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Book Cover Design for Moleskiner.cn 1st Year Blog Content Publication

Moleskiners from mainland China is lucky to have great contents covered by Moleskiner.cn, their constantly updated web site is full of information collected from various sources.  One year has passed and they decided to publish limited quantity (on-demand) blog summary of the past year in the form of a book.  If you are interested in creating a book cover design for this book, please visit this blog post and submit your design according to the specification.  At this stage, they haven't decided whether there will be just one book cover or there will be several for people to choose when they finally publish the book.

Book Cover Design for Moleskiner.cn 1st Year Blog Content Publication

For the fun of it I made up one version last night and sent to 广善.  He also made up one today, while others are doing the same.  I love the creative forces behind this project which everyone just contribute as much as they can for fun.

How to Put 4 Notebooks into Traveler's Notebook Leather Cover

Since many of you asked, I'd better put these into instructions for you to follow.  It is possible to put as many notebooks into the leather cover as you want, that is if you can tolerate a thick pile of paper.

First, the elastic band which came with the notebook is already configured in a way you can put 2 notebooks in the cover.

To add 2 more, simply use the additional elastic band to hold Notebook 3 and 4 together in their spines.

Then insert this Notebook 3 and 4 duo underneath the first two notebooks, i.e. between the cover and Notebook 1 and 2.

Finally, pull Notebook 3 and 4 through so that all notebooks' spines are met.  Hope this helps!

Responses to M.bian Moleskine Case 2

Just a quick note to record what's going on following up the M.bian Moleskine Case - an abandoned project and Responses to M.bian Moleskine Case posts.  Thanks to Armand who posted my M.bian case to Moleskinerie, in addition to the responses to my vox blog, I found many responded to the Moleskinerie posts as well like here and here.  Anyway, I will ask a friend of mine to make a leather version of it just for fun.  Update you guys later.

Site Traffic Sep 2007

Interestingly, my site traffic shows significant increase from U.S. visitors after Armand's post.  This shows something about Moleskinerie and my site traffic source.  Oh I got many Japanese visitors as well, thanks for coming!  :)

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Forever Silence - Marcel Marceau Died on 22nd Sep 2007

Oh man I just found out today, Marcel Marceau died on 22nd Sept 2007.  He came to Hong Kong quite many times to perform and I was introduced to him by my secondary school drama teacher Mr. Pak and went to see his show in Arts Center.  I was inspired by the power of movement in silence and to date I still treasure this experience very much and learned that communication is not just about spoken words.

Forever Silence - Marcel Marceau Died on 22nd Sep 2007

In his words "Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?" really captured my understanding of emotions, expressions and communication.

Marcel Marceau

More about Marcel in IMDb.

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Lomo World Congress - 2nd Day

My day started with Dr. Gerald Matt, Director of Kunsthalle Wein on the subject "The Making of an Exhibition".  It was not a typical lomographer's workshop but it got us a glimpse of what things are being considered from an art institute for exhibitions execution.  From running a business, to politics and the struggle between popular visits of a museum to obligations to bring arts awareness to the public, Gerald covered a lot and he couldn't stop by telling us all.  I am totally interested in his "Indicator of Success" form, which he would ask people who are interested to do projects with Kunsthalle Wein to fill-in and evaluate.  For me it was a new exposure to the world of museum and art galleries.  I should be able to cover more of his topic later on.

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Later on after lunch, I joined the "Urban Symbols" tour lead by BA Students to walk from Aldgate Brick Lane to Liverpool station.  The weather was great and we'd seen many graffiti and took as much photos as we'd found interesting.

The whole tour was about graffiti and we took lots and lots of pictures and the challenge is that every film submitted will be developed and will be used to add to the last 20,000 photos on the lomo wall in Trafalgar Square.

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After finished the walk around 4:30pm everybody gathered in front of a cafe and films were collected for development.

   

Finishing a day's Urban Symbols walking tour

So everybody was a little bit tired and some took beer and sat  along the street.

Collecting All Films for the Trafalgar Square Lomo Wall

For a few pounds you get your film developed.  There is just too much I want to share but my battery is running out.....

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Type Adventure in Convent Garden

Today's adventure after the event at Trafalgar Square: Convent Garden antique shopping!

Type Case, Antique Keys, Wooden/Metal Types

I bought some very nice type case, antique keys and metal/wooden types.  I was so excited to find these stuffs and spent 90p!  The type case I got is actually from one of the press in Fleet Street, which is a famous street in London named after River Fleet, it was traditionally the home of the British press up until 1980s, even though the last major British news office Reuters left in 2005.

