IT"S HERE!!! The great notebook challenge of 2007.
I am asking all y'all to go into your sketchbooks, notebooks, musical scores, diaries, shopping lists, and or anything else (perhaps you are 100% digitalized in your notebookesque activities?), scan or photograph a few pages (3?) and post them here. These can be drawings or writing or whatever...
Blogger won't let you post images as a comment, so each notebook challenge will take the form of a new post. The title should be somthing to the effect of "notebook challenge (your name here) so that we can distinguish.
BTW - some of you have to do this because I am going to, and I don't want to be embarrassed alone. Consider it a social obligation. I'm talking to YOU, bub.
Also - if you can, try to make the files unhuge. So?
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I am thinking about the difference between private and public, the way people develop ideas and projects, accidental beauty, ugliness, what "voice" you use with yourself, etc. But this can mean different things to different people. For me, I don't show things to people if I am embarrassed about the voice, about burdensome intentions showing up, um, spelling mistakes, etc. I think one thing about our generation is that we are comfy sharing things in public (on the www) that earlier generations weren't ok with. I think that this is a good thing, but I don't think that we have "no concept of privacy" like some fools say. There are still plenty of things that we don't talk about it public. Then there is the whole question of choice - why are you chosing these pages and not others? What did you learn about yourself and your ideas of privacy or beauty by making these choices? I could go on about this, but this project is also about completely different things like drawing and handwriting. It's also about finding out what this project is about.
WTF is up with uploading images? I can't get good function. Why blogger so glitchy? Doesn't google have like billions of dollars to fix things?
Private / Unprivate. The unprivate House. It's interesting, we read about privacy in our architecture class with Joanna Merwood at bard, and from what I remember, the idea is that before recent time (I'm talking the past one hundred and fifty years), their wasn't really such a thing as privacy, in the home at least. Families were large, and you slept in a bed with three other people and you weren't alone very often. Obviously the kids snuck off to the barn occasionally to do fun things, but overall we have had way more privacy on the whole growing up.
Journals and notebooks however, are definitely very private things to many people. I like this idea because it forces you to be ok with exposing things you never intended for others to see, for whatever reason, and it's these types of things we probably should see more of.
When I get home to my scanner, I'll upload some stuff.
Oh - this seems to be a blogger problem recently - there is some noise here and there about it. I don't know if it was just a random thing, google, or firefox, but I was able to upload pix using explorer.
hi farley,
i don't have any notebooks, so i don't have anything to scan.
but i want to start a new post on here. how do i do that?
logan
i have a personal story on the theme of "the unprivate house."
when i was a kid i was painfully shy. i had a terrible stuttering problem and was often picked on at school. when i went home, i'd often lock myself into my room and put a "do not disturb" sign on my door. privacy was very important to me at that time, because it represented the opposite of public ridicule.
i remember our house got robbed one day. the robber hadn't had a chance to steal too much, but he had succeeded in emptying the contents of all the drawers from my desk all over the floor. i remember one of these drawers contained some drawings i'd done that i didn't think were very good and didn't want to show anybody. i was so embarrassed - they were lying right there in the middle of the floor! i don't remember what they were pictures of - cartoon aliens or something. i wanted to pick them up before my mom or the police officer (who was investigating the burglary) saw them and made a comment about how "funny" they were, or something, but of course there was nothing i could do because it was a crime scene & i wasn't allowed to touch anything. it was bad enough the burglar had seen them. now my mom & the police officer would see them, too.
that was the most embarrassing moment of my entire life.
you can use that as my notebook page, if you want, farley. or does it have to be hand-written?
i can't really contribute either, cuz i dont' have any kind of note boook or nothin
maybe i couldcontribute some snippets of half-finished song ideas or something, i dunno....wouldn't be very interesting...
private/unprivate stuff is interesting....will maybe comment on that later...
oh, and logan, that story is really touching.
You're a really good writer Logan, touching is how I would describe that story as well.
Total Cool Dude, I would say post the unfinished song ideas -- I was actually going to post some similar stuff because I don't have that much notebook stuff right now either.
I'm not trying to be the FREAKING GOVERNMENT with this form-suggestion here. Do whatever you fucking WANT TO.
Aggressively,
FARLEY IS THE FREAKING GOVERNMENT
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