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)

collectivehistory:

London readers continue to browse at a bombed-out library, WWII. 

whitehotel:

Unknown World War I soldier, The Lord’s Prayer handwritten on a circle of paper (1914-18)

oliphillips:

The Genocide Project

by Hila Ben-navat

(via oliphillips)

book-aesthete:

Illustrated by Edward Gorey. (Thanks to polarbearprince for that catch!)

Originally posted by rubbleandruin

dsgn-rt:

A boy sits amid the ruins of a London bookshop following an air raid on October 8, 1940, reading a book titled “The History of London.

(via fleurishes)

teachingliteracy:

(via planetoftheapes)

The History of Keep Calm and Carry On

(Source: euliss, via artistjournals)

1984

(Source: poolsandpearls)

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrators James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short and won the 2009 Emmy for ‘New Approaches’ (making it the first film to win an Emmy on behalf of the internet).