Daniel Fenton

Daniel Fenton runs The Old Printing Shop of London.  He served a 6-year apprenticeship as a compositor/printer handsetting wood and metal type. Working since then with his wife and two sons, he has been collecting printing equipment from all over Great Britain, including wooden and metal type, illustrative blocks, printing presses and many other items.  He is a very nice guy, come to the Convent Garden Market every Monday to setup the booth.

Wooden Types

Ever wonder why the capital letters are called upper cases?  Coz printers used to store capital letter types at the top of their type cases and small letters at the bottom, that's where the term came from.  Check out the wiki about this.

Type Cases and Wooden Types

It is getting more and more difficult to find these wooden and metal types.  I'm so happy I can find such a large supply and Daniel seems to have more of these other than what he can show in the booth.

Type Cases and Metal Types

I not only got some nice wooden types but also logos like the British emblem, FBI, the Bookseller's Association, The Stationer's Association, etc etc..... a tremendous reward on just the first day of this visit!

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Lomo World Congress - 1st Day

Student In Front of Lomo Wall in Trafalgar Square

Such a fun day today!  The Lomo World Congress started today in London at the same time with London Design Festival.  I had a great tour with Maya Newman who held the morning session Workshop called Waterloo Sunset.  We met at the Lomo Ship (HMS President) at Victoria Embankment and Maya took us for a tour around the city.  Tate Modern, Millennium Bridge, a graffiti area with skateboarders, London eye, etc etc and we headed to Trafalgar Square to see the largest ever Lomo wall.  I knew Maya for a while from Flickr and always amazed with every one of her photo.  Today I finally met her and she is such a nice and easy going person.  I learned that she came from Israel and now stays in New York.  Shoot exclusively by film and cross-processing.

Lomo World Congress Gift Pack

Later in the afternoon, a press event was held in Trafalgar Square.  This is a congress pack I got.  A great Diana limited edition camera, a London Lomo Notebook which contains all the information of the congress schedule, maps and some fun stuffs, a congress pamphlet, a 120 AGFA film, 2 shiny stickers of the congress logo, a Diana book.  I couldn't join the Austria Embassy's dinner party though.  The first day is plain fun and I'm sure there are more great adventures coming up this week.

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London Telephone Booth - Sex

London Telephone Booth

I arrived London last night, without any store open on Sunday after 6pm, I walked around the University of London area and found an interesting phone booth.  It was posted with dozens of phone sex ads.  And this phone booth was just in front of a book store, how funny.  I really want to see who's calling :)  I should stalk the booth if I have nothing to do at night.

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1000 Journals' Film - Andrea Kreuzhage's Message

Director/Producer Andrea Kreuzhage gave me a note about the last post on the 1000 Journals Film.

"I just saw -- and love -- your entry about 1000 Journals. Great use of the graphics.
I wanted to to tell you our film is finished and has been invited to the AFI Fest. More on this, links, etc. on
http://1000journals.blogs.com/docublog/  Would you care to post yet another link: http://www.1000journalsfilm.com/signup.html so we can send out screening dates for the film..."

1000 Journals Trailer

Check out this trailer which is already intriguing.  Where are the other 999?  What are some of the stories behind the one that came back?  Will these 1000 journals say something about our degree of separation?  I can't wait to find out from the film.  Do sign-up!

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Global Collaborative Journals - it's not that easy

A few years ago I signed up for the 1000 journal project and the Wandering Moleskine project.  Both a gloabl collaboration project but in both cases, I never received any journals from them.  They are really hard to execute projects. Anything happen to the people or the journal in the list before you, it won't reach you. The 1000 journal project started 2000 and only in 2003 did Brian Singer (the project creator, who calls himself "Someguy") received the first one, number 526.

1000 journals

A film is under construction to interview/document the 1000 journals participants.  A book was published in 2007 by Chronicle Books.  A newer project called 1001 Journals has started.  Check out the relevant sites below:

• 1000 Journals
• 1000 Journals - A film by Andrea Kreuzhage
• 1001 Journals
• The 1000 Journals Production Blog
• ABC News about the 1000 Journals project
  

1000 Journals Project

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You may want to learn more about the project when Brian Singer was interviewed by readersvoice.  "I know you had one journal return to you.  How many do you hope will return and when will you call an end to the project?" "Can you tell about the "pirates" in St Louis and their photographic clues to a journal's whereabouts?" "What was the story behind the missing journals 114 and 194, contributed to by Andy who died in March, 2001?"...... interesting read here.

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