Do you keep a diary?

WEEK3 -   DAY1  -  MY DIARY

1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY

Nick Cave - From her to Eternity . Yes, is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor. This one I did not Googled much. I have a lot of his records and even watched him on concert once. And what a great show it was at Lisboa Coliseum some years ago, maybe 2000?!Oh, my memory. And yes, somewhere in a box in the house there's a concert ticket!


2. PLACES TO KNOW

Melbourne - Bourke Street is one of Melbourne's best known streets. As always  I am not looking for postcards from the city of Melbourne. I want people and sounds. Atmosphere.


3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER

Nick Cave - site

On Kawara - Japanese conceptual artist, painter, draughtsman. Time, as registered in its familiar increments of days, years, centuries, and eons, has preoccupied On Kawara since the mid-1960s, when he began his magnum opus, the Today Series. Some of his works. Another one of its works is I got up at... (Location+time he left the bed)

Ikko Tanaka - Japanese graphic designer who blends deeply rooted Japanese traditions with western modernism to produce contemporary visual expression.

Works of Ikko Tanaka on Pinterest

Between past and future, East and West - article

Muji's notebooks - Tanaka was on of its directors.

Leonardo da Vinci - Leonardo da Vinci was a leading artist and intellectual of the Italian Renaissance who's known for his enduring works "The Last Supper" and "Mona Lisa."

The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci

The complete works of Leonardo

Bruce Chatwin: an English novelist and travel writer

The site

Bruce Chatwin and his notebooks. Interview with his wife. Youtube video.
"It's a disaster to loose a note book not an address book."

Mark Twain: American author

The site

Quotes

Gore Vidal: American writer known for his essays, novels, screenplays, and Broadway plays

Quotes

4. QUESTION OF THE DAY

OMG. Here you go again. The word DIARY. I think this is proof that I could never be a Designer. Even if I keep a notebook I don't see it as a diary. I mean, writting in it may not be a daily routine. The word DIARY never sounded good to me. I never wrote one. Not even in my teens. Instead I wrote poems and thoughts and made drawings. But I used all kinds of paper, not a diary. I kept scraps of news about movies and movies reviews, tickets and posters for years and years. I glued it all. I loved the movies since I remember. I kept also lots of caricatures scraps I would find in newspapers! I was and still am an admirer of caricature.  I used notebooks with a black cover and white sheets for movies scraps and caricatures. For my personal stuff anything was good, any paper. I have some archived in envelopes somewhere! That's why most of it is lost and it's just a vague memory. As for my present notebooks...

5. INSPIRATION

Nick Cave's Diaries

A page of his handwritten dictionary of words

"Designers are planners."

The Moleskine notebooks

Detour, the Moleskine project


Da Vinci's journals : "His notes and drawings display an enormous range of interests and preoccupations, some as mundane as lists of groceries and people who owed him money and some as intriguing as designs for wings and shoes for walking on water. There are compositions for paintings, studies of details and drapery, studies of faces and emotions, of animals, babies, dissections, plant studies, rock formations, whirlpools, war machines, flying machines and architecture."

The Codex Atlanticus - a da Vinci Journal

Paperblanks got inspired by Leonardo da Vinci and created journals

“Life is short, Break the Rules.

Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY.

Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably

And never regret ANYTHING

That makes you smile.”

Mark Twain

“Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. ”

Gore Vidal