Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

“About ten days after the troops entered [Basra], the library was completely burnt down. We carried about 30,000 books to the restaurant and to our homes. Then, we transferred them from the restaurant to our homes in my own car and in cars belonging to the employees. Most of these books and manuscripts were rare and important ones. Regrettably, we lost a lot of books in the fire,” she said.

(Source: themugglelibrarian)

(Source: fallofftheworld)

itscolossal:

Revolution. The lifecycle of water told in a stop-motion paper pop-up book. By Chris Turner, Helen Friel and Jess Deacon.

myampgoesto11:

François Xavier Saint Georges’s latest project: No You Wont (The worst is yet to come) 

“No You Wont is part of visual experimentation using Nichrome wire. Plaster, paper, prints and power, i created this series of 12 descriptive burning taglines. As long as you think you can do something, a burning reminder blows your dream off.

This specific wire is powered using 120v and burn through a series of printed taglines.”

[watch the video]

many thanks to the artist for submitting their work

*also, for some reason you must click the gif (first photo), apologies.

gifmovie:

“Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.”
Heinrich Heine 

arreter:

In April of 2009 a family home in rural Vermont burned to the ground. Fifteen months later I walked through the charred foundation and found a family photo album and a box of snapshots that had melted into a dark mass. Locals told me that that after the fire, the family had moved away and what was left there had lain exposed to the snow, rain and heat of several seasons. The object I found was a palimpsest of otherworldly patterns and colors. Nearly all recognizable imagery (the very purpose of snapshots) had dissolved, leaving an intricate visual record of the elements, chaos and loss. 

Slowly, I separated each snapshot from the mass and spread them out across the table like artifacts from some future archeological dig. The paradox of intimacy and abstraction embedded in each 4x6 sheet begged to be decoded. In photography, the “latent image” refers to an image that has been recorded, but is not yet visible, still holding the potential for meaning. But how do we talk about an image that, once visible, has receded into it’s own materiality; the rippling, cracked emulsion of a color photograph? The production of chromogenic photographs is now in rapid decline, but for decades we have depended on this material to record, rewrite and memorialize our lives. Through one destructive, albeit common, event these familiar images have been transformed into bizarre microcosmic landscapes shaped by their own chaotic material logic. This disruption interrogates our collective dependency on a very unstable medium and suggests it’s unlikely, transformative power.

Klea McKenna

(Source: blknymph, via bookuse)

designstain:

Noisy Interactive Posters by DM9DDB

Clever campaign by DM9DDB for Saxsofunny, a sound engineering company from Brazil.

Playing with the theme “Every image has a sound”, the Brazilian agency created interactive ads using different materials to simulate the sounds of objects pictured in their campaign posters.

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foxmouth:

traces (by .oliver)

(via devourmyirisheart)

katespadeny:

it’s the small things!

(via abandondecorum)

gian-solo:

“Book Burning”
2010 iPad
Mode of Destruction: Soldering Torch
Photography/Scanography Digital Composite
Digital Pigment Print, 48˝ × 60˝ / 38˝ × 48˝
Face mounted on 1/4˝ Acrylic Glass

(via tobeshelved)