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$8,000,000 bible

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Just stumbled across this, it looks pretty awesome! I know I want one. Kudos to the Monks that spent the last 11 years completing this epic undertaking.

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2011/09/18/hand-drawn-st-johns-bible-to-go-on-display/?test=faces

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Well, if there's one book, to do that with, that would be the one.
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$8mil? That's an industrial office building price. I could see $8,000,000.00 if you told me it was illuminated by Andy Warhol.
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I believe that I looked at some of the pages from that when I was up there. Nice stuff but too new age for me.

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I would expect a signed first edition.
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Cian of Storvik wrote:$8mil? That's an industrial office building price. I could see $8,000,000.00 if you told me it was illuminated by Andy Warhol.
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I wouldn't pull an Andy Warhol from a trashbin. Repetitive, self-indulgent, and intentionally cheaply made as mass market junk. Half the point of "pop art" was that people buy crap art, and set out to prove it by producing it.
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http://www.designers-books.com/?p=6399

^ Check that out.

Way cooler. Yes, the regular font is printed, but this is the work of one student... I'd buy this.

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Gerhard von Liebau wrote:http://www.designers-books.com/?p=6399

^ Check that out.

Way cooler. Yes, the regular font is printed, but this is the work of one student... I'd buy this.

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I am gonna second Gerhard. A hand illuminated copy of any of Tolkien's work trumps anything else...except for maybe a complete work of Poe written in blood on human skin parchment.....
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Swete wrote:
Gerhard von Liebau wrote:http://www.designers-books.com/?p=6399

^ Check that out.

Way cooler. Yes, the regular font is printed, but this is the work of one student... I'd buy this.

-Gerhard

I am gonna second Gerhard. A hand illuminated copy of any of Tolkien's work trumps anything else...except for maybe a complete work of Poe written in blood on human skin parchment.....



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No, the Anachronomicon!
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Benedek wrote:
Swete wrote:
Gerhard von Liebau wrote:http://www.designers-books.com/?p=6399

^ Check that out.

Way cooler. Yes, the regular font is printed, but this is the work of one student... I'd buy this.

-Gerhard

I am gonna second Gerhard. A hand illuminated copy of any of Tolkien's work trumps anything else...except for maybe a complete work of Poe written in blood on human skin parchment.....



The Necronomicon?

Close enough! ^u^ But more whimsically dark. ;)
Though that does bring about the suggestion of doing much the same with Lovecraft's work.... 8)
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Gerhard von Liebau wrote:http://www.designers-books.com/?p=6399

^ Check that out.

Way cooler. Yes, the regular font is printed, but this is the work of one student... I'd buy this.

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I still think, as cool as this project is, his choice of font was a colossal blunder.
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