Where You Are - a book of maps

Visual Editions — VE5 Where You Are

I wanted to buy this... but now I think I'll make one myself!!
here's one of my maps of my morning walks.

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Books with plants in them!

Oh, I am gonna try this: books upcycled as plant holders!

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Textures of Sydney

Textures of Sydney | Creative City Sydney: is worth 3 minutes of your time.

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Things Organized Neatly: Archive

How did i get this far without knowing about things organised neatly?

Things Organized Neatly: Archive. Spend a few hours there just inhaling the beauty!

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22 Dreamy Art Installations You Want To Live In

22 Dreamy Art Installations You Want To Live In
I especially like the several hundred thousand books in a labyrinth shaped like Borges' fingerprint.
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Exploring The World's Greatest Libraries

Exploring The World's Greatest Libraries 
Enough said.

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Art animated

this is funny.

Animated classical art with commentary. Not so much for artists as for people who like to laugh.

Nature of Language by José Parlá - YouTube

Nature of Language by José Parlá shows a mural made of calligraphy-styled words (unintelligible but still THERE) in a public library.

here's one of my own word based canvases.

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Personal Histories Artist's book Exhibition (and lovely pix)

More beautiful book art and an exhibition to enter something into.

Participating Artists - personal histories international artist book exhibition:

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Sculptural Masterpieces Made from Old Books

A new book out with altered books. Some lovely things!
Carving Culture: Sculptural Masterpieces Made from Old Books

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Maggie and Milly...

Maggie and Millie and Molly and May went down to the sea (an e.e. cummings poem)

and acrylic.

Shaun Tan sculptures

The Lost Thing is such a richly illustrated book, I return to it all the time for inspiration whenever my collage brain rains dry. Of course all of the Shaun Tan Oeuvre is worth owning and coveting. And buying for friends and relatives (not just children).
Shaun has a new one coming out this month (i have mine pre-ordered).
In the interim some of his sculptures illustrate a new illustrate the Grimm Tales. Just beautiful!

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Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration

Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration:

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This is now!

This is now!

Visit this site to see what photos people are uploading to instagram in the city you choose...  just beautiful!

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What's in a Pocket? — Historic New England

What's in a Pocket? — Historic New England

a collection of historical stuff from new England worth a squiz.
read about pockets (more like aprons really) or sewing tools (check out the patented bird, which held your fabric on the table while you hemmed it) and as many of their other collections as takes your fancy.
And remember to visit their wallpaper collection!
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Uses for washi tape!

I do love my little rolls of patterned adhesive tape.

here's an article on things to do with it. I particularly like the photo of jazzing up your keyboard, although I'm more likely to use it to colour code my cords.

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Only Lyon

double concertina made while i was in lyon a few days ago. made from tourist brochures
5 x 5cm approx 1cm thick.

Lyon Musee de Beaux Arts

I have been travelling and have resolved to come back with books, not the raw materials for books!
so here are 3 tiny books (2.5cm square) i made this morning from the brochure of the musee des beaux arts, 1 from a menu for a local lyonnais restaurant, and 1 from the flyer telling what and how to recycle. (no one mentioned the option of making a book out of the flyer!)
The 5 books vary in thickness from 1.3 to 2 cm (depending on how many pages I used!).
I suspect i will need to make some more robust way to keep them together: the belly band has been glued to the concertina, and it's just 2 slits. Perhaps I'll find some leather or something (which may then bring the series together better than the assorted colours currently do.