19 August 2003

Like everyone who saw Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, I've always wanted my own copy of Henry Jones's Grail Diary, arguably the coolest movie prop ever. You can imagine my astonishment, then, upon discovering that there's an entire online community of artists who apparently spend much of their time preparing beautiful, hand-crafted, hand-aged replicas of the Grail Diary, which retail for something like $900 apiece. (A bit steep, perhaps, until you learn that the "original" diary sold at auction for about $18,000….) The site I found is really fascinating, with pages and pages devoted to the different sketches, inserts, entries, etc. that the diary contains. This may even be cooler than the Codex Seraphinianus...

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