Moleskine User Kathleen Rooney Talks Art and Nudity
Bookslut interviews Kathleen Rooney, founding editor of Rose Metal Press and the author of Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object. Describing herself as the “frequently that-girl-with-the Moleskine, shamelessly/potentially obnoxiously jotting my direct sensory impressions of experiences as they are happening,” Kathleen explains the difference between nude and naked, and why “photography is arguably more creepy than painting,” and some more.
Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, and the author, most recently, of the collaborative poetry chapbook Don’t ever stay the same; keep changing and Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object. In late October 2009 she was interviewed over e-mail about the latter by Elizabeth Hildreth, herself no stranger to the world of professional nudity. They discuss, among other things, why art modeling is probably neither as sexy nor as boring as you might [...]
10 Great Thinkers Who Carried a Moleskine
From Online Classes.org:
In the early 20th century, a small family-owned business in France kept many a Paris stationer stocked with little black notebooks that became the tool of choice for famous artists and writers of the time. Eventually the man who manufactured these notebooks died, leaving many to mourn the loss of the portable notebooks. When a publisher in Milan began making similar books, naming them Moleskine after Bruce Chatwin’s description of the small black notebooks he bought in Paris, the popularity of these notebooks experienced a resurgence. So who were some of these great thinkers who used the original Moleskines? Take a look below to learn about ten of the most famous.
Bruce Chatwin. This famous travel writer, author of In Patagonia, was a famous Moleskine enthusiast. In fact, he is credited with dubbing these small notebooks “Moleskine.” When the [...]
Moleskine User Kathleen Rooney Talks Art and Nudity
Bookslut interviews Kathleen Rooney, founding editor of Rose Metal Press and the author of Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object. Describing herself as the “frequently that-girl-with-the Moleskine, shamelessly/potentially obnoxiously jotting my direct sensory impressions of experiences as they are happening,” Kathleen explains the difference between nude and naked, and why “photography is arguably [...]
10 Great Thinkers Who Carried a Moleskine
From Online Classes.org:
In the early 20th century, a small family-owned business in France kept many a Paris stationer stocked with little black notebooks that became the tool of choice for famous artists and writers of the time. Eventually the man who manufactured these notebooks died, leaving many to mourn the loss of the portable notebooks. [...]
Does Your Product Have a High Threadcount?
Ben Foden reveals why people are willing to shell out a substantial amount of money for products with a high threadcount.
Does it?
We are willing to pay a lot more for high threadcount sheets because they touch our skin — they are something that is truly close to us on a regular basis.
High threadcount cloth appears [...]
A Moleskine Diary Offers a Touch of Class
LurveTech Dot Com writes about how a moleskine diary can be your best choice if you’re looking for a diary that exudes sophistication.
Moleskine products such as Moleskine notebooks also known as the Moleskine diary, are nothing short of legendary. Made in Italy, these fantastic products add a touch of class and sophistication wherever they are [...]
An Interview with Fernando Volken Togni
Colorvision Magazine interviews graphic designer and illustrator Fernando Volken Togni. As a child, his big passions were “crayons, paint, colored pencils and paper, a lot of paper.” Now, he’s a graphic designer living his biggest passion.
1 – To Start, tell us a bit about yourself where you were born and where you live…
I was born [...]
Designers Scribbles
From DesignO’Blog:
Creativity can spark at the strangest moments - Thats why its good to always be prepared to jot ideas down in a handy dandy notebook. Take a peek at 24 designers sketchbooks and get a look behind the scenes of creative minds.
Chris Spooner
These particular sketches are from a year or two back while sitting [...]
An Interview with Fabio Iaschi
Fabio Iaschi is a well-admired artist and illustrator on the web, with My Moleskine as his best known project. His artistic abilities has paved the way for numerous awards and recognitions for this Italian art director.
The subject matters on his moleskine are usually famous people as well as his family and friends. As to his [...]
