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Moleskine User Kathleen Rooney Talks Art and Nudity

Posted 12.09.2009 | ( No Comments )

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

Posted 12.08.2009 | ( No Comments )

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 [...]

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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 [...]

with No Comments 12.09.2009 04:12 am in Featured, Interviews

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. [...]

with No Comments 12.08.2009 06:12 am in Featured

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 [...]

with No Comments 12.01.2009 04:12 am in Featured

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 [...]

with No Comments 11.26.2009 02:11 am in Featured

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 [...]

with No Comments 10.26.2009 04:10 am in Featured, Interviews

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 [...]

with No Comments 08.07.2009 04:08 am in Featured

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 [...]

with No Comments 07.01.2009 08:07 am in Interviews

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 [...]

with No Comments 06.19.2009 05:06 am in Interviews

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 [...]

with No Comments 06.15.2009 09:06 am in Uncategorized

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 [...]

with No Comments 06.12.2009 09:06 am in Uncategorized
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