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from the usual suspects.
Mar. 15th, 2006 09:15 am"Vickipedia": Excerpts from the 1888 Chambers's Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge - Just what it looks like... oldtimey encyclopedia excerpts. For some reason, this somehow has a more authentic period flavor than the incredibly useful and well-written 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which has been available online for a while. (The 1911 Encyclopaedia is partly noted for having some very famous writers do the work on their topics... with the addition of some supplemental volumes in the 1920s, they wound up with contributors like Freud, Marie Curie, Einstein, Houdini, and W.E.B. DuBois.) Both are lots of fun to check out.
Fore-Edge Painting - I think this is one of the coolest things you can do with a book... I first came across the concept in the late 90s or in 2000, maybe, in a book on bookmaking. It must be done with thinned gouache and not much can be applied at the time... you have to avoid sticking the pages together and warping the page edges. You can paint so that the design is only distinguishable when the book is fanned open from a certain page, or only visible when it's closed (some people do this to their textbooks by writing their names on the fore-edge with permanent marker while the book is held closed). The only commonly-available book I've seen that uses the technique is the hardcover edition of The Cheese Monkeys by book-designer-extraordinaire Chip Kidd, who presumably designed it as well as writing it, and got Chris Ware to help. This set of examples is by UK artist Martin Frost.
"The Thunder, Perfect Mind" - ancient "Gnostic" poem, which seems to be mostly about duality and accepting contradiction. Yes, it's where the title of the Current 93 record came from. I just thought it was interesting.
Cockeyed - It seems like I see a link from this site every few days, because the guy who runs it is an active prankster and discoverer. My favorite areas are "How Much Is Inside?" (a tube of lipstick, a printer cartridge, etc) and "Pranks!"
Jack Handey's "Ideas for Paintings" - Oh, come on, you know who Jack Handey is. (Or do you? It turns out he's ostensibly a real person, a comedy writer for Steve Martin for many years, and the Marta referenced in some of his quips is his wife. I don't know if that's true or if it's just a smokescreen for Martin himself.) Here, in a humor piece for the New Yorker, he passes on some Deep Thoughts on the subject of fine art. (See also: "What I'd Say to the Martians" and "This Is No Game".)
Sewing Stars - a really adorable crafts-for-sale site, with lots of accessories and stuffed animals. The bunny pouches, when they're back in stock, may even be the solution to my annoying change-purse search! (Yes,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zoloft, it's full of bunnies.)
Fore-Edge Painting - I think this is one of the coolest things you can do with a book... I first came across the concept in the late 90s or in 2000, maybe, in a book on bookmaking. It must be done with thinned gouache and not much can be applied at the time... you have to avoid sticking the pages together and warping the page edges. You can paint so that the design is only distinguishable when the book is fanned open from a certain page, or only visible when it's closed (some people do this to their textbooks by writing their names on the fore-edge with permanent marker while the book is held closed). The only commonly-available book I've seen that uses the technique is the hardcover edition of The Cheese Monkeys by book-designer-extraordinaire Chip Kidd, who presumably designed it as well as writing it, and got Chris Ware to help. This set of examples is by UK artist Martin Frost.
"The Thunder, Perfect Mind" - ancient "Gnostic" poem, which seems to be mostly about duality and accepting contradiction. Yes, it's where the title of the Current 93 record came from. I just thought it was interesting.
Cockeyed - It seems like I see a link from this site every few days, because the guy who runs it is an active prankster and discoverer. My favorite areas are "How Much Is Inside?" (a tube of lipstick, a printer cartridge, etc) and "Pranks!"
Jack Handey's "Ideas for Paintings" - Oh, come on, you know who Jack Handey is. (Or do you? It turns out he's ostensibly a real person, a comedy writer for Steve Martin for many years, and the Marta referenced in some of his quips is his wife. I don't know if that's true or if it's just a smokescreen for Martin himself.) Here, in a humor piece for the New Yorker, he passes on some Deep Thoughts on the subject of fine art. (See also: "What I'd Say to the Martians" and "This Is No Game".)
Sewing Stars - a really adorable crafts-for-sale site, with lots of accessories and stuffed animals. The bunny pouches, when they're back in stock, may even be the solution to my annoying change-purse search! (Yes,
zoloft, it's full of bunnies.)
