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1001 Journals - the book

Over at 1001 Journals, Someguy's announcing a call for submissions: Share your journals, share your stories.

We're putting together a 1001 Journals book proposal to shop around to publishers, and need your input. To get the publishers excited, we'd like to share some remarkable journal entries, and stories that go along with them. If you'd like us to consider including your journal / entries / story in the proposal, please email us the following:

• Your Username
• The journal number
• Your city, state, and country
• A brief description of the entries, and why they're amazing (make sure they've been added to the 1001J site, where we can review them)
• If there's a story, please include it with as much detail as you can

The deadline is June 9th. Email submissions to someguy@1001journals.com

Don't have anything to submit? You've got time, create something unique and interesting. This is your chance to get published. Not on 1001journals.com? Sign up and start sharing journals.

Journal Contributions could range from amazing art or writing to controversial entries, humor, raw emotion, confessions, interaction between contributors, conflicts, rants, oddities, and so on.

Journal Stories might be something interesting that happened with the journal, or in your life involving the journal. Was the journal left in a library? Taken on spring break? Was it used as a marriage proposal? Perhaps you discovered it for sale in a thrift store, or shared it with reformed convicts. Let us know.

Thanks, and keep on journaling,

someguy
www.1001journals.com

Grant's Touch of Flesh

Touch of Flesh opening titles from Grant Dillion on Vimeo.

News from Grant Dillion, our assistant editor and animator: Grant created this opening title sequence for Touch of Flesh, a Film Noir written by Sarah Jones and directed by Jessica Johnson. The film follows three college students as they try to survive a zombie outbreak on their campus. Touch of Flesh recently premiered at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA) Film Festival, and has been submitted to other festivals around the country. More about the film is posted on its Facebook Page.

Back to School - Aspen

It started with our High School visit and the screenings of 1000 Journals during Schools at the Festival of the San Francisco Film Society -- encouraging feedback from students and teachers, and more and more questions how schools, universities, even hospitals can implement the film and begin their own journal exchanges. With the great help of Lil Blume, we created the 1000 Journals Extension, a teachers network, and have been increasingly involved with these educational aspects of collaborative projects.

Just recently, Aspen Film has selected 1000 Journals to participate in its Education Outreach Program. Bringing films to remote and underserved communities, the program reaches 5,000 children and adults and nineteen schools annually, with films that are capable of opening windows on the world and building bridges between cultures.

Aspen Film's Terry Rigney created a Curriculum Guide for 1000 Journals (available on the Extension), and invited Deb Jones, Creative Program Director at the Wyly Community Arts Center, to present our film. Deb has taught several journaling classes and serves as an amazing resource for anyone interested in the process and journey of journaling.

So far, Aspen Film screened 1000 Journals on April 16, 17 and 20, 2009, and will program the film again in May. 

Deb Jones and Marti Cyrus leading the discussion at the Aspen High School screening.

I asked Terry Rigney a few questions -- read her answers and see more pictures on the jump.

Collaborate: The Scribble Project

This will help you to get through any boring phone call or meeting: The Scribble Project was started by the Australian artist Lisa Currie, and grew from a zine project to a blog, now archive, to the current club on Flickr. Doodlers are invited to complete a sketch-friendly "questionnaire" and upload it to the club.

The original Scribble sheet that got it all started:

Here are a couple of the filled-in sheets:

More are on the archive blog. New "blank" sheets are on Flickr. And if you like this, see also  Doodlers Anonymous.

Fnac - pix from the screening

Belén just sent me these pictures from the screening at Fnac Alicante yesterday evening:

Belén hosting the screening and handing out Fnac's 1001 Journals.

More pictures on the jump.

Fnac + 1001 Journals

The initial demand was so high, Fnac Bulevar in Alicante, Spain, launched four journals on 1001journals.com. The journals will go live at the 1000 Journals documentary screening, tomorrow night, at 7:00 PM. Two will travel from hand to hand, two will stay on location. Belén posted a sweet note on Facebook, "Si no te gustan los experimentos, no sigas leyendo...," - if you don't like experiments, don't read on - and recommended carrots for dinner, to get creative juices flowing. Ah, that's how they do it in Spain - carrots!

Blanket Magazine

1000 Journals and Someguy makes an appearance in Blanket Magazine, a collaborative PDF publication which is uncovering artists, designers and photographers from around the world.

A few days ago, Blanket launched a redesigned website, and put out Number 15, The Communication Issue. Editor and Art Director Bec Brown writes, "It's all about that thing we have to do everyday as artists/designers/photographers/crafters… TALK to our audience in our own personal medium to communicate our feelings, our thoughts, our ideas. It's all about being open and unafraid: in art AND in life."

The Art of Communication: how do you communicate with an audience you might never meet? features Jonathan Hulme's interview with Someguy, a story about Post Secret, Blanket's own Pass It On project, a section about Crafter-Bloggers, and many interviews punctuated by great art and photography. There's also a call for contributions to the next issue, whose theme is "Portrait." Deadline: May 15th.

El Nautilus

For six month, the Spanish television network Telecinco published an innovative blog, the Nautilus. Its Captain Nemo is José Alberto García Avilés, a media analyst in search of audiovisual trends. The blog was so successful on Telecinco's website, it is now continued as a wordpress blog.

Today's post is about our beautiful collaboration with Belén Torregrosa, the film, its upcoming screenings and various journals projects that are now starting in Spain. It features a beautiful collage of pages from 1001 Journals.

For kicks, check out Google's translation.

Murai's Day 456

From Murai's Art Mailing, Day 456, March 31, 2009
In the year 2000, "Someguy" started sending out 1,000 journals for people to create art in and pass on to others. They went to 40 countries and many are still not accounted for. At least 30 returned to him and they are the subject of a book, a DVD, a movie and a several month run at SFMOMA. The 1000 Journals exhibition is at the Museum in the Koret Center. It is a delight to see and will be there through April 5th. The vision and generosity of "Someguy" is global.

I met Murai when 1000 Journals screened at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco, August 2008. She invited me to join her mailing list, a daily art dispatch of her paintings, collages, photos, poems and musings. You can see the archive on her website muraiart.com. Murai just published a book based on her Daily Art, Heirs and Forebears, available on Blurb.

Fnac

Fnac Alicante, Spain, has just announced its very own journals project, which will launch when our film screens on April 9: For a year, people can fill the blank pages of the Moleskine-Fnac Alicante journal, and in April 2010, the contributions will be exhibited.

En español:
"1000 Journals film" es un documental realizado por la directora americana Andrea Kreuzhage que versa sobre un curioso experimento artístico realizado con las Moleskines. Un tipo llamado Someguy repartió desde San Francisco 1000 Moleskines por todo el mundo para comprobar cómo reaccionaría la gente ante una libreta en blanco. Después de un tiempo una de las moleskines volvió a caer en sus manos. ¿Pero qué paso con las otras 999? Lo podrás comprobar en el documental que hoy proyectamos.

Pero además te presentamos nuestra Moleskine Fnac Alicante, un cuaderno en blanco para que dejes tu huella creativa, para que escribas o pintes sobre lo que te interesa. Dentro de un año volveremos a quedar para comprobar cómo han reaccionado los alicantinos ante una hoja en blanco.Si eres socio podrás llevarte una de las libretas Moleskine que sorteamos.