1. harperbooks: Google Image Search, meet Book Titles.  The New York Trilogy (In which we image search the names of books and post the strangest, most beautiful, or least-obviously-related image that comes up.) This from an architectural brief by students at Greenwich University aiming to “explore the tools of the writer as a means to generate new architectural potentials as well as the tools of the architect to generate fictional narratives of the city.”
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    harperbooks:

    Google Image Search, meet Book Titles. 

    The New York Trilogy

    (In which we image search the names of books and post the strangest, most beautiful, or least-obviously-related image that comes up.)

    This from an architectural brief by students at Greenwich University aiming to “explore the tools of the writer as a means to generate new architectural potentials as well as the tools of the architect to generate fictional narratives of the city.”

    (via vikingpenguinbooks)

    March 27, 2013
  2. Three-Finger Louie meets Google Books theartofgooglebooks: Employee holds folded plate closed.  The frontispiece to A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India by Lieut. Colon Forrest (1824). Original from Lyon Public Library. Digitized August 22, 2011.

    Three-Finger Louie meets Google Books

    theartofgooglebooks:

    Employee holds folded plate closed. 

    The frontispiece to A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India by Lieut. Colon Forrest (1824). Original from Lyon Public Library. Digitized August 22, 2011.

    March 19, 2013
  3. cool offsetting theartofgooglebooks: Transfer of folded image from facing page. “A report on boiquiras, commonly known as timber, canebrake or banded rattlesnake — a species of venomous pitviper found in the Eastern United States (see Wikipedia). Discusses collaboration with Charles Wilson Peale, who kept and studied a boiquira at his museum for several years.  Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot, Baron de Beauvois (1752-1820) — a remarkable life, including a stint in a circus. More here.”  Submitted by asfaltics. From p. 380 of M. de Beauvois’s “Memoir on Amphibia, Serpents,” read February 1797 and published in theTransactions of the American Philosophical Society, v. 4 (1799).  Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized January 8, 2010.

    cool offsetting

    theartofgooglebooks:

    Transfer of folded image from facing page.

    “A report on boiquiras, commonly known as timber, canebrake or banded rattlesnake — a species of venomous pitviper found in the Eastern United States (see Wikipedia). Discusses collaboration with Charles Wilson Peale, who kept and studied a boiquira at his museum for several years. 

    Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot, Baron de Beauvois (1752-1820) — a remarkable life, including a stint in a circus. More here.” 

    Submitted by asfaltics.

    From p. 380 of M. de Beauvois’s “Memoir on Amphibia, Serpents,” read February 1797 and published in theTransactions of the American Philosophical Society, v. 4 (1799).  Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized January 8, 2010.

    February 26, 2013
  4. theartofgooglebooks: A book composed entirely of employee’s corrected fingers over blank pages. A True Copy of a Letter from the Reverend Mr. Greenshields (1709). Original from Oxford University. Digitized April 27, 2009.
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    theartofgooglebooks:

    A book composed entirely of employee’s corrected fingers over blank pages.

    A True Copy of a Letter from the Reverend Mr. Greenshields (1709). Original from Oxford University. Digitized April 27, 2009.

    February 26, 2013
  5. Yikes! Future shock! Created by a 15 yr old

    Yikes! Future shock!

    Created by a 15 yr old

    (via 143iloveyouhoe-deactivated20110)

    September 3, 2011