Attractive Reading and Library Tidbits
July 10th, 2013Just a couple of unrelated interestingnesses this morning.
The first is a neat image my friend Chris forwarded me from something called Facebook:
I don't know anything about this image, other than I like it. And it would be a good image for a caption contest.
Secondly, last week on BoingBoing Cory highlighted some Dewey Decimal System jewelry, made from old catalog cards:
There's lots of it available on Etsy. I think it'd be fun to match the Dewey subject to the function of the piece - like, a ring magnifying 395.22.
Yay for creative people.
Tags: art, book, card, cards, catalog, ddc, decimal, dewey, image, jewelry, libraries, Library, public, Random, reading
July 10th, 2013 at 3:39 pm
Appears to be from this DeviantArt user/artist. He has many other ‘book’ images (specifically in the context of the Christian bible):
http://kevron2001.deviantart.com/art/Night-light-345379702
July 12th, 2013 at 9:22 am
Brian, I think I’ve found your artist! For once, someone on Pinterest included attributions, and the image is there: http://pinterest.com/picturebooklove/book-art-surreal/ Initially it reminded me of a series of postcards I have, which it turns out are done by this artist: http://www.soizimage.com/index.html
Have a great weekend!
July 12th, 2013 at 10:49 am
@Wade and @Jenny: it looks like you’re both right (at least, both seem to attribute the image to the same person). Thanks for doing the legwork! And some of the others on the pinboard are pretty neat, too.
July 14th, 2013 at 6:12 pm
Love the Dewey jewelry! But it seems like most of them are just random numbers, which is weird. Like, would you want a pair of cufflinks with 614.4 on them? Maybe if you were an epidemiologist…