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"This is the area where
I make my candles."—Jarrod, Eagle vs. Shark
The way you drop is like a stone
Making out you're flying
But you've just been thrown.—The Jesus and Mary Chain, "Drop"
There was a book in the library about Holland. There were lovely foreign names in it and pictures of strangelooking cities and ships. It made you feel so happy.
—James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
In fact, while we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices, we watch the Battle of Borodino with them, we may even become Napoleon. Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
Is it any wonder that no truly respectable society has ever trusted its artists?
—Ursula K. Le Guin,
Introduction,
The Left Hand of Darkness"What are my dreams?"
—Jerri Blank
Being a famous artist in the Culture meant at best it was accepted you must possess a certain gritty determination . . . .
—Iain M. Banks,
Excession"I hope you will consider what I arrange, but be skeptical of it."
—John Berger,
Ways of SeeingSome sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.
—Andrei Tarkovsky
Tag Archives: notebook
Workshop Handout: One-sheet Notebook
Workshop Handout: Two-sided One-sheet Notebook with Alternate Covers (layered PDF)
Preliminary Study 1: “Memo Book”
Preliminary Study: Grayscale (PDF) Preliminary Study: Paper Color (PDF) Preliminary Study: Printable / Imposed (PDF)
Animated ‘Jumble’
A 3″ x 3″ miniature book from 2011. Printed in 7 runs over the course of 3 weeks on a Vandercook SP15, this 4-folio, 16-page book is too small to contain all of the text it struggles to contain. Which … Continue reading
Lost ‘Notebook’
Sad little lost artist’s book. So, I mailed off one of the last few copies of an artist’s book it took me a million years to make, and it ended up getting delivered to somewhere in the hinterlands of Limbo. … Continue reading
Because of Germs
A drawing my Uncle did back in the Fifties. Love the see-through arms.
Demo Notebooks
Various leftover demo notebooks, all either stapled or sewn with a single pamphlet stitch. A couple have laminated coloring book covers, just as an experiment. Kind of worked, kind of didn’t, so more experimenting needs to happen. One problem is, … Continue reading
Model Books
Almost done, except I have to correct a typo on the other handout before I can copy it. But at least it won’t be 30+ copies of a model notebook. Just plain old regular handouts from here on out.
And yet it moves . . .
A quick and dirty animation for a presentation I have to give tomorrow, which isn’t about Galileo, except that I’ll mention him as one of my big heroes, because of how he looked at the sky and saw things there … Continue reading
Bonus Info: Sewing
Working with a punching cradle: use scrap card stock to soften the impact of the awl, line up your folios against the fence at the end of the cradle, punch straight down, make small holes. To sew a simple pamphlet, … Continue reading
Bonus Info: Pamphlet Prep
This is Part 1 of the next-to-last post in this mini-series about the “Intro to Bookbinding” class we had on July 27th. I’ll do a write-up about tools next and then it’s on to other long-delayed work for a while. … Continue reading
Bonus Info: One Sheet Books
Note: The February, 2018 post “Workshop Handout: One-sheet Books / Mini Zines” features an updated printable version of this diagram. It appeals to my sense of the absurd that I spent the day making diagrams of one of the world’s … Continue reading
Rough Draft: Pyotr and Uta
Pyotr and Uta by Ugo Litorina translated by TW The first time Pyotr saw Uta was at the Zoo in Cosmonaut Park, where he had gone to play chess with the lemurs, which he had done every other Wednesday for … Continue reading