More ingenious things you can do with books

Noriko Ambe does these extraordinary topographical book dissections.

Singing, Dancing, Stealing

A beautiful poster forThe Stranger by Sleep Op+.

Things made out of other things

Much as I am not a fan of the whole aestheticising reuse business, these are undeniably lovely things...

The top two are by Stuart Haygarthland, the first made of objects washed up on bits of the Kent coastline, and the second made from used party poppers. The third one is made from old shuttlecocks found at Deptford Market, by Gitta Gschwendtner.

Someone will no doubt throw out a slightly less lovely lampshade to buy one of these. And someone else will have to work out what to make out of old lampshades.

More photostudio

An amazing collection of paper moon portrait shots here. (Via drawn)

More cut up books

These ones are by Georgina Russell.

Things that look like trees

Except for trees, which look like pictures of trees.

(clockwise from top left, lung; area of forest cleared by loggers, photo by Walter Murch via Lawrence Weschler's Convergences pages at McSweeney's (on which more later); Myoung Ho Lee's tree photographs via Lensculture; Jamie Wieck's urban growth lamp post project.)

Strandbeest

Theo Jensen makes giant wind powered sculptures which resemble large animals. He releases them in flocks on beaches to roam around. There are some amazing videos of these roaming creatures on his website here.

Flickr Photo Pools

People pool their photos on various subjects. Some of my favourites:

Vapour trails:Passport photos:Found Type:Abandoned Places:
Found photos:

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Carved books by Brian Dettmer. More here and here.