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Mysterious Book Sculptures Pop Up in Edinburgh

With a growing internet community and a slew of social media outlets, anonymity is diluted and nearly impossible to achieve. It’s difficult for anyone to remain a mystery, especially if they put themselves out there. Somehow, however, a modern day mystery exists in Edinburgh involving a series of unclaimed book sculptures with cryptic messages. Who is the artist behind all of these elaborate works that celebrate books?

Photographer Chris Scott (aka chrisdonia), a bibliophile himself, has been documenting the fascinatingly intricate works since their emergence. Each sculpture has curiously appeared at different library, bookshop, and museum locations across Edinburgh including the Scottish Poetry Library, the National Library of Scotland, the Scottish Storytelling Centre, and theFilmhouse. Each figure uses a popular work of literature to construct surreally detailed figures. Every structure is unique to the book it is made out of and comes with its own message of literary celebration. When the eighth sculpture popped up, it came with a note alluding to the artist being a female, giving a few shout outs (including one to Scott for his pictures), and signaling the end of the journey with a total of ten sculptural works. People, including Scott, eagerly awaited the final two, unsure of where or when they would be revealed.

After the final two sculptures discreetly unveiled themselves at the National Museum of Scotland and the Writer’s Museum, it seemed the quest for more sculptures had come to a close. However, a mysterious Twitter account was created shortly after that and began tweeting at the locations at which these pieces were discovered. Not too long after, an eleventh sculpture materialized at the Edinburgh Bookshop with a quote from R. Burns reading “…. something in us never dies” and the message: “In support of those who turn ideas into words, words into books …… & of course books into libraries.”

You can see more of the sculptures in Scott’s Flickr set and track the entire journey on his blog, which is sure to give any updates should there be the appearance of a twelfth book sculpture or the big reveal of the artist’s true identity.

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sotalife: JC Penney’s new ad for Father’s Day The text reads:  “First Pals: What makes Dad so cool? He’s the swim coach, tent maker, best friend, bike fixer and hug giver—all rolled into one. Or two.” The text at the bottom reads: “Real-life dads, Todd Koch and Cooper Smith with their children Claire and Mason.”

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JC Penney’s new ad for Father’s Day

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“First Pals: What makes Dad so cool? He’s the swim coach, tent maker, best friend, bike fixer and hug giver—all rolled into one. Or two.” The text at the bottom reads: “Real-life dads, Todd Koch and Cooper Smith with their children Claire and Mason.”

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womensweardaily: Colleen Atwood’s Mirror Magic If Colleen Atwood’s name sounds more familiar than other costume designers’, perhaps it’s because she has won three Oscars in the last nine years, a higher batting average than Meryl Streep’s. The Atwood movie that seems to have fans in a frenzy at the moment is “Snow White and the Huntsman,” a dark retelling of the fairy tale starring Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth A lucky few got an up-close look at several of the costumes on display in a “Snow White” promotional pop-up gallery in Hollywood, which will remain open until June 3, where Atwood detailed the work that took nine months to complete.  For more [above: The queen’s wedding dress.]

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Colleen Atwood’s Mirror Magic

If Colleen Atwood’s name sounds more familiar than other costume designers’, perhaps it’s because she has won three Oscars in the last nine years, a higher batting average than Meryl Streep’s.

The Atwood movie that seems to have fans in a frenzy at the moment is “Snow White and the Huntsman,” a dark retelling of the fairy tale starring Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth

A lucky few got an up-close look at several of the costumes on display in a “Snow White” promotional pop-up gallery in Hollywood, which will remain open until June 3, where Atwood detailed the work that took nine months to complete.  For more

[above: The queen’s wedding dress.]

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