Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

kriscarlson:

This is a single point binding that explores the social acceptability of sex. Done for my Artist Books class at MICA in the fall of 2010. The pin up girls represent the acceptable form, but these ladies have a secret. Drawn in invisible ink on each pin up (visible under black light) is a illustration of a fetish. From Bondage to Pony Play, these ladies have done it all. Definitions of the fetish are written on the back of each card for those that want to learn more.

Black light photos to follow!

theatlantic:

Found: World’s Oldest Message in a Bottle, Part of 1914 Citizen-Science Experiment

A Scottish fisherman has found the world’s oldest message in a bottle, the Guinness Book of World Records confirmed last week. It is 98 years old, and was cast into the ocean by Captain C.H. Hunter, a scientist at the Glasgow School of Navigation, who was studying the currents in the North Sea.

The bottle was one of 1,890 bottles released on June 10, 1914, and the 315th to be entered into Captain Brown’s log, which is still kept and updated by Marine Scotland Science in Aberdeen.

Read more. [Images: AP]

justintheamazingallan:

Confessions, public art project, The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, Nevada by Candy Chang.

For one month, Chang lived in Vegas. Visitors could stop by, enter a booth, write whatever thoughts they wanted to share, and drop the confession into a box that mixed anonymously with other slips. Chang then took the anonymous slips and displayed them on the walls, painting selected responses in white against a larger red canvas background. According to Chang’s website, “This project seeks to create a cathartic sanctuary for this temporary community and help us see we are not alone in our quirks, experiences and struggles as we try to lead fulfilling lives.”

Woah, there is no such thing as too much cheese. 

(Source: yoannmichaux, via justintheallan)

(Source: kavachai, via the--mediocre--gatsby)

publiccollectors:

One of the joys of buying used records is finding things that the previous owner left inside the sleeve. This card, typed in Braille, was inside a copy of Bitches Brew by Miles Davis that I picked up yesterday at a flea market. Huge thanks to koda-cub for translating it:

“It’s a list of songs. Vivaldi’s Virtuosi di Roma, Concerto Grosso in A Minor (Op. 3 No. 8), Bela’s Violin Concerto #2, and Vivaldi’s Il Sospetto in C Minor. The writer of the paper consistently spells ‘minor’ with an e.”

(via paperphilia)

(Source: bohemian--hearts, via curiositycontained)

Book Boxes

(Source: teachingliteracy, via the-printedword)

bookpatrol:

A Banksy-style book artist is roaming the streets of Scotland.

4 amazing pieces of book art left at various book-friendly locals since March.

Full post here

boyswithbanjos:

Etsy Huntin: Pommes Frites

Reincarnating antiquated novels, Kristen Pumphrey delicately carves through worn pages, turning books into hideaways for sinful goodies like flasks and ciggies, or as safeguards for precious keepsakes.

Hide your secrets in these camouflaged books.

(Source: boyswithbanjos)

0libertine0:

missharlot: secret poison case disguised as a book, 17th century

(Source: moshita, via fleurdechair)