A how to diagram for Guerilla Bookbinding which will be happening at Spike Island in February. I'm going to produce a whole booklet like this with the 6-10 different bindings I'll be teaching.
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Saturday, 3 December 2005
coptic stitch
Friday, 2 December 2005
the garden of eden
Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either,or; it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
From Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
planning saturday
It's going to be the first Saturday in a while at home for me, and I'm looking forward to a day's farting around the place. Laundry will get done, tidying will happen, and all within reach of a never-cooling kettle.
I'm also going to treat myself to a job I've wanted to do for some time: drawing up my own diagram-guides for my guerilla bookbinding class. I've appropriated stuff from all over before, but I'm planning a sort of folksy handlettered booklet feel. I'll be able to devise it as a booklet in itself, too, which will be satisfying and give my students a nifty way to keep some record of the bedlam that might possibly be referred to. The least I can do after benfitting from other's work is to offer my own material for others: I'll post versions for download when I get them finished.
Lindy's invited me over for dinner on Saturday night, too, which will be cool.
Thursday, 1 December 2005
flickrmeet
...was good. About 300 pics incoming on Flickr (occasionally interesting, largely not). I may even edit them one day.
In the meantime, thanks everyone for being such good company, and happy anniversary to S&V!
Bristl Flickrmeet
Link: Bristol Flickr Meet
It's time to have a beer or two and meet some of the other people currently viewing the visual world as a series of photo opportunities. speaking for myself, I'm in a sort of exhausted, post-jaded state where I seem to have taken all the photographs I know how to take. I'm now approaching some sort of other-state where I take the photograph because it wants me to take it, rather than the other way around. I think my recent pictures are unexciting, really, but they exist now, and I'm waiting for one of them to tell me something, so I keep taking them.
Maybe I'll learn something tonight?
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