everyone can prepare accordingly”

No matter – it was hip hop night (excellent music and I was familiar with most of the artists featured) and by the time I left at 12:30 am the queue of well dressed, highly attractive young people had wrapped itself around several blocks.

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One or two drawings completed, on Saturday morning, I emerged from the chiller cabinet/hotel lobby out into 30 degrees of heat at 9 am to make a picture of the Rock View Hotel, out on to which I look each morning from my room. The hotel was one of the 10 locations bombed one Friday in 1996. The bombed out rooms stared back it me as I looked out of my hotel room. I later learnt that an internecine dispute has prevented the Rock from being redeveloped.

Now I look forward to Delhi hopefully without the belly as I stare at my in-flight snack.

DEHLI: STAGE TWO OF THE JOURNEY – ABOARD FLIGHT 407 SINGAPORE AIRLINES TO SINGAPORE

Well the airport car park Delhi was more interesting.  A ‘take charge’ porter in luggage reclaim took charge. He got us through the crowds and followed the hotel driver dutifully to the car park. Along the journey he ‘collected’ a few other men who also claimed to be porters and wrestled him for the trolley

The closer we got to the people carrier the more disturbing the fracas. I was keeping an eye on the girls, herding them together and got some cash ready to bung our porter from reclaim. Whatever, I gave him the money and ducked swiftly into the van and let them sort it out.

Sunday morning marathon sightseeing in Delhi and in the afternoon the drive, 210 kilometres to Agra to see the Taj Mahal the next day: the Wonder of the World who’s  name that launched a thousand take-aways.

DEHLI MOSQUES AND LUTCHENS

King George V commissioned architect Edwin Lutyens to layout out the central administrative area of the city - very different from designing large houses in the Home Counties of England. At the heart Lutyens placed the impressive Rashtrapati Bhawan, formerly the Viceroy's House and the arresting India Gate. He collaborated with fellow architect Herbert Baker to create an impressive body of Edwardian architecture topped out with distinctly Moorish features. It is now known as the LBZ in Delhi – the Lutyens Baker Zone.

Our Toyota people carrier cut it way through the crowed Chandni Chowk market area and getting out and clambered up the almost sheer flight of steps to the Jama Masjid Mosque. Jama Masjid was commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and is one of the largest and best known mosques in India. We left our shoes at the courtyard door and I donned a wrap to cover my bare legs. The building, in local red sandstone ascends impressively from its central court yard and in a heat the burns the soles of bear feet the whole site appears the hover above Delhi.

We were taken to the Qutub Minar is the tallest brick minaret in the world, 72.5 metres high (237.8 ft) It is  significant example of Indo-Islamic Architecture, inspired by the Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan and  now listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It towers above us, made of fluted red sandstone, covered with intricate carvings and verses from the Qur'an. In 40 degrees of heat we drifted around the surrounding buildings among many fine examples of Indian artwork all built around 12th century.

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Synchronicity: Moleskine, Macy's, Strand

Been in Macy's Herald Square store twice and finally I found from one of their 40 wooden escalator stopped right before store closed, the lighting was perfect so with no particular reasons, I just dropped my M on the floor and took this picture.  It was 13th Aug 2007.

These escalators are probably the last wooden escalators in New York.  Otis "L-type" escalators with their distinctive wood treads have operated in Macy's since 1927.  According to Otis' web site, the same model being "Australia's first escalator, featured timer treads and balustrades was installed in 1924 in the Lavender Bay Railway Station in Sydney and was retired in 1971" there.

You can clearly hear the wood clicking sound and somehow it is not annoying to me.  The sound these escalators produce, was heard by billions of people, only in different eras.

Patrick Ng
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© 2007 PN

New Beginnings: Rediscovering Paper in a Digitized World

Recently I was ruminating on the idea of how our digitized world is not very sustainable. When I speak of sustainability I refer to the ability to continue down a certain path and be able to continue with this process and maintain it at a certain level indefinitely. Now, I do not believe our current path of “digitizing” everything is entirely feasible, and in my opinion it is definitely not sustainable. We encounter issues on a daily basis regarding our passion for digitizing everything. We sometimes lose our digital artifacts on our hard drives or we simply lose everything on a corrupted hard drive. We misplace our digital media (cds + dvds); we have energy (battery) problems with our electronic devices and are not able to use our digitized media anytime, anywhere, without a source of energy. Furthermore, we have trouble synchronizing our media players and continue to live in a digital world which breeds incompatibility issues through proprietary products and services.

Where am I going with this stream of thought? Well, simply stated, I believe that there is a limit to the “digital” world and that we are reaching that limit. Many of us are simply tired of our dependency on electronics and digitized media and want to return to what is tried and true and what feels most comfortable to us. Paper is one of those basic composites in our lives that we are confortable with and love. Hand in hand with “paper” we are now engaged in a “Pencil Revolution” to reclaim our right to record our creativity on humanities medium of choice, paper!

