not again - the end?

Okaay, time to admit it, I think the book has disappeared in the mail system again, not a good thing as this means that the project has come to an end, sad it may seem but you never know, the book may turn up?! if it does then the project will carry on.

but what i would like is for the work to continue somehow. I do have a list of definate people that the book was going to, with this in mind I am considering other ways to get all our work together in the one place, it would be a shame after all to get everyone interested and then have nothing to do!
possibly a page for all of those chosen to put up 8 pages of work (moleskines sized) and then post me the work they did to then be put in a final moleskine book, we could do it on a blog page and if we all put a small entry on the blog I could print and paste this into the final book. of course I would then post the book round to anyone who was wishing to take a real life look at the finished product.

If anyone has any other ideas for carrying on or if you wish it to come to an end for now, please comment on this post, i really do feel like this is a decision we all should make together.

over and out, Andrew.

where is our beloved book?

Well to be honest I got a little worried last week so I dropped our books current keeper an email, the book is fine, Emmanuel however has been under the weather and has not been able to send it on but do not fear for it will shortly be on it's way to italy! mr Andrea Tallone is the next victim! check him out here

http://www.atgraphics.it/
http://www.myspace.com/atgraphics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreatallone

i'm looking forward to another instalment from the traveling moleskine soon.

All those people that just love these little projects should also check out

http://thescribbleproject.blogspot.com/

Goodbye for now.

MGMT - of moons, birds and monsters

Here is the damn thing!

Hey friends, the Red Moleskine is here and will be with me in my vacation time, it was a long way from Japan. I took a few pictures when it has arrived, you can take a look here.
I´m currently working in two illustrations for the molly i hope you can see my work soon. Thanks Emmie for the gifts and congrats for her great work.

Best.

Emmanuel

where is the damn thing!

well I have been a little worried of late, the moleskine was posted before xmas and has been in the postal system for 4 weeks! japan to argentina! its a long way to go over the festive period, I feared the worst, I thought we had lost another moleskine but NO, it has arrived in argentina! WOOP WOOP! no more worries about that then.
on another note, the black moleskine? due to some of my current circumstances I had put that on hold for a while, any way I am picking myself up and brushing myself off and setting the black mollie off at the start of february.

chow for now!
AlwaysSecondBest.

white lies - to lose my life.

happy new year and all that

well hello there, its new years eve and its time to cekebrate! hope you all had a good christmas and santa got you some nice gifts,

as for the molie? well it is somewhere between japan and argentina, as its travelling over the christmas period i dont really expect it to get there fast, i am just hoping it has not got lost in the midst of all the xmas cards and presents travvelling round the world.

have fun, AlwaysSecondBest

fall out boy - yule shoot your eye out

Hello Again!!!

I am finally finished and the book is ready to hit the road. The next stop will be Argentina---so exciting!!! Here are some photos of my contribution---hope you enjoy. 

1) The first shot I added to give you an idea of where the book is...this is a few minutes from my apartment. Peace Park :)

2) The next shot: First Encounter of the Two

Those are the only two that need explanation I guess...have a great time with the book! I am looking forward to seeing it evolve.

Meena

xo  

just a quick one then,

hi y'all its been some time since i posted, so......

i really like what tom has done with his pages, i love the internet guide as, i must admit, i have no idea what helf the people i talk to on the internet are saying! what with the wtf?, lol's and lmao's and all the other stupid 'netspeak' they use. why cant people just use plain english? there i go again having a rant!

anyway the book is now in hiroshima, japan! ultra-global project now. it ended up in there due to me giving tom a list of destinations where to send it next and he picked japan. i have a feeling i may do this with the book alot, especially whilst i still have lots of destinations left to send them.

cant wait to see the next entry and find out where it goes next.

AlwaysSecondBest

frank turner - long live the queen (its about his friend lex who died of cancer, a very very good song)

Arrival: Hiroshima!!!

Yay! The lovely red moleskine has arrived and Tom's drawings are going great with my morning coffee :) I especially like the "afterpaste". What to put in it? Suddenly I feel nervous!

Finished

Here are my completed 8 pages, I just went for the sort of thing I draw in my personal sketchbooks. I usually only draw on one side of the page as the black ink shows through, so I glued some paper onto every other page.

Here's a breakdown of each of the pages:

Page 1 - The stamp from the envelope the book arrived in, mounted in a gallery and being viewed by critics.

Page 2 - A drunk naked man ruining a carpet at a party.

Page 3 - A group of chavs.

Page 4 - An advert for 'Afterpaste' toothpaste. I love drawing adverts for disgusting and/or useless products I invent.

Page 5 - A pile of random characters. I used to doodle pictures like this all the time at school.

Page 6 and 7 - A translated guide to 'The Idiots of the Internet'. Mostly inspired by the stupid comments often seen on YouTube videos.

Page 8 - The Joker. Loosely based on Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Batman villain. Thought I'd go for a change and use some colour on this one.

I had a lot of fun finishing my pages, and ended up finishing a fair few in my own Moleskine too. Hope you all enjoy your turn, and fingers crossed this one doesn't get lost.

Toms entry, News, Song

The red book is now in its final hours of toms possession and soon he will reveal what delights he has given us,

In other news... The red books next stop is japan! Wahay were going global! I am also going to put some more links in the sidebars over the next week so if anyone has any great website's they think we should all know about just stick a comment on this post and i'll see what i can do.

