Mountains of Books
March 15, 2016 4:12 AM Subscribe
New Snowcapped Mountains and Swirling Vortexes Excavated from Vintage Books by Guy Laramée.
Interview from 2013 with Laramée, along with more pictures of his work.
(previously on Metafilter)
Interview from 2013 with Laramée, along with more pictures of his work.
(previously on Metafilter)
Pretty, but it makes me sad to see books get butchered.
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 5:55 AM on March 15, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 5:55 AM on March 15, 2016 [3 favorites]
Having worked in a charity bookshop and seen 90% of donations go out the back door in bin-bags, it makes me happy to see these books get butchered but still live on as interesting new entities of communication.
posted by protorp at 6:09 AM on March 15, 2016 [9 favorites]
posted by protorp at 6:09 AM on March 15, 2016 [9 favorites]
Me in a nutshell: Hate seeing books destroyed, but love seeing things that are trash bound get turned into art.
posted by DigDoug at 6:29 AM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by DigDoug at 6:29 AM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]
(eye twitch)vortices(eye twitch)
posted by tippiedog at 7:47 AM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by tippiedog at 7:47 AM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
Having worked at a library where tons of books were dumped into landfill, this is much much preferred. Also pretty cool; especially the snowy trees one. Just beautiful. Ain't nothing wrong with books as objects; that is a beautiful thing.
posted by GospelofWesleyWillis at 3:52 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by GospelofWesleyWillis at 3:52 PM on March 15, 2016
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