"New Beginnings: Rediscovering Paper in a Digitized World"
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Another drone in the Moleskine army

The past few months I tried carrying around a little wire-spiral notebook but it just didn’t appeal to me.  My dad has done this for years, with great success, but I kept forgetting to write in it or check it.  Eventually I was going to have to find something to manage my to-do list, because I can’t rely on my brain to track even 2-3 to-do items at a time, much less my usual 40 or so.  I like to write down

Enter the Moleskine.  It may just be temporary infatuation, but I love writing in it.  I love checking my notes.  I love crossing things off my to-do list in there.  To this point, it has made my to-do list a breeze.  I can’t imagine switching back to a regular notebook.  The negatives are that they are of course expensive, they are habit-forming and maybe a little pretentious.  The negative for you, the reader, is that now I’m one of those people who will pepper you with anecdotes about my Moleskines like I’m crazy woman with 16 cats talking about Mr. Whiskers, the feisty one.  I irritate myself, in advance.  But it’s true - they are great.

The moral of the story - stay off the crack, kids.  Once you try it, you’ll be hooked for life.

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International Sketchcrawl - Great Comp Garden, Kent

Katherine Tyrrell joins the International Sketchcrawl with predictably exquisite result:

"This is my contribution to yesterday's International Sketchcrawl. I've not been well just recently and walking has been difficult, so I couldn't contemplate the normal sort of activities associated with a sketchcrawl. I even had to change shoes to get round this garden!.."

More at her blog.

© 2007 KT

Greetings to our friends in Jirsovci, La Porte, IN, Spilamberto, Menai, Costa Rica, Hanno, Cao Colorado, Buenos Aires, Bad Sassendorf, Damascus, Marcq-en-Baroeul, Jinan, Cowdenbeath, Al Judaydah, Netherlands Antilles, Ho Chi Minh City, Koivup, Carnaxide, Tai Wo Ping, Lombardy East, SA, Spokane, WA, Barbados and Paraguay.

Ten Things to Do Before This Article Is Finished

“Zen has no goals,” according to a traditional koan. “It is always on its way.”

If so, Rachael Hubbard, a preschool teacher in Salem, Ore., will not be accompanying it. Ms. Hubbard has many goals — 78, to be exact. And it is only by dutifully ticking them off, she said, that she has found her path toward enlightenment.

Two years ago Ms. Hubbard compiled what is known as a life list, a contract with herself enumerating dozens of goals she hoped to accomplish before she died (build a house for Habitat for Humanity, read “Pride and Prejudice,” etc.) and posted it online.

“I just felt like I was slowly getting older and was looking around saying, ‘Well, I haven’t really done a whole lot with my life yet,’ ” she recalled.

But once she began the journey prescribed by her list, it quickly became an addiction.

Ten Things to Do Before This Article Is Finished
By Alex Williams

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Rachel Tai
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George Chearswat
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Bangkok, Thailand

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Magdolna
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Rachel Tai
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George Chearswat
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Featured Artist: Suncica Perisin Tomljanovic

Suncica Perisin Tomljanovic. Born in Split, 1984, after a Degree in Fine Art in Croatia and the BA Fine Art at Central St. Martins College of Art & Design London, she did her first solo shows at AKA Gallery in Rome, curated by Raffaela Guidobono. In 2007 she opened a solo show at the Croatian Embassy in London. She works and lives between Rome and London, currently planning future shows in Bruxelles, Moscow, San Francisco, New York. sunci.on.stage@gmail.com .

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More Scenes from the Life of Noah

The Courier.com of Findlay, OH. reports "County flood damage staggering" so we're relieved to hear from Gary:

" I'm fine. Assume you're referring to my latest post on the Biblical water we've been having here in the big metropolis of Findlay, OH.

Waters going down fast, so the town will focus on clean up for probably weeks to come. I survived untouched, living on the 3rd floor (and my car on a 2nd floor of a garage)..."

More at Gary Varner's blog, "Ink Musings"

I'm Not There

The jury is still way out about Todd Haynes new faux Dylan bio-pic “I’m Not There”. Admittedly, on a torn piece of paper from a Moleskine, it’s an amazing concept, though lots yet to be revealed. The NY Times the other day claimed:

Though Mr. Haynes, who was unavailable for this article, has never had a major commercial success except for “Far From Heaven,” he has never suffered a lack of critical acclaim.

His “Poison,” for example, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991, and “Far From Heaven” received four Academy Award nominations, including one for its star, Julianne Moore.

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Lake Putrajaya

Lake Putrajaya as viewed from Putrajaya Lake Club. On top of the hill are the King's Palace (left) and Shangri-la Hotel (center). Putrajaya Lake is a 400 hectare man-made lake that surrounds Putrajaya City,  Malaysia's Government Administrative Center.

K.A. Nordin
Malaysia

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Gfeller Leather Moleskine Covers

Updating a story I (kind of) broke a few weeks ago, I got an email from Steve Derricott of Gfeller Casemakers last night with great news.

