We took digital pictures of every page in the Starbucks journal today. I'll post some soon. It had changed already by the time I left. It is spawning other journals; I saw three more that people had brought to work in.
I think James Hillman and Merlyn had it right -- we don't only live forward. In some ways, we also live backward, and in all times at once. Who can say which of those journals spawned the others? Perhaps a white rock just dropped with a splash in the timestream, and every droplet became a book.
My printmaking teacher used to say, "You try to control all aspects of your print. Then you place the paper in the press, and the hand of god touches it. This changes everything." Digital photos are also printmaking, that altering Hand. Ordinary layouts leap to life. Strong pages inexplicably weaken. Everything just... shifts... a little.
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UPDATE: PICTURES REMOVED - 9/2/2004: I took them off the site. They were communally-created, and communally-owned, and I realized I do not have communal permission to publish them. So, I'm getting back in integrity by removing them. However, you can check out the journal yourself -- live! in person! -- by going to visit the Carnation Starbucks at 31722 Eugene Street, Carnation WA, 98014. Have a latte. Write in the book.
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