This is my latest favorite website. If you click through, beware! You could easily lose hours and days browsing all the links here:
Famous artists, not-famous artists, just tons of links to sketchbooks! What a great resource. See much, much more at LINKS to ARTISTS’ SKETCHBOOKS ONLINE.
Some cool usage of an engineer’s field book by artist Kim Zoph:
Kim’s comments on using it:
“The journal has a hard, bright yellow cover, which seems like it would withstand variations in the weather quite well. Indeed, it’s advertised as weatherproof and highly durable. The book has 80 pages, with paper of 50% cotton rag content. The white stock is gridded with thin blue and red lines.
I love the way the paper takes watercolor washes. It’s more firm, and the finish considerably more accepting than Moleskine paper, which is what I normally use for my quick sketches.
Although the Sokkia paper ripples a little, the wonderful crackling sound the pages make when you turn them more than compensates for the ripple effect.”
See more at Sokkia Engineer’s Field Book as a Sketchbook | Kim Zoph.
Moleskine has really been expanding their range of themed “Passions” journals, each designed to help users keep track of various interests such as Restaurants, Books, Home Life, Cats, Beer, Chocolate, Coffee, Gardening, Wellness, and more. Now they are introducing the most passionate Passions volume yet: The Moleskine Passions Sex Journal!
This is a family-friendly site so I can’t show a photo of the embossed cover illustrating various kama sutra positions, but I’m sure you get the idea.
Like other notebooks in the Passions series, the Sex Journal is divided into sections with helpful page templates. There’s one where you can dedicate a page spread to each of your sexual partners: a body outline can be marked or labeled with the included stickers to note piercings, tattoos, blemishes, and other physical details. There’s a section for phone numbers and contact details, dates of each encounter, as well as space to record each partner’s preferences, contraception used, lingerie or other fetish garments worn, number of orgasms, etc.
Additional sections cover the sexual aspects of culture: there are pages to note inspiring sex scenes in books and movies, and preferred musical playlists for seduction. There’s also space to record restaurants and bars that are good pick up spots, and log-in information for online dating sites. There’s a glossary of sexual slang in various languages, helpful for the pursuit of nomadic nookie. And of course there’s the expandable back pocket where you can tuck a condom.
As the Moleskine Passions web page states, “Moleskine aficionados are naturally inclined to live fully, enjoying pursuits fueled by curiosity and verve.” If the pursuit of potential partners doesn’t meet that description, I don’t know what does! I mean, let’s face it– Picasso and Hemingway and Chatwin weren’t just icons for their artistic and literary output, and it’s about time Moleskine released a product that gets at the REAL reason people are sitting in cafes trying to emulate them. Whether it’s a bedroom companion or tossed in your bag for globe-trotting booty calls, this Moleskine really is the ultimate little black book.
(See here for the perfect companion product.)
:) Happy April Fool’s Day!
Evan emailed me to fess up about his addiction:
My collection can be seen in the attached photo: The first two are my old journals in chronological order, with #19 being completed, while the much shorter stack is what I have awaiting me, with #20, currently active, on top. I love the sight of an unwritten in journal, it simply brims with possibility.
Also, I have a pair of things that may interest you. The first is a website, the Diary Junction (http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/). It’s an excellent resource for exploring old journals and diaries, and I’ve found it quite interesting. Second is a project called 1000 Journals, started a few years ago (I’m not sure if it is still ongoing). Here’s the site link:http://www.1000journals. com/.
I love it when people share their addiction with not only photos and commentary, but helpful suggestions of further ways to feed everyone else’s addiction! Thanks Evan!
A while back, I posted about some notebooks that appear in the Tintin books
See this recent post for more reader suggestions about notebooks in movies.
Here’s one notebook I don’t think I need to own, a writer’s journal tie-in to the bestselling Fifty Shades of Grey
“Fifty Shades of Grey: Inner Goddess: A Journal
” is to be published May 1 and is a writer’s journal, seeded with quotes and inspiration from James’ trilogy. Some of the pages are salacious red.
“Fifty Shades of Grey: Inner Goddess: A Journal
Via E.L. James’ ‘Shades of Grey: Inner Goddess’: A writer’s journal – latimes.com.
Spotted at JetPens, a very cute notebook with an unusual plastic wire-o binding you can open and close to remove or rearrange pages:
See more at Lihit Lab Aqua Drops Twist Ring Memo Notepad – 2.8″ X 4.7″ – 5 mm Graph – 40 Sheets – Black Cover – JetPens.com.
I love the way all these pages look together– from the Moleskine of Juan Rayos (whose work I also featured in this post):
This week’s addict is back for a second time in the spotlight. The last time I featured her collection, she was only 14 and might have had the highest notebook count to age ratio of anyone I’ve featured. I think this may still be true!
In her own words:
I’m Allie, now 15 years old, going on 16 this April. I just wanted to update you about my still growing collection. When I submitted the photo to you, it ranged only about 80+, and now I’m up to 130+. It’s great that I’ve managed to stop buying notebooks impulsively, but my collection is continuously growing due to my friends giving them to me as gifts and my parents bringing one or two home from their trips abroad.
These notebooks vary from really expensive to really cheap, and around 2/3 or half of my collection is still unused. My school notebooks are decorated by yours truly, but I’m not so sure if my teachers are exactly on board with that (even though the school year’s almost over).
And my darling boyfriend doesn’t even reprimand me for having “too much notebooks” like everybody says. On the contrary, I think he actually encourages it. He got me these two handwoven ones last Christmas, plus a pretty big box of chocolates. I especially love the one with the birds. He knows (I think) how much I love birds.
And then lastly, my art journal. This is where I usually doodle when I’m bored. This is where I do my mixed media practice, calligraphy or even just handwriting practice, and sometimes I add in a few random facts about me. (written with my glorious manual typewriter my mom got me for Christmas.)
Wow. I love not just the collection, but all her creativity in filling and decorating these notebooks! (Beautiful handwriting too!) Thanks for sharing your ever-growing addiction, Allie!
A while back, a reader suggested I do a post on notebooks in movies. I couldn’t think of that many examples myself, as I don’t see that many movies, but this photo from the movie Baby Mama reminded me of the topic! I love earnest and eager Tina Fey efficiently taking notes while Amy Poehler goofs off!
Chime in with a comment if you can recommend any other movies featuring notebooks, or post a photo on my Facebook page!