Gfeller is now taking orders on their leather Moleskine covers.

This cover for the Moleskine Large Notebook really works. Priced at $39.95 it is an excellent value and will provide exceptional service, becoming a comfortable second skin for that valuable Moleskine.

More at Bob Corrigan's blog.

Moleskine Exhibition in Shinjuku

I went to Moleskine Exhibition in Book1st Shinjuku. The Exhibition includes excellent works from public applications to Moleskine Travel Notebook Competition. There are surprising great works in the site. I gained inspiration from his/her notebooks. The Exhibition is being held in Shinjuku, Nihonbashi, Shibuya, Aoyama until September.

KE-TA
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Flat cats and Moleskine

There are plenty of Moleskine notebook users who are artistic types. I'm not one of those people, but I don't let it stop me.

Here's a fine example: today, I installed a flat cat onto the back pocket of one of my notebooks. What is a flat cat, you ask? It is a paper cat, with grommets for joints. Right. Why would I do this? It is a long story. All you need to know is, that it was done, and it is an example of weird things you can do with your Moleskine.

Tiny Dog

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Jeffrey Frank on Creativity in Copenhagen

Part of everything I’ve published was written in Copenhagen, and being in the old city, which lies within medieval boundary walls that no longer exist, still makes me want to get to work. Perhaps that is because so much extraordinary writing was done there long ago. For instance, just stop at Nytorv (or the “new market”), on the south side of the walking street, Strøget, just across from a 7-Eleven. At first all you noticed is a courthouse with ochre-colored columns, and next to it, a bank. The bank, though, happens to be where Søren Kierkegaard spent his earliest years—or, more accurately, where his family home stood before it was demolished to make way for what is now a bank.

      Copenhagen was once home to great antiquarian bookstores. They’re mostly gone, and the most mourned is the legendary Frederiksberg Antikvariat, where a reputed million books were stacked and stacked again (I never counted). A few fine stores remain, though, such as Kaabers, the Hans Christian Andersen specialist (go through Jorcks Passage from Strøget and when you come out on Skindergade, it’s on your left). Then there are the bookstores along nearby Fiolstræde, past the old university (in particular Arnold Busck and Vansgaard Antikvariat). Then, several blocks away through the old city is Herman H,J. Lynge & Søn, on Silkegade. It’s not a place to browse, but one can almost smell the dust from its founding, in 1821, and feel a strange sort of lift.

      What feels like the sunniest open space in the city is Højbro Plads (literally, “high bridge square”), or so it feels. It’s not actually a square, but in three directions you can drink coffee—at the Norden Cafe, the Baresso chain, and Café Europa, which makes terrific cappuccino--strong enough to keep you reading the English, French, and Danish newspapers they set out and working into the night. On a bright day, it’s as if everyone in town stops by—natives, tourists, shoppers. When I want to put off what I ought to be doing, I sit there, inside or out, and feel intimately part of the present and the past.

Jeffrey Frank
Author, TRUDY HOPEDALE (Simon & Schuster)

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Yet Another Brad Pitt with Moleskine Sighting

Shaun in UT sent us this photo from Perezhilton.com

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Bad Hotel Drawing

Bad hotel? Moleskinerie friend Patrick Ng gets even and takes out his notebook.

Not a complaint, just a way to release the stress we buyers experience during our limited budget buying trips, through drawings, photos, words..... Or should I really file a complaint for unfair treatment? Well sometimes I'm an extremist when there should be some changes and nobody are able to do anything under the umbrella of safety. And there are times that I'm humble to receive what I've already got from this good life.

OK, I let my flame died off and examined the residues only after I came back from NY so that I have a fair judgement without the physical and emotional add-ons. The verdict: bureaucratic company built up without a conscious awareness of the process, a monster comes out of collective individualism. No it is not serious, but when you can see the future and what can't be changed between now and future, you are downhearted. The fact: many times I get bad hotels from my business trips, doesn't seem like anybody cares, and it is entirely due to budget issue when it shouldn't be. Every summer I get to go to NY for the gift show, summer is high season for travel, hotels get expensive, company has a budget, then every year I go to bad hotels whenever there is high season. Unless I look for alternatives myself nobody cares in this company. And it is not only summer! Winter also.

Read all about it at Patrick Ng's blog.

When do you start a new Moleskine?

The obvious answer is when I finish one, right? Not so fast, grasshoppers.

I usually have some (at least 3) moleskines in my bag, and that's without counting the weekly planner, small diary (the large diary is in my desk for journaling), and some cahier.

When I have 15-20 pages left in a moleskine I start a new one because there are notes in the old one which are still useful, and I have to check it from time to time. Yes, I could finish it, but carrying a finished notebook...Then I usually have a brand new one, hacked with post its, tabs... which I keep in my bag so that it gets some wear before I start using it.

Does it make any sense?

