Archive

Archive for February, 2010

A Visual Journal Entry by elkemay

Here’s a visual journal created by collector and creator elkemay:

There is so much I want to ask you about now.
I’m sad I didn’t connect more with you.

That our souls spent so little time together.

visual journal entry
022410

~it is hard to make myself believe that this won’t last~
visual journal entry
022410

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]

Posted in Art, Featured, Lifestyle | No Comments »

Track Your Health in Moleskine Style

Moleskiners with a passion for health are sure to welcome the new journal that allows them to keep track of their overall health. From Los Angeles Times’ Booster Shots:
Listen up, rabid Moleskine fanatics: here’s an incentive to stick to your New Year’s resolutions — the new Moleskine Wellness Journal.
Moleskine just introduced this journal, part [...]

Posted in Featured, Lifestyle | No Comments »

An Interview with Bruce Chatwin’s Wife

Mrs. Bruce Chatwin talks about her late husband’s love for his intimate travel companions: the little black notebooks.

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]

Posted in Videos | No Comments »

Review: Artist Mediums in a Fiorentina Journal Refill

I reviewed the Fiorentina Journal refill a few weeks ago using pen and ink, but at the same time, I also did a quick test of the most basic art mediums in the journal and wanted to share the results.
I tested some of my favorite artist mediums in a lined Fiorentina Journal Refill. The results [...]

Posted in Art, Lifestyle, Notebooks, Reviews | No Comments »

Calvin James Bryant’s Moleskine Monday 2.22.10

Hope your enjoying those winter Olympics.  60 watt the cartoon is ready and coming next week.

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]

Posted in Art, Featured, Lifestyle, Moleskine Mondays | No Comments »

Sheaffer Red (Ink Review)

Inkyjournal reviews the Sheaffer Red Ink.
This really surprising bottle of ink I bought in Groningen (in the Northern part of the Netherlands close by where we live) in a store called “De Vulpenwereld” (translation: “Fountain Pen World”). It is a really nice small fountain pen store with excellent staff. The ink sometimes called by it’s [...]

Posted in Inks, Reviews, Tips and Techniques | No Comments »

Byron Morgan’s Moleskine Exchange Project

Byron Morgan is holding a Moleskine exchange project and is inviting members to join. For details, please check out Can We Exchange. For the forum discussion, please go to Moleskine Exchange.

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]

Posted in Featured, Moleskine Exchange | 2 Comments »

Moleskine Sketchbook: Jennifer Mullin’s Stress Reliever

Jennifer Mullin, “art teacher by day and starving artist by night,” deals with stress by creating pages on her trusty Moleskine sketchbook.
February is an insane month in the Art room, when art shows and registration wreak their havoc.
There are two big local art shows that we submit student artwork to, and of course they both [...]

Posted in Art, Featured, Lifestyle | 2 Comments »

The Process of Creating Pages in an Art Journal

Are you one of the many people interested in taking up the hobby of art journaling, but are hesitant to start because you are worried that your work will not turn out the way you want it to? Cynthia Niklas of Journaling Arts addresses just that.
I have heard from many of you who are uncomfortable [...]

Posted in Art, Featured, Lifestyle, Tips and Techniques, Tutorial | No Comments »

Calvin James Bryant’s Moleskine Monday: 2/15/10

HAPPY PRES DAY

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]

Posted in Featured, Moleskine Mondays | No Comments »

Urban Sketchers Interviews Illustrator Tin Salamunic

Urban Sketchers’ Gabi Campanario interviews Tin Salamunic, an accomplished illustrator whose byline can be found in publications such as The Washington Post and ESPN Magazine. In the interview, Tin talks about his passion for sketching and his “Pictural Colloquy.”

At 26, Tin Salamunic is already an accomplished illustrator published internationally. His byline can be found in [...]

Posted in Art, Featured, Lifestyle | No Comments »

Moleskine Doodles by Jim Bradshaw

Artist James Bradshaw of Jim Bradshaw Illustration likes getting all messy with cutting and glue. Here are samples of his moleskine doodles.

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]

Posted in Albums, Art, Featured, Lifestyle | No Comments »

Review: Pen and Paper Test in a Fiorentina Journal Refill

Journaling Arts reviews journals made by Italian brand Fiorentina.
Fiorentina offers a complete line of Italian journals produced by small artisans as well as a fully established manufacturing plant that has supplied the gift industry for more than 30 years. The journals range from contemporary, pocket-sized journals, to elaborate, hand-crafted journals which ooze traditional, Italian design. [...]

Posted in Notebooks, Reviews | No Comments »

Notes in a Book Reviews the Flora and Fauna Diary

Travisthetrout of Notes in a Book reviews the Flora and Fauna Diary from Cavallini & Co.

I know I am late with the Diary Review, but they do have a notebook exactly the same style and just a little thicker and with the same paper which you may be interested in if you’re not in the [...]

Posted in Featured, Notebooks, Reviews | No Comments »

A Writer’s Greatest Tool: The Smartphone

We have heard so much about how pens and notebooks serve a writer’s purpose. But here is one instance when a writer prefers the more modern way of dealing with ideas that go out of your head as fast as they come in.
I’m a writer, and I don’t carry a notebook around with me. Heck, [...]

Posted in Featured, Lifestyle, Writing | No Comments »

Calvin James Bryant’s Moleskine Monday: 2/8/10

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]

Posted in Featured, Moleskine Mondays | No Comments »

Productivity Pr0n: 5 Unusually Useful Notepads

Stepcase Lifehack’s Dustin Wax is a notepad addict, in addition to being a “a paper enthusiast, a connoisseur of the carnet, a gourmand of the grid line, a foodie of foolscap.” In this article, he shares a few more of his finds.

Hi. My name is Dustin, and I’m addicted to notepads.
I first realized I was [...]

Posted in Featured, Writing | 2 Comments »

Moleskine Passions - Recipe Journal

Moleskine Passions - Recipe Journal

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]

Posted in Videos | 1 Comment »

KMSA: How Many Words Are in Your Journal?

The Knights of Moleskine, Spirit & Ale (KMSA), an esteemed group of men and women who Think, Drink, and are Merry, celebrate the “birthday of sorts for journal writers.”
On this day in 1884, the first portion, or fascicle, of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), considered the most comprehensive and accurate dictionary of the English language, [...]

Posted in Featured, Lifestyle, Stories, Writing | 2 Comments »

Calvin James Bryant’s Moleskine Monday: 2/1/10

TRIBUTE TO THE GRAMMYS.
Artwork by Calvin James, Creative Director, Sehota & Company

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]

Posted in Moleskine Mondays | No Comments »