Monday, June 28, 2010

What Should You Do With Your Old Books?





Artist Nick Georgiou creates these amazing sculptures out of newspapers and books and puts them in public places. I'd love to have one crafted out of gently-worn copies of Kiki Strike.





15 comments:

kathleen said...

they are so cool! they sort of remind me of those chinese dog sculptures... the faces are similar

montana irregulars said...

I'd love that!! Yay another birthday present idea!!!

Anonymous said...

that is cool.
you need to learn how he does that.
then teach me how to do that.

i just LOVE thiose, they are AWESOME!!

MysteryJellyfish said...

Weird, I just give mine to that used teenage shop for money down the street.

And, of course the sculpture out of Kiki Strike Books, be either Kiki, the Irregulars, or the irregular symbol.

The Golden Eagle said...

Wow! That is some awesome artwork.

Gamma said...

Hey, this is right up your tunnel. :)

Rosie said...

my friend makes those...i once tried.i failed :(

Anonymous said...

those ares surreal.

very cool.

but also very unreal looking.

now i hope to come across one.

but that does not seem likely, unfortunately for me.

but really, do they not look totally. . . bizarre?

The Dimensionist said...

I'd like one of those! But...I can't handle books being turned into those (unless they were truly destroyed.)

EQ said...

If it's in good enough shape to make a sculpture out of, it's in good enough shape to read.

Anonymous said...

you should really give them to me :D
Reel Dancer

Anonymous said...

i don't know if you've heard about memento mori (also called victorian death photos) but they're pretty interesting.

http://cogitz.com/2009/08/28/memento-mori-victorian-death-photos/

MushroomCloud said...

i think its a crime to shred books

and I'mback from Appalachia!

Some Lost Melody said...

That's awesome!

Anonymous said...

neat!

haha in the last photo, the sculpture peeking around the corner sort of looks like a scruffy dog if you don't look too close!

--eloise