"Bookbinding" for lazy punks - a Numbers Project post.
(New to The Numbers Project? It's some sort of art project, though I feel pretentious calling it that, that I've been serializing on the blog. First post. - Tag, should collect all or most of the posts. Recap type thing along with comments on the latest actual addition.)
The physical object that for long was The Numbers Project 24, a square piece of black cardboard with the photo series glued to it in a grid, was pretty bulky and obnoxious. I guess what we could have done with it was to actually have it up on the wall, or try to find someone else who might want to hang it, but I don't think that was ever really an option. Whatever you thought about the pictures in themselves, the object was kind of badly made, the glue only badly keeping the photos on the cardboard and such. (This is still a problem, I need to redo the gluing on at least some of them.) So it just stood around collecting dust and on occasion I took some flak for insisting on keeping it around.
At some point, maybe when I was about to make the blog post and kind of wanted to take the thing apart anyway for easier scanning, I decided I wanted to remake it into a little book. So I cut it up. Keeping to my tradition of not having the patience and perhaps not the skill to do crafty things well, I didn't really end up with smooth edges or perfect rectangles, but it got done and I was pretty happy about that. And I scanned them and did the blog post. Then time passed, and the pieces got to be a dust collecting obnoxiousness in their own right. Then one day I was in the fancy paper shop Rum för papper ("Room for Paper") with my girlfriend, and I talked to the people there a bit about how one might do something like this and walked home with a couple of sturdy metal rings. Progress! Then time passed. And then, when I was going to get it done, we couldn't find the rings. Then more time passed before we could do some cleaning and look properly. But then we were to have people over to talk about starting a gardening club (which is pretty exciting, I might talk more about it in later posts), and Anna found those damn rings while we were cleaning, and pushed me to actually do my little project because all those loose cardboard squares really were rather obnoxious and it was better if our guests could have nice booky things to look at. So I took the hole-making tool Anna luckily had lying around, the rings and the cardboard rectangles and, finally, I made these:
Pretty sloppy work, maybe, but I made them, they're finished (though I might do some "polishing", the glue and that), and I do in the end quite like them. Happy!
The physical object that for long was The Numbers Project 24, a square piece of black cardboard with the photo series glued to it in a grid, was pretty bulky and obnoxious. I guess what we could have done with it was to actually have it up on the wall, or try to find someone else who might want to hang it, but I don't think that was ever really an option. Whatever you thought about the pictures in themselves, the object was kind of badly made, the glue only badly keeping the photos on the cardboard and such. (This is still a problem, I need to redo the gluing on at least some of them.) So it just stood around collecting dust and on occasion I took some flak for insisting on keeping it around.
At some point, maybe when I was about to make the blog post and kind of wanted to take the thing apart anyway for easier scanning, I decided I wanted to remake it into a little book. So I cut it up. Keeping to my tradition of not having the patience and perhaps not the skill to do crafty things well, I didn't really end up with smooth edges or perfect rectangles, but it got done and I was pretty happy about that. And I scanned them and did the blog post. Then time passed, and the pieces got to be a dust collecting obnoxiousness in their own right. Then one day I was in the fancy paper shop Rum för papper ("Room for Paper") with my girlfriend, and I talked to the people there a bit about how one might do something like this and walked home with a couple of sturdy metal rings. Progress! Then time passed. And then, when I was going to get it done, we couldn't find the rings. Then more time passed before we could do some cleaning and look properly. But then we were to have people over to talk about starting a gardening club (which is pretty exciting, I might talk more about it in later posts), and Anna found those damn rings while we were cleaning, and pushed me to actually do my little project because all those loose cardboard squares really were rather obnoxious and it was better if our guests could have nice booky things to look at. So I took the hole-making tool Anna luckily had lying around, the rings and the cardboard rectangles and, finally, I made these:
Pretty sloppy work, maybe, but I made them, they're finished (though I might do some "polishing", the glue and that), and I do in the end quite like them. Happy!