Back in elementary school most of your classes on your report card were graded on the traditional A-F scale (but where was “E” “E”xactly?). There were some other classes that were merely graded as Check or Check Minus or Minus. These were the non-core classes of Music, Art, and P.E.
Well, in Art I got a minus. I guess even then I was too postmodern or something like it to really be able to do art, but I was even then, and still am, excellent at dissecting Art’s meaning. That’s probably part of the reason I live in SF.
But I’ve been wanting to have a proper notebook cover. It sounds like something you should be able to buy right? Basically it’s something made of cardboard and maybe some sort of leather like covering that you slide a traditional notebook into and as you use it up replace with a notebook. Seems simple?
Well, I can’t find one, so I’m making one.
Join this need with the fact above, it’s probably not a good scene.
The great guys over at FLAX over at valencia and market really helped me out. I got a sheet of binder board (like what they make books out of) and some rubber cement. I went then over to a fabric store in the Haight-Ashbury and bought some canvas {much to the reverie of being Douglas Fairbanks Junior and jabbing my dagger into a canvas sail as I rappel down to the deck where my next pirate nemesis awaits}.
After I got back from the stores I started cutting up the binder board, I’ve then wrapped each of the panels in canvas and I’m letting the adhesive dry. Once I have covered the panels I will then use another strip of canvas to create a binding for the two panels.
Once that’s done I will cover the panels with this leather-feeling stuff that is actually paper! It’s crazy. It feels just like leather, but it’s compressed paper. It’s pretty insane.
All this effort is to have basically one “creative” - forever - while the content may change.
I’ve never been much of a craftsman, I’m still not and you would know this if you saw the precision of my cuts.
…and I suppose we’re back to why I did poorly in art class… (more…)