fish2000: book about a blender, refitted to formally mimic the very instrument it aims to describe
fish2000: this is a book, believe it or not
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fish2000: more artist books... all of these were under glass, but they looked like they'd be 1000x more engaging if you could actually touch them
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fish2000: artist book at the providence "athenaeum" library
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fish2000: brown university has some opulent assed shit
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fish2000: we went to the brown library to see their part of the bookarts exhibit and some wack librarian lady got all in our faces and was like "who are you with??!?!?!" and we told her we were risd people... she was not totally convinced that we weren't miscreants
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fish2000: more embossing/leafing ingots
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fish2000: hand-leafed book covers from ago
fish2000: collection of actual (non-contrived) ex librises on display at brown university
fish2000: brown library ex libris
fish2000: old ingots for stamping book covers
fish2000: the PREFACE.
fish2000: old book binding with a chain on it. this is not some postmodern book arts gimmick... this is like a 17th century book with an actual chain on it to keep people actually out of it.
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fish2000: japanese bindings
fish2000: these were all hand-letterpressed, I think the paper is handmade too
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fish2000: this one had a cover that felt like fake skin which was delightfully disgusting
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fish2000: book made of some kind of freaky resin with weilded metallic box binding.
fish2000: "leaves of grass" with actual grass planted in the leaves... get it?? hardy har har. must have been nice when it was actually alive but now it's dead.
fish2000: mine is the fake library card