architecture :: a house made of books

Casa de Libre is an unusual house entirely handcarved to look like books. Everything in it (even the clothes hanging in the closet) has been carved to resemble a book in some way. The master Woodcarver Extraordinaire behind this novel house is artist Livio De Marchi .

But book houses aren't all that this talented craftman builds. He carves lifesized cars as well - and drives them on water!

How amazingly JUST COOL!

art :: extraordinary pencils

Remember that one geeky kid in Elementary School who would sit in the back of the class and carve pencils? He carved them in all sorts of configurations, designs and extraordinary shapes.
Starting from a lowly, generic green pencil like this...

he would end up with these...

Actually I never knew such a kid and besides who would ever get it into their head to carve a pencil?

These photos are from a 1990’s Japanese exhibition titled “The JAD Project” and the intricate pencil carvings were created by Mizuta Tasogara and Kato Jado. They won the Planning Prize in the 11th ‘Hands Taisho’ contest. read more here >>>

Pencil carving - it's JUST COOL