An interesting article in the New York Times about the writer and performance artist Spalding Gray, whose widow read his journals after his death. Gray, possibly the most celebrated neurotic of our time, kept private journals throughout his long career. Kathleen Russo, who is Gray’s widow and the mother of his children, read the journals … Continue reading Spalding Gray’s Journal
Check out my guest post at the LoveNotebooks blog… it’s all about notebook-related Halloween costume ideas!
Dillon sent me a whole bunch of photos of his collection… actually, half his collection, since the rest is being stored at home while he’s studying abroad for a year. I’m impressed that he brought so many with him! In the first picture, the bottom row is empty notebooks, and the top are notebooks that … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Dillon
Sometimes notebook addiction runs in the family: Shane, a former addict himself, has two daughters with the addiction in their blood! I’m afraid/proud to say that my girls, Julia (8), and Ella (6) are blossoming junior notebook addicts. As I’m looking for journals at Target or TJ Maxx, they always ask if they can get … Continue reading Notebook Addicts of the Week: Julia and Ella
This week’s addict emailed me lots of photos of her notebooks, with the comments below: The photos I have show 32 of my absolute favorites, minus the drawers I have dedicated to course notebooks and other larger ones.The titles should be fairly exclamatory regarding what’s in each image. Â In the sketchbooks, there are two graph … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Amanda
It’s time yet again to crowdsource some of the “help me find this notebook” pleas I get, as well as some other tidbits from the mailbag: Zachary wonders “is it wrong that I saw the movie Thor over the weekend and left realizing I really wanted to find out what type of notebook Natalie Portman’s … Continue reading Reader Questions
The New York Times recently published an extensive profile of an autistic young man and his struggles to function more independently as an adult in the working world. His ambition is to be an illustrator and animator– below are some photos of the amazing little drawings he does in the composition book he carries with … Continue reading The Notebook of an Autistic Artist
Isn’t this gorgeous? See more, including the (als0 gorgeous) final paintings she makes based on studies like this, at :: Mattie’s Online Painting & Photography Studio ::.
This week’s addict was found on Flickr, with a colorful selection of Filofaxes and other notebooks: Â Â I love her color-themed collections! See more at My Journals, Diaries and Notebooks – a set on Flickr.
They come equipped with sketch pads, pencils, and patience. You’ll find them sitting in a group for hours at a time, watching the frenetic action of a public space and sketching what they see, their lines revealing the atmosphere and motion of a moment in time. They are urban sketchers… And some of them are … Continue reading Memphis Urban Sketchers