13/08/2025

August 13, 2025October 19, 2025 | Paul Greer

The front door of an abandoned house in undisclosed seaside town. There are six steps up to the front door and foliage surrounds.

The Importance of Keeping a Journal: Anaïs Nin

Aside | January 31, 2013August 2, 2018 | Paul Greer

“This diary is my kief, hashish, and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. Instead of writing a novel, I lie back with this book and a pen, and dream, and indulge in refractions and defractions… I must relive my life in the dream. The dream is my only life. I see in the echoes and reverberations, the transfigurations which alone keep wonder pure. Otherwise all magic is lost. Otherwise life shows its deformities and the homeliness becomes rust… All matter must be fused this way through the lens of my vice or the rust of living would slow down my rhythm to a sob.”
~From The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1.

“The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation.”
~From Nin’s essay On Writing, 1947.

From Flavorwire

Andreï TARKOVSKI. Working diary for Mirror.

Image | June 17, 2012July 20, 2018 | Paul Greer

From the Working Diary, in Japanese translation Note how faithfully the page attempts to reproduce the original.

From the Working Diary The director, himself an actor.

More info on this book here.

Silva rerum

Image | November 14, 2011July 13, 2018 | Paul Greer

“In historical Poland [silva rerum] was written by members of the Polish nobility as a diary or memoir for the entire family, recording family traditions, among other matters; they were not intended for a wider audience of printing (although there were a few exceptions); some were also lent to friends of the family, who were allowed to add their comments to them. It was added to by many generations, and contained various information: diary-type entires on current events, memoirs, letters, political speeches, copies of legal documents, gossips, jokes and anecdotes, financial documents, economic information (price of grain, etc.), philosophical musings, poems, genealogical trees, advice (agricultural, medical, moral) for the descendants and others – the wealth of information in silva is staggering, they contain anything that their authors wished to record for future generations).”

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Hourly Comics Day

February 2, 2009May 21, 2018 | Paul Greer

First thing next morning looking over it, it didn’t turn out as I expected, I meant to do it all myself, but chores and parental stuff took over, and once the children had seen what i was doing they all wanted to do it themselves.

So the experience has been great for three reasons:

1). Introducing me to the idea of diary comicing again. something I’d like to keep trying, because I do believe it helps fluency.

2). My wife really got into drawing her bit, and was inspired to do the “butterfly parade” page at the end there. That made her very happy.

3). Introducing my children to the idea of drawing comics. They’ve seen me sitting about drawing in little books, but was great to invite them in and then see them taking part.

My Eldest was so inspired, she ended up continutng her own spin-off-cross-over piece I’ll attach below.

So we all had a full day and a great time doing the comic, hopefully I’ll be on board next year.

cheers then

You can see our comic here.