man, that's totally book

well, it is according to the third ranked entry on the urban dictionary

cool: the first option given when trying to type 'cool' in a text message using t9

that chick thinks she's book, but she's totally hacked.

i also think this picture is pretty book:



ah, pirates. sitting next to ninjas and robots as the go to guys of awesomeness.

on a more serious note though, here are a few links to some book as art projects that will make you look oh so cultured at your next 'heidegger high tea'.

1. nina katchadourian established the sorted books project in 1993, and it has been going ever since. they trawl a variety of locations, from homes to libraries, and then find book spines which go together to form small conceptual sequences or stories. it's thoroughly addictive and sometimes quite funny.





2. brian dettmer is making books visceral, with his lovingly carved sequence of book autopsies. he takes books and then cuts out segments of the pages in order to create three-dimensional book sculptures. so fucking awesome.



3. the simply named BOOK, a collaboratively drawn sketchbook created by two brooklyn and two belfast artists. each week one of the artists would fill in two pages and compose the beginnings of the next two, before sending it across the seas to the next artist in line, a process that continued for 36 weeks. there was no other communication between the artists except that which had gone before, the traces of which spilled on to the pages the next artist had been allocated for that week. the end result is a beautiful, meandering sequence of ideas, and cool pictures. worth a few minutes.



and finally, if you have the time (which you should make...) have a look at the twilight of books, a meditation on the implications of the decline of reading, taken from a recent edition of the always on point new yorker magazine. it really is a consistently amazing journal, incisive and well-written, and even better, its available on-line for free. get to it.