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Project Exhibition Submission deadline changed

""Thanks to all of you who are interested in submitting your work to this project, since I've been busy for several business trips and the exhibition fixture was being developed late, the exhibition date is now changed to mid-March. You still have time to submit your work in order to be exhibited, your work will be shown in the a gallery area in Times Square, Hong Kong, as well as being published online at MoleskineArt.com. If you are interested, we still have some space and I'm waiting for more people to participate, so please send me a mail of your intention first, but the final submission of electronic or hardcopy sketches will be 8th March!"

For more details please visit: http://www.MoleskineArt.com

Patrick Ng

Everyman's Journal

"Designed by us because we could not find a decent journal in the market for less than a king's ransom.

The pages are a top-grade, acid-free paper that will not yellow or crumble with age. The Smyth-sewn binding (pages are stitched in place) lets the journal open flat for ease of writing and ensures that neither the years nor thousands of openings will loosen the pages.

Protected from those two great enemies of paper, fire and water, this journal will last for centuries.

With 400 pages in total, it has an index at the front and a perpetual calendar at the back. Intervening pages are numbered for easy indexing, if required. The pages are lightly ruled to guide your writing without being obtrusive - all in a cloth-backed hard cover.

The uses of the journal are limitless. It is an ideal gift to prompt someone to begin a record for the future. "

Everyman's Journal
Lee Valley Tools

Paper over Gadgets

"Since December, my open planner has lived in front of my keyboard on my desk (where I can see it without changing screens) every day. I refer to it, I make notes in it, I doodle in it and I use it heavily. AND it never dies for lack of power or gives me an error message.

I have found that for the creative and often surprising task of day to day living, a human scale solution - such as a blank piece of paper with lines on it - is a far better design than anything you have to turn on, boot up, or type into with your forefinger. Paper just works better. "

MGR @ Apartment Therapy

[via Lifehacker]

Try this when you are exhausted

"I got this advice from someone I greatly respect and it works extremely well if you are tired and just need a little bit of sleep to keep going:

* Sit in a chair at a table.
* Clasp a quarter (other coins will work) in between the thumb and forefinger of your right hand (your left hand will work as well).
* Place the quarter edge onto a plate or saucer (basically on to any surface that will make a sharp noise when the quarter hits it).
* Close your eyes.
* The sound of the quarter falling when your fingers release it will wake you up and you will feel refreshed."

Ross @ Strategize

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Jordon Cooper

"Now you would think that a Daytimer would be a perfect solution. Small and portable and you can have your address book and calendar with you. May work for you. Doesn't work for me. Small papers don't work for me and the people that I know. Changing e-mail addresses, cell phones, Skype usernames, IM. Doesn't work for me. Plus, a bunch of small pages is not how I like to create. I like to write so I can see it. The ones small enough to fit in my pocket are too small to be usable and the ones that I like to use are bindersize.

Now the Palm doesn't do a perfect job for me. I wish it would sync with Gmail's address book (I actually wish Gmail had a decent address book). I also wish Google had a Intellisync of it's own that would allow me to get selected Gmail on my Palm and also be able to send it later on.

In the end, give me a notebook, moleskin or not, to create when I want to create new ideas. At the same time, don't let me leave the house without my Clie. It has much of life in it and when life changes, it is easy to make some quick changes. Two different tools, good for two different tasks and in the end it depends how you use them."

Jordon Cooper
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Ten Answers

" Q. You had a large handbag with you at the [Yankees World Series] game. What was in it?

A. A Hermes address book with an extensible very thin silver pencil; and two other pencils--a black ball-point (my name stamped in gold), retractable, made by a veteran who is paralyzed below the chest, who makes and sells a variety of eye-catchers as a living--Hal McColl, 101 West Club Boulevard, Durham, North Carolina. I occasionally order a pen set of him since it doesn't scratch or exude spiders. In case it gave out, I had a Dixon Ticonderoga with brass cap; had a Standard ring-topped notebook and a little thing of fifteen pages with a glazed white cover, souvenir of Unz & Co., Stationers, 24 Beaver Street, New York City--given me for a trip but saved for a single special event. Then I had a miniature pair of black plastic binoculars weighing an ounce and three-quarters--bought by mail to watch a bluejay that for two or three years had preempted a catalpa tree in a backyard adjacent to my back windows. I like to startle it by imitating it, so that it gives a sharp look round and answers uncertainly. It stays all winter.

Question by man of letters George Plimpton, answer by poet Marianne Moore, from "Ten Answers: Letters from an October Afternoon, Part II," Harper’s, 229 (November 1964).

[via Michael Leddy]

The Polysyllabic Spree

"If you love to read, or like to read, or you're in that vast category of those wishing for more time to read, here is a book that will have you saying "yes" and "so true," or just have you smiling in knowing amusement at most pages. "The Polysyllabic Spree," (yes, it's a takeoff on "The Polyphonic Spree") is a collection of English writer Nick Hornby's recent "Stuff I've Been Reading" monthly columns for The Believer magazine, whose stated mission is to be an "amiable yet rigorous forum for writing about books."

Fans of Hornby know him for books such as "About a Boy" and "High Fidelity" (and movies of the same names). Fans also know that being persistently amiable is not his style. Which, of course, makes his writing very entertaining.

This is not a collection of book reviews, but a reading diary of sharp and thoughtful musings on literature that ultimately asks: Why do we read, anyway?"

The Polysyllabic Spree: A Hilarious and True Account of One Man’s Struggle With the Monthly Tide of the Books He’s Bought and the Books He’s Been Meaning to Read, By Nick Hornby, Believer Books 230 pp., $14

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Posy Simmonds

"While looking through old journals I came across this, cut from an old
Guardian, and thought it might interest you at Journalisimo...

"Plea from a Biographer to Men and Women of Attainment"

Other Posy Simmonds cartoons are here.

Best wishes,

Sophia

“Paper? Ain’t that extinct?”

"I have to wonder about what might be the reasons for the current infatuation with paper, especially those pieces of paper with semi-structured forms for inputting your information.

Is it portability? If you look at my Palm Tungsten E and at my DayRunner, you’ll know which is more portable. Even a pack of Hipster PDA index cards can’t compete with the size of a Palm.

Is it fear of technology? No, not for most. True, there are some people who have never jumped atop the digital bandwagon, but this new millenium is seeing most of them either dying out or reluctantly edging into modern technology. However, a majority of people who have recently taken up paper-based planning with a vengeance are those people for whom computers are a way of life.

Is it ease of sharing or storing information? Nope. You can’t “sync” paper, although you can always photocopy pages at your local library or office supply store. And have you ever had to “search” a full filing cabinet for that little stray snippet of text you need?..."

Douglas Johnston
A Million Monkeys Typing

Life Editions

"Life Editions is a bindery in my old town of Fremantle, Western Australia, which produces some incredibly beautiful-looking work. I discovered them while searching for an old friend online. I wish I’d known about them when I was back recently: I would have stopped by just to see some of this work in person. If it’s this good-looking on-screen, imagine what it must be like to hold in your hands.

The website is still a work in progress (as they all should be be) and the navigation and content is maybe still being worked out, but pay them a visit and take a look at some absolutely stunning work."

Antipixel

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[Thanks Christine!]