What To Do With Old Books--mjs related

[black]

Pretty cool stuff.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/12/carved-book-landscapes-by-guy-laramee/

[RAGER]

That's better than what I do with them.(let em sit in the corner collecting dust or give them away)

[MadJohnShaft]

I saw a book carving artist before but this looks different. It's great.  I like technician artists that do something detailed.


Old books?  I jettison a few, mostly gifts someone gave me that I've read.  once a month when we get rid of old kids stuff.

[black]

Yeah, I posted links (in Gen Disc, i think) a few months back to Brian Dettmer's carved up book site.

http://briandettmer.com/

Pretty prolific cat.

[MadJohnShaft]

Yes!

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/the-book-surgeon-15-pieces

[MadJohnShaft]

I have the iPad and iPhone versions and the website of A Humument



I'm trying to resist buying some copies, they are a hundred bucks or so and there's many printings and editions so you never know which one you would get anyhow....

http://humument.com/gallery/slideshow.html

[BitterAndTwisted]

Rather than making sculptures out of precious books I'd prefer to think of them as being read and enjoyed by other people.  As long as these sculptures are made out of Dan Brown books and others of the ilk I'd be content

I often have a cull of books I don't plan to re-read and take them all down to my local charity-shops along with all sorts of other things I don't need any more.  I'm fussy about which charities I choose to support: even though I'm not a practising Christian or even a believer any longer I do support the wonderful work the Salvation Army do here.