In the film is a production of IHurt Radio.

In the discipline that is ephemorous studies, the number one subject is this.

Paper.

Institutions like the UK's Center for Ephemer Studies at Reading University,

or the Ephemora Society of America, maintain collections with no shortage of examples.

Bus tickets, handbills, reading cards, stamps, pamphlets, advertisements, and calendars passed,

to name a few.

But not all ephemera is historical.

Multitudes of papers, imbued with the hard work and creativity of their designers,

are produced every day with an uncertain future.

Today, the stories of two individuals working in very different, but equally ephemeral uses of the printed page.

What is the elevator pitch version of this? Like if you made someone in a bar and they ask you what you do, what do you say?

The quick pitch is that we are the world's largest collection of sketchbooks that anyone can be a part of.

My name is Stephen Peterman. I'm the founder and director of the sketchbook project in Brooklyn Art Library.

The sketchbook project was born out of frustration from a lack of creative outlets.

There were a lot of galleries that were doing call for entries, and you would pay, and you were not guaranteed to be in a show. And on the other hand, there were these sort of elite galleries

that you had to apply for, and maybe you got in, or a few people did.

Stephen and his friends wanted to put together an exhibition, where the only bar for entry was a person's interest.

He describes their early efforts as one-dimensional.

We're just going to send out a disposable camera to 100 people, or we're going to send out a canvas to 100 people and see what happens.

Everybody sees nature through different eyes.

This is a couple of years before, like, Kickstarter.

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