Busted…
The guy from Molekinerie wrote me a very nice email, and is going to link back to here exactly “Monday, September 20 at 8 A.M. Central”
Pretty neat. It’s almost suiting, one site that is dedicated to a notebook linking to a site whose site is designed after another notebook. Although I am falling in love with the moleskine, the mead notebook has been around in my soul for the better part of 22 years.
Anyway I had a few days with the moleskine and I’ve been writing in it (I still need to get my hands on some descent pens) nothing spectacular to scan but I did do some custom work on it that is pretty cool.
I can’t draw for my life, but I am pretty good at doing stuff to existing images. It also seems to be a tradition that you adorn the front cover with a design of some sorts. So after looking around a bit, I found one here in the bunker that was perfect.
This painting was the cover of Lust for Life, a novel based on Van Gogh’s life.
Yes I actually read it to completion, so I took out a knife, and cut it into shape. And taped it to the inside cover. The results were great, it looks like it belongs there, and it just catches attention.
Well my attention, and if I ever get famous and dead, and they publish it or put it on ebay, your attention. I’ve also found a poster for an art show when I was in australia i had, I put that under the knife as well, and taped part of it in the journals too.
I’ve been thinking about this book, and reading what other people did to theirs and it was bugging me of what it reminds me of. I finally remembered when I was taping in the weird japanese chick.
When I was in 8th grade I had a specialized journal, it was also a mead notebook. On the front I stenciled in the word “ideas”, and the whole book was being held together by rubber bands, masking tape, and caution.
In this book, I would write poetry, outlines for books, short stories, tape things that were cool in it, and journal entries on why Jr High sucks. I filled that one to the brim, in 9th grade I kept one to all the way to college, then I started a new one but those were more traditional.
The moleskine reminds me of ideas the notebook, and it lends itself to be more creative than a traditional school type notebook.
So enough about the Moleskine, I’ll post something from it sooner or later.
