Last week the folks at Something Awful invited their forum members "to make some fancy new pop-up books based on a variety of topics, from video games and movies to art and being a jerk." Link to the 7 page gallery
The Book Man at Burning Man
The theme of the 2000 Burning Man gathering was the body.This large book sculpture was created by Dana Albany and was titled the Body of Knowledge"A large-scale sculpture of the human body, entirely composed of out-date textbooks and discarded library books..The sheer presence of these books, what one could ultimately classify as discarded knowledge, re-used and sculpted into the human form, would silently speak. Each book represents a single cell or specific part of the body. Whether that book contains concrete scientific fact, fiction or poetry, its stories and tales help shape the human form, in its qualitative known existence...
The Hands of Google
Asher Moses has a piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, Book scans reveal Google's handiwork, which introduces us to a new, undiscovered component of the digitization process; the hand scan."Digital bookworms reading titles like the 1855 issue of The Gentleman's Magazine and Plato's The Trial and Death of Socrates have been surprised to find large chunks of some pages blocked by manicured paws clad in pink finger condoms." Rob Shilkin, Google's Australia spokesman, tells us that "in the time since we initially began our scanning, we've vastly improved our scanning technology so that a random finger is automatically brought to...
Bookmobile Heaven
Exile Bibliophile has a Flickr set of over 40 vintage Bookmobile photos.All deserving of a spot in the big parking lot in the sky.Another Flickr group Bookmobiles Parnassus on Wheels has more
E-Phone
It looks like the next generation e-book reader will be part of your phone.Rise of the mobile novel sets alarm bells ringing in Japanese literary circles is the title of Richard Lloyd Parry's piece in the London Times."For the first time, Japan's fiction bestseller list is dominated by books published, read and, in several cases, written on mobile telephones."I repeat:publishedreadand sometimes written on CELL PHONES!How does it work:You pay about $2.50 a month for a subscription to download novels from the publishers website to your cell phone."The stories are divided into gobbets which can be read in about three minutes,...