Of Hearts and Cages

Hello, Notebookery people!  I hope you all had a wonderful Xmas season, and are looking forward to a great new year!  I’m sure we’re all rather glad to bid adieu to 2009. A new decade awaits us!  And ushering in this new decade is our sixth submission to the notebook, brought to you by the designer of our ATX Notebookery logo, Miss Kimmy Shumski.  She has gifted us with a beautiful and poignant collage, complete with multicolored foil and everything! And it leaves me thinking, “When indeed? When indeed?” Kimmy is a certified bad-ass, with a voice as big as Cleveland. I’ve had the privilege of accompanying her playing and singing with my drum, and it’s quite an experience.  I hope all of you have a fun and safe new years’ eve experience! Be careful out there. You know it’s a night when all of the amateur partyers come out to play. Until next week and, hell, next year, and, hell the next decade, be well folks. See you on the other side!

The Castle in the Sky

Cheers, ladies and gentlemen.  Our 5th submission comes from Jim Durrant, artist and bike enthusiast. He’s a frequent fixture Austin’s Thursday Night Urban Bike Ride, which boasts a crowd of several hundred, every Thursday night. Bicycles and bar hopping! Thanks Jim! As an addendum, this is the original copy of Jim’s picture. It was, rather unfortunately, too large to fit into the notebook in its original form, and has been cut down a bit to fit. All the essential elements are still there, of course. I’ll put up an updated picture as soon as the notebook makes its way back to me!

And, my apologies for the sad state of the ATX Notebookery Google map. I’ll be updating it this evening.

Green with . . .

Submission the Fourth! It is a rather entrancing paint marker and pen drawing by Charles Alvarado, whom I still haven’t had the pleasure of meeting face to face. I have it on good authority, though, that the rest of his work is just as awesome as this piece. I’m rather happy that, despite the curvature of the page at the spine, this image still looked quite lovely when it was scanned in. There are several more pieces in the pipelines right now, so look out for more soon!  I’ve taken the advice of one of our other contributors, and will only be releasing new submissions once per week, hopefully on Wednesdays.  That way you lovely people won’t get tired of my yammering.  So, there will be more next week!

Beauty is Eternal

And with that, we have our third official submission!  Brought to us by the multitalented Kaylene Rudd. No relation to Paul Rudd, or so I hear. I’m not sure if I believe it either.  Nevertheless it’s a beautiful piece, with a bit of a story.  Apparently, Ms. Rudd didn’t quite know what to draw, and asked a friend for a quote from which to start.  “Beauty is Eternal” was the suggestion, and she went from there.  And she did quite the lovely job with it!  Let it be known that Ms. Rudd’s contribution would be much more lovely if I hadn’t managed to cut off, you know, the “-al” of “eternal,” but apparently my engineering of this notebook made it nearly impossible to fully scan some of the images. Hindsight, 20/20, and all that.  Nevertheless, this is a lovely drawing, and there are many more to come.