Along with this week’s theme…
Another Stop Motion Bookshelf
January 18th, 2012Book Store Stop Animation
January 17th, 2012This one is even better than yesterday’s! I love love love it… so cute! They put a lot of time and energy into this, bravo!
The people who made it posted this,
After organizing our bookshelf almost a year ago (http://youtu.be/zhRT-PM7vpA), my wife and I (Sean Ohlenkamp) decided to take it to the next level. We spent many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto (883 Queen Street West, (416) 366-8973).
Everything you see here can be purchased at Type Books.
Grayson Matthews (http://www.graysonmatthews.com/) generously composed the beautiful, custom music.
Stop animation bookcase reorganizing
January 16th, 2012This was a nice stop animation video of someone reorganizing their bookshelf. Pretty nifty…
A Book Lover’s Outdoor Refuge
January 4th, 2012Oh. My. I love when creative people think of us bookworms and create cool things like this…
This book tent is made by FieldCandy. You can find it here. This fantastic tent is named “Fully Booked” and the description reads:
Are you a big fan of books? We mean, are you a really big fan of books. Because this is, well, it’s an enormous book. It looks like a giant has dropped his favourite best seller. Plus, it also lets you meet up with other book fans on the campsite. You can even hold book groups in your tent and discuss whether Twilight is better than Harry Potter.
Little Free Library
January 3rd, 2012I came across this brilliant idea by accident and I absolutely in love with it! The Little Free Library is a network of people putting up tiny little libaries where people can come by and take a book or leave a book! What a way to promote literacy and a love for reading! You can build your own or buy a kit or one already made from them directly! How cool is that?
According to their website, their goals are:
- To promote literacy and the love of reading by building free book exchanges worldwide.
- To build a sense of community as we share skills, creativity and wisdom across generations.
- To build more than 2,510 libraries around the world–more than Andrew Carnegie!
And so, from their brilliant minds to yours…click here to go to their website and learn more.
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
November 10th, 2011
This was an interesting story set in the future but not too far into the future that it is easy to see how we got from now to then in the name of ‘progress’. This is the story of Hannah Payne, a very demure young woman who gets caught up in a romantic affair and gets pregnant. She cannot have the baby for reasons I will not give away and chooses to have an abortion which is illegal, punishable by ‘chroming’ a futuristic way of dealing with criminals by genetically altering their skin color according to their crimes. She is chromed red and kept in a stark white room for 30 days which is monitored by cameras broadcasting her transition all over the world. Once released, she must learn deal with the prejudices that come with being a social outcast in her struggle to survive, alone.
The characters are believable. The story line is plausible. I really enjoyed this book.
Love and reading, love reading
November 8th, 2011
This photograph was simply amazing. Who could ask for more? Love and reading, love reading. The title was perfect.
Can you feel the vibes in this pocket of the world at that moment? *Shiver*
Ten Fun Interesting Bookmarks
November 7th, 2011I am forever on the hunt for new bookmarks. Apparently, this is no great secret and so a friend recommended the following bookmarks to me:
(You can purchase these and many other kinds of Stipee Bookmarks here.)
2. A Handy Bookmark
3. Leaf-it bookmarks by Designboom
4. Help bookmark by Designboom
5. Hana Fusen Note Tags bookmarks by Vivachistyle
6. Monster Bookmarks by Noodoll and Lagom Designs UK
7. Punctuation i-Clip Magnetic Page Bookmarkers
…these magnetic page bookmarkers come in a variety of styles…
8. Matching Jacket and Bookmarks by Icoeye.com
How cool are these? You can use them on different books and maybe intrigue others to read or to look at a book 
9. Wicked Witch of the West Bookmark by Ian’s Cafe
The person who makes these on etsy makes a bunch of different kinds…and even sells packages of different ones.
There are more similar to these here but they are far more expensive.
10. Puffy Bookmark by Yanko Design
Unfortunately, these are just prototypes so they are not for sale anywhere. They are still worth seeing. When you place the bookmark on the page, you squeeze the air into the part that goes in between the pages. When you close the book the air is squeezed out to the outside part and when you want to find your place, squeeze it again and it opens the page up enough for you to easily slip in a finger and start reading.
Book Animations
November 6th, 2011I was looking at some stop motion animation and came across some great book stop motion animations out there… here are a four book or book-related animations worth seeing.
The Amazing Stop Motion Bookshelf by AdamUK12321
Funny Reading by AniBoom
Book animation by Ian Hammond
book animation from Ian Hammond on Vimeo.
StoryBook by Anna Laero, Brian Morris, and Kelli Guyer
