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Saturday Jan 22, 2011
Episode 59: The Mini Fish
Saturday Jan 22, 2011
Saturday Jan 22, 2011
As promised: Audio for The Mini Fish is up.
At the end of making a few books (see below for the Islamic Wave book and the New Year book, plus others upcoming in future episodes... Wait, you can't scroll down to see future episodes.)
After completing a few books, I had a lot of leftover scraps of paper, thread, and a small bit of glue. I decided to make a small book in order to use up the leftovers. Waste not, want, eh? Naturally, what I thought was going to be a project to consume leftovers turned out to be a project that produced More Leftovers. Considering the size of the Mini Fish book, it was quite frustrating trying to reduce & recycle only to end up with more garbage.
The problem that arose was I decided on the size of the book based on some leftover bookboards I had. A little trimming (some waste) and they were square. Then I needed paper for the pages. I trimmed some leftover paper (more waste). When I went to gather my endpapers, I chose a leftover sheet and, yes, trimmed it (more waste). And there was a mistake or two.
The Mini Fish Book is 184 mm x 75 mm with 10 pages folded in thirds so that each page is wider by a third than the book itself. Casebound with, I think, very nice endpapers that are just bit askew.
As I think about it, the Mini Fish book is not a book for mini fish (Mrs Paul's?) as the Islamic Wave book is not about sports enthusiasts standing and sitting in staggered unison. It's a mini book with a fish on the back cover. The cover is actually a recycled bag that some food (a fish-shaped piece of pastry) came in. Without the pastry in it, of course.Music on the audio is Something Else by The Drowning Hundred
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