doodle forest submitted by KrstinaLynn.
Absolutely darling, thanks for submitting. Share what’s in your ecosystem here.
Sing with Me, Sing for the Years: Better than a Moleskin?! →
Hello to all my fellow moleskin lovers out there!!!! I have news!
Behold: The Ecosystem Journal
I had to keep a journal while I was in Berlin and so I went to B&N looking for a Moleskin and I found an Ecosystem instead. It felt and looked similar to a moleskin, but even better the back…
We’re totally flattered. Excellent use of your back pocket. We love that our notebook got to travel with you. Thanks so much for sharing the wonderful pictures.
via 
The Tumblr Found Poetry Project, by ColdShowersWarmHands
If I take off my shoes and walk barefoot,
let that weakness sink in,
meet things we have always been afraid of-
familiar, alien-
evocatively animated here:
bridges strained upward in
dozens of makeshift camps, desperately
trying to build a team.
“Nothing is so abstract or horrible,”
I guess one could then say.
Just live and breathe, suffer and sweat and bleed.
How it usually works,
it is almost certainly something great.
(all sources properly credited here.)
Submitted by ColdShowersWarmHands
The Tumblr Found Poetry Project
The New York Times is inviting students to participate in National Poetry Month by creating found poems using articles published in the paper of record. A found poem is “composed from words and phrases found in another text.”
While the Grey Lady is a rich source of content for poetry, we think Tumblr makes for a more entertaining medium.
So here’s the rub: We’d like you to submit found poems using content posted on Tumblr. Anything goes as long as:
–Each poem is 14 or fewer lines long.
–The poem uses no more than two of your own words. The words and phrases should come from text, picture, quote or chat posts published on Tumblr.
- You provide a link to your original source.
Have fun with the project. Here’s an idea to get you started: Could John Mayer be any more poetic? We think so!
To submit: Reply to this post, reblog this post and tag it #Tumblr Found Poetry Project or submit your found poem here.
To learn more: NY Times
Julia’s using her ecosystem journal to design a new font. Looking good so far.
Well done. We can’t wait to see more.
Happy Friday!
(from our friend @dhatfield who says, “A dirty martini and my @ecosystemlife: two of my favorite things.”)
Kiwi ecosystem notebooks dressed up for St. Patrick’s Day!
Great to see our ecosystem notebook in your hands! Our suggestion for the first page: a note from the white teddy bear to the pink teddy bear.
I just got my new @tumblr notebook that I won from @ecosystemlife - Thx Guys!
Lore Segal is a fantastic, old-school-New-York writer who says really interesting stuff and Tao Lin, as we all know, says crazy shit. (via HTMLGIANT / NY Event I Wish I Could Go To)
Mark your planners! Tuesday, March 9th @ The Center for Fiction, 17 East 47th Street. Check out Lore Segal, Tao Lin & Melville House Editor, Kelly Burdick for A Talk on The Contemporary Art of the Novella. It’s Free.99!
Would you like to report on the event for the ecosystem Tumblr? We’ll provide you with the ecosystem notebook of your choice, you give us your best 200 words on the event and the following wine reception. Let us know.
Show us what’s in your ecosystem
You’re a creative being and you’re not satisfied with one medium. Share with us the work you create in your ecosystem journal. We’re invested in your creative process.
We’re offering a writing or drawing prompt on our Tumblr each week. Your task is to let your creative juices flow. After completing the prompt, submit a photo of your work in your ecosystem notebook. We’ll look through and post favorites on our Tumblr and Facebook.
Week 1 prompt: Your name. Big, fancy, minimalist, cursive, block-lettered – whatever. Show us a page with your name.