Juan in Andalucía

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I Am An Artist

"I think I would love to be an artist."
"No, no you're not artist material."
"Well, that may be, but I would like to be one anyway."
"You can't be an artist, for a number of reasons: You can't support yourself and be an artist. You can't possibly take time away from all of life's responsibilities to just sit and play with art. And you can't just go around calling yourself an artist. You must be deemed one."
"Hmmmm, I hadn't thought of all that."
"Yeah, I didn't figure."
"Did I mention that creating makes me come alive?"
"Did I mention that creating makes you go broke and is a silly waste of time?"
"Yes, yes, you did make that point. And I suppose it's a good one."
"Of course it is."
"But what's the bit about you have to be deemed an artist...what does that mean?"
"Well, it means you can't just out of the blue wake up one morning and say, 'Hey, I'm an artist now.' "
"You can't?"
"No, you have to be good. And someone else has to think so too. In fact several someones."
"Oh, well that's too bad. I couldn't even get into Grad school. Wasn't good enough."
"I know."
"And I didn't go to school for art."
"I know."
"I should have. But I took a safer approach."
"I know. Artists aren't safe. Your safe."

Mandy
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[Originally posted 8.24.06]

Moleskine in Technology

Tom Schenk, Jr. wrote:

" Lifehacker has just ran an article asking people to show their "go bags"--essentially, their technology bags. However, I couldn't help noticing the number of Moleskine notebooks."

We totally agree.

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FREE MOLESKINE GIVEAWAY WINNERS for August 18

Thanks to the 2000+ (and growing) entries from around the world. Our winners for last week are:

Delores Booth
Palos Hills, IL 
USA

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Santiago
CHILE

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The next raffle draw will be held on August 25.

Thanks to the 2000+ (and growing) entries from around the world. Our winners for last week are:

Delores Booth
Palos Hills, IL 
USA

Gisa Sumiko Muray Prado
Santiago
CHILE

Sandra Whited
APO AE 0____2

Please check your email and reply to the notification so we can send your prizes soonest.

Good luck to the rest of the entrants. To those who haven't joined yet, the complete rules are here.

The next raffle draw will be held on August 25.

Thanks to the 2000+ (and growing) entries from around the world. Our winners for last week are:

Delores Booth
Palos Hills, IL 
USA

Gisa Sumiko Muray Prado
Santiago
CHILE

Sandra Whited
APO AE 0____2

Please check your email and reply to the notification so we can send your prizes soonest.

Good luck to the rest of the entrants. To those who haven't joined yet, the complete rules are here.

The next raffle draw will be held on August 25.

Thanks to the 2000+ (and growing) entries from around the world. Our winners for last week are:

Delores Booth
Palos Hills, IL 
USA

Gisa Sumiko Muray Prado
Santiago
CHILE

Sandra Whited
APO AE 0____2

Please check your email and reply to the notification so we can send your prizes soonest.

Good luck to the rest of the entrants. To those who haven't joined yet, the complete rules are here.

The next raffle draw will be held on August 25.

Thanks to the 2000+ (and growing) entries from around the world. Our winners for last week are:

Delores Booth
Palos Hills, IL 
USA

Gisa Sumiko Muray Prado
Santiago
CHILE

Sandra Whited
APO AE 0____2

Please check your email and reply to the notification so we can send your prizes soonest.

Good luck to the rest of the entrants. To those who haven't joined yet, the complete rules are here.

The next raffle draw will be held on August 25.

Thanks to the 2000+ (and growing) entries from around the world. Our winners for last week are:

Delores Booth
Palos Hills, IL 
USA

Gisa Sumiko Muray Prado
Santiago
CHILE

Sandra Whited
APO AE 0____2

Please check your email and reply to the notification so we can send your prizes soonest.

Good luck to the rest of the entrants. To those who haven't joined yet, the complete rules are here.

The next raffle draw will be held on August 25.

Thanks to the 2000+ (and growing) entries from around the world. Our winners for last week are:

Delores Booth
Palos Hills, IL 
USA

Gisa Sumiko Muray Prado
Santiago
CHILE

Sandra Whited
APO AE 0____2

Please check your email and reply to the notification so we can send your prizes soonest.

Good luck to the rest of the entrants. To those who haven't joined yet, the complete rules are here.

The next raffle draw will be held on August 25.

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Kazuko Nomoco was born in Japan and studied graphic design at Osaka University of Art. She continued on to London College of Printing to pursue printmaking and Illustration and received a master’s degree at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. She is currently an illustrator based in the UK.

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Barbecue

Etymology

The word varies in spelling; variations include barbeque, BBQ, and Bar-B-Q. Smoky Hale, author of The Great American Barbecue and Grilling Manual (ISBN 0936171030) traces the word back to its Caribbean roots in Taino (one of the Arawak family of languages). In one form, barabicoa, it indicates a wooden grill, a mesh of sticks; in another, barabicu, it's a sacred fire pit. Traditional barbacoa implies digging a hole in the ground putting some meat (goat is the best, usually the whole animal) on it with a pot underneath (to catch the concentrated juices, it makes a hearty broth), cover all with maguey (cactus) leaves then cover with coal and set it in fire. A few hours later it is ready.

