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werksberg wrote:Is each book going to be hand written and drawn too?

Or photo copied?

Yep. At the rate I'm going .. .. ..
Colin

Maybe do a preproduction, partly done, unfinish rough draft, limited early edition & highly collective copy and get them memograph copied?

Colin, thank you for sharing your life, passion, and experience with us. I'm looking forward to the 2010 itinerary.

locoqueso wrote:Colin, thank you for sharing your life, passion, and experience with us. I'm looking forward to the 2010 itinerary.

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Amskeptic wrote:

werksberg wrote:Is each book going to be hand written and drawn too?

Or photo copied?

Yep. At the rate I'm going .. .. ..
Colin

Or like the Gutenbergs used to do, one page at a time. Here is Colin in Z's garage this winter:

Sylvester wrote:

Amskeptic wrote:

werksberg wrote:Is each book going to be hand written and drawn too?

Or photo copied?

Yep. At the rate I'm going .. .. ..
Colin

Or like the Gutenbergs used to do, one page at a time. Here is Colin in Z's garage this winter:

=D> Good laugh for the day! I needed that!

Sylvester wrote:

Amskeptic wrote:

werksberg wrote:Is each book going to be hand written and drawn too?

Or photo copied?

Yep. At the rate I'm going .. .. ..
Colin

Or like the Gutenbergs used to do, one page at a time. Here is Colin in Z's garage this winter:

I am fond of the Amish and other plain folks and used to get a magazine that was actually produced this way. They even had pictures that were wood-stamped if I remember. It was called Plain and was made quarterly by a Plain Quaker gentleman named Scott Savage. He has some books on Amazon regarding the Plain life. Cool reads. One book was about him walking to turn in his driver license to DMV as he no longer would drive a car and went full horse and buggy.

Anyway, they stopped making Plain a while back but did this magazine for a number of years. tj

Amskeptic wrote:I am hand writing and hand illustrating this book, (trees be damned):

one of the first things I loved about VW lifestyle was the idiots guide.
the illustrations done by Peter Aschwanden really captured me, moreso than even the content itself (at first.)

I love your drawings, they remind me of Peter's in a way, but in color and with more useful content.
id hang yours on the wall too.

some of the drawings Peter did for the 'Velvet Monkeywrench' book that Muir also wrote are my favorites.
years ago I was able to contact Peter before his passing to get a huge print he made (from the Velvet book.)




=D>

airkooledchris wrote: one of the first things I loved about VW lifestyle was the idoits guide.
the illustrations done by Peter Aschwanden really captured me, moreso than even the content itself (at first.)

I love your drawings, they remind me of Peter's in a way, but in color and with more useful content.
id hang yours on the wall to.

some of the drawings Peter did for the 'Velvet Monkeywrench' book that Muir also wrote are my favorites.
years ago I was able to contact Peter before his passing to get a huge print he made (from the Velvet book.)




=D>

Funny, I feel the same way. In fact, at my last garage, I had a worn out beat up Idiot book that I used to cut out some of Peter's drawings and tacked them to my garage walls. I love utilitarian things, especially artwork!

BellePlaine wrote:
Funny, I feel the same way. In fact, at my last garage, I had a worn out beat up Idiot book that I used to cut out some of Peter's drawings and tacked them to my garage walls. I love utilitarian things, especially artwork!

"Better downshift Honey!"

I have fond memories of being 8 years old and in the back of my Mom's brand spanking new 71 bus merrily tracing the pictures on the way to Cali on summer vacation! I used to trace them out and or practice my own skill on duplicating the drawings as the years went by...

keifernet wrote: I have fond memories of being 8 years old and in the back of my Mom's brand spanking new 71 bus merrily tracing the pictures on the way to Cali on summer vacation! I used to trace them out and or practice my own skill on duplicating the drawings as the years went by...

My favorite illustration in the Idiot's Guide (early edition before they got too gussied up) was the poor insomniac sitting in bed with that exploded view of his engine haunting him.
Colin

Amskeptic wrote:

keifernet wrote: I have fond memories of being 8 years old and in the back of my Mom's brand spanking new 71 bus merrily tracing the pictures on the way to Cali on summer vacation! I used to trace them out and or practice my own skill on duplicating the drawings as the years went by...

My favorite illustration in the Idiot's Guide (early edition before they got too gussied up) was the poor insomniac sitting in bed with that exploded view of his engine haunting him.
Colin

Mine too... although I sometimes wonder if it may have been more appropriate to depict the poor insomniac lying awake in his Westy pondering his engine parts and how he is to make it home across those mountains.

sped372 wrote:

Amskeptic wrote:

keifernet wrote: I have fond memories of being 8 years old and in the back of my Mom's brand spanking new 71 bus merrily tracing the pictures on the way to Cali on summer vacation! I used to trace them out and or practice my own skill on duplicating the drawings as the years went by...

My favorite illustration in the Idiot's Guide (early edition before they got too gussied up) was the poor insomniac sitting in bed with that exploded view of his engine haunting him.
Colin

Mine too... although I sometimes wonder if it may have been more appropriate to depict the poor insomniac lying awake in his Westy pondering his engine parts and how he is to make it home across those mountains.

Yes that one too! and I still spend many hours awake in the middle of some nights dissecting, planning and re arranging things in my mind I have going on.

I was just tossing out that one "quote" of a particular picture that always intrigued me and cracked me up and wondering WHO would get it. ;)

The illustration from the idiot's guide that always brought a smile to my face was the cartoon where the chap dreamed he passed another vehicle in his splittie