Virtual Dar-es-Balat

Post by **Kwisatz** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:10 pm

Enjoy virtual trip around my special Dune no-room

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iby5Z9OsuFU

Post by **lotek** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:35 pm

Wow !
This is a sight to see !

I always admire a collector, and a collector of books even more so.

I like the way you blocked that window with more books ^^

I shall watch this video in slo mo I think

And thanks for posting it !

Post by **Omphalos** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:03 pm

Nice.

Hey, Kwisatz! Do you know wat appended to the baliset prop from the movie or the miniseries?

Post by **ᴶᵛᵀᴬ** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:11 pm

...so, now you are transparent. I see many magazines & posters ^^ .... YOU MUST share with us

Post by **Kwisatz** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 6:35 pm

I'm in the middle of compiling a list of my stuff. Right now I have around 1000 items on the list, but it's far from over

I don't know who has baliset, I have only Ukulele from CoD.

Post by **Kwisatz** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 4:37 am

3 months later I have around 1500 items on my list - a lot of work

But it's not over yet.

BTW I'm looking for collectors from Spain, Greece, Israel, Netherlands and China who can confirm my lists of book (and magazine) editions from those countries if they are complete.

New video of my room with even more stuff probably in May

Post by **ᴶᵛᵀᴬ** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 8:51 am

Kwisatz wrote:3 months later I have around 1500 items on my list - a lot of work But it's not over yet.

BTW I'm looking for collectors from Spain, Greece, Israel, Netherlands and China who can confirm my lists of book (and magazine) editions from those countries if they are complete.

New video of my room with even more stuff probably in May

Great news ! I can't wait to see this

Post by **Kwisatz** » Wed May 09, 2012 1:19 pm

Updates photos from Dune no-room, living room with Siudmak's canvas (3 out of 7), kitchen (still in progress) and the attic.

https://picasaweb.google.com/PadishahSh ... -aHc3Ozpbw

Post by **Freakzilla** » Wed May 09, 2012 2:01 pm

The throw pillows are over the top, man!

(The red glass (DM) is a nice touch, too.)

Post by **Kwisatz** » Wed May 09, 2012 2:27 pm

Hmm, what red glass?

Post by **Freakzilla** » Wed May 09, 2012 4:37 pm

https://picasaweb.google.com/PadishahSh ... 0555257954

His words oddly in rhythm to the melody of his son's baliset, Farok said: "I
owned a crysknife, water rings to ten liters, my own lance which had been my
father's, a coffee service, a bottle made of red glass older than any memory in
my sietch. I had my own share of our spice, but no money. I was rich and did not
know it. Two wives I had: one plain and dear to me, the other stupid and
obstinate, but with form and face of an angel. I was a Fremen Naib, a rider of
worms, master of the leviathan and of the sand."
~DM

Post by **Kwisatz** » Wed May 09, 2012 5:39 pm

Thanks for the reminder. It was rather unconsciously.

ULFsurfer · Post by **ULFsurfer** » Wed May 09, 2012 6:15 pm

I love those pillows too. And the illuminated pictures above the living room couch look awesome, great taste!
Also I couldn't help but notice the Giger picture above the door. It's a little hard to see.. is it the one with the monster that kind of looks like train? I keep wondering what he's smoking whenever he makes up his art.

Post by **Kwisatz** » Wed May 09, 2012 10:34 pm

It was Baron's train IIRC, titled Dune VI.
Atreides Hawk on pillows was hand made by my talented friend as a birthday gift.
She will also make an Atreides lamp from Arrakeen palace in future

Post by **lotek** » Thu May 10, 2012 4:04 am

awesome stuff, but someone must have played a joke on you, since this is obviously a Frank Herbert chinese counterfeit copy, they even got the name wrong.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i_ZC ... resize.JPG

Post by **Kwisatz** » Thu May 10, 2012 4:13 am

If you are talking about my teddy bear's birth certificate - there is no spelling errors there and I personally purchase it for my future wife

Post by **lotek** » Thu May 10, 2012 4:16 am

nah I wouldn't dare criticize a teddy bear, Teddy (that's how mine was called ^^) would never forgive me !

EDIT TO ADD
let me say again that your dedication puts most Dune fans to shame

I wish my wife would let me turn the flat into a Dune shrine but it is not going to happen any time soon, at least not until we have enough space for me to ruin some

Post by **Kwisatz** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:25 pm

I was so lucky that my future wife found me while looking for guys for discussing Dune (seriously!).

