Sunday, January 31, 2010
The Best Invention Since Sliced Bread
It's too late for me to be awake and thinking right now. Thankfully, I'm not really thinking at all... this is just an illusion, right? Seriously though, I've been looking at pictures from my European Humanities tour today, and I've decided that Nutella is one of the worlds greatest edible inventions. (random?) Really, whoever decided that chocolate and hazelnuts should be combined was a genius and should be nominated for sainthood. I brought back two jars from Europe. One of them was family size. Huge. The other, normal. I accidentally gave away the big one. It was a sad day for me, but I'm glad to have spread the good word of nutella. It's too bad it's so dang expensive in the U.S. Europe has a lot of good food, dangit.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Damask Lover
Damask is my new favorite pattern. I can't stay away from it. I want to cover all my books with damask patterned papers, and I want my blogs to forever have damask backgrounds. I think I'm going crazy.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Book arts = Parkour?
Book arts, I've decided, is kind of like parkour, or free running. Jim, from The Office said,
"This is parkour. Internet sensation of 2004. And it was in one of the Bond films. It's pretty impressive. The goal is to get from point A to point B as creatively as possible so technically they are doing parkour, as long as point A is delusion and point B is the hospital."
Allright, so book binding isn't quite as exciting or dangerous as parkour, but the way I see it, the more creative you are with it, the better. I'm just learning, some of the different bindings and techniques, but I have had a lot of fun trying to come up with creative ways to do this. For example, I just learned how to do a coptic binding, which was way fun. Traditionally, it looks like this.
I played around with the sewing stations template a little bit and this is the result I got.
Before I made this book I decided I wanted a beefy book. Lots of pages. I also wanted small. Evidently they don't work so well together as the book board isn't weighty enough to hold the pages down and together. The center picture shows what the book looks like it it's "resting" position. I think it's kind of funny, but nevertheless, I shall continue to work on it, adding a clasp of some sort. I'm never done with anything.
"This is parkour. Internet sensation of 2004. And it was in one of the Bond films. It's pretty impressive. The goal is to get from point A to point B as creatively as possible so technically they are doing parkour, as long as point A is delusion and point B is the hospital."
Allright, so book binding isn't quite as exciting or dangerous as parkour, but the way I see it, the more creative you are with it, the better. I'm just learning, some of the different bindings and techniques, but I have had a lot of fun trying to come up with creative ways to do this. For example, I just learned how to do a coptic binding, which was way fun. Traditionally, it looks like this.
I played around with the sewing stations template a little bit and this is the result I got.
Before I made this book I decided I wanted a beefy book. Lots of pages. I also wanted small. Evidently they don't work so well together as the book board isn't weighty enough to hold the pages down and together. The center picture shows what the book looks like it it's "resting" position. I think it's kind of funny, but nevertheless, I shall continue to work on it, adding a clasp of some sort. I'm never done with anything.
Are Platypuses Mammals?
Whilst I was searching the internet for pictures of platypuses for my sculpture class the other day, this came up as one of the sponsored links on the side of the page. Thought it was a little bit odd. How much would a platypus cost, eh?
P.S. Platypuses are mammals.
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