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Summary: Beautiful Book
Review: I purchased this book four years ago and I love it. The creativity in Dan Eldon's journals is amazing and inspiring. The pages of the journals are filled life and color. I think any art student who looks through it, regardless of the medium he or she works in, is practically guaranteed to be influenced by it - in a great way.I plan on buying this book for friends and family as a gift for years to come. It is a very special book to give someone as a gift because it is incredibly life affirming.
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Summary: A captivating and important work of art.
Review: The Journey is the Destination presents a very unique and enlightening perspective of the world. The pages of this book are alive with photographs, color, and text woven together into intricate pieces of art. If you struggle with the forces of creativity v. compromise then the message here should hit home especially hard. There is much of Dan Eldon on these pages, making this read a very personal experience. Its especially enjoyable to learn that young minds can tackle complicated and important issues for us young folks without being trite, or boring. The Journey is the Desitination is a good book for everyone from the lovers of art and passion to those that want a good coffee table book. I would highly reccomend this book to everyone that wants to experience something important and touching.
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Summary: Dan Eldon is a Lantern
Review: This book will put you in a trance and change your life. It reinforces what is real and important, and pulses with the brilliant existence of Dan Eldon, who lived to his maximum potential, passionately, fearlessly free. We all have the ability to minimize our flaws and enhance our strengths. Dan reminds us of this. We have the ability to see beyond the ordinary to glimpse the majestic miracle of being alive. This book is filled with the dreams and reflections of a true romantic hero, a war correspondent willing to put his own life on the line to deliver the truth. It is a book of light and shadow, and rather than telling people what to think, Dan offered his own perspective. This is a book for people of all ages because it removes the linearity from time, from age and development, and proves that the length of a life, in this case, twenty-two years, is a cross section of eternity. My perspectives on life and death have changed because the images in this book are so powerful. You will find something new every time you open this book, if you look. You will be amazed, and grateful that Dan took the time to record so much. You might get the fever to start doing this on your own. This book spans the gamut of human emotion, and there is something in it for everyone.
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Summary: THE MOST AMAZING BOOK EVER
Review: This book is amazing. You could look at it over and over again. Each page is put together with so much heart. He uses various media's to capture the mood that radiates from one of his prime sources....photography. I love this book....and hopefully i'll get it for Christmas. (My art teacher has it, and i look at it almost everyday....)
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Summary: Enchanting in every single sense of the word...
Review: Dan Eldon, like many previous reviewers have suggested, led an awe inspiring life which is should be a model to slackers (like myself) everywhere. He crammed a lifetime of experience in to 23 short years, and what most people wouldn't give to be as creative, as charming and as entertaining as the marvellous Dan Eldon, whose work has changed the life of many, myself included. 'The Journey is the Destination' unconciously attacks the notion of capitalism and discourages the plight of capitalist man, illustrating the beauty and lessons that can be learnt from travelling, from the ability to see beyond the selfish concerns of the modern world. It both challenges first world notions through the use of startling, yet beautiful visions of forgotten Africa and opens reader's eyes up to the marvels that can be discovered on this sprawling earth, if only we peer a little harder. Similar to such artists as Candy Jernigan and Sabrina Ward Harrison, he effectively and subtly uses various mediums to explore his emotions and display his interests. His early pages and his inital trips around his beloved Africa use colour and complex collages to best illustrate the complexity of the continent. In contrast, the final pages filled with war stricken images of Somalia, are simple and shocking, and this best explores the nation in which his final breathe was taken, and perhaps Dan's belief that no collage could or should dress and reduce the immensity of the images and the horrors of hate. There is always a distance placed between the imaginative and slightly wacky Eldon and the reader, and Dan Eldon's belief that 'I share my house with my room mate, I'll share my book with you, but my head is my own' rings true in the work. I do however, wish there some way in which we could know where and what part of his life he was in when writing journal portions, though most parts are evident by the abudent and colourful pictures and art. Whilst we can never entirely know what he was thinking or the personal significance of the images in the piece, I consider myself lucky to be given the opportunity to glance into this amazing character's mind, if only for a mere two hundred and fifty pages. Equally, I would consider you unwise to pass up the opportunity to do so.
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Summary: beyond inspiration
Review: beautiful, troubling, emmancipating
i can not count the number of times i have read these journals or how many friends i have passed them on to. Dan Eldon is wonderfully inspirational and timelessly passionate. His story and the records of his thoughts have passed through many lands in my backpack. They have been and are an encouragement and reminder of the difference one life can make and the challenge each of us have before us to make that differnce. But beyond the text this book is inspirational simply to look at. Own it. Read it. Share it.
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Summary: The Journey Is the Destination : The Journals of Dan Eldon
Review: If you Know the works of Peter Beard it's easy to understand the source of inspiration of Dan Eldon diaries, but for such a young artist as Dan it's easy to see a lot of talent in his work. And it's such a source of inspiration for anyone
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Summary: Because of this book
Review: I saw this magnificent book because a friend of mine, who is much older than I am, said that it reminded her of me. This was when I was 22. The same age Dan was when he was killed. I think this is the main reason why she said that.
I opened the book and my life was transformed. Ever since then I've kept my own journal of my daily life as well as a seperate travel journal. I think Dan's influence continues despite his passing. I've searched for this book ever since then and am greatful and happy that I have finally found it once more. Thank you Dan.
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Summary: Inspiration to an Artist
Review: For four months I borrowed this book from my art teacher, and at least once a day for all those months I would make time in my day to peer into Dan's world. He was an amazing young man who had the unique ability to absorb what he witnessed in his life and lay it out onto a blank sheet of paper, leaving it full of the color and life he so dearly loved. As an artist myself, I have never failed to be inspired every time I come away from this beautiful journal. It is so sad to know he will not continue to produce many more works of this magnificance, but everyone can surely learn from his lesson how to see the extraordinary in the everyday.
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Summary: A wonderful journey back in time...
Review: Having grown up in Kenya during the 80's and knowing Dan and Amy Eldon through the International School of Kenya (ISK), "The Journey" was a very enjoyable trip down memory lane for me. I was glad to have witnessed Dan's amazing talents in person but the book made me understand Dan much more deeper than I ever knew of him in person. I am not much of a book buyer, but I am getting this book and keeping it close to me because everytime I read it I get inspired to learn, explore, and love everything around me.
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