Wikipedia

Image: Community Barbeque/Barbacoa de la comunidad
Macias Ranch
Men removing barbeque from the pit/
Los hombres remueven la barbacoa de la hoya
Wickenburg, Arizona
1930s MP SPC 173.A172
Ocampo Family Photograph Collection
Arizona State University
...
[Parenthesis:]

Dave's Temporary Insanity Sauce

"Why am I doing this? I must be insane."

This thought crept into the back of my mind more than a few times in the midst of spooning down several hundred amateur salsas. It was one of the best times of my life. Weeks later, my tongue is still recovering from the onslaught. I won't even mention my innards.The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival is an annual tradition here in Austin, Texas, going back thirteen sweltering years. It is something that we all look forward to, though we're not really sure why. Every time there is great speculation and analysis why anyone in their right mind would willingly go to an outdoor park in 100 degree F August weather and collectively chomp down a few hundred gallons of salsa and hot sauce. No one has been able to give a reasonable explanation. We just love the heat. That's the best I can do.

Judging the Individual Category at the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival
By Brian Rush
Brian Rush is the manager/buyer at Tears of Joy Hot Sauce Shop on 6th St. in downtown Austin, Texas.

Pyropepper.com

[Originally posted 5.21.04]

Etymology

The word varies in spelling; variations include barbeque, BBQ, and Bar-B-Q. Smoky Hale, author of The Great American Barbecue and Grilling Manual (ISBN 0936171030) traces the word back to its Caribbean roots in Taino (one of the Arawak family of languages). In one form, barabicoa, it indicates a wooden grill, a mesh of sticks; in another, barabicu, it's a sacred fire pit. Traditional barbacoa implies digging a hole in the ground putting some meat (goat is the best, usually the whole animal) on it with a pot underneath (to catch the concentrated juices, it makes a hearty broth), cover all with maguey (cactus) leaves then cover with coal and set it in fire. A few hours later it is ready.

Wikipedia

Image: Community Barbeque/Barbacoa de la comunidad
Macias Ranch
Men removing barbeque from the pit/
Los hombres remueven la barbacoa de la hoya
Wickenburg, Arizona
1930s MP SPC 173.A172
Ocampo Family Photograph Collection
Arizona State University
...
[Parenthesis:]

Dave's Temporary Insanity Sauce

"Why am I doing this? I must be insane."

This thought crept into the back of my mind more than a few times in the midst of spooning down several hundred amateur salsas. It was one of the best times of my life. Weeks later, my tongue is still recovering from the onslaught. I won't even mention my innards.The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival is an annual tradition here in Austin, Texas, going back thirteen sweltering years. It is something that we all look forward to, though we're not really sure why. Every time there is great speculation and analysis why anyone in their right mind would willingly go to an outdoor park in 100 degree F August weather and collectively chomp down a few hundred gallons of salsa and hot sauce. No one has been able to give a reasonable explanation. We just love the heat. That's the best I can do.

Judging the Individual Category at the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival
By Brian Rush
Brian Rush is the manager/buyer at Tears of Joy Hot Sauce Shop on 6th St. in downtown Austin, Texas.

Pyropepper.com

[Originally posted 5.21.04]

Following the paper trail

There has never been anything quite so personal as writing in a journal, diary or notebook, especially in today's look-at-me blogosphere.

Writing in longhand is a private communion, and a personal bulwark against all things digital. Handwriting is the perennial link to your youth, as a student and dreamer, just you and your thoughts as best your hand can inscribe them between covers. And it's the forever connection to the great writers, whose initial notes for their works are no less skeletal than your own. Notebooks bring out the journalist - or at least the secret journal - in everyone.

By Juan Rodriguez
Read the full story at The Gazette

Photo: Russell Hemsworth, owner of the Nota Bene on Park Ave., describes the wares his shop sells "as stationery for active minds." Below: a sampling of the writing products Nota Bene sells. Photograph by : ALLEN MCINNIS, THE GAZETTE

[Thanks Chris]

Inkmusings from Chicago

I met up with Moleskinerie friend Gary Varner on his recent visit to Chicago for lunch and to catch up on the latest news. A man of many talents, he  doesn't only write and play the guitar but takes very good photos as well.

More at Gary's blog, "Inkmusings"

All images © 2007 GV

Advice on Novel Writing

"Different writers face different advantages and drawbacks in forming good writing habits. The circumstances of your personal life may make it easy or hard to find writing time, but time itself is not the real issue--it's habit.  Writing must be something you do regularly, like brushing your teeth. The writer who waits for inspiration will wait even longer for a complete, published novel.

Writing habits flourish best in routine, but the efficient writer also exploits opportunity.

