Spring is in the air...

Because nothing screams spring more than a sunny late afternoon in the park!

Sketchbook Project!

Do you like doodling? You usually sketch squiggly and silly faces while talking on the phone? You like to catch your thoughts and dreams on paper?
Then you may consider getting into the Sketchbook Project for the Free Art Library!
It's  a traveling collection of sketchbooks where you can find the drawings and the words of thousand of strangers, normal-average-crazy people like me and you... And if you want you can put your personal one in the collection!

The main home of the sketchbooks, where they rest in shelves between one travel and the other around the country, it's Brooklyn!

We  went there yesterday...

And we spent a big chunk of our rainy afternoon browsing through pages... Some were simple, other were so intricate! Some were funny, other desperate, many were really beautiful and original...  and many were very personal and intimate.
It's amazing how many things can fit in a tiny book, and how much you can personalize it!

Here are some of my favorite ones...

watercolors, treads, paint, pop ups... wow!

 

I loved the sketchbooks with presents and secret messages...

It was like having a glimpse at the life of hundreds strangers... We read thoughts, we found photos, drawings, quotations, pieces of memories...

Simple, sweet and minimal, with photos and quotations...

   

                                                 

A looking-through Sketchbook!

     

     
 
The library card it's free, and many of the books are "digitalized", so you can find them and read them online.
Also, every time you request a sketchbook you get an extra one, a "surprise" randomly selected for you.

The authors are encouraged to personalize the cover and the book as much as they want... they can paint over it, cut it, add more pages... as long as it can fit in the bookshelf.

A 3D Dictionary of simple things.  This was amazin

Although my writing and my drawings always disappoint me, I am thinking of starting a sketchbook and get on board with the project...  wanna join me?!


... Maybe my sketchbook and your sketchbook will keep each other company along the road!

NYC walls

One of the things that I love of this city is that it can be stressful, it can be loud, it can be crazy... but it will never be boring!You can walk on the same street every day, and you will always notice something different...

... Even the walls are always changing!

I LOVE the subway map building!

More than zombies what terrifies me are subway's rats!!

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WE ARE ONLINE!

Ok, we know it, the journey it's still long and we have a long way ahead, but...
But today we can't stop dancing, and it feels like the whole planet is dancing with us :)


:)