When I teach art journaling classes, I am often asked, “Aren’t pen and paper obsolete?” That opens the door to an interesting discussion of journaling by handwriting, keyboarding, painting, singing and using a computer.
This video is a wonderful addition to that discussion. It’s not only well done, but the artist, Evelien Lohbeck , has a wry sense of humor, an incredible imagination, and the persistence to draw it all out. Lobeck’s website tells you about her as an artist, (many of the links no longer work) but her Youtube channel all well-worth watching.
more about “Noteboek on Vimeo“, posted with vodpod
–QQuinn McDonald is a writer and creativity coach. She teaches business writing, journal-keeping and raw-art-journaling.
This is so fun…and thought provoking! Thanks for sharing…. (and thanks for visiting my blog via Connie – can’t wait to read more of your posts!)
I keep wondering, wow, how did she do it! So much precision. It’s quite wonderful to watch. I love the toast and the photocopy. So creative!
So well put together, too, to look like an early music video.
Cool video! As for pencil and paper being obsolete, we’ve been working for years to get computers to approach the utility of pencil and paper. They’re not the past; they’re the goal!
We’re not there yet by any means. There have been decades worth of attempts to “computerize paper”, which is what tablet computers from the Mac to the Newton to the iPad try to be. There have even been a few attempts to computerize the pencil, so you could write normally on regular paper but the pencil “remembers” in some way. The mouse is also a (particularly miserable) attempt to computerize a pencil. It’s a mystery to many people in the computer industry why the mouse has been so successful; in 1990 most of us honestly never expected it would still be in use today.
What we really want is a magic notebook like that artist has! (leaving to see if Amazon has those for sale yet…)
Ah, Pete–I had that thought when I watched the video. And then I began to think of the joy she must have had creating the book and making the video. Just so inventive!
“Obsolete” means there’s a newer, better solution to the same problem. If you have a computer, even if you bought it today…it’s obsolete (and yes, it partly IS my fault; you’re welcome
. Pencils and paper, not so much.
I told my class last night that if they wanted to keep a private, secret journal to keep it on whatever computer storage system is great right now. In five years, no one will be able to retrieve any information from it. All those 5.5 inch floppies I still have. . .
From 8″ floppies to 5.25″ floppies to 3.25″ floppies to CD-Roms to DVDs to redundant hard drives to flash memory to…. CD-ROMs and DVDs only last about 5 years max. The other floppy formats are gone. The only way to preserve digital data is to store it in a very common format (ascii for example) and constantly copy it to new systems.
Whereas pen and paper last a long time, and pencil and paper even longer. Odd, isn’t it, that a paperless society makes us forgetful in the end.