“Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”
Notebooks
@MissSpite
I drew @MissSpite. She drew me, see?
Sunday night brain dump (unfinished) (6/182)
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The 6 minute Moleskine
An assembly manual by Burningfp.
1. You will need:
2 sheets good quality A4 paper (150 gsm is good)
1 piece of recycled cardboard (Stella beer box card is thin and strong)
2 standard staples
Scissors, ruler, pencil and stapler.
2. Fold the paper in half, then fold back the other way, this then should make it easy to tear in half with a neat edge.
3. Repeat so, in the end, each sheet bears 4 strips.
4. Repeat on the other sheet so you end up with 8 strips.
5. Fold them all together in half, making booklet.
6. Make sure that crease is nice and sharp.
7. Using the booklet as a guide measure out a rectangle on the card to act as a cover. Give it an extra 5mm in width and 10mm in length to accommodate the edges and spine thickness.
8. Cut out the card.
9. Making sure the edges are equal fold the cover around the booklet.
10. Using a thick carpet or plasticine as a base push two staple through the spine. Turn the book over and carefully bend the staples over as they should be, but use a tool, like a knife or something so you don’t damage your beautiful fingers.
11. You can even cut the corners rounded just to look classy.
12. Bingo, it’s flexible so will fit nicely in a back pocket, and is the perfect receptacle for notes on your next novel, concepts of social theory, life sketching, mind maps, crudely drawn genitalia etc etc.
(If this is a bit low rent for you, may I recommend the excellent Linda Boucher’s elegantly decorated actual moleskines available here.)
Enjoy!
bfp
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(cross posted from my tumblr)
“Firestarter” is the “My Ding-a-ling” of Rave. (2/182)
This is my “moleskine”
Made from 2 sheets of 120 gsm paper, 1 piece of recycled cardboard and two standard size staples.
It’s very low budget and fits into a back pocket.
I’ll post some instructions later.
I’ve decided to post a 2 notebook page spread every other day during the course of this year, thats 182 in total.
Slightly ambitious but it’s slightly more achievable than daily. The last few days have been extremely complicated so these pages were made during last year.
Hope 2011’s working well your end.
DA VINCI’S BLOBS
Looking at a rapidly flowing stream or a thunderstorm leaves a strong visual impression, but many aspects of what is actually happening remain hidden from or are simply beyond the reach of observation, either by the naked eye or instruments. They have to be inferred from what can be observed, and this is a matter of interpretation, of imagination. It is very much the method Albert Einstein used in developing his theories of Relativity, because he could not directly observe objects moving close to the speed of light, or the movements of stars in interstellar space. In science it is called making a hypothesis, and the application of this method took modern physics far beyond empiricism (Newton had proudly claimed, “I make no hypotheses”), which was based strictly on what could be observed. Da Vinci, in this way as in others, anticipated future developments—he created hypothetical worlds that revealed the hidden structures of nature. These, in turn, helped him create paintings of great originality that are imbued with a lasting aura of conceptual power.
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Notebook Pages Maps and That
Some Old Scribbling
It was Hourly Comics Day a month or so (or three) back, this was my submission:
(old lady after Durer)
Paul Greer 