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Moleskine City Notebook Hong Kong & Beijing Versions Launched!

Patrick  Ng reports on the launching of the Moleskine Hong Kong and Beijing versions

"After a week of setting up the Travel Photo Cafe promotion in various stores (which I will cover later), I must say a BIG THANK YOU to Moleskine, its distributor and colleagues who helped to pull this off smoothly.  Finally, the long awaited Hong Kong and Beijing City Notebook versions are launched, the first 2 Asian cities for many to come.  Moleskine enthusiastically rushed to release these two notebooks in order to catch the Beijing Olympic event, which generated a lot of excitement among the locals..."

With all these new versions and customized notebooks coming out I'm beginning to hear from friends who buy them as collector's items.

Learn more at Patrick's blog, "Scription"

© 2008 PN All Rights Reserved

Moly_X Moleskine Exchange in the news

Anna Denise van der Reijden wrote to tell us that one of the Moly_X Moleskine Exchange groups, Group 4 got featured in a Dutch newspaper, the Nrc Next last Friday. You can find the article with translation here.

Congratulations on the mention guys! keep up the great collaboration.
 

Inspiration: Federico Fellini

Here's a quote to ponder from Lina Wertmuller as we go into the weekend:

“Fellini said, ‘When you are trying to direct, they will tell you there are a lot of rules. Of course these rules are important, but in reality the way to tell a story is the way you would tell it to your friends in a cafe. And if you have a talent as a narrator, you will tell this story well. Otherwise all the technique in the world will never help you.’ ”

[Thanks to JC in Vienna]

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Sightings: The All-For-Nots

It seems that our favorite notebook is along for the ride with the band Bebo as they crisscross the country in "The All For Nots". Screengrabs by our friend Leslie Russell. Thanks!

About the show:

" Come along on a rollicking roadtrip through America with the next great indie-rock-pop-punk-Americana band. Meet The All-For-Nots (or "AFN" as their true fans call them): Johnny, Caleb, Paul, and Shirley - four Brooklyn rebels whose epic quest is to bring the masses their own brand of rock 'n roll (okay, and maybe to get famous in the process). Witness every kick-ass performance and every devastating setback as they blaze across our great nation in their clunky van..."

Metadata to your Moleskine

Daniel at "Hack Your Day Productivity" offers a list of interesting tips:

Positioning your metadata - The most important thing when placing your metadata in your Moleskine is to go inwards. Put the most relevant or most important bit of data on the outermost part, since this is easiest to access.

Use information relevant to you - Just because all of us always put in page numbers and titles at the top, this doesn’t mean you have to too. You may have a book of thoughts where page numbers don’t really mean anything.

Using tags and categories - Tags and categories can be used with Moleskine notebooks, not just blogs and web pages. In the same way you categorize a post, you can do so with an entry in your Moleskine.

Further customization - As I just said, the possibilities really are endless. You can cut off the corners of some pages to indicate they are no longer in use, you can cut away corners in different ways to indicate different categories.

Read the full post.

Image: © 2006 ABF All Rights Reserved

Imagine Re-Designing Reality

Referring to our earlier post, reader Luigi P. pointed us to the Codex Serpahinianus Gallery at Brainsturbator. A snip:

Just hypothetically, of course.  It only has to work on paper.  You could also use legos, or design a computer program, or make several million dollars just to prove a point with it.  Any which way, imagine being able to free up your mind enough to achieve a truly blank slate.  Imagine re-building a culture that’s not based on suspicion, fear and struggles for control.  How much could humans change?  Would it take a few generations to achieve—or just a couple really great parties?

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The Notebooks of a Caudetano

Inspired by Gauguin, flora, sceneries of ethereal hues and colorful characters, "Caudetano" presents his works.

My name is Cristobal , I am a watercolour painter who lives in Caudete (Albacete) , Spain , it´s a town of many watercolorists.I am very influenced by my master Antonio Requena Solera ,and Rafael Requena , both of them wet on wet watercolor masters. If you want to see more of my work , see my blog, Acuarelas. 

View the the FLICKR photoset

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Double Moleskine Wrap

These canvas wraps hold two or potentially three small Moleskine Journals, in such a way that they are easily accessible. You can flip it open and start writing all with one hand.

The cover of the first Moleskine slides into the left side, and the cover of the second slides under the elastic band in the center. There is a place for 2 writing tools. The whole wrapper is secured by Velcro closures. A third Moleskine can often be laid in between the 1st two.

Molly 1216 @ Etsy

Ultimate Note-Taking

I was walking down a street in Istanbul near the Hagia Sophia when loudspeakers atop an army of high minarets began blaring the Muslim prayers. I stopped, pulled a small audio recorder out of my over-the-shoulder bag (a manly bag, of course), and began recording the exotic sounds of the prayers and street noises. I then pulled my camera out of the bag and took a few photos to accompany the sounds. When the melodic prayers were finished, I pulled my pocket-sized journal and mini-pen out of my front pant pocket and jotted down some notes about that moment in time – what I had heard, seen and thought. I knew I would not only need these notes for the travel articles I would write about my trip to Turkey, but for my own memory bank.

Not long after returning from Turkey I was sitting in a meeting with the directors of a business who had hired me to write the text for their glossy company publication. On the boardroom table in front of me were my notebook, my audio recorder and a camera. As the company’s leaders gave me the information I would need to complete the project, I took notes in my notebook and kept my audio recorder running to make certain I wouldn’t miss anything. The camera came in handy later as we toured the manufacturing plant and I took photos of the various process I would have to write about.

For writers, information is critical. Whether you are writing an article, a business project, a book or something just for yourself, you need information. You do not want to be within 15 minutes of the deadline for a business brochure and realize you can’t remember the name of that revolutionary new manufacturing technique being used, and you don’t have anything about it in your notes, and the only person who has that information is on a fishing trip in the wilds of Alaska.

Nor do you want to have your writing come to a screeching halt because you can’t remember what the name of that big mosque you were walking by during afternoon prayers and you don’t want to dilute your article by referring to it as “some big mosque” rather than “the world-famous Hagia Sophia.”

Ultimate Note-Taking: Capture Text, Audio and Visual Notes
By Steve Osborne

Read the full article at his blog, "The Writer's Bag"

© 2008 SO All Rights Reserved

MyDetour Paris: The Jury Selection

The jury has finally chosen the ten notebooks that will be exhibited on public display on myDetour Berlin. The first one is the one considered the best of all by the jury, and its author will be invited to Berlin to attend inauguration of the Detour exhibition there.

Marie Compagnon
mariecompagnon.canalblog.com
Sketchbook - pocket

Learn more at MyDetour: PARIS

 

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