Mattias Adolfsson Amazes Us with Pigs and Elephants
How do you get from being an artist who enjoys sketching to somebody with a remarkable online following? Simple. Just have a penchant for drawing pigs, elephants, buildings, windows and flying things of a Baroque-ian inclination and try not to be serious.
Fans of popular Swedish graphic artist Mattias Adolfsson may want to pick up a [...]
Old School Just Got Modern
If you belong to the pre-Generation Y era, then you can hark back to the days when you lugged around bunches of notebooks to school and made good academic use of them, doodles included.
During that time, no one had any inkling that playthings like BlackBerries, iPhones, Treos and Macs would one day dominate the progressive [...]
The Dawn of the Moleskiners
The resurgence of the moleskin notebook, particularly the Moleskine®-brand, brought with it a new dawn for many notebook enthusiasts who look to quality materials to permanently embed their artistic visions. This devoted group is called the Moleskiners.
Who are the Moleskiners?
The Moleskiners are a group of individuals who either have a fixed inclination towards artistic pursuits [...]
Two weeks ago the Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference – that annual four-day summer camp for travel creators – magically unfolded in Marin County’s Corte Madera once again. The conference is always one of the highlights of the year for me, and it proved so this year as well. [...]
This article gives some pointers that are basic in writing for profit. If setting out as a writer for the first time, the article gives some principles that can be taken as starting points and for those already in the field the principles can be considered as refreshers. After all, information [...]
Students must learn how to take notes as this will help them “reprocess information in their own conceptual framework.”
In 1999, the National Research Council published a major study: How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School. The results confirmed what most forward-looking educators already understood: In order to learn, students must reprocess information in their [...]
Antique diamond ring - perfect for anniversaries or engagements
Some women like to watch when talking about antique jewelry, if you are like to buy antique jewelry style, you can still enjoy the wealth and not spend her preferences. Although you can spend in this truly antique style ring a lot of money, you can move [...]
Antique diamond engagement ring
Typically, an engagement ring is platinum or economic conditions or the buyer’s tastes may be. Engagement ring, it has two types, with antiques and industrial circles.
Circle design on the property 50 years ago. It is the word itself from the real estate, housing ring. Present the common design as Edward, Victoria, and [...]
Erik Deckers of Professional Blog Service shares the techniques professional bloggers use.
Anyone can write a basic blog. It’s not that hard. And I’ve talked for hours, whether at seminars or at a one-on-one “brain picking” session about basic blog writing. But I rarely get the chance to talk about advanced blogging, the secrets that I [...]
Affordable jewelry, to keep the moment
For centuries, is considered part of the bond symbol of two things. It may be between a man and nature, a group of friends, family and brothers, or a bond a man and a woman bond debt. Many of these bonds commitment of two or more people each forgery, that [...]
Guys, all you are good at is scolding a cop,
Yes, some of your statements have meaning, indeed,
But words with no reasons won’t get you on top,
You’re giving your fellows a casual feed
Of rhyming curse words that you cast out loud,
So over-inflated and false-emphasized,
You try to be brusque, and you merge with the crowd,
Your ego is [...]
An Interview with Fabio Iaschi
Fabio Iaschi is a well-admired artist and illustrator on the web, with My Moleskine as his best known project. His artistic abilities has paved the way for numerous awards and [...]
Moleskiners: Continuing the Moleskin Tradition
Vincent Van Gogh. Henri Matisse. Pablo Picasso. Ernest Hemingway. Jean Paul Sartre.
They are five of the greatest and the most enduring art and word prodigies. Perhaps as enduring and as [...]
Hearting Moleskines
Moleskines have become synonymous with creativity for some time now. Even though they have sprung into most people’s consciousness only recently, having been forced into banishment due to the manufacturer’s [...]
The Dawn of the Moleskiners
The resurgence of the moleskin notebook, particularly the Moleskine®-brand, brought with it a new dawn for many notebook enthusiasts who look to quality materials to permanently embed their artistic visions. [...]
Old School Just Got Modern
If you belong to the pre-Generation Y era, then you can hark back to the days when you lugged around bunches of notebooks to school and made good academic use [...]
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