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Thx a lot. And, once again, real nice job :)

Not really my kind of ‘design’ but I quite like that nonetheless! It’s very interesting and original. The tree one would be me pick if I had to pick one.

May I ask how you do that? Is it just painted on the fabric?

Do any of you guys know what the benefit of letting them do it is?

The advantage boils down to

• You’re sure it will work as expected.
• Spare you the effort of doing it yourself.

Is it worth it? Depends your skill level/interest in installing a new android on a phone (I have zero interest in doing that for example, and that is despite my computer running Linux), and what your time is worth to you (do you earn more in the time it would take you to do that yourself? If yes, it may be a reasonable choice to let someone else do it).

Seems rather fitting to me, considering TikTok and its too many ‘Social Media’ siblings have ushered our societies into a new Dark Age.

I would say:

• Reading books
• Playing chess

Both can be done on a phone I suppose.

P.S.: The notion I’d put there - Russia is a good, useful example of how privacy and the rule of the law (and logic) can be eradicated, the one europeans should be aware of when their own lawmakers try to pass e2ee ban or something similar.

Naaah, could not happen with us. Not ever. We’re the good guys. We only track down assholes, you know that. /s

More seriously, reading your comment I could not but wonder what are the differences with what our own legislators are trying to devise around here? I’m French and it has been a few years already since I’ve kinda expected VPN to be declared illegal for the average user, as I’m pretty sure legislators, NGO, and journalists would get an exemption.

Don’t know if you’re aware but there are a few permanent inks for fountain pen that are available. They are not india or acrylic inks (those will kill any fountain pen) but real fountain dedicated fountain pen waterproof/water resistant inks. That’s what I use for my watercolors. I can suggest:

• the German De Atramentis Document inks. That line, specifically, Quite a few colors are available.
• Platinum Black (to get a superb very black black)
• I’ve also had good experience with Rohrer & Klingner Sketch ink.

They are rather flat inks (I remember you mentioning that in other discussion), the flatter being DeAtramentis and Platinum, but Platinum still feels much smoother. They all work fine with my a Lamy Safari F or EF.

BTW, Platinum Black is the same brand as the Platinum Preppy cheap fountain pens and they work together flawlessly which makes them a great duo four outdoor use ;)

Indeed, it’s a mess. And that mess is one of the reasons we have been witnessing a shift against the very notion of public space.

I’ve noticed a few people trying to argue with me specifically. I have no idea why (like I think I said, I just mentioned what I know and I don’t even do photograph anymore) but that’s fine with me. And while they seem to be so vocally willing to defend their undisputed (by me, at the very least) right to privacy I can only wonder how many of those privacy warriors are carrying their own spyware riddled smartphone absolutely everywhere they go, including to the most private place I can think of: the bathroom. And I feel 100% reassured knowing they will pick the right fights ;)

I feel like breaking up and getting back together isn’t a healthy way of dealing with relationship problems so when I’ve broken up with someone it’s been final.

My spouse and I have been together for almost 30 years and counting. If we never broke up we’ve had our fair share of ‘issues’. None of us being perfect, imho, all what matters is our shared willingness to make things work.

The thing is, when I write entries, I tend to write several pages. Is there a way to “work around” this

Have you considered a refillable agenda, like a Filofax or anything similar? I mean, you can easily use it as a journal and you can easily add as many pages as you need for any given day.

Ma compagne et moi n’avons pas possédé de voiture depuis… 25 ans. Edit: un choix de vie (comme celui de ne plus prendre l’avion)

Est-ce rentable/viable? Ça va dépendre entièrement de ta situation (tu as quoi comme modes de transport alternatifs, quelles distances à parcourir et à quelle fréquence) et de l’usage fait du véhicule.

Pour nous, c’est largement rentable: pas d’assurance ni de parking à payer, pas d’acrochages (on vit à Paris), pas de stress (voir parentthèse précédente ;), pas de vol (idem),…

Cela nous coûte moins cher d’en louer une de temps en temps, quand on a vraiment pas le choix ce qui est rare, ou encore de prendre un taxi/Uber quand tout simplement marcher ou encore utiliser les transports en commun ne sont pas une option.