Routine: Set aside some time every day when you can work undisturbed for an hour or two--first thing in the morning, during lunch, after dinner, whenever you can set aside other demands. Ideally, it's the same time of day. Your family and friends will soon build their routines around yours. With luck, they will resent your unscheduled appearances during your writing time, and will send you packing back to your desk.

Keep your writing equipment (paper, pens, software manuals, etc.) in your writing place, close at hand. Minimize distractions like interesting new magazines and books. Try to find a writing time when few people phone or visit. If a cup of coffee and some background music make you feel less lonely, by all means enjoy them.

Use household chores as thinking time: a chance to review what you've done so far and to consider where your writing should go next. Walking the dog or vacuuming the carpet can provide more ideas than you expect. This is really just ``controlled daydreaming,'' letting your mind freewheel in a particular direction: What the heroine should do in the next chapter, how the hero would respond to escaping a car bomb, how the villain developed his evil character.  But the process doesn't seem to work if you just sit and stare at the wall.  You need to be up and moving in some automatic pattern."

Developing Efficient Work Habits

from "Advice on Novel Writing" by Crawford Kilian

 

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Image: nyla

[Originally posted 5.31.05]

"Different writers face different advantages and drawbacks in forming good writing habits. The circumstances of your personal life may make it easy or hard to find writing time, but time itself is not the real issue--it's habit.  Writing must be something you do regularly, like brushing your teeth. The writer who waits for inspiration will wait even longer for a complete, published novel.

Writing habits flourish best in routine, but the efficient writer also exploits opportunity.

Routine: Set aside some time every day when you can work undisturbed for an hour or two--first thing in the morning, during lunch, after dinner, whenever you can set aside other demands. Ideally, it's the same time of day. Your family and friends will soon build their routines around yours. With luck, they will resent your unscheduled appearances during your writing time, and will send you packing back to your desk.

Keep your writing equipment (paper, pens, software manuals, etc.) in your writing place, close at hand. Minimize distractions like interesting new magazines and books. Try to find a writing time when few people phone or visit. If a cup of coffee and some background music make you feel less lonely, by all means enjoy them.

Use household chores as thinking time: a chance to review what you've done so far and to consider where your writing should go next. Walking the dog or vacuuming the carpet can provide more ideas than you expect. This is really just ``controlled daydreaming,'' letting your mind freewheel in a particular direction: What the heroine should do in the next chapter, how the hero would respond to escaping a car bomb, how the villain developed his evil character.  But the process doesn't seem to work if you just sit and stare at the wall.  You need to be up and moving in some automatic pattern."

Developing Efficient Work Habits

from "Advice on Novel Writing" by Crawford Kilian

 

LINK

Image: nyla

[Originally posted 5.31.05]

Do you use your moleskine as "all together" notebook?

Mavortium says:

I want to use my moleskine for all my purpose: agenda, planner, notebook, sketchbook, etc., so I have only one moleskine to carry with me wherever I go... Do anyone of you use this system?

blurred arms says:

I want to do this, but I can't find an effective way to implement it. I get extremely motivated and put a lot of planning into it, but I can never make it feel like something intuitive and useful.

A lot of the GTD hacks work well in achieving this goal though.

Sophie_vf says:

I did it - briefly, for three weeks while on holiday because I didn't want to take my agenda with me, but still had lots of planning to do.

I searched moleskinerie here for ideas and really liked Mike Rohde's hack, so I put three weeks worth of agenda pages into my blank pocket book, leaving pages in between for notes, sketches, etc.

I think that worked pretty well and I was happy with it, but I'm not really motivated to do it for an entire year. I don't mind having a seperate agenda - but the notebook holds pretty much everything else.

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DIY Soft Cover Moleskine Journal

I'm a writer and editor working in NYC. While I love my pocket Moleskine journal, I often wish that I had a soft cover version. The hard cover is just a little to inflexible for me, and I find it hard to sit down with it in my pocket. I've tried the Moleskine Cashiers, but they just don't inspire me to write the way a pocket Moleskine does. And I just don't believe that they'll survive the daily punishment I usually subject my Moleskine's too.

Finally, I got tired of waiting. So I decided to hack my own softcover Moleskine journal. All it took was a hardcover Moleskine journal, a softcover Moleskine planner, a knife and some glue. Ten minutes later
and I was ready to write.

Xevver

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6 daily applications where paper beats software

Recently, I’ve been noticing a backlash against the trend to do everything on electronic platforms, and it mirrors some of the decisions I’ve been making as well. Last year, for instance, I put away my IPAQ in favour of paper organisational solutions.

Here are six applications we all undertake every day that work better with the traditional paper and pen solutions than with electronic tools.

1. The task list. Web Worker Daily has an inspirational post on this subject. I have found that the paper task list is simply a more effective way to organise my work. I use a form of Bill Westerman’s great GSD system. My GSD book is portable, works anywhere, has never crashed and doesn’t need a help file.

