I’ve been wondering how to save all the meeting and shoot doodles from my Kokuyo binder notebook. With a little free time yesterday, plus an Elmer’s Glue Stick, I tried my hand at collage in a Moleskine. So far, so good. I decided not to trim flush to the doodles, but to leave obvious white …
From Poor Sailor on Flickr, a cherubic harlequin. Blogged with the Flock Browser
After Mass, we passed by HMR. The self-styled “surplus haus” boasted banners in summer colors, and streamers with huge “70% off” headlines in watermelon red. HMR usually has computers, audio and video equipment, legacy parts and supplies (when was the last time you saw dot-matrix printer paper, or 128 MB thumb drives?), and furniture. The …
I am thankful for the Pentel Aquash, which I carry together with a pan of gouache. I know I can’t paint worth flapdoodle but it is interesting to observe how fountain pen ink mixes with other media. On the Fountain Pen Network, there’s a good thread that explains dye versus pigment versus paint. Writing with …
Farewell, Pattaya. Thank you, Nat and crew, for being so helpful throughout my tour of jury duty. The trip from Pattaya to the Bangkok airport will take a couple of hours, so that will give me a chance to nap.
I have always loved “Miss Yuko Yamada looks for her first job,” since Dentsu featured it in its Asian advertising talk at Cannes. I am delighted to report it has won one of the only two golds awarded by the AdFest 2008 TV jury. The other gold went to Maxell’s Forever and Ever campaign. Both …
Read & Write in Paragon Department Store has a decent fountain pen section. Imagine my giddiness when I dropped by and found out they were on sale. I decided to pick up the Pelikan Shanghai and the Pelikan Piazza Navona. Part of the Cities series, the Shanghai is yellow and red with a warm pink …
When I arrived at PEACH, Sompat told me the Press and Poster awards were going to be split across two nights, because the show would take too long. So last night was Print Craft and Design, Direct, Radio and Press. It didn’t feel that long, really, because there were many categories where no awards were …
The Encyclopedia of Japanese Women, unruled paper, bound in faux leather, was yesterday’s big hit. Moleskine, here’s an idea for you.
It occurs to me that the Mac world view is that the universe is good, and no one runs snooper apps when Macs log on to a public network. 😉 Look at all those Mac servers. Bonjour, indeed.