Freedbook travels Dubai Business Class




Malc Dow's Patternotion page

  As you know the FreedBook is no stranger to travelling the world. At its very inception we teamed up with the Books For London libraries in an attempt to set our artwork free, but like overprotective parents we wondered if our teenage offspring would sink or swim out there in the real world.

Well we just got that phone call to tell us that it neither sunk nor swam but FLEW and is still flying high!

This journey started when I sent a copy of FreedBook to the artist Malc Dow. He was busy preparing for Sampson Low Ltd's new book, Patternotion, and needed some pointers on style and format. A copy wound its way to Scotland and ended up on Malc's coffee table. Well after reading it several times over he embraced the spirit of the FreedBook and set it free.

Now Malc is a compassionate kind of guy and knew the FreedBook needed some company, sustenance and love. So he left it in 'The most salubrious place in town for free fast broadband', or to you and me the coffee shop at Perth Library. Just as he said his goodbye to FreedBook he wrote his number in the front page as a parting gift.

Of course Malc forgot all about it and got on with his life.

A few days ago he got a phone call from a mystery man. It was a very clear phone line so he presumed it was someone local. The caller said.....

"I picked up this book on my way to Dubai. So I maybe just leave in the book shelf at Dubai airport - I am in transit there... or shall I leave it here in the magazine rack here on the plane... it's business class..."

So Malc said.... "Leave it in the bookshelf!! For goodness sake it or will end in the bin otherwise!"

So that's what our Mystery Caller did....and is it still there? Well who knows.
But what I do know is, even if its on a continent far far away, then its got there in style!

AL