7:55 pm - 08/16/2012
In case you haven’t been following the literary police blotter today, here’s an update. Book-lovers around the web were shocked to see video footage of The Hills-star-turned-craft-maven Lauren Conrad brazenly dismembering a set of lovely hardcover volumes, using their spines in the unholy creation of something she gleefully called a “unique storage space” (storage for what, we shudder to think).
When book advocates rose up in protest of the gruesome atrocity, Conrad responded by removing the episode of her DIY crafting show from YouTube. But luckily the sleuths over at BuzzFeed (who originally broke the story), managed to preserve the image above.
You will notice that the book being savaged is from the Series of Unfortunate Events saga by Lemony Snicket. We reached out to the elusive author through his publicist, and he responded with the following comment:
It has always been my belief that people who spend too much time with my work end up as lost souls, drained of reason, who lead lives of raving emptiness and occasional lunatic violence. What a relief it is to see this documented.
Snicket may be relieved, but to our mind, this brutal event was unfortunate, indeed.
Source.
The video has been deleted from her page.
Lemony Snicket responds to Lauren Conrad's video.
In case you haven’t been following the literary police blotter today, here’s an update. Book-lovers around the web were shocked to see video footage of The Hills-star-turned-craft-maven Lauren Conrad brazenly dismembering a set of lovely hardcover volumes, using their spines in the unholy creation of something she gleefully called a “unique storage space” (storage for what, we shudder to think).
When book advocates rose up in protest of the gruesome atrocity, Conrad responded by removing the episode of her DIY crafting show from YouTube. But luckily the sleuths over at BuzzFeed (who originally broke the story), managed to preserve the image above.
You will notice that the book being savaged is from the Series of Unfortunate Events saga by Lemony Snicket. We reached out to the elusive author through his publicist, and he responded with the following comment:
It has always been my belief that people who spend too much time with my work end up as lost souls, drained of reason, who lead lives of raving emptiness and occasional lunatic violence. What a relief it is to see this documented.
Snicket may be relieved, but to our mind, this brutal event was unfortunate, indeed.
Source.
The video has been deleted from her page.
But they're hers and she can do (or not do) what she wants with them.
Maybe it's her way of still representing the fact that she loved those books without the bulk of the actual books taking up space.
I have an enormous drawer of books taking up space in my dresser but I can't bear to part with them even though I've read them all and I use my Kindle for everything now anyway.
My point is... I can see where the idea could be nice.
Got me thinking of some cool things I might be able to do with them without losing the space of a very large drawer in a very small room.
Edited at 2012-08-17 01:27 am (UTC)