I don't know if anyone has noticed yet, but I'm kind of a bookish person. I feel they are a better medium than most people realize. There are many things you can do with a computer, but a book has personality!
You sit there reading from a computer no matter how shiny and high-tech and people assume you're addicted to video games, have the personality of a kumquat, or on the other end of the scale, assume you're trying too hard to look high-tech and in the in-crowd. Whereas with a book people assume you're intelligent, sophisticated and possibly weird. But on the other hand they could also assume you're too poor for a high-tech gadget, which would be wrong because books are sometimes pretty expensive.You also get bothered by people wondering if you could settle a dispute by telling the exact and correct spelling of a certain word. And, of course, it's a word you have never used before and therefore you don't know how to spell it. The computer would be helpful in that exact situation, because then you could look up the Oxford English Dictionary and then you would say, "You're both wrong, it's Latin. Why don't you idiots get a Kindle like a real person!"
But anyway, I wanted to show this amazing artwork by Brian Dettmer! Using "knives, tweezers and surgical tools" he creates sculptural beauties out of old and out-dated resource books. Check it out:
If I had even a tenth of the patience needed to carve out these wonderful pieces.....
The "Modern Painters" one is my favorite! It's just beautiful!
http://karanarora.posterous.com/insane-art-formed-by-carving-books-with-surgi
I first noticed this on the blog of the wonderful Mister Neil Gaiman, which you can view here:
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/02/one-morning-with-nebula-nominations.html
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