Velhos hábitos / Old ways

Máquina do tempo bi-direccional / Two ways time machine

Robotlab : bios [bible] (2007) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Os livros como textura / Books as texture

Book Damaged by Water, 2001

Four Old Books, 1995

Six Dictionaries, 2000

Two Tall Books, 2002

Abelardo Morell, Havana, Cuba, 1948. Professor of Photography at the Massachussets College of Art, Boston.

Velhos tipos / Old type

Rosa Pomar teve a sorte de estar a passar por uma velha tipografia de Lisboa prestes a deitar para o lixo os seus preciosos tesouros que foram prontamente salvos do seu quase certo destino.

Rosa Pomar was lucky to be passing in front of the open door to an old typography in Lisbon about to throw in the bin its precious treasures that were quickly saved from their almost certain destiny.

Fingertype

Jonathan Looman, "Lowman", 2007, The Hague-Utrecht, Netherlands (via Type for you.)

Ernest Hemingway, The old man and the sea

Holly Ormrod, 2007, United Kingdom

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 104

Holly Ormrod, 2007, United Kingdom

Gabinete de curiosidades / Curiosity cabinet

O site BibliOdissey dedica-se à tarefa de recolher nos recônditos mais obscuros dos arquivos disponíveis on line verdadeiros tesouros bibliográficos, como este Museum Gottwaldianum.

Christoph Gottwald(t) (1636-1700) era um médico alemão de Danzig que reuniu um dos maiores gabinetes de curiosidades do seu tempo. Gottwald encomendou ao pintor polaco Daniel Schultz, o Jovem, a realização de uma série de gravuras feitas a partir dos desenhos que ele próprio elaborou dos vários componentes do seu wunderkammer, trabalhado realizado por volta de 1665. Em 1714, um inventário manuscrito acompanhava estas gravuras de crustáceos, especimens anatómicos e criaturas marinhas num compêndio do qual se fizeram apenas três cópias. Mais tarde, em 1782, surge uma edição alemã do Museum Gottwaldianum. Estas ilustrações da edição original de 1714 estão disponíveis no site da Universidade de Estrasburgo. Consulte-se BibliOdissey para ver outros exemplos e identificar outros centros de recursos on line.

BibliOdyssey is a website dedicated to retrieving from the darkest corners of the internet real treasures like this Museum Gottwaldianum.

Christoph Gottwald(t) (1636-1700) was a German physician in Danzig and created one of the largest cabinets of curiosities of his time. Gottwald commissioned the Polish baroque painter, Daniel Schultz the Younger, to render drawings he made himself of the contents of his wunderkammer into engravings, which was undertaken in about 1665. A handwritten inventory of the shells, anatomical specimens and marine creatures accompanied the engravings in a 1714 compendium of which only three copies were made. Later a German version of the Museum Gottwaldianum appeared in 1782. These illustrations come from the original 1714 print and are available on line at the University of Strasbourg website. Check BibliOdissey for other examples and links to on line archives.

Autópsias de livros / Book autopsies

Brian Dettmer, Naperville, Illinois, 1970.

Os ninhos de Douglas Coupland / Douglas Coupland's nests

De há uns tempos para cá, Douglas Coupland tem passado algum do seu tempo à frente da televisão a ver episódios de Law & Order e a mascar os seus próprios livros, cuspindo depois as páginas e esculpindo com elas estes ninhos de vespas para tentar responder a questões como: / For some time now, Douglas Coupland has been spending some time in front of the television set watching episodes of Law & Order and chewing his own books, spitting out the pages and sculpting these wasp nests, trying to answer questions like:

Is our bunkered mentality about the sanctity of books more genetic than cultural? Are we no different than wasps defending against intruders when we force students to read Henry James or Nadine Gordimer?

E para chegar, por exemplo, a este tipo de conclusões: / And, for example, arrive at conclusions like:

Since 1991 I’ve witnessed the triumph of the superstore, the near death of the independent bookseller, the rise of Amazon, the rise of the Internet, the comings and goings of the e-book and the rise of the P.D.A. Books are not under siege, but they are evolving and mutating. The more this process disturbs you, the more necessary it might be to try and engage with these changes. Right or wrong, they are inevitable, and the choice for anybody is whether they want to be able to live fully within the future, or whether they want to become a recluse and vanish into the past. The only way to go is forward. It’s all there is.