Colourful Bookshelves...

Talking about organizing books by colour in my previous posts, it triggered something that I had seen a few months a go while researching for an art project.


This is possibly the greatest bookshelf in the world, not for the content of the books, I'm sure there are bookshelves in the world full with the most fantastic collection of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays. But for sheer artistry, this is just breathtaking. I pulls at every creative nerve I have in my being, I would so love and be completely happy and content if I could walk through the door that is in my view right now, and end up in that room.

It would be the most perfect, colour abound, Narnia of literary and creative goodness.

Personality Types...

Some on The Student Room posted a thread on personality types, which reminded me of the test I did a while a go to see what type I am. I have to say I'm usually really critical of such tests and think that they bear no real relation to the person involved as they are for too generalised.

However.

This time, I was totally surprised, taken aback, shocked, astounded, and yes, amazed. The type and the profile was me down to the very last word.

ISFP
Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
The Artist/ Aesthete

So reading back through the profile of an ISFP, (Isn't it great to be just four letters... I suppose it is better than being known by a number.) and there was one point that struck me.

No it wasn't the fact that that 'life is not likely to be extremely easy for the ISFP'. Great, just wonderful.

Or the fact that 'almost every major artist in the world has been an ISFP', although that did strike a chord.

No. It was the statement that ISFP's can be 'intensely perfectionist'. Now this took me back to a GCSE Art lesson, which did make me feel quite old as it was around 2003/4, when we were having a tutorial on how to make a basic pot out of clay. While rolling out my clay, I was told by my teacher that I was 'just a little bit of a perfectionist'. I was a bit offended by the comment back then, but throughout the years it has certainly reigned true, especially through my art. Anyway, to stop me going off on a different point this led me to think about what perfectionist things I have done in general.

Now this may count as more obsessive than perfectionist, but I thought it would make a nice feature on the blog. I think only an obsessive perfectionist would actually do this...

My bookshelf in my bedroom. The container of all my lovely clumps of bound paper. The people that know me will definitely see this as a 'me' thing to do.

There is something wonderful that happens, something great bursts inside, when I can arrange my bookshelf so that different types of 'Penguin Classics', 'Penguin Modern Classics', 'Everyman Classics' and 'Wordsworth Classics' (when you fancy a book but don't really want to spend a huge amount of money on them, when I can arrange these series in their own little alphabetical order. Their spines are the same colour and design, a continuous line of subtle yet attention grabbing design.

Yes. I am aware that this is really quite sad.

Each 'series' is grouped in their own little family, with the authors alphabetical, so that for no reason apart from this, it just looks pretty.See now doesn't that just look really nice and neat. An art form of a bookshelf, sleek, sexy, easy to access, perfect design.

Now, it may be a bit shameful to admit that I find this next picture the best thing about my bookshelf (apart from the actual books of course). I just love how the line links each of the books and the bright orange Penguins just out at you.

Although, I must admit the fact that the line doesn't link completely bugs me just a tiny bit.

There is only one last thing that expresses my perfectionist attitude, and it also beings out my artistic nature. So a double-barrel of ISFP goodness. It is the fact that books that don't fit into the series, and can be done in such a way, are arranged by colour. YES, I know. But it is just one of those things that happens when an arty person is bored, it just makes things a little bit more interesting.

And to be fair on myself, there is only one section that is colour co-ordinated... (and not that greatly at that!)

So yeah, there we go.

Although people may balk at different quizzes and tests, it has to be said that these personality tests certainly ring true!