Friday, August 10, 2007

Books As Art


Not the words inside, the actual books themselves. I've never been one to deface a book. To me they are like sacred objects containing fragments of the mind of their author. But someone named Georgia Russell does do some interesting things with books by eviscerating and goring them into misshapen splayed open objects.

It's a bit horrifying and intriguing simultaneously. The gallery is here.

What fascinates me is that while they're still books, they're now unreadable. Yet the fact that they are/were books is what makes them more than just abstract art. You can almost hear the information inside screaming.

The 100 "Best" Novels

Random House has a list of the 100 best novels. Actually there are two lists: The Board's List and The Reader's List.

There are some fun and interesting differences between the two lists. See if you can spot the trends here.

The Snowflake School of Writing

Randy Ingermanson has a page up with tips about how to write using what he calls the Snowflake method. While I don't generally like nuts and bolts methodologies (like Syd Fields books on screenwriting) when it comes to creating art some of his tips are more common sense and organization than rote hardcoded rules.

It's worth a read.