If you were marooned on a desert Island...
My darling wife started this new trend of posting "quiz-posts" and not to be outdone, I am following suit.
A while back, the British magazine Artist and Illustrator did this series of articles where they asked well known artists to tell them what six items they would like to have with them if they get marooned on a desert island. Since then, a few gadgets have become available that would really spoil the fun such as satellite phones, GPS systems and the pesky OnStar.
So assuming these items (and battery-operated items in general) are not allowed (Let's keep it PG13), what 6 items that you presently own and can't live without, would you like to have wash up on your deserted Island?
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1. the books on my book case.
2. my reading glasses.
3. my note book
4. my good fountain pen
5. my magnifying glass
6. my husband's swiss army knife
The magnifying glass is to study nature with, but also to make fire with. The rest speaks for itself.
1. fruit
2. wine
3. some way of playing music
4. an enormous roll of canvas
5. Irene's husband's swiss army knife
6. some colours - whether inks, paints, pencils, dyes... no matter.
(confession: I decided to do be predictable and not follow the rules. I only have a small roll of canvas and the Swiss army knife is not mine.)
like the trees, by the way. I wish I had your flair for communicative image-making.
Irene! YOu can't take ALL the books on your bookshelf!
A fountain pen would be one of my must haves too, but what to do about Ink!!!
Hey Frances, get your own swiss army knife LOL.
1> A sable Brush
2> My paint box
3> My sketch pad
4> My reading glasses
5> My note book
6> My Ackerman pen.
I could make charcoal sticks and paper locally, I could also make earth colours from different coloured mud on the island. I could catch squids and pick berries for ink and colours as well.
I would borrow Irene's knife from Frances of course.
I haven't come up with a very exciting list, since my laptop and my coffeemaker are gone, but here goes:
1. a bottle of vodka
2. grapefruit soda
3. aloe vera plant for when I get a sunburn
4. a manual on how to get off the deserted island
5. Irene's husband's swiss army knife
6. Irene's husband (because he would know how to use the swiss army knife)
Hey you guys, you can't have the swiss army knife and the husband! If I only could bring one book it would have to be a survival book, but I don't own that now, so I'll pick Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin. Could I run out and get the survival book first? How long are we staying on this island anyway? Indefinitely? Do we get rescued? Instead of my notebook and my fountain pen, I'll bring nails and a hammer.
Rima, you are just too cheeky, I was going to say Irene's husband as number 5, with the added proviso he brought his swiss army knife... but then I thought Irene seems to quite like him, so I'd just get the knife. I don't like to leave my dear husband alone without his!!!!
Fawzan, what would you read with the reading glasses? You can write in blood, if you don't catch a squid.
I didn't realise we would all be on the island at the same time, sharing knives.
If so, glad I'm bringing some fruit and wine.
I tell you what, Irene, you smuggle along your husband, as Rima says, he knows how to use the knife - my canvas will be enough for a shelter as well as for painting. So Rima wouldn't get too burnt and we can open the bottles with the opener in the swiss army knife.
Since we are building a community on this island... WAIT!!!!!!!!! Is that a hatch I see?
1. A Hammock
2. A super, heavy duty, long lasting lighter
3. A few moleskines
4. Some kind of super utility knife that never dulls
5. A tent
6. An extra set of clothes
I'm not really cut out for the wild, so I'll just take enough to make it comfortable before I get eaten by wild animals.
Hooray for hatches with Showers!!! =P
Hey Audrey, do you really like the moleskines? I have never tested them.
What do you do with the moleskins, do you make moccasins out of them, or a tiny little bikini? I think we should leave my husband at home and just bring his swiss army knife because I don't trust these women around him without their own husbands. Oh no, there is you, of course, Fawzan. Will Rima share?
Hi Irene,
Moleskins, at least the ones I was writing about are exceptionally well made notebooks and sketchbooks. I certainly would not harm any animals except maybe for food on this island. But I bet you that when push comes to shove, I would probably go vegan. Just can't do it. The Quakers did get to me that way.
