{"id":335,"date":"2010-09-03T15:03:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T20:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/?p=335"},"modified":"2011-03-25T13:51:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T18:51:04","slug":"starting-point-for-a-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/2010\/09\/03\/starting-point-for-a-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting point for a new book."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimescalante.photoshelter.com\/gallery-image\/Artists-Books-UW-Madison-students\/G00003Yuq_lbvwpE\/I0000o9rF534v5po\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Photo By: 2010 \u00c2\u00a9 Jim Escalante\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000o9rF534v5po\/s\/420\/283\/MG-6163.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" (2010 \u00c2\u00a9 Jim Escalante)\" width=\"420\" \/><\/a>How does one start working a new book? What sparks the idea? What is the first step for the new project? For book artists&#8217; it most likely is some type of visual element. Maybe an idea for a new structure, new imagery or the possibility for a new collaboration. Regardless of the starting point, something has to come first.<br \/>\nAnother question can be posed as a starting point for the fall 2010 Art 446 Artists&#8217; Book class; &#8220;Can you make a book from one sheet of paper?&#8221; It could be argued that a single sheet of paper, if left unchanged or un folded can&#8217;t be called a book. What is the minimum that we have to do to move it closer to becoming a book.<br \/>\nIf we rolled the sheet of paper and call it a scroll. Is that the first step to becoming a book? How about folding it into an accordion fold. Does that move it away from only being a flat sheet of paper. Does that make it a book? If we cut sections of the book so that it folds and unfolds into a book like format, does that bring it closer to becoming a book. It will be fun to see how many mutations we can change a single sheet of paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does one start working a new book? What sparks the idea? What is the first step for the new project? For book artists&#8217; it most likely is some type of visual element. Maybe an idea for a new structure, new imagery or the possibility for a new collaboration. Regardless of the starting point, something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,34,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art4446","category-446assignments","category-bookarts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}