The other day my good friend and fellow blogger Michelle was kind enough to alert me to a post on Flavorwire featuring 10 visual artists who use books as their medium. There were a couple of new-to-me artists but the one that stood out to me as we near the new year is Paul Octavious. I’m enamored by his Book Collection of whimsical, gravity-defying stacked book sculptures of numbers:
When I saw this photo of ’2010′ I immediately thought of the new year and how a stack of ’2011′ would be the perfect centerpiece for a New Year’s Eve party.
And since it’s that time of year, I can’t resist ending with something that’s been around, but which I love:
This whole post just makes me want to organize my books by color. Does anyone do that on a less than temporary basis? I’d love to but my practical side won’t allow it. Maybe I’ll attempt my own artistic book stack one day though. And I’m definitely going to make one of these someday:
(via Chachic’s Book Nook)
Oh, I love that tree. And I hadn’t seen it before.
What wonderful decorations…
I know – who knew books could make such great decor.
I’ve never seen that tree before either! Love it!
And yes, I see those pretty color-coordinated shelves and think, that’s so nice, but really I could never handle it. Alphabetized all the way. Glad to know we aren’t alone in our neurosis.
Spoken like a true librarian. Glad the tree is new to people.
I was just about to comment how I hadn’t seen the tree before but I see I am not alone!
All the curvy numbers (0′s and 8′s) would have stumped me – but wow – the 4 looks like the real difficult one!
I think it looks deceptively hard to do. Must have taken a lot of different sized books and trial and error.
Me too, haven’t seen that tree before! It looks really nice.
You should take a picture of that “2011″ stack if you ever decide to push through with that. At least the 1s will be easy, you only have to worry about the 2 and 0.
I want to arrange my books by color just to take a picture and then I’ll rearrange them again after.
Ok. Maybe I will do it. I like your idea of organizing by color just for the picture. I think I’ll do that sometime for sure.
oh – I love these. so very awesome. i’ve seen some awesome book displays in shops too…
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Thanks, Nomes.
oh – I love these.And merry chismas