2. The daily schedule. I use a Moleskine pocket diary, in which I use a pencil to note my various appointments, meetings and plans. I can quickly skip to any date and make changes easily whenever I like. When people in the corporate world invite me to meetings in Outlook, I write them in my paper diary when I accept the invitation. Other than that, the only syncing I need to do is to pick up my diary and put it in my pocket when I go out.

3. Meeting notes. For a while, I used Microsoft OneNote but despite the wonderful flexibility of the application, the truth is it still isn’t anywhere near as flexible as writing my own notes in a book or on paper. When I use paper, I can draw pictures, and highlight relationships between ideas without even thinking about it. Yes, OneNote can do that too, but while I’m thinking about the key and mouse actions to make that happen, I’m not concentrating on what’s happening in the meeting.

4. Mind maps. There are lots of PC mind mapping applications. I quite like MindManager. But after you’ve created a few mind maps on a computer, you start to notice they all look the same. They’re nice and shiny and professional looking, of course, but they aren’t memorable in the way a hand-drawn one is. When you draw a bad picture of a factory on your paper mind map, it’s more memorable that the perfect clipart one on screen. When your map ends up asymmetrical because you overestimated how far a topic would take you, it’s more memorable. The imperfections of the paper design create memory hooks that the perfect computer versions just don’t.

5. Your journal. I’ve written about the value I get from keeping a daily record of my life before, and I just can’t imagine doing this in any way other than in a book with a fountain pen. I write more slowly than I can type, and this allows me to record rather more fully-formed ideas that those my keyboard produces. The journal can accompany me anywhere and I can access it quickly in situations in which I’d hesitate to open a laptop. It’s lighter, too.

6. Personal letters and greeting cards. Compare the experience of receiving a hand-written note or card in the mail with that of receiving an e-mail or an e-card. Someone took the trouble not just to click a few keys, but to write you a personal message, put it in an envelope which they then addressed, stamped and posted. Is that not a more valuable affirmation of your relationship than a few on-screen dancing bunnies?

Ray Blake
Visit his blog, "Working on Me".

Featured Artist: Ying-Chieh Liu

New works by artist Ying-Chieh Liu from Taipei.

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How to get the most from your journaling habit

From Ian McKenzie's "Messy" but infinitely productive desk:

Journals can be effective tools in helping one get organized, in the creative process, or in developing a new habit or skill. However, keeping a journal is a habit in and of itself, and needs to be developed.

Here are 5 tips to help you keep momentum and get the most from your journaling habit:

   1. Do it your way – There is no “best way” to write in a journal. Correction: there is a best way to write in a journal and that is, what ever works for you. You are not striving for perfection, but for self-expression. Don’t worry about the spelling or the grammar. Turn off the internal editor.
   2. Be honest – This is the place to be honest with yourself. Write about the way you feel, not the way you think you should feel. This is not the place to worry about what others might think of you. Even if you have problems showing your true self to others, you owe it to yourself to be honest in your journal.

Learn more.

What have I got in my pocket?

Bilbo Baggin's memorable question remains relevant. As I am apparently the first guest blogger on Moleskinerie, let me answer the question (and no, it's not just lint).

First of all, some writing instrument. A mere Bic won't do. A good fountain pen is always a pleasure to use, but the ink takes some time to dry and would smudge if the journal is hastily shut. I favor a Faber-Castell mechanical pencil with a thick and stubby, cigar-like shape and extra-thick leads that glide sensually across the page.

For those like myself who lack even the sketching skills of a three year-old, some other means of recording visual impressions must be found. Digital cameras and cameraphones are becoming smaller and more affordable every day, but film still holds a commendable lead for low-light and night shooting without flash, like this shadowy figure on a rainy night.

I always carry a manual-focus Contax T. This tiny camera has a stout titanium casing (as I bought mine second-hand and pre-scratched, I need not handle it gingerly like a jewel), and a razor sharp Carl Zeiss Sonnar 38mm f/2.8 lens. There are many other excellent choices, from the inexpensive Olympus Stylus Epic ($70) to the princely Contax T3 ($670) and Leica CM ($1000).

Originally posted 1.17.04
To comment go here.

Bilbo Baggin's memorable question remains relevant. As I am apparently the first guest blogger on Moleskinerie, let me answer the question (and no, it's not just lint).

First of all, some writing instrument. A mere Bic won't do. A good fountain pen is always a pleasure to use, but the ink takes some time to dry and would smudge if the journal is hastily shut. I favor a Faber-Castell mechanical pencil with a thick and stubby, cigar-like shape and extra-thick leads that glide sensually across the page.

For those like myself who lack even the sketching skills of a three year-old, some other means of recording visual impressions must be found. Digital cameras and cameraphones are becoming smaller and more affordable every day, but film still holds a commendable lead for low-light and night shooting without flash, like this shadowy figure on a rainy night.

