Thursday, June 10, 2010

Arts & Crafts: Walpurgisnacht


Ross McDonald created this book as a prop for a movie. In the movie, the book is 500 years old, oozes putrefaction and malevolence, and it is believed to be bound in human skin. The interior is filled with German text and images from 15th century books. Check out how you can see how he created it.


This page features two diagrams from Georg von Welling's 1735 Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum et Theosophicum, a number puzzle created by Ben Franklin, a Celtic knot, a diagram of a microbe and a heraldic device. One other pages, there are bits of electronic schematics, some diagrams and handwriting from George Washington's school notebook, and diagrams of crystals and fungi from a 19th century dictionary.


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