Moleskine Exchange is a very popular activity for people who still has the habit to handwritten and draw journal. It is taken place on flickr and Blogger, and every corner of the world.
brief explanation: Artists from all over the world encountered in flickr, the MOLE_X international exchange group, and found their members around the world. Once a confirm of six members, they establish a blog followed by their Mole's number. (example: look at Mole_1). They make one journal on a japanese fold moleskine 
notebook (about a memo size), and send the notebook to the next member in their mole group. Members are chosen from different country on the earth as this entry by artist Kathirn illustrated
notebook (about a memo size), and send the notebook to the next member in their mole group. Members are chosen from different country on the earth as this entry by artist Kathirn illustrated
Flickr is the collected image pool where they scan the journal they received, and they use Bloggerto annouce and give feedback.
the experience that my encounter of this group is due to movie. I was looking for screened images of the movie The Darjeeing Limited on flickr, and I found this entry by one moly_x illustrator from Germany. This collaboration of dairy and illustration and movie image compelled me. I followed the “set” of Moleskine in this artist’s photostream and finally traced to the Moly_X foundation. I joint this foundation although I still have no courage to ask for a new round runner (today Moly exchange has up to round 60). However, I became a big fan of the moly entries they made.Plenty of the journal are intriguing to both be read as story and be viewed as artwork. This is perhaps because of the diversity of their lives from so many places, and the diversity of the way they interact their everyday life with art, and most specially, condensed in this small size of actual notebook.
2 comments:
Thanks for introducing me to this journal and to this process. Fascinating in the way that it is a collaborative, collective effort, a diary that merges into the diary of another. It is like a chain letter carried via the web. I also like the mode of diary writing, using illustration, the space of the page, illustration, artifacts. They are like a collective mode of heiroglyphics.
Do you know this book called "Drawing for Life: The Journal as Art" by Jennifer New? I think you'd find it interesting. Check it out at: NC53 .N49 2005
What happened to The Believer? Is this possibly Tbe Believer through other means?
i don't know whether this can be the Believer through other means, but i gave up reporting Believer since the form how it presented is less observational than this Mole_X journal, although i still read The Believer as a fascinating cultural source. Thanks for recommending the book! i couldn't find it but i came across a lot of great art book on the same shelf!
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