My most recent Netflix viewing was The Glass Onion, which includes an incredible number of cameo appearances by celebrities. It also happens to include a fun cameo appearance by one of my favorite notebooks! I won’t talk about how the notebook is involved in the plot, but here’s a few photos I grabbed. The notebook … Continue reading Notebook in “The Glass Onion”
A old friend of mine lives in South Korea. Whenever she visits the US, she brings me some little gift, usually cute Korean stationery! This little notebook set was from her last visit. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen notebooks clipped into a carabiner before! The notebooks are all blank inside, and each has a … Continue reading Korean Notebook Set
What if someone found your secret notebooks from childhood, almost 40 years after you’d last written in them? It could happen: a 9 year old girl hid these notebooks in a crawl space in her home in 1983. They were forgotten and her family moved away. Decades later, contractors working on the home gave them … Continue reading Secret Notebooks from 1983
Yet another reason why I’m dying to visit Japan! In Tokyo, a bar called Decameron opened recently, despite the fact that other bars in the neighborhood have been closing because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In part due to concerns over the transmission of the virus through droplets spread while speaking, and in part due to … Continue reading Communicating By Notebook in a Tokyo Bar
Another one to file under “stupid notebook tricks.” But it’s kind of a neat trick! A local news station in Denver, CO demonstrates in a video on their website: You can glue two notebooks together just by weaving together their pages. Don’t believe us? Science guy Steve Spangler explains how it works. Spoiler alert: the … Continue reading Glue Notebooks Together… Without Glue?
How would you like to sit at this desk and do some writing in a notebook? That desk is on Hancock Hill, in Alpine, Texas. It’s been there for 40 years. At first, the guy whose idea it was to put the desk there just stashed a notebook in the drawer so he could record … Continue reading Notebooks from Hancock Hill
Sounds pleasant, doesn’t it? A fishy old notebook? But this is actually a pretty cool story! One day in June 1919, workers in a busy Canadian cannery in Port Essington rushed to clean, cook, and can the bright red flesh of a huge number of sockeye salmon hauled from the nearby Skeena River. Watching the … Continue reading Century-Old Salmon-Smeared NotebooksÂ
Sometimes I see a notebook and just think, “Ugh. Why??” Here is an example: A notebook dedicated to composing Twitter tweets in 3 drafts? I guess it could be a good gag gift for someone but otherwise it seems like a waste of paper to me! If you disagree, you can buy one here!
This is not exactly a notebook, but it’s quite an extraordinary paper product! The Omoshiro Block is a notepad with laser cut pages. As you tear off each page, an amazingly detailed 3D sculpture is revealed! Mind blowing… Omoshiro Block – a Notepad with detachable pages, which as turns into a miniature work of art: … Continue reading The Omoshiro Block: Notepad or Sculpture?
This will seem familiar to many of us! Idea Notebook No. 1: Discovered in late December with two ideas and one inspirational quote jotted down. See the rest: Notebooks I Abandoned Last Year | The New Yorker