I have noticed that some people place things like songs they are liking or books they are reading at the end of blog posts SO...

one for the old ravers of the 90's
Matt Helders (drummer from arctic monkeys) - Dreamer (feat. Nesreen Shah).

First (again)

The new red book arrived yesterday morning. I've been noting down ideas of what to put in it, and I'm looking forward to making my mark. I had originally planned on doing the first page the day it arrived, but much to my frustration a client is currently forcing me to rework a load of character designs (back to my originally proposed designs, why do they always do that?). But anyway, the project is back on track.

Ps. Where's my chocolate then? :D

just to clarify things

hello all, the RED book is now on its way to tom sambles. the BLACK book is currently lost.
as the black book only had 1 entry into it i am going to send out another if it does not appear by january.
so all you people who wish to sign up but think its too late, dont despair we still got room for more.

the reason for there bieng 2 books is this, i had an applicant who teaches advanced photography, she thought it would be a good idea to let her class contribute in the 8 pages, i decided to make it a bit bigger than 8 pages though, so her class will be split in two and given a page each and one for her in each book, this takes up 12 pages in each book. although this leaves a number not divisible by eight leaving blank pages?!? no worries i am also going to split my entry acrross the 2 books aswell! i think this will give the books something to link them together.it will make the RED and BLACK moleskines become an inseparable pair.

ps.
if anyone else wishes to split there entry across the 2 books let me know.

chow for now.

new book! new color!

hi y'all. round 2 here we come.

so i went to order the new book from mojo london today as i have been unable to get my ass to my local waterstones and low and behold what did i find there! ill tell you what, red yes RED moleskines! so i ordered one and its on its way. i figured new start so we may as well have a new color? what do you all think? i know it's not the traditional 'black book' we all know and love but hey this is not a traditional project! 

so, Mr Tom Sambles, are you ready for the challenge of being the second 'first contributor' in the all new red travelling moleskine?

www.mojolondon.co.uk/stationery/moleskine/large/moleskine_red_plain_notebook_large.htm

What Now?

I dont really want to say what I am about to but I must.

It seems the book is lost, I have not heard from gemma for over 3 weeks and my overactive imagination has got me thinking that something really bad has happened. I am going to write her a letter in hope of finding out whats going on. I really hope she is ok and the book has got lost, I think the contributors are more important than the book itself.

Now then, there is a decision to be made! should I send out another book and start again? my current opinion is that I will send out another book asap and then randomly pick the contributors one by one and see where it takes us, although it probably wont be that random as I already have certain plans in my head that I really wish to follow.

please leave comments on what to do next. all opinions welcome.

ps. 

If we start again then our first contributor (Jen) will get to have another go in the new book, its only fair.

where is it?

I have no idea, our little book has lost it's way but so has our 2n'd contributor! they have both dissapeared from the radar. I really hope nothing bad has happened to the book and our contributor. let's all hope that gemma is ok and the book is on its travels.

hello y'all I'm back

firstly I would like to say that the uk is bloody freezing! oh how I wish for my sunny menorcan villa, secondly i shall be tracking down our beloved moleskine A.S.A.P! and i shall also be definately starting the 'travelling moleskine' vol.2 around christmas so all you who wish to join in can do so in the 2nd book!

ps. the book is supposedly in surrey by now but I have not heard from the new contributor yet, maybe it has not arrived yet but i do know it has spent the last 2 weeks in watford

the next contributor is tom sambles though, check him out at  Tom Sambles Illustration

where oh where is our little moleskine?! where is its current residence & what delights does it contain?

how's it going

well people its been a busy week for me, i have been away training for my new job so i haven't had time to even check up on things. nice work there from jenuine i am really liking the apple tree page and what she did with the tacky royal mail packet stamp. the book has now been in the hands of gemma for a week, i wonder what adorns it's pages now? i hope she is having fun with it. i would also like to congratulate gemma on her recent good fortune in getting engaged. any how this will be my last post for over a week as i am off to sunny menorca for some R&R so the next post will be from gemma herself and possibly the next contributor.

have fun while i am away.

finished

  
   

finished! apologies for taking a couple of days extra to post, i had work. but here they are , my eight pages. i tried to cover a number of things i like to do, such as drawing, printing, photography, & cut-outs.

 

01: an introduction, plus the parcel stamp

02: a gocco print i did recently, cut out & stuck onto black paper

03: a collage of sorts of various film photos taken in new york, gibraltar, monaco, spain, edinburgh, & at home

04: paper cut-out

05: letters & pattern in pen & posca

06: a drawing of a true story, also a sort of homage to illustrator david galletly, he has a fine taste in colour & layout

07: tree in pen, with added paper blossoms, as autumn is here

08: last & indeed least, as it is my least favourite page, a drawing of a clock from the city where i live. i was sad that my last offering wasn't to my personal standard, but i lost a couple of days of my two weeks when i went to visit my boyfriend & had to finish it before i left so i could take a photo. too rushed.

there we have it. i wasn't expecting to be making this post so soon! so lovely to have contributed to this project, i hope you all have fun when your turn comes around. (:

the 2nd contributor

hello people! the book has reached its second destination, Watford uk, the contributor is Gemma Sands you can check her stuff at http://littletinypieces.blogspot.com 

But what you all really want to know is what is in the book from our first contributor? well i have no idea either! C'mon jen we want to see what you created.