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A veces los viajes en el tren de cercanÃas se hacen largos y uno no tiene más remedio que garabatear un poco para no morirse de aburrimiento.
Fungus Workshop Leather Craft
I learned leather craft from a few books but I felt kind of lonely just doing things I like all by myself. Thanks to Bubi Au Yeung, a figurine artist, who told me about Fungus Workshop, so I signed up for a beginner's class, two lessons passed and I got to know stuffs I didn't learn from books, plus knowing these passionate people who enjoy life and craft genuinely, which is kind of rare in a city like Hong Kong.
Each classmate choose what he/she would like to do from a bunch of samples. I chose to do something in the line of stationery (later I will do a camera/laptop messenger bag). Their template was a notebook cover, but I decided to make it a GTD index card holder. After finishing it, I decided to add a notebook for note taking and an antique key to nostalgize the whole thing.
For all leather projects I did, improvisation in the last minute seems to add beautiful touches to a plain project. As you can see, the enclosure here doesn't wrap the back of the cover to the front, instead it leaves the back wide open so I can dangle the whole notebook or even hook it up to my messenger bag.
Instead of a Moleskine notebook, I put a Rhodia notebook inside just because of its bright orange color, to lighten up a bit. However, I hate the fact that the PU cover of Rhodia discolored after just 6 months from my acquisition of it. In addition, it just doesn't lie flat like a Moleskine does when opened. Anyhow, the discoloration did added the raw and battered look I like.
For those of you who are in Hong Kong and hunger for leather craft, I highly recommend Fungus Workshop. Hoiming and Baldwin, Grace and Philip, all four are friendly souls you can chat with and learn from. I am so happy Hong Kong is catching up with Japan and Taiwan in leather crafting. Keep it up Fungus!
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Sketchbooks (pack of three).
Similar to small moleskine cahiers.
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Stepcase Lifehack recently has an article by Dustin Wax about "How to Live Artfully". Interesting comments from fellow viewers and you've got to spare a few minutes rethinking about life. The tips may sound trivial to materialists but when you appreciate life's finer details you open up yourself to connect to people in whole new ways.
Art of living or life of art, I've been trying to mingle. And they gradually became un-separable, what a great synergy between these two simple words. You find two words and associate them to become your mantra. Here's my addition to Dustin's list:
lovely article! Attention to details with appreciation, logging dreams seriously are among the things I do most often to get inspired. I have one thing to add:
Create Methods: most of us most of the time REACT to what’s happening to us, but before you react, try to create a whole new method to tackle the issues on hand. This habit will give you a lot of insights and train yourself to be even more creative, one step at a time. You will soon discover that nothing is really impossible too. Just remember *everything is connected*, you just have to find paths leading to what you intend to happen. Most rewarding by itself in my life.
What's that to do with the photo in this post? I'll leave it to your imagination, but it is a photo shot of our 2008 back to school thematic promotion. A great stationery series from Artemis, flexible A5 notebook system which you can customize the way you like it. Add diary, notebook, zip pockets, name card holders, photo album or clear folder to your beloved cover and you get a personal system. That's why the series is called "Put Together". All time best seller for us. And I'm not advertising, I just love the simplicity of it.
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You can't see too much of any one notebook, but here are all of my notebooks in a single photo! I should probably stop buying them since these are 99% empty.
For many of these, since they are often not from the US, I try to indicate where I purchased it (though the item may not have been manufactured there). Check the notes for each item. :-)
As you might be able to tell, I clearly have a thing for vintage designs, even though these are all new.
The notebook laid out on the floor, approximately four metres long. This will be part of the WOA exhibition "Red" this opens on 6th February 2016.
The 'Red Notebook' is a series of woodland studies. Each book is about four metres long. These works are a development of my recent 'plein air' paintings and concern both memory and observation.This work is comprised of two concertina notebooks drawn in mixed media, using ink, gouache, graphite and charcoal. The basis for these two scroll-like drawings is Simon's Wood near Crowthorne, Berkshire and Badbury Clumps near Faringdon. Much of my work between 2011 and 2015 was painted out of doors ('plein air') with no reference to photographs or subsequent studio alteration. These drawings, although largely begun from observation, were worked on over a longer period of time, each taking on their own life. By using touches of red and rose madder washes I was able to pick out certain characteristics of the winter woodlands. The mark making was also an emotional and even physical response to the immediate environment. Unlike my recent paintings they do not employ one vanishing point but rather are like a frieze which can envelope the field of vision. I placed both works on the ground within the woodland. They actually became wet with the raindrops and were in some way connected with the place that a purely imaginary work could not be. Both works are slightly different in technique, one more fiery and the other slightly more subdued. They were painted and drawn in January, which this year has been unusually warm and wet. Like much of my work, they concern atmosphere and an engagement with the natural world.
The brighter of the two drawings also connects the tree and undergrowth forms with Red Coral or maybe human veins and blood. However, I don't see either work as overtly symbolic or necessarily a comment upon contemporary events. It remains my concern to express nature in as vital and vibrant a way as possible and to fully engage with the experience of looking hard at what's out there. I like the idea that a drawing like this can be cinematic and without a beginning or an end, that the work can envelop and absorb which is akin to one's experience in the woodland itself.
Martin Beek 2016
i like notebooks so much.. i keep buying them but 80% havent been used. i have somemore but i cannot remember when i placed them -_-
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Daily Shoot assignment: Make a photograph with a shallow depth of field today. Get in close if you need to force it with the lens you have.