This was later replaced with dot-matrix printers,

My very first printer, lent to me by a friend, was a dot printer. I both hated it (for the stupid amont of noise it was making and the (lack of) printing quality) and loved it (because it was so cool, and it was my first printer). I printed an entire book draft using that and probably started losing some hearing at the same time too :p

Congrats! I failed so badly when I tried to fix my first machine!

Oh, an azerty Layout? The Frenchie in me wholeheartedly agree with that ;)

What gives you the right to take my picture?

Check the definition of the word public in ‘public space’.

But I think you should first need to work on yourself, that would help a lot being able to have a discussion instead of what looks a little bit too much like an argument we certainly should not have you and I as I don’t know you and have as much desire to photograph you as I wish to eat poop.

Have a nice day.

Like I mentioned elsewhere, anyone is more than welcome to do what they want. I simply noticed how frequently justice decisions started to punish the photographer, whether the photo was destined at some personal use or not, whether it was sold or not.

I’m no lawyer. I simply don’t want to waste anymore of my time, and money, dealing with that kind of shit. It’s not worth it… to me at least but, once again, I won’t prevent anyone else to keep doing photography like if nothing had changed if that’s what they want… I may even sketch them if I see them taking their chance doing that ;)

I said not allowed to take picture never told it was to publish or share them. Really, if you have access to you should read recent justice decisions and see how, here in France and in Germany at the very least, they will almost be in favor of… not the photographer, whether the photo was meant to be published or not, whether the photo earned them a cent or not.

For the rest, we live in a free society and I will happily let anyone practice photography as they see fit (provided they do it politely) but don’t expect me to pretend trends have not changed in regards to justice and the right to image, because those trends they have indeed changed and not in favor of photographers.

I mean, your freedom to record in public ends where my freedom to not be recorded in public starts.

Prior to our wonderful times, and even more so in the UK, public space meant that were no right to privacy to be expected at all while using said public space because, you know, it was public. But the moronic age we live in have managed to change that. So be it.

So, worry not my dear friend: as a law abiding citizen myself, I dutifully respect your so-called freedom to use what is supposed to a public space as your very own private space, and I 100% gave up on photography the second time I was confronted to the consequences of people considering their freedom implied they were to decide what ‘public’ meant.

Instead, I switched to sketching the very same people in the very same public space.

They may be as annoyed by me doing that but good luck forbidding me to sketch in a public space or even proving it was them I specifically I sketched… as, even though I do enjoy it, I suck at sketching ;)

Using a camera on public property in the EU is broadly very legal.

Less and less so; at least here in France and in Germany and also in the UK, which was quite surprising to me. In the EU, the GDRP being another nail in the coffin of the right of photographing on public space and photographing random people in that public space. Most of the cases I’ve heard of in the last few years ended up with the plaintiff winning against the photographer, even if the picture was not exploited professionally.

Smart glasses will raise a new flag and push all rules to the next level of paranoia (rightfully so, I’m afraid) and will then be used as an excuse to remove even more of our liberty to use public space (which is supposed to be ours).

Edit: clarifications.

Ah c’est super ! Merci ! Un carnet façon clipbook un peu ?

Oui mais plutôt façon Filofax Notebook, si ça doit ressembler à un Filofax. Mais plus encore les cahiers Atoma ;)

la motivation de faire mes propres pages chaque année ou si je vais préférer acheter un bloc tout fait…

En dehors de l’agenda lui-même (j’aurai pas le courage de faire mes pages, du coup je suis content de mon tout petit agenda format pocket), pour moi, le choix se résume à deux, voire trois critères:

