I’ve been looking around for an easy to make pocket for my planners and notebooks, and found this interesting single page fold and cut that makes several pockets. It’s for a filoflex flex (a 4″ wide by 6-1/2″ tall notebook). I’m going to play around with it to see if it’s interesting to adapt to my noteoboks. Found here, with a youtube video at the end.
I learned a new word today: myriorama. According to wikipedia, Myriorama originally meant a set of illustrated cards which 19th century children could arrange and re-arrange, forming different pictures.
I learned it when I found this myriorama by Tom Gauld called Endless Journey, inspired by the works of Laurence Sterne. The book has twelve picture cards which can be arranged to form 479,001,600 different landscapes.
The place that sells the book says:
Myriorama, or ‘Many Thousand Views’ consist of numerous cards depicting fragments or segments of landscapes that can be arranged in a multitude of different combinations. This ‘entertainment’ for young ladies and gentlemen originated in France. The first English version in 1824 was a set of 16 cards which depicted Gothic ruins, castles, cottages, a lighthouse, a man fishing and a gypsy encampment. These landmarks had a backdrop of mountains with islands and a lake to add extra texture and depth.
Whenever the cards were taken out and arranged upon a table, they produced a landscape of harmony which was variable, compatible and satisfying to the user without being geographically identifiable. This first myriorama seems to have been an instant success and many varieties were created to satisfy the demands of the public.
On a site devoted to lists, I found one called 21 uses for old books. The one that caught my eye was a tutorial for turning a book into an “iPhone Charging Dock that will take the place of that ugly white cord lying across your nightstand.”
I’m always on the lookout for other artists who use prompt challenges. I really liked this one by Michelle Moode, in response to “In the Middle” as a prompt. This is a detail of one of the spreads in her book.
Today is the last day of Banned Book Week. A list of frequently challenged books is here. To commemorate, I’m re-reading the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
This is my matchbox book that, in the spirit of conceptual artist Joseph Beuys, contains a banned book, one that has been silenced not only by felt but humans.
