The Book

Week 9 word: “Truck”

kennethfg — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:18:13 +0000

Have truck with this word.

Week 8 word: “Plaid”

kennethfg — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:17:20 +0000

Get your Scottish on.

YouTube Bookbinding Demo Bonanza!

kennethfg — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:27:19 +0000

Bookbinding, Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (Dig that cool jazz!)
Perfect Binding
Bookbinding: A Traditional Technique
Basic DIY Bookbinding Technique
Coptic stitch sewn binding, Parts 1, 2, 3
Binding with an insert
Bookbinding for Beginners (Dig that folky music!)
Basic Japanese Stab book, Parts 1, 2
How to tie a book binder’s knot
Flag Book, Parts 1, 2 (Dig that brassy, stringy music!)

Week 7 word: “Think”

kennethfg — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:05:53 +0000

I think this is the word.

Stephane Mallarme: “Un Coup de Des”

kennethfg — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:14:06 +0000

Week 6 word: Hippopotamus

kennethfg — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:31:07 +0000

Noriko Ambe book works

kennethfg — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:01:14 +0000

Check out these works made from cutting into books.

Week 5 word: Dictionary.

kennethfg — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:39:30 +0000

The word is a book of words.

Floating book sculpture

kennethfg — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:15:28 +0000

Check out this video: “At the Singapore Biennale 2008 Ki-Bong Rhee has shown Bachelor – The Dual Body (2003), an installation in which a book of philosophy is thrown into an aquarium. In this closed, isolated environment, it dances around. This special copy of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s only book-length work, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921), is made of leather so that it can endure long periods in the water. The book will neither rise to the surface nor sink to the bottom due to the currents of the water. It floats about playfully in the middle of the tank. It looks as if this classic text of Western European analytical philosophy is suspended in midair, coming loose from its bearings due to the waves of globalisation. The dancing motion suggests that Western logical thought is having fun; and so a lightness and humour comes across in the work. Perhaps, it shows that Europe, with its ideological history, is bewildered about the future. The artist states the following about the work: “In this work, I wanted the dream-like image to be dominant over the meaning or the material.” It is a beautiful image, and simultaneously a meaningful and profound piece of work.”

Big books

kennethfg — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:22:45 +0000

Here are some links to books by the artist Anselm Keifer (and others): lead books, book with wings, sculpture (at bottom of page, after many interesting books as photographic subjects), 2-meter tall book sculpture, The Secret Life of Plants.