The Night Life of Trees

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I just received my copy (#73 of 1000) of The Night Life of Trees from Amazon.com. It came to my attention via a blog post on Drawn.ca. I can’t add much to their excellent summary, except the following:

  • After watching this video, how can you NOT want to possess your very own copy of this book?
  • Now that it’s actually in my hot little hands, I can attest that it’s truly lovely to behold. The paper is beautiful. The text is excellent. And the silkscreened images are stunning. The book even *smells* good.
  • The fact that I was able to buy this book for less than USD$40 is a testament to the fact that highly skilled, manual labor is astonishingly cheap in some (many?) parts of the world. Just watch the video to see how much skill and sweat goes into making each and every copy.
  • The book and video make me want to learn how to silkscreen… :D

For those not making the jump over to Drawn.ca, here’s the YouTube video that they embedded – by the end of this clip, I knew I had to have this book…