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One foot seven inches thick, over 5000 pages: the sum of human knowledge in a obscene waste of paper. Mmm.
Rob, a graphic design student from Brighton, Sussex, took two weeks to make the book as a statement about how people are now dependent on the internet for information.
He said: “I’m comparing the internet Wikipedia to a traditional encyclopedia by putting it in the same format.
“I wanted to make a comment on how everyone goes to the internet these days for information, yet it is very unreliable compared to what it has replaced.”
Dude, you’re a graphic designer, not an artist. Leave commenting to the pros and get that new letterhead on my desk by 3pm or you’re fired. Just kidding. I know some graphic artists who are every bit as talented and whiny as “real” artists. (I got a million of ‘em, folks.)
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June 17th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
To quote the article: “Mr Matthews said he had had a great response to the book, which he later hopes to sell.” Doesn’t this raise a multi-headed hydra of ethical and copyright issues (e.g. GNU Free Documentation License)? Unless perhaps he were to sell it at printing cost, or donate all proceeds to the Wikimedia Foundation? I imagine the forklift operation and chiropractic costs needed to move and ship the blighters would be prohibitive too…