A quick note on the history of sketchbooks. Though artists have always drawn, it was the rise of the atelier system in France which saw sketchbooks become a thing. An atelier was a small private art school, usually run by an older experienced artist. The best ones encouraged young artists to find their own creative identity, and a part of this was going out into the wilds of the Parisian night life to draw direct from life. What distinguishes the drawings in a sketchbook from those done in a studio was that there was (and is) no need for sketchbook drawings to serve any real purpose of application. It was drawing for the hell of it... as an exploration of the world.
On keeping sketchbooks
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#63I 'discovered' big-endian dating for myself as early as using first computers and been using them consistently over the years. It just sorts so well. I don't even use hyphens and eyes are trained to see year, month, day in 20230823 pretty quick. Used to add time with _ like this: 2023082_2340, now it is 20230823-2340. Generally I tend to always tag notes & sketches with date/time pretty much. > Why do I keep them all…
I've migrated to Rickdate http://www.yak.net/rickdate/ For time I'm considering going base-6, base-36 or base-60 with astronomical midnight as 0, a 40 minute precision is good enough for me, matches my portable sundial, goes better with polyphasic sleeping and makes time more spacious
I'll pass on Rickdate, this would require too much time to become swift in it and advantage is dubious. I prefer to learn something else.
However, it's interesting what you mention about considering going further... Are you using portable sundial? Time feeling more specious when counted differently? I can absolutely feel it may be that way. Sleeping polyphasic? The way we count time can absolutely impact all of that. Seems you live in different frames of reference (Sun, polyhphasic,...) Could you please tell some more?
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#64Helps to reign in the inner dialogue. At some point, a soft, friendly voice was discovered. She'd tell me to be nicer to myself. Seemingly we're 3-4, maybe 5 ppl inside this skull. Lately she changed into a nice granny and I found that it would be nice if she became my dominant self. The current dominant self is all about herself, addicted to gaming, distracted, annyoing and anxious, and yearns for the end of life wh…
I was exactly the same. It really helped me during some of my darkest teenage years, but after few years, it just stopped. Sometimes i really missed it because i liked a lot the arguments we had. It was like someone smacked my head during various times and told me to stop with the non-senses.
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#65I throw all my sketchbooks. I don’t have a lot of space but whatever I do like, I cut them up and keep them in a “Big A3 Book” (some terrible quality paper I bought form ASDA i refuse to touch cause it upset me)
I got the advice from an artist to just throw away your drawings if you don't immediately love them, to get over the hoarding instinct and be less precious about art. Hard for me but probably a good idea!
TBH, the big book trick lasted only so long until it got full of work I didn’t care about later. I went full insane and wrote my own client app which let me take pictures of my art and version them as I was working through them. Cause I did that, it was easier to throw the originals that I didn’t feel were that great. I personally really am into the technical process so this was far more valuable to me.
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#66Helps to reign in the inner dialogue. At some point, a soft, friendly voice was discovered. She'd tell me to be nicer to myself. Seemingly we're 3-4, maybe 5 ppl inside this skull. Lately she changed into a nice granny and I found that it would be nice if she became my dominant self. The current dominant self is all about herself, addicted to gaming, distracted, annyoing and anxious, and yearns for the end of life wh…
The hell you talking about.
Go get a notebook and a pen. Sit outside. Write about something that's on your mind from a different person's point of view. You'll discover what he's talking about.
This isn't unusual or new-age at all. Writing from a second point of view or imagined conversations as a tool for thinking goes back to at least Plato's Dialogues.
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#67During the Renaissance/Enlightenment, there was a lot of discussion among intellectuals on how to best keep notebooks/journals. A widely used system was to carry a small pocket notebook which was filled logbook style, with things entered as they came up. The material from the pocket notebook would later be transcribed to topically arranged journals. I believe I've read reference to this practice going back to Classic…
Can you recommend sources to find out more about this?
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#68During the Renaissance/Enlightenment, there was a lot of discussion among intellectuals on how to best keep notebooks/journals. A widely used system was to carry a small pocket notebook which was filled logbook style, with things entered as they came up. The material from the pocket notebook would later be transcribed to topically arranged journals. I believe I've read reference to this practice going back to Classic…
I tried to keep a physical notebook/common-place book, several times, but after a while i just stopped. I like handwriting but since i started using obsidian i don't believe i will return. I'm thinking perhaps of using papers as first draft or impromptu writing, and then final drafts will be stored or transferred to Obsidian.
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#69Posts like these make me wish I could be consistant and keep a single notebook until its done and then move to the next. I always end up starting a project or scibbling down a thought on random scraps of paper. I try to organize and consolidate but really there is not much point after the fact since, if the note is made, transfering it is just busywork. I leaned into it last couple of years, I have a 2 corkboards (a…
As i said on another comment: I tried to keep a physical notebook/common-place book, several times, but after a while i just stopped. I like handwriting but since i started using obsidian i don't believe i will return. I'm thinking perhaps of using papers as first draft or impromptu writing, and then final drafts will be stored or transferred to Obsidian.
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#70Big endian dates always make me laugh. They are okay, but exist mostly because American insist on using a terrible MM-DD-YYYY format usually and while DD-MM-YYYY makes more sense it'd be confusing while Americans continue to use MM-DD. Similarly, imperial units are terrible 12 inches to foot, 3 feet to yard. Fractions of inches for small lengths... And British driving on the left. A hold out that complicates the enti…
While little endian dates make sense for ephemeral communication, big endian is the better format for things that are going to gazed upon in two or ten years' time. The author's regret lines up with this.