Ep. 326: Apple Kayak Summer. What?

Bookbinding

I made a 100-page, A6-size blank notebook that I christened Apple Kayak Summer. As in the last book I made, this one, too, uses the French link stitich.

Both the front and back covers are collages. The front collage has two people. One is the mayor of Kanazawa who is running for another term. He’s dressed in a somber, politically-attractive suit and a grin.

The other person is from an advertisement for a funeral home. She’s dressed in black, of course, but with a bright smile, cheerful eyes, and a finger pointing toward heaven. Or questioning how many bodies are involved. Hard to say.

The back cover has a pizza, a cartoon boy carrying a load of apples, and the kanji for mountain (pronounced yama): 山。The cartoon boy is from a political advertisement. It is supposed to be the candidate. It is also supposed to show how alive and healthy the candidate is. The kanji is there because people tend to climb mountains in the summer. (From the title of the book: Apple Kayak Summer). The pizza is there because I like pizza and it came in the mail.

Fiction

As in the last video, Caraculiambro is being edited and Zuihitsu is being added to. Increasingly, Zuihitsu is merging into two or three short stories/novellas. Nice.

Video

On Youtube you can see the making of Apple Kayak Summer in vivid color for your viewing pleasure. This is a picture of a couple of statues in Miyazaki, by the way, not in Kanazawa (which has different statues).

 

Also on YouTube is a tutorial on how I make the French link stitch; maybe not the proper way, but how I make it. You might be able to learn from it. If not, let me know.