The book is called “56 Broken Kindle Screens” and is the brainchild of digitial artist Sebastian Schmieg in collaboration with Silvio Lorusso. It is a compilation of found images depicting broken Kindle screens.“56 Broken Kindle Screens” "takes as its starting point the peculiar aesthetic of broken E Ink displays and serves as an examination into the reading device's materiality. As the screens break, they become collages composed of different pages, cover illustrations and interface elements."Of course, the book is available as a print on demand title only and is selling for under $5.Video of how the book appears on the Kindle: 56 Broken Kindle...
The Big Books and Word Power of Solizick Meister
One doesn't have to dig too deep into the portfolio's of Solizick Meister to find the book love.Many of her surrealist paintings and digital illustrations are saturated in book and text imagery. The piece Keyhole (shown above) is one of several in a series that feature a book dwarfing the reader. The power lies in the book. And one sees in her digital illustrations a different kind of power; a word power. In both Me and Myself and Learning (pictured at top) words literally consume the subject and seem to offer a much more freeing experience. and of course there...