"Walking is life at its most immediate. The combination of people and places changes constantly and never repeats. It makes you small in the face of sheer numbers, but at the same time it’s reassuring. It’s nice to be one of the fish in this teeming sea. This film is an attempt to capture the feeling of looking at people. And it’s o.k. to stare, they are only flickering watercolor ghosts of people observed fleetingly on a summer afternoon in midtown. Shay Lynch’s score adds drama to the mystery."
"Here's something I think is very cool - Johnny Long, security expert and author of Google Hacking (and more) has relocated to Africa and is blogging his journey via (what appears to be) a Moleskine Cahier..."
We veer a bit from the usual for this piece by Howard Rheingold, Internet visionary and Moleskine use.
The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge - the search engine. Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part - the part a machine can do. The real difficulty kicks in when you click down into your search results. At that point, it's up to you to sort the accurate bits from the misinfo, disinfo, spam, scams, urban legends, and hoaxes. "Crap detection," as Hemingway called it half a century ago, is more important than ever before, now that the automation of crapcasting has generated its own word: "spamming."...
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Biker Kevin Shannon left a note at our Facebook group about his project:
Bradley Farless, who describes himself as an "American blogging about life in Singapore and the Philippines" shared his thoughts on his recent purchase:
We picked the pocket sized versions because that makes for easy portability. It'll slip easily into a bag or pocket. The quality is really nice. Each one is hand made, and comes with a defect-free guarantee that's easy to cash in on. If you find a defect, all you have to do is take a digital image and e-mail it to a provided address. They'll ship you a new notebook right away. Quality and service are important to this company.
Welcome to OPEN SESSION: The Moleskinerie Open Thread Discussion.
Moleskinerie invites you, our visitors to share your thoughts on a special topic.
Today it is "Where do you write?"
This week's topic was inspired by the ongoing series of features at the Guardian, "Writers' Rooms"
Above: Dr. David Starkey's writing room. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe© The Guardian/UK All rights reserved LINK
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We welcome EnricoBonilauri, our newest member at the Moleskinerie/FLICKR group. That makes us 11,851-strong as of today.
"I`m an Italian Architect, born in 1980, with a Master Degree in Sustainable Design.
I lived in Germany and Australia, travelled in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America.
My favourite techniques are pencil, ink and watercolor. I`ve been mainly drawing architecture and landscapes, but I`m thinking to start doing portraits as well. ..."
If you haven't yet, you are invited to join us there.
Friend Joy Rothke shared this link of an illustrator she's been following:
"...he just looks at me. The screwier I talk and mess with my voice, the more he cocks his head and ears.
So…he either thinks I’m totally nuts or…he is filing away the experience for association to whatever happens next. That’s gotta leave him really wondering what life is all about because the next exit, where the associated actions will take place, is about ten minutes down the road. And he’ll not relate the two…words and actions…unless they are about ten seconds apart. So when he’s with me, and he’s not sleeping, he’s probably wondering “what the HELL is taking place here!”...."
Discover Idle Minutes, by Don West
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"I entered the Moleskin 2.0 Exhibition contest. My idea is to use the fore-edge of the notebook. When you fold the notebook length-wise (when the spine practically touches the long edge of the back cover), the fore-edge of the pages fan out. Only when the notebook is folded this way, does a subway map clearly appear. This is due to the fact that the map is printed on the edge while the notebook is positioned like this. You can hide the fact that you are consulting a subway map and be spared the embarrassment and scorn from locals...."
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