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Title: What To Do With Old Books--mjs related
Post by: black on February 06, 2012, 06:46:59 PM
Pretty cool stuff.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/12/carved-book-landscapes-by-guy-laramee/ (http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/12/carved-book-landscapes-by-guy-laramee/)
Title: Re: What To Do With Old Books--mjs related
Post by: RAGER on February 06, 2012, 07:04:26 PM
That's better than what I do with them.(let em sit in the corner collecting dust or give them away)
Title: Re: What To Do With Old Books--mjs related
Post by: MadJohnShaft on February 06, 2012, 09:31:26 PM
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.

Title: Re: What To Do With Old Books--mjs related
Post by: black on February 07, 2012, 10:12:25 AM
Yeah, I posted links (in Gen Disc, i think) a few months back to Brian Dettmer's carved up book site.

http://briandettmer.com/ (http://briandettmer.com/)

Pretty prolific cat.
Title: Re: What To Do With Old Books--mjs related
Post by: MadJohnShaft on February 09, 2012, 05:51:50 PM
Yes!

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/the-book-surgeon-15-pieces (http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/the-book-surgeon-15-pieces)
Title: Re: What To Do With Old Books--mjs related
Post by: MadJohnShaft on February 09, 2012, 05:54:03 PM
I have the iPad and iPhone versions and the website of A Humument

(http://files.list.co.uk/images/2007/11/29/a-humument.jpg)

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 (http://humument.com/gallery/slideshow.html)
Title: Re: What To Do With Old Books--mjs related
Post by: BitterAndTwisted on March 10, 2012, 08:21:50 AM
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.