Navel-gazing (Birthday Books Vol 40 of 41)

Belly dancers, midriffs and the famous itsy bitsy teeny weenie yellow polka-dotted musings –art more physical than philosophical. When the pages of this journal are filled, please return it to bookmooch user: zenfish. Thank you.

RE: Birthday Books vol 1-41. I was very excited to read about the bookmooch journal project as I usually celebrate my birthday with art/performance art madness related to the number in question. In August I will be a delightful 41 years wild. I have purchased 41 blank journals and am giving each individual themes. When all the wayward art has winged its way home to me, I look forward to a local celebration to share and enjoy these books with friends.

-zenfish

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and as stills:

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The Post-industrial Pagan: New Gods for the New Age (Birthday Books Vol 21 of 41)

Give me that old time religion with a modern twist! Updated holidays and new gods, goddesses and myths. When the pages of this journal are filled, please return it to bookmooch user: zenfish. Thank you.

RE: Birthday Books vol 1-41. I was very excited to read about the bookmooch journal project as I usually celebrate my birthday with art/performance art madness related to the number in question. In August I will be a delightful 41 years wild. I have purchased 41 blank journals and am giving each individual themes. When all the wayward art has winged its way home to me, I look forward to a local celebration to share and enjoy these books with friends.

-zenfish

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Fetish (Birthday Books Vol 27 of 41)

Erotic art celebrating the diversity of perversity. Adult themed. Obviously. When the pages of this journal are filled, please return it to bookmooch user: zenfish. Thank you.

RE: Birthday Books vol 1-41. I was very excited to read about the bookmooch journal project as I usually celebrate my birthday with art/performance art madness related to the number in question. In August I will be a delightful 41 years wild. I have purchased 41 blank journals and am giving each individual themes. When all the wayward art has winged its way home to me, I look forward to a local celebration to share and enjoy these books with friends.

-zenfish

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Pg 1, Pg 2, Pg 3, Pg 4, Pg 5, Pg 7, Pg 8, Pg 9, Pg 10

Pin-ups (Birthday Books Vol 25 of 41)

The outrageous pose, the come-hither grin… Playful or provocative. For decades pin-up queens have turned our heads and hearts. Say cheese. Say cheesecake. When the pages of this journal are filled, please return it to bookmooch user: zenfish. Thank you.

RE: Birthday Books vol 1-41. I was very excited to read about the bookmooch journal project as I usually celebrate my birthday with art/performance art madness related to the number in question. In August I will be a delightful 41 years wild. I have purchased 41 blank journals and am giving each individual themes. When all the wayward art has winged its way home to me, I look forward to a local celebration to share and enjoy these books with friends.

-zenfish

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The Sky is Broken

Please record your thoughts and feelings about rain, snow, and hail. It can be in the form of a journal entry, poem, song (if you want to sing it & burn it to CD, just affix the cd to your page in the journal), mix cd, photos, collages…anything your choose. Your only limitation is that it has to fit in the journal.

-k00kaburra

This journal has been returned to its creator.

A night without armor Poems by Jewel

This is a poem book by Jewel that I thought would make a great altered book since alot of her poems are short and there is alot of free space. Feel free to work with the text or pictures or cover the pages completely. No topic to this journal, just be creative.

When full please return to me, BookMooch ID: mspeegle

-mspeegle

This journal has been returned to its creator.

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My favorite Marshas (Birthday Books Vol 26 of 41)

Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. There’s Marsha Brady of course. But what about Marsha Heller, Marsha Marco, Marsha Hunt? Or your best friend Marsha whatsherface? Find a Marsha in fiction or history and give her a bio and fan page. Too lazy for research and never met a Marsha? Why not invent one?

When the pages of this journal are filled, please return it to bookmooch user: zenfish. Thank you.

RE: Birthday Books vol 1-41. I was very excited to read about the bookmooch journal project as I usually celebrate my birthday with art/performance art madness related to the number in question. In August I will be a delightful 41 years wild. I have purchased 41 blank journals and am giving each individual themes. When all the wayward art has winged its way home to me, I look forward to a local celebration to share and enjoy these books with friends.

-zenfish

One of These Things Is Not Like the Others

Add four things. This one has fairly large pages, so they should all fit. Use more than one page if you need to. Four things, keeping in mind:

Three of these things belong together

Three of these things are kind of the same

Can you guess which one of these doesn’t belong here?

Now it’s time to play our game (time to play our game).

You are encouraged to sign your contribution, with your BookMooch username and your real name if you wish, along with the date you completed your entry. Feel free to pass the book around to your local friends, who aren’t on BookMooch, as long as you’re confident they will get it back into the system.

After you and your fellow creatives are done adding your art, please put the journal back into this same page I’ve created for it here at BookMooch so someone else can mooch it and add to it, and when it is full, please contact [Tim] who may be reached through his account at BookMooch, to send the journal home.

-ereneta

BM Travel Journal

A TRAVEL themed collaborative journal – mooch it, add 2 – 6 pages of journaling and send it on its way again. Let your imagination roam – space travel and time-travel are NOT excluded! Draw pictures, collage images, add paint and fibres – enjoy! Last person to work in the book needs to email me and I will mooch it back again. Book is hand-bound by me, with a blue-grey-silver colour theme.

-Stephen du Toit

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Q&A

Basically, I’ve written a question on the first page of the journal. The next person in line uses the next page (or pages) to answer the question, then writes their own question on the next page for the following person, who does the same, and so on and so on until the journal is full.

Questions can be anything at all – from personal questions about the journaller themselves, such as “what are you most afraid of?” or “what’s the biggest secret you’re keeping right now?”, to questions like “what is the meaning of life?” or “what happens to all those socks that get lost in the wash?”. Be creative!

Rules:

– No altering anyone else’s entry

– When you’re ready to send the journal off again, please put it up on this same page so it can be tracked.

– When the book is full, it must be returned to me, photolysis(bookmooch ID). I can be reached at erratically_ at hotmail.com. 🙂

-photolysis