This composition book was the first thing that caught my eye. (Well worth seeing and it closes soon, so go if you can!) The Morgan is also currently showing an exhibition about Woody Guthrie, which happens to feature quite a few notebooks! I recently went to the Morgan Library in New York City, primarily to see the Holbein exhibition that’s currently being shown there. I could only wish that they made a 3.5 x 5.5″ version with unlined paper! exercise book fountain pen friendly japanese lined notebook tsubame yoseka stationery
What’s not to love? It’s a nice looking $3.00 notebook that performs extremely well. Only the Accu-liner and Super Sharpie bled. Even flexing nibs with significant pressure produced no problems. The paper works well with all fountain pens. It’s lined with dots that can be used to guide vertical lines. On the inside front cover, there is some text, all in Japanese. I notice that the spine tape wraps further around on the front than on the back– it’s deliberate, but I wonder why? The format is a typical single signature exercise book, with a taped spine. I love the design, which looks classic and timeless. This notebook only cost me $3.00 at Yoseka Stationery‘s lovely store in Greenpoint. They’re not that hard to find, and they certainly aren’t expensive. It’s taken me a while, but I’ve finally managed to buy and review one! Several years ago, I linked to an article about the history of an iconic Japanese notebook: The Tsubame Fools Notebook. I guess an artist has to do what he’s gotta do, but that always makes me sad! Art artist book drawing facsimile facsimile sketchbook jimbo blachly notebook painting printed matter sketchbook
Unfortunately it looks like he cut up some of the sketchbooks to exhibit the drawings and sell them separately. I’d love to see some of Jimbo Blachly’s notebooks in person. I like the look of the drawings– interesting colors, abstract but sort of based on cityscapes and landscapes. I was sorry to see that the facsimile book is slightly larger, so not really a true facsimile. Drawing for me is a mirror, reflecting the relationship between the perceiving mind, the hand and the myriad phenomena be it oak leaves, mosquitoes, memories or burning forests ” –Jimbo Blachly statement, īlachly has been keeping 3.5 x 5.5″ notebooks for years, according to his website. The economy of means-ink and reed pen or pencil and the compact portability of small notebooks means I am almost never without the ability to draw or make a quick notation in my day-to-day life. Blachly states: “The responsiveness of line and mark making to the fluidity of thought. In addition to individual drawings and watercolors, he has kept daily notebooks and sketchbooks which make up a large visual diary going back decades. The activity of drawing is primary to Jimbo Blachly’s work. (Available on the Printed Matter website.) I happened to notice an Instagram post from Printed Matter about a facsimile book of artist Jimbo Blachly’s notebooks. Lindsay-Hogg seems to have used up all that room and more! Those diaries look super-stuffed! beatles Diary let it be michael lindsay-hogg I’m sure there’s a lot of other interesting material in those diaries! They look to be bound in an interesting way, as if they are designed to be more of a scrapbook or album, with extra room for stuff to be pasted in. Lindsay-Hogg said, “the less you write down.” The diary page was blank, except for one word scribbled in black ballpoint pen. Lindsay-Hogg and his team, their swan-song performance was the climax of both “Let It Be” and “Get Back.” He thumbed through the pages and landed on January 30, the blustery day in London when the Beatles played in public for the last time. At my suggestion, he dug out the volume from 1969. It was filled with dusty leather-bound diaries, many overstuffed with letters and photos. He led me to a bookcase in the memento-filled library next to his art studio. He has preserved much of what he went through with the Beatles in diaries, which he has kept since the “Ready Steady Go!” years. The diaries described as follows in the article: I spotted the image below in a recent New York Times article about Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the filmmaker who directed the Beatles documentary “Let It Be.”
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