moleskinerie

Inspiration: Jeff Scher

Jeff Scher, who describes himself as "a painter who makes experimental films and an experimental filmmaker who paints" has a beautiful animated short in the New York Times.

"Walking is life at its most immediate. The combination of people and places changes constantly and never repeats. It makes you small in the face of sheer numbers, but at the same time it’s reassuring. It’s nice to be one of the fish in this teeming sea. This film is an attempt to capture the feeling of looking at people. And it’s o.k. to stare, they are only flickering watercolor ghosts of people observed fleetingly on a summer afternoon in midtown. Shay Lynch’s score adds drama to the mystery."

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Inspiration: Pocket Universes

 

Dave Gray of Xplane has started a group on FLICKR. Cute, intriguing, fun.

"Pocket Universes are small, self-contained video clips that can be looped continuously. Like landscapes, they are tiny reflections of the world and objects for contemplation."

GROUP POOL

Related: Xplane

Update: 6,27

Dave has added a "Moleskine" version. Thanks!

© 2009 David W Gray. All Rights Reserved.

Inspiration: Don West

Friend Joy Rothke shared this link of an illustrator she's been following:

"...he just looks at me. The screwier I talk and mess with my voice, the more he cocks his head and ears.

So…he either thinks I’m totally nuts or…he is filing away the experience for association to whatever happens next. That’s gotta leave him really wondering what life is all about because the next exit, where the associated actions will take place, is about ten minutes down the road. And he’ll not relate the two…words and actions…unless they are about ten seconds apart. So when he’s with me, and he’s not sleeping, he’s probably wondering “what the HELL is taking place here!”...."

Discover Idle Minutes, by Don West

© 200 Don West All Rights Reserved.

Update: Write In My Journal

Another entry in David's journal, a "beautifully cryptic" note from somebody in the neighborhood.

Ruth-Ann works in a local bakery/coffee house/cafe. You know the type – cool atmosphere, expensive, but tasty food. The kind of place you are happy to have in your city and want to tell everyone about, but you don’t want everyone to know it’s there. Ruth-Ann is the kind of person that makes this type of local establishment work. She was friendly with everyone who came through the door and seemed to be a genuinely happy person. Her curly blond hair was pulled back in a loose pony tail and her eyes were disconcertingly bright blue. Ruth-Ann’s story is beautifully cryptic.

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Inspiration: Juan Berrio

 

This piece was done for the exhibition of Moleskines of the fifth anniversary of the bookstore Panta Rhei of Madrid. It features artists Juan Berrio constructing a fascinating house made entirely of paper with tile roof and everything.

Visit the artist's website

[Thanks Carol!]

Video: Inge Feltrinelli and Moleskine

An interview with Inge Feltrinelli, widow of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, an Italian publisher, who was also a photographer in the 50s-60s. Interesting photos of Hemingway.

English subtitles are available. Manually turn on by clicking on the "CC" button - it gives you the option of turning on the captions and they should appear in English. (See bottom right corner of the screen for the button)

The joy of exclamation marks!

"There is a town of 1,471 happy souls in Quebec called Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!. The second "Ha!", amazingly, is part of the town's name, not my commentary on the first "Ha!". Unlike, for example, the Devon town of Westward Ho! Ho! There, the second "Ho!" is mine. Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! is the only town in the world whose name has two exclamation marks. It will remain so until Wolverhampton is renamed Wolverhampton!! to highlight its funky new Black Country vibe, which, all things considered, seems unlikely..."

The joy of exclamation marks!
An essay by Stuart Jeffries

Read the full article at The Guardian

Watercolor sketches by Juan Blanco

Cabo de Gata - Playa de Agua Amarga

Cabo de Gata - Iglesia de las Salinas

From our FLICKR pool, these pair of beautiful watercolor Moleskine drawings by artist Juan Blanco done in Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park, Spain. The location, according to Wikpedia is...

"...characterized by volcanic rock formations and by matorral, an abundance of drought-adapted flora: low-growing vegetation, dwarf fan palms and a number of xerophytes..."

Learn more

© 2009 Juan Blanco All Rights Reserved.

Inspiration: Shinichi Maruyama

Ink + Air. Stunning.

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Inspiration: Robert Olsen

Above: Recent painting and drawing of a stack of Moleskine notebooks. Both are 9 by 16 inches.

Tyler Green shared this link of an artist from a Los Angeles-based painter of whom I think highly.

ROBERT OLSEN

Image link

Check out the artist's blog

[Visit Tyler Green here]