A visit from BookBod

IMAGENAMEHEREA terrific range of imaginative storytelling methods, character voices and accents along with acting, singing and artistic skills make BookBod the ideal visitor for your event.

You can contact BookBod at the HoBB (`Home of BookBod`).

As it is good to know a little background about a visitor before meeting them for the first time, we emailed BookBod a few probing questions and here are the answers:

ANSWERS FROM A STAR:

Your name
BookBod

Company
Freelance

Job
Binder, collator, developer, researcher and presenter of all manner of stories.

Age
As a time guide, my age has overtaken time itself.

Best friends
ClueBod and my horse.

Diet
I love very brightly colourful food and the darkest food – liquorice root sticks, especially when tied into impossible knots before eating.

Travel experience
I have visited many ‘Big Bangs’ but only one recent galaxy closure which was a bit sad but very moving.

Traits
The list is short. I rarely blink and I’m sometimes bothered by my height on Earth.

Pet
Horse

Interests
Information and disinformation, fact, myth and mirth. I like swimming in waters of wide opinions, attitudes and views. My HoBBy is Bookbinding.

Memberships
Whilst here, I joined the British Library, Butterfly Conservation, IPG (International Publishers Guild) and the Milky Way Archive Project.

Favourite Links
Amazon
Bodleian Library, Oxford.
British Film and Strange Sound Library

Favourite Earth Characters
Merlin, Father Time, Dr.Who, Nostradamus and Gina (who found me stables a great parking place for my caravan)

Music while you work
Wind blowing through Autumn trees by the bank side of highland streams in spate.

Favourite drink at Work
Spring water drawn in Summer.

Preferred method of transport
Portable Green Light beams.

Favourite restaurant
Lucciano’s Pasta Bar the end of the Omniverse

Something that should be done
Phone home.

Biggest challenge
Making myself understood in Earth Language.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE INCLUDED IN ANSWERS FROM A STAR, PLEASE CONTACT BOOKBOD

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Read more BookBod ‘behind the scenes’ information

World’s Longest Artist’s Book

 

Over one hundred original studies are being painted to create the World’s Longest Artist’s Book. Inside this book of ‘Thought & Art’, one letter stands alongside each of its five main sections.

G        A        F        O        F

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Each Letter is guarded to secure its true ‘root’ meaning by its own ‘Root Spirit’ (pics. above)

G.A.F.O.F. (Groom All Fiction on Fact)
G.A.F.O.F. (Groom All Facts on Fiction)

Then, using the same letters backwards to reflect upon all our origins and the compounded works of our ancestors

F. O. F. A. G.  ( For Our Future And Growth)

Each of these 5 sections unfold up onto an outer wood and steel casing carved with imagery from the many languages formulated by humans since written communication began.

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J O Y
On the top face of this box are three further widely spaced letters to create the formula ‘J 0 Y’.*  These letters form one guiding word but stand for the two embodying Ground Tenets

FIRSTLY:              Judge     Our     Yokes
SECONDLY:        Judge     Our      Yolkes

We are experiencing a fast growth in virtual methods of communication and will need to learn to see through virtual reality as it encroaches continually upon the ‘look’ and ‘flavour’ of Reality.
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As we broaden our bands of wired connections, we must increase our abilities to judge actual circumstances with ever more accuracy.
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The creators of the Long Artist’s Book (part of the Nine Tenets exhibition, Café Surf, Birmingham)  believe that we can only face the certain growth of more virtual methods in communication through uncoding that which we presently call ”knowledge’ – a ‘thing-in-itself’.
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Though all previous historical methods of communication have at sometime been used to control or impede understanding, the Internet is being used to expose dis-information through cross-referencing. The better the search software, the greater the chance for all to assess the value of others on both the yokes they make and their central yolk  or true essence.


* Note 1:   In the First Evolvement , “JOY” was “JOA” (Judge Our Actions)  but as this suggested “when assessing value ~ judge deeds alone”, it was re-written as “JOY” for this second evolvement.

* Note 2:   The Book’s top face is presently being totally re-constructed  to accommodate the alteration to “JOY” from “JOA” and we hope to bring you pictures of this prior to the third evolvement and as soon as they are available.


Here are some early study sketches for the book:

BRANCH TENET(176) : BBW ( Branding Back Wards )176mono

 

 

 

 

 

BRANCH TENET (151): NEWSOAP ( Not Every Window’s Serving Old Aged Pensioners)

151mono

 

 

 

 

 

 

BRANCH TENET (181) : B.A.R.B.I.E.
( Books Are Reality’s Bound Ink Events )

181mono