CODEX SERAPHINIANUS

http://www.io.com/~iareth/donblas.jpg

http://www.io.com/~iareth/jnkthed.jpg

http://www.io.com/~iareth/matrix.jpg

http://www.grapefruitopia.com/seraphinianus/gfx/rainbowpainter.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/photomorphose/images/Codex2.jpg

http://forbiddenmusic.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/codex1.jpg

http://www.dimka.com.ua/lj/codex.jpg

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/2719/codexhp5.jpg

http://www.believermag.com/issues/200705/codex_seraphinianus/1.jpg

http://forbiddenmusic.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/codex3.jpg

apparently the library at UNC has a copy of this. should I attempt to gank it y/n?

only cool thing the Believer has written about all year

wow. so amazing. whole book on cottoncandyhammer's flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cottoncandyhammer/sets/72157594263968563/

i need to start a paul laffoley thread

apparently the library at UNC has a copy of this. should I attempt to gank it y/n?
-- bernard snowy, Thursday, August 9, 2007 12:47 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

uh, yes. from amazon: 4 used & new available from $505.00

jax: In Praise of Paul Laffoley

amazing stuff above

also forgot all about cottoncandyhammer, that dude was great

:D

awesome.

but, uh, don't steal from libraries, duh

i posted these in a thread once but i can't remember where

also, found in that flickr account:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/96/240330595_80fea3d642_o.jpg

wow! i have never seen these before! the town half built on the rainbow bridge is awesome

that last one reminds me of Pink Floyd's The Wall with the walking testicles (is that what they were? can't find a pic and it was so long ago)

no! it was a walking butt with a sheet over it

wait, walking butt with a judge's wig!

closest i could find. http://pinkfloydfudd.ytmnd.com/

butts lol

io.com = olde internet awesome

OVERRATED

I have hundreds of notebooks that look exactly like this book, and no one gives a flying shit fuck about those.

anyway, i checked out this book once and it was interesting, but now all the mythology and shit exceeds the performance of the book. In other words:

OVERRATED

-- 31g, Thursday, 9 August 2007 05:23

That script is so beautiful such a pity it prolly doesn't mean anything

Someone showed me this book at Small Press Expo a few years ago. I thought it was amazing. If people have started writing articles about it, I'm sure it will appear in a new edition one of these years.

FFS don't steal it from a library!

Ha ha, I read the Believer article and just assumed it was all made up because the author kept citing Borges and all these other authors who present fiction in a nonfiction context.

Obviously I didn't bother to do any research at all.

my best friend has the american edition of the codex. it's so fucking beautiful, the colours, the bizarre imagery, the things it does to one's imagination. today he received his copy of serafini's other book 'piccola pulcinellapedia', which is super rare and hard to find:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1417/1437950562_6afafc4bd2.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1430/1437949874_10aa11cfbf_b.jpg

i know these images are huge, and a pain in the ass, but the detail in the pencil sketching is just so intricate and amazing.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1001/1437949214_419813fde8.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1378/1437948640_56f94ed1e3_b.jpg

and of course i spelled it wrong: piccola pulcinellopedia

amazon has a few linked up... for a low low of $550 each.
m.

my friend paid US$300 for the codex and US$250 for the PP. it's practically impossible to find any information (esp in english) on the PP, so if anyone knows anything useful or has any links, posting them would be much appreciated.

http://www.missesdobrasil.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/br07top15a.jpg

you're not allowed to talk to her

my dream is finding this at some piddly booksale sometime.

rubyrred anymore pics/info on the PP? wld be awz!

the cottoncandyhammer flickr doesn't have the pix anymore :(

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mavra_chang/sets/72157603308642301/

sorry johnny, didn't see this got revived. you can read a detailed article about serafini, the PP and the codex here:

http://chancepress.wordpress.com/serafini/

serafini has a new book out (well, it's not his exactly, he's the illustrator) and it is just stunning. we ordered a copy as soon as we found out about it (it's pricey at 300 euros, but it's ~signed~ which is practically impossible to pass up) and it arrived today!

it's just... beautiful. it's not the mysterious and mindfucking level of the codex, but it's up there. ytth just posted a blog about it here

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_VaoxUTbYWxo/S58S2Ouv8dI/AAAAAAAAAF4/ClfnFr_M3UQ/s576/P1020082.JPG

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_VaoxUTbYWxo/S58T71Lr_nI/AAAAAAAAAGU/ZZZxmHbno0A/s640/P1020080.JPG

New edition coming at the end of the month.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/codex_seraphinianus_a_new_edition_of_the_strangest_book_in_the_world

http://www.cetteadressecomportecinquantesignes.com/Luigi.Serafini.-.Codex.Seraphinianus.pdf

We have the deluxe edition on pre order!

I'm getting a second tattoo next month based on the botanical drawings from the codex

I have hundreds of notebooks that look exactly like this book, and no one gives a flying shit fuck about those.
― Richard Wood Johnson, Thursday, August 9, 2007 7:45 AM

poor Richard Wood Johnson and his undiscovered genius

we all have a little Richard Wood Johnson inside of us

i can't believe i never bragged in this thread about being the subject (sort of) of a follow-up to the original believer article written by justin taylor

http://htmlgiant.com/presses/the-codex-the-hurders-and-me-a-new-book-an-old-book-and-two-years-of-intermittent-emailing/

just ordered Richard Wood Johnson's notebooks, can't wait!

um, this is fucking incredible

Yeah it's pretty fun to flip through

well that sold out fast

i think the PDF is good enough for me though

they'll keep it in print. you can still get the italian version, too (same except with the accompanying essay in italian, of course).

ytth (my husband) is in paris right now. on his birthday. having dinner with serafini. like, for real.

rad!

whoa

Holy crap, amazing!

:)

so freaking cool I can't even

I just had a ph conversation with a VERY jazzed up ytth - apparently Serafini is super nice, as is his gf, and they might be having dinner again before ytth leaves in a few days. His gf also offered to take Jordan to visit the studio of some French cartoonist that she is good friends with and whom Jordan is a huge fan of.

Serafini did a long-ass inscription, in our fmr edition, in seraphinian AND a sketch in our copy of the pulcinellopedia. Fucking fuck I cannot stop bragging about this, no matter how lame it makes me.

that's pretty much perfection

one of the maybe 5 greatest artworks of the last century? brag, brag on :D