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Lost Book Finds Use in Real World
First of many, I suspect.
The winner of our DREAM BOOK CONTEST, is , with her Key to Imagination:
WHAT IS THE LOST BOOK CLUB AND MUSEUM?
It is a gallery of fragments, both text and image artifacts, connected by a common theme: The Deconstruction and Reimagining of Books and Book Culture in our Post-Literate Age.
EXAMPLES: Fragments of ancient texts in forgotten languages, scientific & technical illustrations from unknown sciences and technologies, false starts of books, covers or title pages for non-existent books, impossible bindings, enigmatic fragments of torn burned or rotted pages from mysterious religious works, histories, cosmologies, fragments of art, diaries, found poetry, interesting scraps of paper found in the street, books made of unexpected materials or hollowed out to contain unexpected objects, banned, burned, forbidden, unfinished, unwritten books, unidentified alphabets, hieroglyphs, ideograms, iconography, books from prehistory, books from the future, books from parallel universes, books with built-in lenses and peep-holes, pop-up books with animated scenes, magical books, books of pressed flowers, pressed bugs, pressed dreams and nightmares, catalogs of stains and odors, unnatural histories, abnormal philosophies, Readers' Digress condensed and compacted books, Books of tree rings and geological strata, books of Tibetan sand paintings that spill into the gutters as you turn the pages, broken books exposing their inner workings, or with their guts spilling out, neodada collage, putting bits of image and text together haphazardly like the early attempts to reassemble dinosaur bones, books made of folded-spindled-mutilated IBM punch-cards, books written in UPC code, suggestive receipts and office memos, shopping lists and telephone doodles, fragments of catalogs of fragments of catalogs of fragments, et cetera, et cetera...
(The above list of examples is, itself, a good example of an acceptable text submission)
SUBMISSIONS: Entries may take the form of images of these artifacts, text descriptions of physical artifacts, text excerpts from lost books, and/or image and/or text explorations of things related to the main themes of this club. As with other clubs, you submit via note with a link to the image or text already placed in your personal gallery.
IMPORTANT NOTE: I, James Koehnline shall be, for the foreseeable future, the sole curator, librarian, gatekeeper and judge, making all decisions regarding what gets into the club gallery.
If the quality is high and the quantity sufficient I may have discussions with the contributors of the best submissions regarding the possibility of publishing a real book in the form of a catalog of our imaginary museum.
I am looking forward to hearing from you who find this an interesting experiment.
MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES
To be a member you must add the club to your Friends List, and choose your membership category. There are to be two categories, and you are welcome to sign up for both, if you like.
1. DONORS: This is for those of you who intend to submit works from your own galleries to The Lost Book Club and Museum. Submitting as a Donor does not guarantee posting, but it does guarantee careful consideration of the suitability of all pieces submitted, and you get your avatar on the front page and will be invited to participate in contests and such.
2. SCOUTS: This is for those of you who will be on the look-out for exhibits for our museum, whether by simply being attentive to the work of friends and the work you happen to see around dA, or by actively scouring the dA universe for artifacts for our museum. You may then act as go-between or simply note me about prospects and I will check them out. Scouts are also encouraged to help me build a LINKS page, for appropriate materials outside of dA. As a Lost Book Scout your avatar will appear in a separate roster on the front page.
If interested, note me.
OUR MEMBER ROSTERS
DONORS:
SCOUTS:
SCOUTS HONOR ROLL
Our Scouts Honor Roll starts off with two of you: , who helped to spread the word of this club, pointed out some great work and brought in several enthusiastic members,
and , who has brought to my attention many treasures here at dA, as well as great resources from beyond for our Links Page lostbooks.deviantart.com/journ… Thanks to you, and to all who are helping this club grow and evolve.
A FEW INSPIRATIONS:
The fiction of Jorge Luis Borges jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscord…
Peter Greenaway's film "Prospero's Books" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero…
Writings and Projects of Hakim Bey www.hermetic.com/bey/
Recent Exhibition at the Seattle Asian Art Museum: "Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art" www.seattleartmuseum.org/press…
Ernie Kovacs' "Eugene" TV special (especially the library scene, of course) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Ko…
LINKS PAGE: lostbooks.deviantart.com/journ…
Thanks to for our deviantID, below:
Used Club Seeks New Blood
Please disregard the phrase above. I don't know how to get rid of it.
This very fine gallery has been neglected for over a year because I have moved on to other things. If you have any interest in reviving it, running it, turning it into a group endeavor, or in any way carrying on the project I started please let me know. You can change it however you like to make it your own, but I would hope that the gallery up to now would remain and be added to. If no one steps up, I will just leave it sitting here for the foreseeable future.
WHAT IS THE LOST BOOK CLUB AND MUSEUM?
It is a gallery of fragments, both text and image artifacts, connected b
New Contest: The Book of the Future
NEW CONTEST: THE BOOK OF THE FUTURE
In honor of our museum's 300th acquisition, and leading up to our first anniversary, I am announcing a new contest, open to all, on the theme THE BOOK OF THE FUTURE.
This can be interpreted any way you like. It could be a mysterious book that comes to us from the future, or a book of speculations and predictions about the future of books and literacy, in particular, or the future in general, or any other way you care to look at it.
This time I would like to encourage text entries, fiction or non-fiction, as well as visual art. Prizes will include a fine print of your choice from my Lost Book images, and
One Day Left to Vote! / New WebCam Image
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I have chosen five finalists. It was difficult, and I have decided to leave you with the freedom to vote for an entry that I have not included among the finalists. You get one vote and you have one week, until Saturday night (Jan. 19) at Midnight PST. One winner gets all the prizes: a one-year subscription to DA (from member Adeimantus (https://www.deviantart.com/adeimantus), a print of your choice from my works in the club gallery, a feature in the club journal and a news item. Vote via note, please.
FINALISTS
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ENTRIES
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Dream Book Contest Closed
Sorry for the delay. I will get to it this weekend.
Our club subscription, which would have expired December 21st, has been extended through the generosity of Leonard Clagett
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Que genial!!!