As I promised earlier in this thread - here is new video - Dar-es-Balat 2.0:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83-zL_vbjE

Keep in mind that 140 books and stuff are outside that room - now on exhibition.
There are around 4 shelves of my wife's collection also incorporated.

Dar-es-Balat 3.0 in future

Post by **D Pope** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:31 pm

I doubt that i've shared this before;
For Lynches movie, the Atredes used Fairbairn Sykes fighting knives designed for allied spies in WWII.

http://www.fightingknives.info/Collecti ... fault.aspx
(A friends collection.)

Post by **Kwisatz** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 7:22 am

Dar-es-Balat 3.0 is finally here. All books are on their 81 shelves now. Almost every shelf is here in detail. Enjoy!
https://picasaweb.google.com/PadishahSh ... 8b3Bn8ivIg

Also a bonus from one of my customers – video of all drawings in original Polish Dune saga:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-ATZ9QWpdk

ULFsurfer · Post by **ULFsurfer** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 9:19 am

Shelf by shelf.. You've done a good job organizing your complex collection. I still get dizzy seeing all this stuff again.

Where did the bed sheet go? You actually tuck yourself into it every night?

Post by **Kwisatz** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 9:24 am

Bed sheet is safe from dust in the locker

Post by **ᴶᵛᵀᴬ** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:02 pm

Wow ! A dream unfolds ! I love reading and I love being surrounded by books.

K. your book collection is unique and priceless ! Thanks for sharing. Thank you for these pics & the time you have so kindly given us over the past year and we look forward. We are so fortunate to have you as part of our board and our community.

"Books add to our joy in prosperity, they provide refuge and comfort in adversity; they give pleasure at home and advancement abroad; they pass the night hours with us, accompany us on the road, share on holidays in the country." - Cicero

Post by **Kwisatz** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 5:27 pm

Cookie for me? Thanks!

I'm trying to do my best to help other collectors see what's possible to obtain

Post by **SandRider** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:32 am

that is one big-ass cookie .... & well deserved ....

Post by **lotek** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:00 am

It is one big-ass collection indeed.

Post by **Kwisatz** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 2:03 pm

My cataloging quest is finally over!
I've counted all of them without duplicates and in most cases without books in trilogy boxes and compilations, so there will be more. Also most cards are treaten as sets.

Overall: 1966 items + 114 on Chani's list.

48 FH signatures
66 BH
69 KJA
213 others

Eyes High · Post by **Eyes High** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:40 am

ULFsurfer · Post by **ULFsurfer** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 12:32 pm

Now you only need this:

http://historical.ha.com/c/item.zx?sale ... =206218685

Post by **Kwisatz** » Sun Jun 29, 2014 1:14 pm

I reorganized one column - figurines instead of books and glass instead of wood

Post by **Kwisatz** » Sun Jun 29, 2014 1:20 pm

Updated list of signatures after over a year:

FH: 53
BH: 79
KJA: 209 (109 obtained in person)
Others: 252

1005 books only within over 2000 items. So in overall quarter of items have signatures.

Post by **Omphalos** » Mon Jun 30, 2014 3:40 pm

I myself am not much of a toy collector, but I really like that mouse figurine. I'd buy one of those.

Post by **ᴶᵛᵀᴬ** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 3:36 am

Ali Baba's Cave

Post by **Kwisatz** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 4:23 am

Little update after Worldcon in London...

I've had a plan to sign most of my anthologies with FH's short stories by other authors. This was accomplished in 90%

I've managed to obtain 70 autographs in 57 items (mostly books) from 19 authors/reviewers/artists in 5 days. I've missed only 6 autographs from my list due to limitations or changes in Loncon program. I've also attended around 60 panels/events, had a longer 1 on 1 chats with Chris Foss (Jodorowsky's Dune), Bruce Pennington (FH's UK covers), Gregory Manchess (DoD cover), Ian Watson (FH's book reviews), Brian W. Aldiss (who celebrated his 89 birthday during Worldcon).
I've bought also around 20 new books (partly visible on the right side of Elemental anthology). So my suitcase+backpack's overall weight was over 35 kg

List of authors:
Robert Silverberg
Ben Bova
Brian W. Aldiss
George R.R. Martin
Fred Gambino
Bruce Pennington
Chris Foss
Joe Haldeman
David Langford
Grania Davis
Kim Stanley Robinson
Ian Watson
Gregory Benford
Gregory Manchess
Jim Burns
Jeffrey Carver
John Kessel
Peter Nicholls
Adam Roberts

Chirashi is also signed by Jodorowsky and Frank Pavich (director of Jodorowsky's Dune documentary) also in London but 1 month earlier. It's the only chirashi triple signed like this in existence

Bruce Pennington signing my 15 books

Chris Foss drawing space ship

Post by **Omphalos** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 2:36 pm

Nice!

