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urhajos:

Alex G. Griffiths

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buildingbooks:

This was done as a birthday present for the wonderfully talented @kacistar of @kacistardesigns! She wanted something deliberately ugly. Something you’d likely find post apocalyptic! 

First, Paper! Printed out on the archaic printing machine which uses old world power to operate - or so I’m told. We have regular lined, lined with a blank section and end pages.

Children help the process go much quicker.

If You’re going to do something, you might as well experiment. Do something a little different. Like accidentally stumble upon French linked stitching.

The linked stitch does pull everything more closely together - like we must be if we are to survive in this newly decimated land.

I scavenged up some wire! Who knows what the Old-Worlders used this for, but I shall strip the metal from it’s plastic coating and twist it into a usable product!

More scavenging brought me some bleached denim. This will make an excellent covering.

The amount of paper trimmed off two book guts.

Plorp Plorp Plorp! The glue shall make this book STRONG!

Uhhhh strengthening the hinges because… um… I’m an Adult and I can do what I want?

I found some more blue wire to use for headband cores! It’s tough to chew through with my teeth so I may need to leave it long.

A rare ray of sunshine leaking through the radiation clouds let me take this photo. The pretty wires look good on the headband.

Raiders were coming so I had to abandon my work to hide. I was in the middle of making sure the hollow was secure and I couldn’t stay there rubbing it. I secured it down with masking tape.

I reverse engineered a corner template design from this pretty relic that was found.

This allowed me to make more!

The bleached denim accidentally got more distressed and stained some-how. It is still good to use though.

I riveted some metal strips onto it for where the spine would be. Because, again, I’m an Adult and I can do what I want.

I glued the cover on and then I needed to bend the corners so I could add them. I also needed to punch holes for the long headband cores to go through. Naturally those cores would need to be secured to the cover some how - so I had to make straps for those! It was hard work. I worked long into the night…

The book is done…. It’s ugly but it will serve it’s purpose. Also you could probably kill someone with the sharp corners and protruding metal bits. Fun Times.

Loving the commentary! 

What class, what detail, what scavengery. 

sosuperawesome:

Rings - including Earth and Moon Ring and Wedding Sets - by DownToTheWireDesigns on Etsy

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bookart14:

Artist’s book by Hellen Colman

Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke

Woodcut and inkjet on paper, linocut on silk bookcloth. Edition of 8 copies.

Printed by the artist at Spudnik Press

http://hellencolman.x10host.com/Iwant8/

momalibrary:

Annie Lai Kuen Wan hand-coated every page of a history of India, then fired it in a kiln until the pages burned away. Phenomenon of Times (2014). -jt

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themooniwillbe:

reed in spring

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gentlemanbones:

WE CAN’T PROVE THEY WEREN’T HUGE FATBIRDS

simply the best

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ihideinmymusic:

Want

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Launce (The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II scene iii)

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asylum-art:  Papercuts by Sara Burgess

“Papercut” sounds unpleasant and painful, but these are beautiful!  They just suffer from poor publicity.  Let’s turn the word around and call them “cut paper sculptures."  So much prettier! :)  -c

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onlyleigh:

“There’s a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that that’s all some people have? It isn’t much, but it’s better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan.”

                   -sullivan’s Travels

This is literally what I tried to do through my entire time at college, and yet my teachers still yelled at me about not trying to ham-fist meaning into my art an animations.

I’ve watched so many Good For You ™ movies, so many that people recommended like prescriptions.

Not a single one of those, not a single one, gave me the emotional response of, say, Pacific Rim.

I don’t care what you think of that specific example, I just want to say that sometimes stupid escapist ridiculousness is exactly what the world needs.

“People don’t want the truth! They want opiates! They’re just sheep! They don’t care about my Important Meaningful Insights!”

Yeah, no, fuck off.  My life is kind of difficult, I’ve been suicidal, I’m hella poor, I’m mentally ill, things aren’t rosy.  I don’t want your fucking Saving Private Ryans.  I don’t want your Brokeback Mountains.

I want Pacific Rim.  I want The Rocketeer.  I want Enchanted.

Because my life contains enough truth.  Too much truth.

Take me away from that truth.  Don’t dice it up, garnish it, and serve it back to me.

Take me away.  That’s the real challenge.  That’s the only art I really want anymore.

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visual-poetry:

»crystallized books« by alexis arnold

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