"How would you use this book?"
Rhodia Drive posed this question with a photo of an 8 x 11" Quu Vadis Habana notebook. A blank sketchpad is an invitation to adventure. Not all of us can sketch, much less draw or paint but perhaps even a few stcik figures and pressed flowers between these pages will become treasured reminders by summer's end.
Pair it with this nifty D.I.Y. watercolor travel set by Jorge Bustamante and a few brushes and you're good to go.
LINK to the Rhodia Drive article
What a joy to stumble upon our old friend Danny Gregory's accunt of his recent visit to Bangkok.
Sketching this time on a Guttenberg paper sketchbook especially handmade for him Danny chronicles his meanderings around this exotic city.
The few peeks at the pages show a colorful record of scenes and characters he encountered rendered in gouache, accented with gold leaf (!)
Take a look and say "Sawasdee" สวัสดี !
Today is the last day to get a chance to be among the first to own this unique pen made out of a ombination of solid aluminum alloy and tropical coconut shell pen housing.
"It made out of solid aluminum alloy and natural coconut shell with CNC machining process and polished manually by a human hand. We put the tropical coconut shell on its barrel as a grip and on its cap to make it beautiful."
Slick machined steel with hint of the tropical. I love the contrast. With refills for the common Pilot G2 and Montblanc, this is truly a unique gift to friend or self.
Paul Theroux's latest travel book, "The Last Train to Zona Verde," chronicles his return to Africa.
In this article on the Wall Street Journal he talks about his note-taking habits.
"A notebook takes on a friendly character, the patina of its daily use, its doodles and coffee stains. It becomes an indispensable artifact of the trip, glowing with revelation."
I wish the article was longer but even a brief mention of notebooks in this context always makes my heart skip a beat.
For those who want to assemble their own notebooks and writing pads, Generated has a bunch of free templates of printable papers.
LINK (via Lifehacker)
Among the fascinating paper-and-ink drafts of 25 authors presented in a recent Atlantic article is this hand-drawn original manuscript of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground.
Also featured is F. Scott Fitzgerald's manuscript of The Great Gatsby and a handwritten page of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
As today the Notebookism at FLICKR community now has 2,413 members and more than 42,000 items.
I reiterate my sincere thanks to everyone for keeping the community strong through these years.
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We close this week with a sponsor shoutout at Rhodia Drive. Thanks for your support.
Feel free to leave a comment here or send your links and suggestions to my email: notebookism@gmail.com. Have a safe and restful weekend everyone! - Armand
Visit and consider joining our communities:This is not really a notebook but a guest book at Houghton Hall, a 1772 Palladian masterpiece built by Britain’s first P.M. Other photographs feature the opulent interiors, breathtaking grounds, and captivating curios taken by Jonathan Becker.
Pictured above is an entry by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
View the album at Vanity Fair
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