Post by **Kwisatz** » Sat Sep 12, 2015 1:10 am

All paintings are finally in our living room. 3 of them from Polish Dune editions, 1 from French Soul Catcher. (They are cropped a bit on the right side cause of some kind of limit on this page).

The last one is from the stairs - non Dune related.

Post by **Omphalos** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 4:25 pm

Thats Awesome! Your museum is taking shape nicely!

Post by **Kwisatz** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:17 pm

It's 20th year of my collecting so I've had a goal to have books from 40 countries.
Now you can see one from each country on that photo.

1st row:
USA
UK
Russia
Georgia
Estonia
Ukraine
Greece
Serbia
Mexico

2nd row:
Slovakia
Czech
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Israel
Turkey
Spain
Portugal
Catalonia
Yugoslavia
Latvia

3rd row:
Poland
Netherlands
France
Australia
Iran
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Belgium
Braille (UK)

4th row:
Finland
Taiwan
Thailand
Brazil
Romania
Switzerland
Germany
China
Japan
Italy

Post by **Kwisatz** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:48 pm

Today I've counted items in my collection.

There are 1277 books, 1703 other items and 1140 different cards.
So over 4000 items in overall.

Post by **Kwisatz** » Sat Feb 16, 2019 4:55 am

Time for some videos of current state of my collection.

Shorter one: https://youtu.be/JBog8S9xWCM
Longer (shelf by shelf) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi4rlFV ... e=youtu.be

Post by **Kwisatz** » Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:18 am

Dar-es-Balat 5.0:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/askJXWwhF3LAx6QP6

Post by **Omphalos** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 12:10 pm

Impressive!

Some of those pencil drawings I ahd seen before, but wasn't aware that they were related to Dune.

Post by **Kwisatz** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 3:57 am

Are you refering to those on the walls by Siudmak?

Post by **Omphalos** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:30 am

Yep. In particular the one of the male's head with the skin from the neck and chest kind of stretched out like a tent. I have seen that one before, but was not aware that it was related to Dune.

Post by **Kwisatz** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 9:36 am

Haha, you could see it many times on Jacurutu, cause it's my avatar and it's my portrait by Siudmak

I've been told that I was portrayed as Farad'n

Drawing was originally published in Polish Children of Dune in 2008. My wife is on that drawing too.

Post by **Kwisatz** » Fri Feb 22, 2019 6:20 am

Last minute addition - the best looking Dune in my collection arrived today.

Post by **Kwisatz** » Wed May 15, 2019 8:53 am

Today I've completed another country - Ukraine.
First two books were printed in only 20 copies each.

Post by **lotek** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 5:18 am

Kwisatz wrote:Today I've completed another country - Ukraine.
First two books were printed in only 20 copies each.
Ukraine.jpg

Very nice!
It's cool to hear from you again

Post by **lotek** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 5:22 am

Kwisatz wrote:Time for some videos of current state of my collection.

Shorter one: https://youtu.be/JBog8S9xWCM
Longer (shelf by shelf) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi4rlFV ... e=youtu.be

Is it ok to post this on our OH Facebook page?
(if you'd rather stay low key I'd totally understand)

Post by **Kwisatz** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 8:30 am

Sure, you can post it on FB. Maybe it will be an inspiration for new collectors

Post by **lotek** » Tue Nov 05, 2019 3:24 am

I suspect they might feel a bit daunted by your extensive collection ^^
And thanks, I'll do that shortly

Post by **Kwisatz** » Thu Feb 27, 2020 12:28 pm

14th country completed - Switzerland

Post by **lotek** » Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:37 am

I've got some of those spacey covers books

Post by **Kwisatz** » Mon Jun 22, 2020 2:54 am

Another country completed - China.

1st row: 1st edition of Dune, Road to Science Fiction 4, World Famous Science Fiction (with essay about Dune)
2nd row: Dune Trilogy, Road to Science Fiction 4, 2nd edition
3-4th row: Dune Hexalogy

Post by **lotek** » Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:44 am

Wow, you're relentless!