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Since more Flickr people (Flickrers?) have viewed the photo of my bookshelf than any other I've taken, I thought it would be a good idea to snap a new photo of it, since I've added a bunch of new books. Enjoy, bibliophiles.
For a more informative list of my books, check out my LibraryThing list.
I make book sculptures, I have many many of these, they are making me obsessive and my fingers are sore but I love it.
Iterative book cover design of “Death by Black Hole” (2007) by Astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ongoing series started January 27, 2013
Another sample book in the Womens Suffrage Series.
I am in the process of looking at the life of Emma Sproson, a Wolverhampton Suffrage pioneer, and I read in her memoirs that during her imprisonment in Stafford Gaol she drew strength from her childhood memories of growing up in Daisy Bank.
I have used here the symbol of the daisy to inform a small concertina book, which also explores text.
I decided to cut-out parts of the letters to suggest prison bars and at present I have not backed these so that I can place images behind them in the future.
The front of the book has been monoprinted using black gesso.
One of the few books I bought as a young person and still the best book on bike repair. At least I never had need to look at any other book. It is written in the style of "How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive" by John Muir and, like that book, was continually updated for the life of the author practically.
This book explained things so well that I was able to do all my own repairs as a teenager, including replace brake cables, remove and clean the drive train, take apart the wheel hubs, the bottom bracket, the headset, then clean the bearings and repack with grease and get it all back together.
The book essentially taught me the nuances of fixing anything by telling me how to go about working with tools and mechanical things, what to look out for and all the little details that save frustration like how to lay the bike down on a white towel so you can find all the bearings that pop out when you take the headset apart. It also warns you about things not to attempt like trying to true a wheel to anwhere near perfection.
Other books of the '70s that lay down the foundation of my DIY life were "The Illustrated Hassle-Free Make Your Own Clothes Book" and "Living Poor With Style" by Ernest Callenbach, author of "Ecotopia". It was later reprinted, "updated" and defanged under the title "Living Cheaply With Style", which makes me wonder what happened to the word "poor".
Books like these were friendly, follksy and subversive in that they encouraged independence from the system. I don't think the "for dummies" series can come close to how these books empowered me.
One of the few proper bookshelves I saw in America, reminded me of Sadoveanu's house in Iasi.
On the other side of the room, through large french doors, you can see the ocean...perfect place to get lost in the world of books. And they had a piano in the adjacent room, of course!
Bloedel family house, Bainbridge Island, WA
Gather the Daughter by Jennie Melamed
The full video is here youtu.be/Yu8SjcKPPY0
and the written review is here
tonstantweaderreviews.wordpress.com/2017/06/26/9780316463...
Book painted with encaustic medium with image transfers. Technique taught by Bridgette Guerzon Mills
Local bookshop in East Grinstead is now stocking my book: A Glimpse of the Forest.
The book is a photobook of shots I have taken across the Ashdown Forest.
My new book on the Ashdown Forest. This set contains several example pages.
copyright © Mim Eisenberg/mimbrava studio. All rights reserved.
I haven't been participating recently in Kim Klassen's Beyond Layers classes, but this week's challenge is Book Spine Poetry, and with as large a home library as I have, I couldn't resist creating at least this one image. I shot it outside on my teak bench, then blackened the background (thus making texturing, for me anyway, not feasible).
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Iterative book cover design of “Death by Black Hole” (2007) by Astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ongoing series started January 27, 2013
I read this book first back in Oct/Nov 2003 and I really liked it. It is light reading and kind of cheesy but I liked the spooky atmosphere and I always like books about buildings and/or houses. I wanted to read it again and it was at the same time of year I read it the first time. This time around it took me from 10/8/2013-11/5/2013, and it is 347 pages.
What I noticed this time, and I didn't remember it from the first time, is a traumatic event that a main character goes through. It is a mall shooting that killed her fiancee, and I think a mall shooting happened while I read it last year. And so many shooting events that have happened in the 10 years since. The way this mall shooting happened, in the food court and the shooter came straight toward her and her fiancee, I can't imagine the horror of a real-life situation like that. I think that is what affected me the most this time around.
What I did not like about it, even though I know there are sick people out there in the real world, is all the sexual references and scenes. It made the book less enjoyable this time around.
But I could see myself as at least two of the female characters in the way they are described. And this book was written in 1996 and I like this era because it was before the internet was really popular (at least for me, I didn't have a computer until 2009), and cell phones weren't the norm. In this book, they used rotary or push button phones. And the other thing is that the girl put out a personal ad, not like online dating these days.
Here is what the back of the book says: To have... On a windswept New England island, he waits, fingering the satin-and-lace wedding gowns he's had made for each of them... the dresses they will wear when he kills them. To hold... Three women have come to the Bramble Rose Inn. For Sandy Cavelli, it's a chance to meet the romantic man who answered her personal ad. Liza Danning hopes to land a publishing deal with a reclusive author. And for Jennie Towne, it's an opportunity to get away, even if it means pretending to be her twin sister who won the weekend in a charity raffle. They're three women with nothing in common... or so it seems. To Die... Now, as a storm bears down on the eerie, isolated inn, three women are plunged into a terrifying fight for survival. For someone has chosen them, someone consumed by revenge, someone who wants to have them all for better...for worse...til death do us part...
Iterative book cover design of “Death by Black Hole” (2007) by Astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ongoing series started January 27, 2013
An accordeon fold triangle book
The booklet measures appr 4 x 8 ". There are 2 accordeon folds on the spine in which I attached 2 sections.
The cover of the booklet is made of Tyvek. Tyvek looks like paper but is in fact a synthetic material. It is very strong and difficult to tear. It's easy to write or stamp on, even easy to cut. I was able to make crisp folds as well.
I stamped on the cover with Distress Ink.
Blogged
Artist book.
Study of colors.
I made 4 different original layers and put the paper 4 x times trough the printer.
As a result of that new -deep and intens- colors appeared.
Limited edition of 3 pcs.
double sided coated photopaper 150 grs/ m
16,5 x 11,5 cm
6,5 x 4,4 inch
( folded)
16 pages