Artist Guy Laramee carved these incredible landscapes and architectures out of book pages. And you thought YOU were good at arts & crafts.
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Oh my god! I can’t express how awesome those are.
Might want to try reading them too. . . . . . .
As amazing as that art is, I wish he hadn’t destroyed books to create them. It’s hard enough to get people to read.
Agreed on the wishing he hadn’t done this. I consider it far more disgusting than impressive. It’s not like there are no other options that would lend themselves well to this.
Perhaps the artist used obsolete encyclopedias. Are you green yet?
What if they’re all Twilight books?
Then the awesomeness is deadened by the stupidity of the source material.
Destroyed? They’re much more interesting now.
Although I like reading books I think that it is ridiculous to be afraid to use books in other ways than that. Books can be reprinted. And there are tons of books which remain unsold. I don´t think that he uses old and valuable books for his sculptures. So in my opinion there is nothing wrong with using books for carving. They really have a great structure.
I understand your point, though. Growing up in Russia I had a fear of hurting books ingrained in me. But since I moved to Germany and started to go to university I am more relaxed about that. There are classics with great and expensive binding that you read and put on the shelves and there are workbooks in which you write, doodle, which you can toss when you are fed up with them and so on. It is not about the books, it is about information.
I worked in a digitalization department in our university library once. There were a lot of books which a normal student could not even borrow (age 150+). After scanning them and making them available to all students they were put back to the basement where they now rot. I imagine the artist could make great carvings out of them.
They were probably outdated encyclopedias by the look of them. So, not too much waste. Put to better use than holding up a table leg or giving a short person a boost, I’d say.
Can’t wait till someone starts carving into iPads and LEAVES THE BOOKS ALONE!
There’s plenty of books that aren’t worth the stuff they’re made of. Like those ones about twinkie vampires.
Precisely.
Hey! Two of my favorite things: books and mountains!
Aaaah! It’s a minecraft chunk error!
Finally, Twilight can become art!
But…why?
Oh, so THATS what Twilight was meant for. Pshh silly me thinking you were supposed to read it.