WHAT'S THE ONE THING SARAH FIND WEIRDEST ABOUT SWEDEN OR SWEDISH PEOPLE? JENNIFER'S BOOK / PETR'S ENTRY

I was so looking forward to the arrival of Jennifer's book. The idea of playing with words one doesn't know yet is what excites me about this exchange in general - the way every book forces you to adapt, explore and pursue different routes of expression.

All the pieces in this book so far feature the motif of bird/s.

If your purchase in Billa supermarket is worth 200 Czk these days - you get a packet of animal stickers - some of these stickers feature only parts of an animal - not a whole.  While we obviously give these stickers to our kids I have been keeping these half and quarter animals - mostly birds - as the possibility of finishing them in some bizarre and strange way excited me.

And the time came when these words from the back pocket of Jen's book caught my attention: What's the one thing Sarah find weirdest about Sweden or Swedish people?

Caitlin's Book / John's Entry

Caitlin asks us to explore. I explored my bookshelves. My mind wanders toward travel: Seeing new things. Learning about one's self. Making new friends. Understanding new views. Testing boundaries. And so we have some book spine poetry ensconced in the last three sentences of a Mark Twain quote. 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Here's to a summer of exploration. 

Stephanie's Book / John's Entry

Stephanie's book arrived with an open invitation and so this is definitely in the experimental category. In fact, had I not sat in Petr's classroom this year I would still be trapped in a traditional mindset wherein sketchbooks contained, well, sketches -- literally -- of pencil, charcoal, or ink. It wouldn't have occurred to me that other 3D media could (and should!) be part of a sketchbook.

I recently became a fan of an artist I discovered on Flickr who collages, inks over images, and whitewashes in ways that fascinate me. I decided to play around -- the result being something more abandoned than finished. The base photo in my entry is also from Flickr (from an absurd holiday card photostream). It's printed on an inkjet printer with plain paper with black ink, white acrylic, and pencil added.

A Different Approach to Collaboration & Sketching

Friends, I saw this blog post today and thought of our project. This is about an event in San Francisco called "Sketch Crawl."  You've heard of a "pub crawl", yes? Well, it's the same concept but instead of going around in a group from bar to bar, you go from site to site and sketch. 

What's interesting about a sketch crawl is that the group generates different views of the same site across sketchers.

Have you ever tried something like this?

Enjoy: http://blog.duarte.com/2012/05/insights-inspirations-from-sf-sketchcrawl/