This example takes a Curious George calendar page of the cover, a slice of Japanese 100-yen-store stationery with another friendly monkey for a bit of flair for the opening edge, black hockey tape for binding wrap,  and a board game for a backboard. Later, a message was added to the currently blank chalkboard, encouraging guests at an airbnb guesthouse to sign their salutations on a variety of odds-and-ends of colourful, heavy-ish paper stock.

This scrapbook takes a board game for a backer and a slice of same to support the side sewn binding for (another) Japanese horizontal layout. The cover – obviously – is Hemp Paper acquired while making HempenRoad film in 1996 from Tree Free paper (a Paul Stanford company) from Portland.  Binding thread covered up with festive Chinese joss paper. Photographed (appropriately) on a piece of hemp canvas. Inside the book, well another day we’l figure that out but I suspect my usual variety of musings, snippets of paper, scribbled schemes and lists, and forgotten poetry.

This scrapbook combines Japanese horizontal layout, side sewn binding with a up-cycled, very-thick, hardback calendar of Vincent Van Gogh (obviously) acquired (free) at Book Expo America in NYC some years back. Binding thread covered up with kraft paper and filled with hearty paper block to handle any inputs. In this case, my usual variety of musings, snippets of paper, scribbled schemes and lists, and forgotten poetry.

Note: this is possibly the first scrapbook i personally constructed and bound in the (vaguely) Japanese-style, meaning horizontal format, side bound and sewn. Created in the bookbinding and print shop (featuring the former-State-of-Washington moveable type press) on campus of Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.

In this workshop, i learned a variety of bookbinding and printing techniques, many of which came together in this piece (a series of 4 or 5 almost identical) including the letterpress typeset tricycle and text-type. Several were probably given as gifts as is my habit, others are filled with sketches, schemes, doodles and musings. The paper stock used in the block was not robust enough to handle paints or scrapbooking per se.

Plenty more artifacts created during this time, perhaps other will appear in subsequent documentation.