Books carved into shape of a cave temple

[James the Giant]

This guy, Guy Laramee, makes amazing stuff from books. Here's a Buddhist themed one I wanted to share.
More here: http://io9.com/5919043/breathtaking-lan ... from-books

[Ben]

Wow! Thanks for sharing, James.

[Kare]

To use books for this decorative purpose is brute stupidity. I would call it vandalism, except for the fact that this would be slandering the real Vandals. They were never THAT stupid.

[Coyote]

That's pretty amazing. Though it does feel like sacrilege.

[James the Giant]

To use books for this decorative purpose is brute stupidity. I would call it vandalism, except for the fact that this would be slandering the real Vandals. They were never THAT stupid.

I think the books are old encyclopaedias, of which plenty can be found at your local junk shop, last stop before the garbage dump.
They have an enormous pile of crappy old britannicas and World Books at my local Rags 2 Riches Op Shop. $5 a set, and that's optimistic - they'll be thrown in the recycling before long.
Better to use them for art than feed the anaerobic bacteria in a landfill.

I used to think all books should be treated with care and respect, but then I read Dan Brown.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I wonder if he was a termite in a previous life?

[Kare]

To use books for this decorative purpose is brute stupidity. I would call it vandalism, except for the fact that this would be slandering the real Vandals. They were never THAT stupid.

I think the books are old encyclopaedias, of which plenty can be found at your local junk shop, last stop before the garbage dump.
They have an enormous pile of crappy old britannicas and World Books at my local Rags 2 Riches Op Shop. $5 a set, and that's optimistic - they'll be thrown in the recycling before long.
Better to use them for art than feed the anaerobic bacteria in a landfill.

I see. I apologize for overreacting a bit.

I used to think all books should be treated with care and respect, but then I read Dan Brown.

[DNS]

Beautiful!

Are they for sale? I know, craving, but I would be interested in the Buddhist themed art works; i.e., wholesome craving . . .

Some of the comments were kind of funny. (Warning: not pc):

*WARNING. ATHEIST POST.*
It's the best thing done with a bible yet. 6/17/12 10:47am

Amen, brother.

now that's what I call a 'Hole'y Bible
ba-dum..crash

[Kare]

But he'd better keep away from my complete set of the Tipitaka in 45 volumes!