Joyce: You don't think it's too obvious? I think I look like I have a cat on my head. Buffy: But a very well groomed cat. Joyce: Well that's a comfort.

'Bring On The Night'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Polter-Cow - Sep 20, 2007 7:43:05 am PDT #3873 of 28212
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Aaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!

I mean, it's art, but those poor books!


Polter-Cow - Sep 20, 2007 8:19:27 am PDT #3874 of 28212
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Okay, why has no one told me about Gideon Defoe before?


Laga - Sep 20, 2007 8:33:04 am PDT #3875 of 28212
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I mean, it's art, but those poor books!

I know. I thought the "autopsy" title was quite apt. I was fascinated and horrified. I told the friend who sent me the link that I found the books hauntingly beautiful.


Katerina Bee - Sep 20, 2007 8:53:48 am PDT #3876 of 28212
Herding cats for fun

Wow... carved books. I am torn between the horror of book destruction and helpless admiration for the artistry of it all.

I wonder how that would look with one of those big Gray's Anatomy books?


Connie Neil - Sep 20, 2007 9:00:59 am PDT #3877 of 28212
brillig

I don't think I even want to look.


Scrappy - Sep 20, 2007 9:02:25 am PDT #3878 of 28212
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Connie-- Do go look. They're gorgeous.


Connie Neil - Sep 20, 2007 9:08:20 am PDT #3879 of 28212
brillig

Wow.

That dictionary is mind boggling, along with the thin one with what looks like Russian ornamentation. I'm tempted to do things to an old unabridged dictionary of my own. The one at the bottom with the cravasse spanning several volumes, though, is very disturbing.


Katerina Bee - Sep 20, 2007 9:29:15 am PDT #3880 of 28212
Herding cats for fun

I forget, did anyone ever post a link for Second Edition book art? "This into That" makes books into bookshelves.

More Destructive Book Art


Laga - Sep 20, 2007 9:53:12 am PDT #3881 of 28212
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

This into That

I wonder why these creations don't ping my "ack! you can't do that to books!" meter nearly as much as the autopsies. I spent a happy ten minutes paging through that site going "ooh!", "nifty!" and "I want that!" It wasn't until I got to the five foot shelf made out of the Harvard Classics that I got a little freaked out. My parents' set has been split up and I worry sometimes that one of the volumes will go missing or that maybe they will never all be in the same place again.


Connie Neil - Sep 20, 2007 10:53:07 am PDT #3882 of 28212
brillig

This one is twisted.

[link]

I love it.