I always carry a manual-focus Contax T. This tiny camera has a stout titanium casing (as I bought mine second-hand and pre-scratched, I need not handle it gingerly like a jewel), and a razor sharp Carl Zeiss Sonnar 38mm f/2.8 lens. There are many other excellent choices, from the inexpensive Olympus Stylus Epic ($70) to the princely Contax T3 ($670) and Leica CM ($1000).

Originally posted 1.17.04
To comment go here.

Inoxcrom with Moleskine

My new favorite pen. Normal fountains are too big for my pocket, this one is 4" long capped, and 5" long with the cap on the end. so i can carry it and write reasonably comfortably. I got it at Bob Slate Stationers but I can't find hide nor hair of it on the net. the design line is Agatha Ruiz De La Prada.

J. Godsey @ FLICKR
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Marbled Moleskine

More examples of the infinitely customizable cahiers. Here's a batch from Stella at Paint Floats:

I give them little personalities or names because I find it entertaining to imagine what they would be like if they were people.

As you know, the Cahier is built for speed.  It is lightweight, flexible and slender.  It is made to be portable. Yet, it is still filled with that lovely paper that only the Moleskine has, it has that certain tooth to it.

The next update is the marbled paper.  The paper, itself, is new.  So are the paints and other materials, but the process remains traditional.  The paper is silicone-impregnated so it lies flat even when it gets wet. The paints are acrylic, another update, and modern marblers are relieved of the tedious task of collecting the gall from the bladder of an oxen (always an arduous task as you might imagine) as well as distilling carageenan from seaweed.  In the modern marbling workshop, carageenan is made in a blender and we use imitation gall.  The combing of the patterns remains the same.  No possible improvements could
be made to the combing process.  It has been perfect for centuries.  However, color is another story.  At Paint Floats, we like the colors to scream a little.  We believe brighter is better.

And last, a flexible and strong adhesive from Grafix holds it all together.  We tried many adhesives before finding this one.  Each notebook is hand cut and trimmed and they are all burnished vigorously with a book bone to ensure a sturdy hold.

http://www.lostmymarbles.etsy.com
http://www.paintfloats.com

[Thanks Joyce!]

 

FREE MOLESKINE GIVEAWAY WINNERS for August 11

Thanks to the 2000+ (and growing) entries from around the world. Our winners for last week are:

Chei-Line HENG
Vitry-sur-Seine,
FRANCE

REIKO YOUGAI
Osaka,
JAPAN

CHARLOTTE VERGES
Noumea,
NEW CALEDONIA

Please check your email and reply to the notification so we can send your prizes soonest.

Good luck to the rest of the entrants. To those who haven't joined yet, the complete rules are here.

The next raffle draw will be held on August 18.

Thanks to the 2000+ (and growing) entries from around the world. Our winners for last week are:

Chei-Line HENG
Vitry-sur-Seine,
FRANCE

REIKO YOUGAI
Osaka,
JAPAN

CHARLOTTE VERGES
Noumea,
NEW CALEDONIA

Please check your email and reply to the notification so we can send your prizes soonest.

Good luck to the rest of the entrants. To those who haven't joined yet, the complete rules are here.

The next raffle draw will be held on August 18.

Thanks to the 2000+ (and growing) entries from around the world. Our winners for last week are:

Chei-Line HENG
Vitry-sur-Seine,
FRANCE

REIKO YOUGAI
Osaka,
JAPAN

CHARLOTTE VERGES
Noumea,
NEW CALEDONIA

Please check your email and reply to the notification so we can send your prizes soonest.

Good luck to the rest of the entrants. To those who haven't joined yet, the complete rules are here.

The next raffle draw will be held on August 18.

Thanks to the 2000+ (and growing) entries from around the world. Our winners for last week are:

Chei-Line HENG
Vitry-sur-Seine,
FRANCE

REIKO YOUGAI
Osaka,
JAPAN

CHARLOTTE VERGES
Noumea,
NEW CALEDONIA

Please check your email and reply to the notification so we can send your prizes soonest.

Good luck to the rest of the entrants. To those who haven't joined yet, the complete rules are here.

The next raffle draw will be held on August 18.

Thanks to the 2000+ (and growing) entries from around the world. Our winners for last week are:

Chei-Line HENG
Vitry-sur-Seine,
FRANCE

REIKO YOUGAI
Osaka,
JAPAN

CHARLOTTE VERGES
Noumea,
NEW CALEDONIA

Please check your email and reply to the notification so we can send your prizes soonest.

Good luck to the rest of the entrants. To those who haven't joined yet, the complete rules are here.

The next raffle draw will be held on August 18.

Thanks to the 2000+ (and growing) entries from around the world. Our winners for last week are:

Chei-Line HENG
Vitry-sur-Seine,
FRANCE

REIKO YOUGAI
Osaka,
JAPAN

CHARLOTTE VERGES
Noumea,
NEW CALEDONIA

Please check your email and reply to the notification so we can send your prizes soonest.

Good luck to the rest of the entrants. To those who haven't joined yet, the complete rules are here.

The next raffle draw will be held on August 18.