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The Bittersweet Art of Cutting Up Books [PICS]

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Who dugg this? Made popular Sep 27, 2008

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  • cobainirvana, on 09/26/2008, -0/+52as you scroll down the stuff gets more and more wtf.
  • Higgles, on 09/27/2008, -0/+31All on one page!! They get it!
  • Marcatto, on 09/27/2008, -1/+20Ever since I was a kid, seeing someone defacing or destroying books has bothered me...I think this is ok though.
  • madeingermany, on 09/26/2008, -1/+15I don't often feel artsy, but those books look very cool - and it's completely apolitical ;)
  • AriaStar, on 09/27/2008, -1/+14Part of me is screaming, "NOOOOOO! Don't cut up books!" But the other part of me is more impressed. I wasn't expecting anything this cool.
  • inactive, on 09/27/2008, -1/+14why do we find the strangest things so fascinating here at digg??

    i love it!
  • enantiodromia, on 09/26/2008, -2/+12amazing
  • Dagreenman, on 09/27/2008, -1/+10beautiful and trippy as *****.
  • phobia2001, on 09/27/2008, -0/+8It's all very lovely... but I'm always sad when antique books are damaged.

    Phone books and books still in print are cool to do art with... but... but... a FIRST EDITION EMERSON?!?! I think I might cry.
  • basye, on 09/26/2008, -1/+8Would have never thought of that, which is why I'll never be an artist.
  • ecidnac, on 09/27/2008, -0/+7A lot of those books are antiques and definitely NOT still in print. Makes me want to scream!
  • bonk2k, on 09/27/2008, -0/+7Color coded bookstore: cool to look at but as annoying as ***** if you need to find a book.
  • RobotKeaton, on 09/27/2008, -0/+6Don't worry, they were all written by Dean Koontz.
  • walshgopher, on 09/27/2008, -2/+7Not for me. I can't stand to see it. Its like nails on a chalk board.
  • ancientdinko, on 09/27/2008, -0/+5spellbinding
  • AmyVernon, on 09/27/2008, -0/+4isn't that the best part?
  • Cuongfu, on 09/27/2008, -0/+4I thought the top part of the thumbnail was a cat.. or two.. o.O
  • Pyehole, on 09/27/2008, -0/+4And wow. You just keep scrolling.
  • macbth, on 09/27/2008, -0/+4Thanks - one is my wife's work
    The one with the interlaced with plastic cord, wall mounted.
    This is her site http://www.flickr.com/photos/dembicer/
  • Luciapalooza, on 09/27/2008, -1/+4Unbelievable! I never thought that so much could be done with books. Very cool!
  • Unlegend, on 09/27/2008, -0/+3Though, perhaps it's like a wine glass made from... a wine bottle.
  • AndrewDB, on 09/27/2008, -1/+4Man, this is spectacular. I loved the one with the Tea Party scene from Alice in Wonderland.
  • voodoochild461, on 09/27/2008, -1/+4Pretty neat.

    Sounds like something Sarah Palin would be into.
  • reddoggie, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Don't normally digg ads.... wouldn't have your work on a 'public' wall in my house, but very cool.
  • Rendonsmug, on 09/27/2008, -2/+4Yeah, this was disturbing for me. It's just like buying a used textbook and finding highlights or scribbling in the margins. I've had English teachers telling me to deface my books since something like 7th grade, but I could never do it.
  • abajaj2280, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2I wonder if she has a rug made of books that she killed in her arctic backyard.
  • jasonh1234, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Would make the librarian's life easier.

    "I'm looking for a book on engineering called Metal Fatigue"
    "What color is it?
    "Huh? I dunno."
    "Sorry can't help you."
  • brianhood, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2need some more wtf?
    http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/nightmares ...
  • RobotKeaton, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Books-usually filled with art.
  • Easyoffbam, on 09/27/2008, -1/+3Darkroastedblend.com is one of the few sites I don't mind being repeatedly submitted to Digg. Each page has lots of awesome content, and even better, most of the time it's on one page!

    Edit:They actually credit people too.
  • ishlipitish, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2I completely agree. It seems so wrong to treat books in this manner.
  • ElSantos, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Why isn't the last one a "true" Möbius strip?
  • reddoggie, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Try again with a subject you like and a glass of wine (or 4).
  • inactive, on 09/27/2008, -1/+3Bittersweet!? You do realize that 99 out of every 100 books written is complete, utter and total crap. The Celestine Prophecy, the DaVinci Code, anything with the words Harry Potter or a picture of Fabio on the cover. Waaaahhhh. Poor books.
    Now you do this sort of thing to a Cormac MacCarthy or Umberto Eco novel, then you're gonna be in trouble.
  • christoast, on 09/27/2008, -1/+3In before the bible
  • Rekottop, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Or rather a wine rack made of wine bottles. That would actually be kinda cool.
  • claireskitten, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2These are all really cool and awesome, but... Why would you destroy perfectly good books like that? :(
  • Rekottop, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1Just saying is all. You are right, it isn't the same, but at least a sliver lining is that they books are not lost forever & you can have a computer read it to you to boot!
  • crashlock, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1MY BRAIN HURTS!!

    Amazing :)


  • damnitdaniel, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/09/13/13:26:26/# ...

    Brian Dettmer. This guy's work is amazing. (fta)
  • jasonh1234, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1Oh sweet an article to help me with my book digitizing project. Oh.
  • Unlegend, on 09/27/2008, -1/+2FTA: "Book furniture made from books? Isn't it like a wine glass made from wine?"

    No. No, that is not at all the same.
  • christoast, on 09/27/2008, -1/+2if its still in print whats the problem?
  • Rekottop, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1Oh .. um DIE? as in Dude I'm Empty? So violent, so violent.. I hope you live a long and healthy life. Karma is grand.
  • reddoggie, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1Put the bowl down... =)
  • inactive, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1a little depressing. but then cool too
  • mllawso, on 09/28/2008, -0/+1I dug you up, only because I've heard too many people say the same thing.
  • jasonh1234, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1So print the PDF if you have to.

    I'm digitizing a lot of my books and all my magazines to PDF with a Fujitsu Scansnap.
    No more big boxes of hundreds of pounds of magazines
    They all get OCR'ed and become searchable. And the paper gets recycled and saves a tree.

    Of course there's stuff that's just to nice to cut up and scan though.

    I'll bet you have a plug-in to make your MP3s sound like Vinyl don't you?
  • mllawso, on 09/28/2008, -2/+3^I can think of hundreds of books more important than any one individuals life.
  • Rekottop, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1LOL!
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