hey friends elizabeth here from plant based bride back again with another video
and today i'm setting up my husband's bullet journal for february 2022. uh actually
can i do my own bullet journal this month sure hello elizabeth's friends this is jason the
plant-based husband and i'm going to be making my first bullet journal thankfully with lots of
help and guidance this month's theme is based on isaac asmanov's book our world in space
our world in space was first published in 1974 written by isaac asmanov with a forward
written by buzz aldrin and robert mccall was the illustrator asmanov was considered one of the big
three science fiction writers he penned nearly 500 books most of them hard science fiction this book
is not a fiction however it reveals plans concepts visions and possible realities of our near future
robert mccall was an illustrator for life magazine during the 1960s he created promotional artwork
for stanley kubrick's 2001 a space odyssey and he worked as an artist for nasa documenting
the history of the space race mccall was also a production illustrator on star trek the motion
picture robert mccall is the coolest when i was very little i had this favorite book i would sit
cross-legged on the floor and look through the illustrations and read as much as i could for
a six-year-old and that book went missing and i could never remember the title of the book
and then one day walking home i saw sticking out of somebody's garbage can a copy of our world
in space i recognized the dust jacket right away unfortunately this copy was a bit destroyed so i
immediately ordered myself a couple more copies with the recent launch of the james webb telescope
and his deployment thought right now would be a great time to use some of the artwork in the
destroyed book to make my first bullet journal what first drew me to these images as a child and
still today can probably best be summed up by the forward written in this book by edwin aldrin jr
buzz aldrin traditionally man is impatient of the immediate future he tends to want to hope
above all to imagine more than as humanly or technologically possible in his flicker of time
but the events of the past decade have confirmed the soundness of that yearning instinct
they have lifted the hearts of the dreamers and of all but the most earth-bound pessimists
jason knew he wanted to cut out his favorite images to create these spreads but was undecided
about the headers themselves and i suggested using my sticker machine to cut out the headers
using negative space so you can see that here we used a bit more of a sci-fi
modern looking font and used the sticker cutter to cut the letters out with this nice rounded edge
rectangle and i feel like these headers really fit the retro futurism of the amazing images
jason picked out jason picked out the images and cut them to the right size using my paper cutter
and when we were setting out to glue them in we had two options either cutting them in half and
gluing one on each page leaving a small gap in the center or pre-folding them to make sure that they
would fit perfectly into the divot between the pages making it really easy to use the pages and
turn them i personally prefer to do the pre-fold method when possible feel like it gives a really
nice clean finish you don't end up with a gap you don't have to worry about the inner edge lifting
if the glue starts to lose its adhesion over time and also with these images they're so stunning
that i didn't want to cut them down the middle i really wanted to keep that dual page spread effect
jason also wanted to include the title of the book from the title page so we cut out our
world in space that we glued at the top of the calendar page here and while typically i create
two page calendars for jason so he has more space to write his day-to-day events
because this artwork was so stunning we decided to reduce this to a one-page calendar
so we can enjoy as much of this art as possible i quickly created the calendar
for jason since i am so used to making them very quickly using some white paper from the
book itself to maintain this theme but jason decided on the spacing and glued everything in
so
once the calendar spread was finished jason flipped to the final spread of the setup which
is the first page of his notes pages which he uses essentially as a daily log for tracking
his day-to-day to-do lists taking notes during meetings or whatever else he needs to write down
this artwork that he's gluing across the top is actually an extra piece from the cover page
artwork and it was so perfectly framed with this little astronaut and then the window
into the space station where you can see their fellow astronaut working inside use the same
method using my silhouette portrait to cut out the notes header as well i personally love the artwork
that jason picked out i feel like all three pieces tell such a clear story and are really evocative
i also love that because the first piece of artwork and the third are actually from the same
page they really tie together and bookend that beautiful almost entirely black and white
monochromatic artwork from the calendar spread you may also notice the coaster to the left which
my husband made using epoxy and cutting out some artwork from the book these two astronauts on the
coaster are actually from the same series as the two little astronauts you can see at the bottom
on the calendar spread jason also wanted to share this picture he has of him with his uncle
phil when he was probably around five or six he's absolutely adorable he's just as cute now
he just rolled his eyes this is what he looked like when he first flipped through these pages
and was completely entranced by the art that they contained and the vision of a future that
he hoped would come true and there it is my first bullet journal spread it was a lot of fun to make
i don't normally do arts and crafts like this but i do a lot of work with my hands
so it wasn't that far off i had a lot of great help from elizabeth of course she is the pro
i'm looking forward to seeing these images every day in my bullet journal be kind in the comments
okay thank you to my plant-based bride for helping me on my very first bullet journal i had a great
time making it and i hope you've enjoyed watching me fumble through artwork thank you for watching
bye friends before we go i wanted to take a quick second to thank my patrons for your support
extra special thanks to our newest patrons julia lisa wendy the national endowment of johnny's arts
and humanity victoria tiny fit and cat welcome all of you to the squad we are so excited to have you
if you at home want to join the squad feel free there's a link in the card and in the description
box down below and with that we're gonna get going thanks so much for watching this video
leave a space related emoji in the comments to encourage jason and show him he did a great
job on his first bullet journal and i'll see you really soon in my next video bye friends
you