“If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially on some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work … the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle under the desk lamp. The light from a lamp … gives the cat great satisfaction. The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquillity of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impeded your concentration compose themselves and give your mind back the self-command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence alone is enough. The effect of a cat on your concentration is remarkable, and very mysterious.”

10+ Times Writers Took Book Dedications To Another Level

Game of Thrones Pop-Up Book by paper engineer and pop-up book creator Matthew Reinhart

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explore-blog:

Emily Dickinson’s herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of science and poetry.

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katsaw:

The Belly of the Beast. 2017

The whole book work is coloured black entirely by hand, save for a single drawing. Inspired by Perrault’s version of “Little Red Riding-Hood,” in which the young heroine is not saved by the woodcutter and instead dies inside the wolf. The cut-outs mimic a ‘stomach’ in which the figure will lie when the book is closed, trapped in darkness.

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deckerlibrary:

We are always thrilled when new students discover our Special Collections!

Pictured above, MICA freshman Wyatt Mitchell set up our tables so he could view some of our Japanese Scrolls from our Special Collections. 

The scrolls are:

Scroll of Heiji Monogatari Emaki (ND1043.4.S27 Cage).

Scroll of Shigisan Engi (ND1043.4.S27 Cage).

Scroll of the Frolic King Animals: Choju Giga (ND1043.4.S27 Cage).

Want to see something from our special collections? Ask a librarian to grab it for you!

sosuperawesome:

Book sculpture by bookBW on Etsy

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nevver:

What we’re reading

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Cornelia Funke, Inkspell (via observando)

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bobbycaputo:

Mathias Schmied’s Unique Art Made From Comic Books

Born in Switzerland, Mathias Schmied manipulates comic books and magazine images to create wall installations, collages and drawings.  His works are pop images transformed.  Cut-out graffiti and superheroes take on all new representation and meaning through Schmied’s cautious hand and razor blade.  The easily recognizable content of Schmied’s found images becomes confused through his dissection.  Pages where all real content has been removed feel empty and even somewhat sad.  Depicting only what’s left behind from superhero stories feels like the newspaper without the news.  We can only begin to guess at what’s going on.

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