FACTOR168 » Writing Process http://factor168.com Creative Event Company Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:35:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Cool Functional Art http://factor168.com/2009/cool-functional-art/ http://factor168.com/2009/cool-functional-art/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:33:36 +0000 Darren Kerr http://factor168.com/?p=3724 Yeah I am a fan of the Moleskine, without question or hesitation. I’ve fully romanticized the  writing process. And I know I have because what really rings my proverbial bell is the prospect of my Moleskines as functional art.

I’ve found them to be tremendously helpful and it helps with my transmissions from my imagination to paper. I am also pragmatic as I identify each closed black matt book with white marker paint down the spines. Adding to my growing library of musings. Happy and content.

That was until I came across a Moleskine that fuses the functional with the artistic.

Check out the following covers commissioned and sold online by Modofly.

Moleskines as functional art. Very cool. Must have cool.

…but so far I have been paralyzed in my add-to-cart action by the sheer glorious range of choices on offer but my personal shortlist is featured below.


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]]> http://factor168.com/2009/cool-functional-art/feed/ 1 Romantic Process of Creative Writing http://factor168.com/2009/romantic-process-of-creative-writing/ http://factor168.com/2009/romantic-process-of-creative-writing/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:21:49 +0000 Darren Kerr http://factor168.com/?p=3755 I suspect the popularity of the yellow legal pad and the Moleskine is the seemingly romantic connotations they associate with the act of scribing, scribbling,  writing, and creating. True but I do draw the line at quills.

From the New Yorker online magazine comes an interview with writer John Hodgman. He provides an interesting insight into his own personal romanticism of the writing process featuring… you guessed it, the Moleskine.

moleskin.jpg Actual ideas come away from the desk, typically. While walking through the park or talking aloud in the shower. When water damage is not at issue, I will carry an actual Moleskine with me, because they are very handy, with their nice stiff backs, and I am a cliché.

Then I go to the desk and do what all writers do: get stupid, and attempt to transcribe those brilliant radio transmissions they received at one point but now can barely remember.

Occasionally, through this process of tricking oneself into just typing words, the radio transmissions will start again, and will align with the typing, and that is the best feeling in the world.

Moleskines as Functional Art.

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