{"id":14391,"date":"2012-05-23T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/?p=14391"},"modified":"2012-05-22T23:11:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T23:11:25","slug":"an-igloo-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/an-igloo-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"An Igloo of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/2012\/05\/an-igloo-of-books.html\/an-igloo-of-books1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14392\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14392\" title=\"An Igloo of Books1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books1-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books1-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picture this. You\u2019re an Eskimo (or an Inuit &#8211; is Eskimo offensive?). You\u2019re in snowy Alaska and have become lost in the middle of nowhere. You\u2019re on your own. It\u2019s cold. You\u2019re cold. You need shelter. So, you use the skills your misplaced tribe recently taught you and build an igloo. You enter the igloo. You\u2019re not so cold anymore. But now you\u2019re faced with another problem: you\u2019re bored. What do you need to quench your boredom while you hopefully await rescuing? You need some books to read! But you don\u2019t have any books on you, nor a Kindle. You\u2019re in a (admittedly unlikely) rut, aren\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>Well, Miler Lagos may have solved your problem. The Colombia-based artist, whose exhibitions have been featured all over the globe, has created an igloo &#8211; or a dome &#8211; made entirely out of books. Handy, right? The installation, which is called Home and which opened in New York last year, was carefully assembled by Lagos, who painstakingly stacked each individual book (spine facing the interior) to create a self-sustaining dome. Whether or not you can actually remove any of the books to have a quick flick through them I\u2019m unsure &#8211; the whole structure may topple down and crush you to death. Just in case, make sure you have a Kindle with you on your next venture into Alaska\u2019s freezing wasteland.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/2012\/05\/an-igloo-of-books.html\/an-igloo-of-books2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14393\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14393\" title=\"An Igloo of Books2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books2-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books2-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/2012\/05\/an-igloo-of-books.html\/an-igloo-of-books3\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14394\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14394\" title=\"An Igloo of Books3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books3-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books3-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/2012\/05\/an-igloo-of-books.html\/an-igloo-of-books4\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14395\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14395\" title=\"An Igloo of Books4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books4-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books4-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books4-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books4.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/2012\/05\/an-igloo-of-books.html\/an-igloo-of-books5\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14396\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14396\" title=\"An Igloo of Books5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books5-550x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books5-550x337.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books5-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/An-Igloo-of-Books5.jpg 795w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this. You\u2019re an Eskimo (or an Inuit &#8211; is Eskimo offensive?). You\u2019re in snowy Alaska and have become lost in the middle of nowhere. You\u2019re on your own. It\u2019s cold. You\u2019re cold. You need shelter. So, you use the skills your misplaced tribe recently taught you and build an igloo. You enter the igloo. 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