Ah, the web slideshow. One of the great daily indulgences you can slip in and out of at work, not spend a lot of time on, and yet in that brief stretch you have managed to discover something interesting. Of all the websites devoted to the modern art of the web slideshow, Flavorwire has it down cold. (Seriously, they must have an army of people working there on these things if I’m getting 50 different emails a day from them.)

Yesterday they ran 10 slides of visual artists who use books as their medium. (You should check out the full slideshow because it was awesome.) But the highlight for me was the above piece featuring the work of Thomas Allen, who is represented by the Foley Gallery. Like the above image, most of the works consist of cutouts from the covers of old pulp novels arranged in some pretty suggestive and, at times, violent ways. Allen’s work excels as an ingenius repurposing of something iconic–the pulp novel–by turning it into a 3D dramatization of what lies beneath the cover. They’re striking in ways that’s both odd, fresh, and familiar.  You can view the full collection on their website. It’s worth the trip.