{"id":2109,"date":"2012-01-20T08:37:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T08:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2012-01-20T08:37:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T08:37:01","slug":"review-quoteskine-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2012\/01\/20\/review-quoteskine-volume-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Quoteskine Volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pikaland\/6730160559\/\" title=\"Quoteskine by Lee Crutchley by pikaland, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7012\/6730160559_e04d617f97_o.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"587\" alt=\"Quoteskine by Lee Crutchley\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pikaland\/6730159217\/\" title=\"Quoteskine by Lee Crutchley by pikaland, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7144\/6730159217_2329739bdf_o.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" alt=\"Quoteskine by Lee Crutchley\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the tough gets going, some people buckle or wring their hands and cry about it. But not <a href=\"http:\/\/leecrutchley.com\">Lee Crutchley<\/a>, oh no. After he came back from a solid year of traveling (after selling off his stuff and quitting his job), he found himself in a recession. He braced himself for a job-less time, but didn&#8217;t want his downtime to be of waste \u2013\u00a0and so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quoteskine.co.uk\/\">Quoteskine<\/a> was born.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring lyrics and quotes that he has gathered along the years, he started the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quoteskine.co.uk\/\">Quoteskine blog<\/a> (quoteskine is a combination of the qord &#8220;quotes&#8221; and &#8220;moleskine&#8221;) with the mission of drawing a quote every weekday to keep his creative juices flowing. His blog got picked up by quite a few website (including <a href=\"http:\/\/pikaland.com\/staging\/2010\/01\/04\/music-monday-quoteskine\">ours<\/a>) and gathered momentum from then on. Last year, Lee published his first Quoteskine book \u2013\u00a0a greatest hits of sorts from his weekday exercises \u2013 all filled with quotes that he has penned down in his Moleskine in chronological order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pikaland\/6730157571\/\" title=\"Quoteskine by Lee Crutchley by pikaland, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7141\/6730157571_65c754d69a_o.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" alt=\"Quoteskine by Lee Crutchley\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pikaland\/6730157401\/\" title=\"Quoteskine by Lee Crutchley by pikaland, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7157\/6730157401_45a8d6c64c_o.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"587\" alt=\"Quoteskine by Lee Crutchley\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pikaland\/6730157291\/\" title=\"Quoteskine by Lee Crutchley by pikaland, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7155\/6730157291_86a3bf23d5_o.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"587\" alt=\"Quoteskine by Lee Crutchley\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pikaland\/6730155365\/\" title=\"Quoteskine by Lee Crutchley by pikaland, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7007\/6730155365_0d2514c321_o.jpg\" width=\"440\" alt=\"Quoteskine by Lee Crutchley\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like how simple his idea is, and that he lives and breathes it completely. His passion for his quotes and lyrics shine through in every page; but most of all I admire his can-do attitude and how he chooses to be an optimist in a time where it was simply easier to just be pessimistic about things. And look how far he has come!<\/p>\n<p>You can get a copy of Quoteskine Volume 1 at his <a href=\"http:\/\/quoteskine.storenvy.com\/products\/178460-quoteskine-volume-1\">shop<\/a> where he also has postcards, tees and prints for sale!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em>Happy weekend folks! The Chinese New Year is coming up and there&#8217;s much spring cleaning to be done to welcome the year of the dragon \u2013 so I&#8217;m putting down my drawing brush and my mouse and picking up a broom and duster instead for the weekend!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Catch you here again next week!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Review: Quoteskine Volume 1\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2012\/01\/20\/review-quoteskine-volume-1\/\" aria-label=\"More on Review: Quoteskine Volume 1\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}