[HN Gopher] Woman draws famous book scenes on their pages
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       Woman draws famous book scenes on their pages
        
       Author : BerislavLopac
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2021-11-23 09:00 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.buzzfeed.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.buzzfeed.com)
        
       | simulationimin wrote:
       | Would love to see 50 Shades of Grey.
        
       | andygcook wrote:
       | It'd be interesting to see paintings of scenes from books that
       | haven't been made into movies, then diffing her mind's eye from
       | my own based on the description.
       | 
       | E.g. What did Gollum to look like to her based on the description
       | from the book?
       | 
       | But I'd imagine it's hard enough to paint like this, so probably
       | easier to work off an image with input from a different medium
       | than just words.
        
       | kazinator wrote:
       | The clamps remind me of a few times in the past when I did the
       | same thing while binding _ad-hoc_ books out of some printed
       | materials. I clamped a little bit away from the edge to allow for
       | glue penetration.
       | 
       | Amazingly, you can do a half decent binding job just with copious
       | amounts of white EVA glue holding all the pages together,
       | followed by a simple cover for that spine, made of some stiff
       | paper like non-corrugated boxboard (e.g. cereal box) or filing
       | cabinet divider.
        
       | kazinator wrote:
       | I think that painting the edges of books served as protective
       | function. Particularly with that stiff gold paint. When a book
       | which has that golden coating is closed and packed into a
       | bookshelf, the coating presents a surface that is likely harder
       | to penetrate for pests like moths and worms. Possibly mould
       | spores and such too.
        
       | kwertyoowiyop wrote:
       | Is it cynical to think this is basically an ad, and not that
       | interesting or appropriate for HN?
        
         | aetherspawn wrote:
         | My eye started twitching when I saw this linked to Buzzfeed and
         | I had to check out.
        
         | GavinMcG wrote:
         | Yep.
        
           | spiderice wrote:
           | Then I guess I'm cynical
        
         | dillondoyle wrote:
         | I don't think it's an ad, I think it's buzzfeed chum - all they
         | do now is copy and paste tweet threads and tiktoks. Personally
         | I don't find the art or idea interesting enough to warrant a
         | popular thread. Unless we're discussing why itself lol
        
       | smitty1e wrote:
       | Fore-edge painting
       | 
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore-edge_painting
        
       | forgotpwd16 wrote:
       | Article refers this to as fore-edge painting but fore-edge
       | painting refers to art shown only when the edges are fanned so
       | the art may surprise the one opening the book. Surprisingly, as
       | it's considered an endangered craft[0], I found a TikToker doing
       | that: https://www.tiktok.com/@brimariepaints.
       | 
       | [0]: https://heritagecrafts.org.uk/fore-edge-painting/
        
         | jeppesen-io wrote:
         | > A fore-edge painting is a scene painted on the edges of book
         | pages. There are two basic forms, including paintings on fanned
         | edges and closed edges. For the first type, the book's leaves
         | must be fanned, exposing the pages' edges for the picture to
         | become visible. For the second closed type, the image is
         | visible only while the book is closed.
         | 
         | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore-edge_painting
         | 
         | > One of the most unusual types of book decoration is fore-edge
         | paintings. These are books which have one or more of the top,
         | fore or bottom edge painted
         | 
         | https://www.abaa.org/member-articles/a-collectors-primer-to-...
         | 
         | > Fore-edge paintings are scenes, portraits, or designs that
         | are painted onto the edge of a book. Although some of these
         | paintings are visible when the book is closed, such as is the
         | case in the photo above, much of the time these paintings are
         | covered over by gilded edges, so that the paintings only become
         | visible when you fan the pages in the manner illustrated below.
         | 
         | https://library.wustl.edu/news/fore-edge-paintings/
        
         | Cerium wrote:
         | Thank you for sharing this. I have never seen fore-edge
         | painting before and enjoyed watching those videos. Much better
         | than the linked article.
        
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