{"id":1746,"date":"2014-02-14T08:58:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T15:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:19:41","slug":"400-robotic-books-form-a-honeycomb-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2014\/02\/14\/400-robotic-books-form-a-honeycomb-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"400 robotic books form a honeycomb sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-bristol-26152634\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1747\" alt=\"honeycomb\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/honeycomb.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/honeycomb.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/honeycomb-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/honeycomb-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To celebrate 400 years of the Bristol Central Library, animatronics company Rusty Squid (with artists, engineers, and designers) built this amazing moving, creaking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-bristol-26152634\">honeycomb hive sculpture<\/a> out of four hundred hardback books. Andrew Cox, a librarian at the BCL, says: &#8220;We embrace the digital but we all still love books and the book hive is a wonderful blend of art and engineering, reminding us of the intrinsic beauty and love affair we have with books as tangible items.&#8221; Watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tUR3mEp26eE\">video<\/a> for the full effect. Thanks, Alicia Bailey of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abecedariangallery.com\/\">Abecedarian Gallery<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate 400 years of the Bristol Central Library, animatronics company Rusty Squid (with artists, engineers, and designers) built this amazing moving, creaking honeycomb hive sculpture out of four hundred hardback books. Andrew Cox, a librarian at the BCL, says: &#8220;We embrace the digital but we all still love books and the book hive is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-sa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4014,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}