Now as to Rima sharing me, do I have any say? I mean we are on a deserted island and who knows what has happened to the rest of humanity right???
I say we share and share alike and I want the moleskins for a cover up, because they sound so soft. I am a vegetarian, but when push comes to shove we will hunt with the swiss army knife or make a bow and arrows. We can also fish with a spear in my mole skin bikini. It sounds great, let's go!
I can almost see Ursula Undress coming out of the waters. But I'm holding out for Desmond or John Locke. I'll settle for Sawyer. This will only make sense to people who watch LOST on television.
Poor Fawzan, what a star - willing to sacrifice so much for the good of the community!
somehow I think this idea got moved off the original rubric - we European women!
Here in UK moleskin is used for the trousers of pretentious ex-hippies.
LOL
I LOVE moleskines. They are fantastic. The paper is incredibly smooth. I spent years buying, starting and abandoning journals until I found moleskines. Something about them encourage me to write, doodle and dream in them. They come in three different sizes, I have at least one of each. I prefer lined, but David prefers blank. One of the best things about them is they lay flat. Everyone should test one out! It is fantastic.
Although I love them very much I do not think they would make good shoes or blankets.
I looked moleskins up - that explains it - we have a tradition of molecatchers here, maybe over Irene's way too. Soft suedy material is called moleskin - not the notebooks. I wonder why moleskin? were they covered in leather before? or what?
Is Debi coming with us to this desert island? and what about Neda?
Oh! So this is where all the fun is going on!
1. I vote to get Fawzan banished on another island, it's getting too crowded over here!
2. Irene's husband can join him so he won't be too lonely. The Swiss Army knife stays with us.
3.Heck, I'll even send my husband over there too and replace him with Sawyer in my house...
4. Come to think of it, I'll stay in my house if Sawyer is there. You can keep Fawzan, ladies :)
Things I take to the island with me:
1. Eduard
2. Eduard's swiss army knife
3. cigarettes
4. lighter
5. thermos of coffee
6. a rowboat to get off after a while
The island is not to far from shore and in a mild climate, the waves are very low and there is hardly any wind, rowing is easy because of the absence of currents. We live happily ever after.
Fin.
Excellent Irene, you have solved it all. No artistic materials whatsoever.
Just party with your beloved. Everyone else can go to a different island and struggle with their moleskins.
I'm belatedly coming to the game, and can hardly think what I would bring with me for all the funny posts here that are making me laugh out loud.
I'll give it a stab and try to follow the rules, although I see now I should have much better emergency tools on hand:
1. Pry bar. For opening coconuts.
2. Big bottle of ibuprofen (for the immense headaches of doing without caffeine and of trying to open coconuts.)
3. Harmonica. I don't do anything with it now, but on the island it would provide for music and my own entertainment (provided I was alone. Else it would provide a sure way to get "kicked off" the island -- and return home!)
4. My globe so I could figure out where I was. Or paint a face on it for company like Tom Hanks in Cast Away.
5. Lighter -- but no cigarettes. I would finally quit.
6. My book titled "Desert Survival Handbook" -- hopefully the deserted island has some similarities with a desert. Otherwise, I could use it for toilet paper while I figured out which leaves are not poisonous.
Debi, liked the lighter - so practical to use abandonment on a desert island to give up smoking. I laughed at that!
i thought I was the silly one. Now I find I'm surrounded by virtual silliness.
OMG I really do love you guys! I think you all are a riot! Just being with you all on an island and sitting back with a (hidden) camcorder to record the events would make me wealty when I got home. The camcorder would be hidden in one very LARGE book. Maybe the rest would be 9 batteries...looking forward to selling this recording you all! Now who ever brings the booze and cigarettes could be my best friend.
So this is where everyone is! Is there still room on this island?
Hmmmm... tough questions ...
1. warm clothes
2. a bigger, better swiss army knife
3. blanket - a gigantic one
4. art pad - real thick one
5. big box of pastels
6. box of chocolate - inside an inspiring book ....
7. a space and time portal so I could hop over to get whatever I needed.
~ Diane Clancy
www.dianeclancy.com/blog
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