Things I Think Are Kinda Cool

Artist Guy Laramee creates stunning landscapes out of ordinary books. Wow:

Rock out to the ‘Book Xylophone’ from the Miraikan National Museum of Science and Innovation in Japan…

-via Curiosity Counts

Not sure I would pay $80 (!!!) for these “Green Marker” bookmarks, but they’re still a great idea.

-Buy here via Random Good Stuff

Artist Brian Dettmer painstakingly carves out individual pages from old encyclopedias, medical manuals, and illustration books to create stunning literary-sculptures.  Nothing you see below was added to the book…every image and word was part of the original and revealed through the cutting process.  Wow.

-via My Modern Met (thanks for the tip @dje4)

Lamenting the death of the print industry?  Cheer up!  ’Book of Art’ creates these stunning sculptures out of good old-fashioned books…wow.

-Link via Buzzfeed

Designer Christopher Niemann doesn’t need 5000 legos and 50 hours of painstaking work to build his NYC-inspired creations.  The former New Yorker’s refreshingly simple vignettes were originally dreamed up using his son’s toys during a bleak winter in Berlin.  Whether it was homesickness or boredom that sparked Niemann’s creativity, there’s something undeniably charming about the images that fill up his book, “I Lego NY“.  Here are some of my favorites:

-Grab a copy of  “I Lego NY” on Amazon.