By: Keri Smith Publisher: Perigee Trade Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Perigee Trade Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 192 Publication Date: June 05, 2007
Product Description: For anyone who's ever wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes Wreck This Journal, an illustrated book that features a subversive collection of prompts, asking readers to muster up their best mistake- and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book (and destroy them). Acclaimed illustrator Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in "destructive" acts-poking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting with coffee, and more-in order to experience the true creative process. Readers discover a new way of art and journal making-and new ways to escape the fear of the blank page and fully engage in the creative process.
Breaking the rules with permission ... it's fun I have always been taught to respect books, and that defacing them is not right, but this book actually tells you to go out and destroy it, so pushing aside my instict to put the book away I immediately flipped it open and was instructed to "rip this page out and crumple it up" and so I did just that, it was such an exhillarting feeling to do something I had always been told not to that I couldn't wait to do more damage.
Having got past the initial relutance I have jumped in wholeheartedly and have had to limit myself to following a page a day this way I can make the enjoyment last. There is much fun in the different instructions and can lead to some very strange looks from others as you deliberately spill coffee on your book and look quite pleased about it.
This is a great way to let loose different emotions, bashing the book in anger and frustration, gently smoothing dirt all over a page and rubbing it in, stabbing it with a sharp pencil ...
I recommend this for anyone who wants to work through a creative block or let out emotions in an expressive way. I have even purchased two more to give to freinds so they too can have fun working through their creative funks.
So Much Fun! I bought three of these on the hope that the whole thing was as fun as the sample pages - really, the whole book is so great! The reason I bought three was to "do" the journal with my teenage daughter, her best friend and her best friend's mother. We set aside time twice a month and "do" the book - it is so good to just get silly with the girls. We have really been able to reconnect with them. I have mine, the other mom has one and the girls have one to share. There will be so many memories tied into this book when we are done - that is if we really don't... Wreck This Journal!
Such fun!! This book is all about freedom of expression! My son, who is 4, and I had a blast with this book! My husband enjoyed watching all the odd things we would have to do with the book so it became a family affair! I love the idea and this is definatley a must have!! Everyone is getting one for Christmas!! Loved it!!
This Is Not Your Ordinary Journal.. I bought this book because I thought it would help me out of a creative rut and so far,I think it's working:-). Don't be be put off by the strange and sometimes gross "destructions" the author gives you,just go with it! I really haven't really did many of the projects yet,but the few I did were pretty liberating:-).(except I don't think I want to chew paper(although I did as a kid) but I might possibly change my mind. In short,keep an open mind and most of all,have fun!
Great Book!!! Great Fun!!! This is a promising activity that your whole family will want to do. Keri Smith shapes a journal into a personal project you can't step away from. This journal induces breaking all the laws that we use for books. My journal has proved a good toy for my kitten, and it held up extremely well under the tires of a car, with tread marks to show. This journal gives freedom of destruction. Five stars for originality!
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