Bad Girl

Shirley Collins & Davy Graham

The Art of Bookbinding

Bookbinding Instructions

Supplies
1. Bookbinding glue
2. Ruler
3. scissors and/or x-acto knife
4. letter opener
5. pencil
6. cardstock or fancy thick paper
7. wet-media heavy weight multi-purpose paper
8. no bookbinding press? use encyclopedias, phone-books, heavy square rectangular objects~

What to do?

First you need to print out what you want to bind. I printed things on one side, folded the page in half and glued the inside hamburger style pages together, to create a thicker feeling page. Use a letter opener or the x-acto knife to score the folding process. Caution, let these pages sit and dry. When in doubt use the ruler for any cutting of the paper! Double Caution, some pages depending on its linear insides may have to be done on the opposite side of the page.

A  :   B

may really need to be

B  :   A

Next, cut out cardstock to cover the pages, as a book cover would do.

- then put one encyclopedia on flat surface,

- put the cardstock down

- put the pages face down on the cardstock

-insert glue, using a cottonball on the folded spines of the pages

- put other encyclopedia over and press for a while

Then, 

- remove top encyclopedia

-put more glue on the spine

-and fold the cardstock to cover the book 

-put encyclopedia back on top

let this sit for a good while

You, can also then add the canvas like paper, cut it out just like the cardstock and glue it on

Paint on this, or do whatever!

The finished product,

Why this bookbinding post? 

Right now I am making a collection of five books all titled,

I Seem to Have Gone Blind

combined with a series of different flower-women on the covers.

I have been asked to do something that I have been desiring to do

for the longest time, and it is to put a collection together

however I wish!!

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Support independent bookshops!!

(this one is super rad because it carries "books, print: vintage, rare unusual" ! )

Stay tuned for the rest of the series!!

Sexy Slacks and Self Orchestrated Purgatories

A good film to watch, Timothy 'Speed' Levitch The Cruise

Here is Not Rescued

Surrounded by chaotic circular streets

the screech of homeless

city raccoons vs. home-broken cats

shredding decaying

TJ pre-package meals

the only thing that heaves

is the dance of the sea

I look no longer

into the eyes of the beast

but I cover myself with

the skins of redwood trees

outlining the horizon

west-cliff, east-cliff

edge of the world cliff

out of logic

out of visibility

divided by two years ago

one year ago

and as I

substantiate flight

I dissolve

with each step

on this earth

Fantastic Flicks

Buffalo '66

A transient lives by transition
swept up in cogent roots

Text Testimonials

Today's Text Testimonial is..."Super Sad True Love Story" by Gary Shteyngart. Yes, I believe that today is the  appropriate day to share this novel. 

This book is a great way to diffuse those proud nationalistic emotions you may be feeling from over eating beef, soaking up those harsh rays, and inhaling debris from fireworks.

Read anything good lately??? Please Share!

External Inspirators

 "If all you young men were fish in the water,
How many young girls would undress and dive after?"
Shirley Collins








Take a listen...

Folk Roots, New Routes
http://www.mediafire.com/?6806xc9dd1rj28x






What's your favorite folk song or singer???

With God Like Powers I Pardon Dead People

The Hanging of John Gordon

Indicted as the Bacchus of whiskey
no he didn't make that amber water shine
along the banks of Pocasset River
convicted of pluckin' Amasa's
head ripe off the Spine


catholics vs. protestants
on the soil of the free?
John Gordon stepped on the stage to break a neck
though no one intervened

her worshippers salivating,

Madonna della Civita, fammi una grazia

well John Gordon, may your soul rest in sweet Providence

poured his libation protecting his kin
a head for a head,
Maria Santissima della Civita feasted on his sins




JM&I