Moleskine

combination fiction and non-fiction book about Bruce’s travels through Australia to research Aboriginal song and its connections to nomadic travel. In this book, Bruce describes one of his beloved notebooks as a black, oilcloth-covered notebook, its pages held in place with an elastic band (Chatwin, 1986). These notebooks are known as carnets moleskines, or Moleskines had become harder to come by as the last maker, a small family in tours, had retired. In 1995 Maria Sebregondi was reading The Songlines and became inspired by Chatwin’s love for these small black notebooks. When she began to research the Moleskines, she discovered that Chatwin was only one of many influential artists who swore by the notebooks. Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Andre Breton and more all had Moleskines. Inspirited by the rich history of the product, she took the idea of resurrecting the books to Modo & Modo, a small Milanese stationery company with great success. Modo & Modo trademarked the name Moleskine and started production on a small run of 5000 for a 1997 release. By 1998 they ramped up production to 30,000 and had expanded into the European market. Today, while Moleskine spends very little on traditional advertising, they sell over 10 million of these books a year. Their best form of advertising is the customers who swear by the books like Chatwin did in 1986 (Harkin 2001). These historical notebooks had taken the artistic community by storm due to their history and unmatched…

Ode to Moleskine I sometimes feel I was born out of time; I should've been a scribe in the middle ages when royalty valued such skills but would in all probability, end up beheaded for my insolence. A friend introduced me to an associate photo studio owner In the summer of 2008, where I was presented with the opportunity to get serious about photography. Her business was centered on models that weren't entirely cut out for agency work and needed photographers to put them in their best light. ─…

Bougie, it’s a word that my brother has called me multiple times and I was never a hundred percent sure what he was really calling me. In an attempt to contradict him I looked up the meaning of the word, and sadly I couldn’t contradict him a bit. The word bougie is stolen from the French word bourgeois, which means -according to Webster's dictionary- marked by a concern for material interests and respectability and a tendency toward mediocrity. In America, the slang word bougie translates to…

you didn't know that this place used to be a speak-easy frequented by none other than John Dillinger, huh? Well, now you do. You wanna get out of here? Consider for: a rom-com. The Uncomfortable Girl If your establishment hosts live music, then whoever is playing probably brought along the Uncomfortable Girl. She's kind of talking to the guitarist, but it's not really much of anything. Find her sitting in the corner on her phone. She'll be texting her best friend about this shit hole that…

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