One of my favorite images was the one that portrayed the sea and a tiny little town right next to it. It was so pretty, and it was similar to the one above. The binding on the one book about Heaven was also really neat. If it had been done by hand, each copy, I theorize that making a mass amount of books would have been difficult. However, the front cover said "1998." We don't usually think of 1998 as being old for a book, but already that book is 14 years old! That surprised me, how quickly time passes, and it's interesting to see how well books in different places hold up over the years.
I also think that the hollowed-out books are really neat. A lot of people use them as good places to hide guns or flasks, but as I was looking online, some people put their phones in them, their Nooks or random things like keys. I even saw a person use a book to propose to a girl; he took her favorite book and gifted it to her, then she found a ring in the middle. Books with surprises in the way that they're made are really awesome, like the book that had the playing cards. Who knew a book could hold so many different things!
These are two of the neatest things we have seen, in my opinion! What gets me is that books of this nature could be sitting on a shelf within reach, but you would never know the secrets they hold without picking them up and exploring them yourself. I had never heard of books with watercolor paintings on the edges! I was even more impressed by the reversible ones. I still don't know how they accomplished that!
ReplyDeleteI agree Emily, I think it is amazing to know the mysteries that lie in literature and it is fun to think of the hidden elements in todays literature, if any. I feel like authors and illustrators had almost a more humorous side than most illustrators today.
DeleteWe have to go deeper! It's an illustration within an illustration within a gilding withing a book. I definitely agree with Emily about the reversible paintings. That was absolutely insane. Having a secret, invisible painting is one thing, but having two? Mind, blown.
ReplyDeleteI know for me it just added so much more to the book. I can't even imagine sitting down to read one and realizing halfway through that there's a painting on the edges. Having an image be available and visible throughout the entire book can definitely affect the tone the book conveys and can really change your interpretation of what you're reading. I kind of wish more authors took advantage of this.
I think the illustrations on the side of the pages of the book, and the book that was hollowed out were my two favorite things that I've seen in class so far. It is not just amazing how they paint illustrations on the side of pages but how detailed and good the illustrations are. It is interesting knowing all of the different things people put in the hollowed out books.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, the hollowed out space is awesome. Ever since I was a kid I've wanted to do this, and I still have yet to do it. But I will now! And for fifty years I'll be known as a book damager, but after that, I'm just a contributor to history!
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