Cutting Up Books

Here's a post, "The Bittersweet Art Of Cutting Up Books", that shows what happens when old books meet an artist's idle hands. An excerpt from the post:

We wrote before about new trend of making art statements and sculptures out of used books (see our Part 1). Some readers complained that they abhor the idea of cutting up books, no matter what value the book might still have or what's printed inside. Others suggested quite the opposite: why not donate some used bookstore's inventory to the artists (and even freely ship it to them). Without entering this discussion, let us just say that most original art requires an unusual media of expression - and be glad it's not your run-of-the-mill Twitter messages that make it into a work of art... yet.

Thanks to Village Idiot Savant for the heads up.