Write in your Library Books!
One of the things we are always taught as children is to take care of your library books. Don't write in them, don't eat around them, don't read them in the bathtub, don't break their spines.
Libraries in the South Central Library System in Wisconsin will have the opportunity to break one of those taboos and check out a blank book from the library to write in, doodle in, draw in. (Read the article here.)
Collaborative artistic journals seem to be popular right now, according to several of the blogs I try to read more or less regularly. But these events all seem to be managed by individuals in a round-robin type of journaling.
I'll be curious to see what ultimately happens. It could be a very inspiring creative task. But the pessimist in me wonders if some wise-a$& will check them out and either deface anything already there or "add" something of his own (I also have a gender prejudice here...is that ok if I admit to it?).
Nevertheless, I hope the project succeeds. If you ever happen to be in the area, and can get to a library that has a copy , let me know how it turns out, will you?
Comments
Is is really a bias, if its true. As one of those being biased against...I can tell you.... Boys can be buttheads...:) And are quite likely to do exactly what you are thinking.
Posted by: noone in particular | October 4, 2005 02:11 PM