Posts Tagged ‘recycling’
Scraptastrophe!
Posted by: dkoupf on: August 1, 2010
Bad news! Post-it notes have been found to harm books! Edward Tenner reports on his blog at the Atlantic that new studies by the National Archives and Records Administration have shown that Post-its leave adhesive residue on books, which can harden into a film that becomes acidic and can cause discoloration and brittleness of the [...]
Scrap Sculptures
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 28, 2010
Check out this cool article about the work of Nick Georgiou, which combines two of my favorite topics: scrap writing and textual recycling (literally — I mean, like, physically). “His vision is to turn something old into something new,” in part to comment on the supposed decline of the printed word (his recent work in [...]
Book Trash
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 22, 2010
Today I took part in throwing away (actually, recycling) a large quantity of old books and journals. It felt kinda wrong.
My Scraps
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