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Its always sad to see those quaint mom-and -pop stores close. Here's one example:
HALIFAX - For now, there are still fountain pens and birthday cards, pillows and
photo albums lining the shelves at The Paper Garden.
But in a couple of
weeks, the cosy little stationery and gift shop will close for good. Owner Leila
Gashus, 71, is retiring after a quarter-century as a shopkeeper, leaving
downtown Halifax behind to travel with her husband, Kris.
"People say
'Why are you closing?' and I say, 'I'm too old!'" laughs Gashus, a petite,
vibrant woman with a shock of white hair. She's planning trips to Australia and
New Zealand, the kind of long vacation you can't take with a store to worry
about.
"I think when you reach a certain age, you should make the most of
your life," Gashus says. "You shouldn't put things off."
Rachel Boomer
The Daily News
[Thanks Chris!]
"In the scene, the powerful matriarch of the Garrison family has a quiet chat
with a new senator from Colorado, recently appointed to complete the term of a
beloved politician who died in office. It takes place in the library of the
Garrison house in Georgetown during a dinner party at which the President of the
United States is expected.
I gave Mrs. Garrison my take on this country
and had the great good fortune to have my two-cents delivered by Helen Mirren.
Andrew McCarthy plays the idealistic senator..."
Handwritten Theater
"A Series of Brief Dramatic Pieces originally Composed in a Small Black
Notebook with a Fountain Pen by Joseph Dougherty"
[Thanks Gary!]
"Like a voice crying in the wilderness I keep spreading the word about Cachet Wirebound Journals. It's always about the paper: bit of 'tooth', and handles every fountain
pen nib/ink combo I've thrown at it without bleeding through or
feathering. There are an assortment of sizes and the colors are muted.
Black spines, but not solid black = drab. The wire binding becomes a
design element with the gap in the middle. The notebooks lay flat,and
in fact can be completely folded back so that the backs are
back-to-back. They also have an elastic band to keep them from flapping
around in transit.
Once I get inside, it's always got to be blank pages. Grids make me
hyper - I can't write small enough to fit letters into the boxes, and I
feel like everything has to be written with great precision. I use
enough lines on notepads daily at the office. When I get to a notebook
to ramble, or outline, or take notes I like to write different
directions on different parts of the page,and make swooping arrows
connecting or re-arranging the order of thoughts. My margin annotations
are often perpendicular to the body of the notes.
And it's always fountain pens. But explaining why fountain pens are the only proper tool for a writer will be for another day."
Gary
[From Blank Page # 004]
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"THERE is an entry in the First World War diary of field medic William
Alchorne which gives the reader a harrowing snapshot of the brutality of trench
warfare.He describes how some infantry colleagues came across a kitten pinned
with a bayonet to a wooden door in a deserted German dug-out.
I‘ve got more and more involved into my sketchbook the more I was sitting in front of my computer. I am a German photographer and currently finishing my four year-photography studies with my diploma at university of applied sciences in Dortmund, Germany. Portrait-, fashion- and food/still-life photography is what I like to do most. As everyone knows, the digital revolution in photography is rolling. Sadly, lab-work, which I love, is slowly dying. So I found myself more and more stuck behind the computer, working on huge amounts of data, which even if I get a lot of things done, sometimes leaves me dizzy and not content. Drawing in my journal is an opportunity for me to get back in touch with the "real“ world: real color, real paper, something the hands can really touch on. Also, there is no other place where you can be so spontaneous, except the sketchbook. With journaling you can start anytime anywhere, don‘t have to wait for light or weather, don‘t need no-one else, don‘t have to carry around loads of heavy stuff as in photography, you can just start and follow your inspiration and draw what you see. I think that beauty and elegance is all around us, in everything and everyone, but it is fragile, too. It passes quickly, if you don‘t watch. Just sometimes, some people don‘t see that. I‘d like to make people see. This applies to my drawings as well as to my photography. My husband and I still live in Dortmund, but we will be moving to Hamburg soon. A web-site with my work will also be available shortly, so check back for that.
This is what I use: The watercolor book from Boesner (a German art-supply store, Boesner.com) I currently use most. The paper is fairly heavy (250g). I just got myself the Moleskine watercolor books. Even the larger one is much smaller than my Boesner book, so they should be easier to carry around. For the black outline drawings I use a Rotring Rapidoliner (yes, I still have that and one more refill left) or Copic Multiliner SP, which both are waterproof and refillable. I‘m also a big fan of dip-pens, I have a holder and various nips. For these of course you need dip-pen inks, mine are either from Winsor-newton (not waterproof) or mostly from Rohrer & Klingner, a pigmented drawing ink of a German brand, beautiful colors and very waterproof. I‘m very much into these inks. The watercolors are mostly Windsor-Newton, which I like best, some are from Schmincke. Those for me tend to be a little bit more opaque. I also use liquid gum masking fluid from Schmincke.
Anne Naumann
View her works on FLICKR
© 2006 AN All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.
On the anniversary of last year's devastation from Hurricane Katrina here's a repost of our feature on David Olivier's "People Project" where he sketched neighborhood personalities on a Moleskine notebook:
My house and many of its contents were flooded during Katrina, but I found the Moleskine the other day....
...Well, it's soaked, but not forgotten. Katrina destroyed a lot, but many things survived....That little notebook held up pretty well. And the ghosting of the images on the facing pages somehow seems exactly right. I wonder where all those people are." (Link to post)
Slimbolala
New Orleans
Visit his blog.
© DO All Rights Reserved (Cross posted from Moleskinerie.com)
"I use Miquelrius Journals for all my everyday items now - I mostly use
the 4x6 size which is really handy to carry with me for notes and
addresses I use and items I need to know that my brain tends to forget.
I do computer consulting and web site design for a living and it is
filled with websites and notes of various utiliites and things dealing
with both subjects. I also have a section in the back as an index where
I have easy reference to the page that I wrote an important subject on.
And the pages are cross referenced if I ran out of room or it pertains
to a different subject. When i first purchase the notebook I number the
pages to perform this.
I also have a beautiful Travel Leather Bound journal I picked up at a
"Tuesday Morning" store for about $9 Nice leather outside and gold on
the edges with a beautiful cream lined paper which I write about my
travels I have taken and places I have been. I have been printing out
some of my photos in a 1" x 2" size and posting them with my writing to
help me remember them.
I did use Moleskines but with the smaller size and the bleeding I get
with my fountain pen on the newer ones I switched all toghether to the
Miquelrius journals - Can't wait to order a few of the new ones that
look like the Moleskines..."
DigitalAlan @ Notebookism/FLICKR
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