Spiral Bound (Workbooks Part Two)

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I was Assistant Editor on Paul D. Miller a.k.a DJ Spooky's Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture, which is available from The MIT Press and fine bookstores all over.

My first book, Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes, is an anthology of interviews with all kinds of minds. Disinformation named it "among the most important books published in 2007," and Erik Davis called it "a crisp and substantial remix of the major memes of the last decade or so."

I have a little piece in Disinformation's first book, You Are Being Lied To, a compendium of dissent, which also includes essays by Noam Chomsky, Howard Bloom, Douglas Rushkoff, Howard Zinn, Richard Metzger, Alex Burns, and Mark Pesce, among many others.

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Spiral Bound (Workbooks Part Two)

August 18th, 2007 | 4 Comments | Category: Me

In my quest for better notebooks, I bought a spiral-binding machine so that I could make my own. Here are a few of my creations so far.

Notebooks
This is the first batch. Record covers and old merchandising materials make excellent notebook covers.

Here are a couple more:
More notebooks
The pages inside are either drawing paper, college-ruled notebook paper, or — my favorite — the following half-and-half stock (from Beinfang “Notesketch” books):

Further Posting:

4 Comments »

Jennifer said:

Wow, I love the colors of your notebooks! What kind of a machine does the binding? I do paintings and collage and that would be something cool for down the road ;)

Best of luck with your creations! Thanks for sharing it with the world.

Jennifer

# March 01st, 2008 at 9:40 am

Gabi Wan Kenobi said:

Ugh!!! That’s right bitches! I gots the K.M.D. one pictured above. Yes, Roy C loves me enough to have personalized it. I can hear your collective jealousy boiling over as I type.
Hi Roy, miss ya my boy.
Love Gabey

# March 14th, 2008 at 4:21 pm

The Maker’s Notebook from O’Reilly | Roy Christopher said:

[...] explains Gareth Branwyn, friend and contributing editor to Make. Well, being the journaling, notebook geek that I am, I got my hands on a copy as soon as I [...]

# February 13th, 2011 at 7:59 am

Think Inside This Box: The Bēhance Action Method | Roy Christopher said:

[...] perfect for notes, sketches, diagrams, flowcharts, mindmaps, or any combination thereof. My favorite notebooks thus far have pages ruled in a similar versatile manner (lines on one half of the page, none on the [...]

# February 16th, 2011 at 7:41 pm

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I am currently an Assistant Instructor corrupting the youth at The University of Texas at Austin, where I am also pursuing a Ph.D. in Communication Studies. My main interests are figurative language use and the social impacts of technology. My main goal as a writer is to entertain and as a scientist is to find novelty. I’m more of the former than the latter and more of a fan than a critic. This site is where all of these things play out. It’s where I think aloud about all of the above.

I’m an aging BMX/skateboard 'zine kid. That’s where I learned to turn events and interviews into pages with staples. The pages and staples have long since given way to links and scrollbars, but the rest is basically the same. I still ride bikes, and I still skateboard. I do still commit quite a bit to actual pages, too. Read on »