• Recycler pour ne pas jeter et utiliser le plus d’outils/formats standards/courants. Genre, une perfo à 2 trous plutôt que les modèles hors de prix de Filofax ou de Atoma). Mais je ne suis pas encore certain que mon système à anneau soit viable. D’ailleurs, pour info, j’ai déniché un Filofax Notebook d’occasion avec sa perforatrice vendus pas trop chers, j’attends de les recevoir pour pouvoir les tester.
• Liberté de choix. Que ce soit papier ou outil d’écriture. Je ne usi spas coicné par les choix d’un fabricant… ni par un seul type d’usage : mon idée avec ce carnet modulaire c’est aussi de regrouper ce que j’écris et ce que je dessine à un seul endroit. Y compris les aquarelles, puisque je pourrais aussi facilement ajouter du papier aquarelle, en plus du reste. J’ai juste pas encore commencé à le faire parce que ce prototype n’est pas encore prêt pour l’aquarelle (eau et papier, ça se mélange pas n’importe comment ;). Le prochain prototype devrait être plus intéressant de ce point de vue.
• Coût. C’est directement lié à l’utilisation de produits/outils courants mais si je peux éviter de payer plus cher pour du papier pré-perforé en le perforant moi-même… C’est aussi pour ça que la plupart du temps je découpe mes feuilles A5 et A6 moi-même sur base de A4 (une feuille A4 = 2 A5 ou 4 A6, je te laisse faire le calcul du coût à la page quand tu achètes un bloc de 500 feuilles A4 comparé au prix de 1000 feuilles A5 ou de 2000 feuilles A6 vendues pré-découpées) . Ca ne m’empêche pas d’avoir une pile de fiches Bristol A6 en stock (je suis tombé sur une super occasion y a quelques années de ça, une faillite dont j’ai pu reprendre une montagne de fiches Bristol), mais je limite leur usage car c’est du papier plus épais, qui prend plus de place que du papier standard 80 ou 90gr dans mon Zettelkasten, et il est aussi plus lourd à trimballer.

Autre avantage à découper moi-même le papier : je choisi le papier. Ce qui me permet d’utiliser du (très) bon papier de mon choix quand je le souhaite mais aussi de recycler du vieux papier aussi souvent que possible, et qui reste bien suffisant pour mes notes de lecture ou pour mes brouillons de textes.

Pour les anneaux, je pensais me procurer un mécanisme en entier, à fixer à l’intérieur de la couvrure en cuir.

J’y ai pensé aussi et j’ai essayé sans me prendre la tête (en utilisant une de ces copies bon marché de Filofax vendues sur Amazon, avec une couverture en simili-cuir souple), mon souci étant que le renforcement de cette couverture souple, couplé à l’épaisseur/encombrement des anneaux (et à leur système à ouverture limitée qui ne permet d’ouverture faicle/plate à 360°) rendait le carnet très peu utilisable… comme je souhaite pouvoir l’utiliser, du moins. Contrairement à Atoma (très cher) et, je pense, au Filofax Notebook (pas encore testé, et cher lui aussi)… ou à mon système à la con, mais pas cher du tout lui ;)

Si je devais repartir sur une base Filofax à 6 anneaux classiques, je pense que me dénicherais un modèle A5 Métropol d’occasion, ça doit se trouver pour 10 ou 15 euros. Le mécanisme des anneaux sera plus large et probablement plus durable que celui des copies chinoises, et si la reliure n’est pas en cuir elle est au moins déjà rigidifiée…

J’étais un utilisateur intensif de Filofax, entre les fin des années 80 et la fin des années 90. J’ai dépensé une petite fortune dans leurs différents modèles et formats d’agendas (à l’époque où il faisait encore des produits durables et pas trop girly… même si j’ai rien contre ça, loin de là, c’est juste pas ce que je cherche dans un Filofax : j’ai besoin d’un outil de travail qui supporte un usage pas soigneux et très intensif), ainsi que dans leur papier (pas mauvais) et accessoires.

Je n’ai pas les compétences, mais j’avoue que fabriquer mon propre organiseur, en cuir et sur mesure, me plairait beaucoup. Du moins si j’étais certain d’avoir trouvé le bon système de reliure modulaire. Je suis récemment allé discuter d’un projet de ce genre avec un cordonnier mais j’ai laissé tomber. Le gars était honnête, pas de souci avec lui, mais ça restait bien trop coûteux pour que je veuille tenter le coup.

Hésite pas à partager tes expérimentations, tu te doutes que ça m’intéresserait de suivre ça ;)

J’ai oublié de répondre à la suite de ton message que j’avais même pas vu, en fait !

Pour t’aider à te decider, ce WE j’ai fabriqué un prototype de carnet modulable ‘bi-format’, sur base de papier et de carton de récupération. Franchement, il marche pas mal du tout :p