If you haven't read this, do yourself a favor and do so:

Below is the complete email conversation that Adelaide man David Thorne claims he had with a utility company chasing payment of an overdue bill.

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Wednesday 8 Oct 2008 12.19pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Overdue account

Dear David,
Our records indicate that your account is overdue by the amount of $233.95. If you have already made this payment please contact us within the next 7 days to confirm payment has been applied to your account and is no longer outstanding.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles

From: David Thorne
Date: Wednesday 8 Oct 2008 12.37pm
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane,
I do not have any money so am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead. I value the drawing at $233.95 so trust that this settles the matter.

Regards, David.

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 10.07am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Overdue account

Dear David,
Thankyou for contacting us. Unfortunately we are unable to accept drawings as payment and your account remains in arrears of $233.95. Please contact us within the next 7 days to confirm payment has been applied to your account and is no longer outstanding.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles

From: David Thorne
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 10.32am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane,
Can I have my drawing of a spider back then please.

Regards, David.

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 11.42am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Overdue account

Dear David,
You emailed the drawing to me. Do you want me to email it back to you?

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles

From: David Thorne
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 11.56am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane,

Yes please.

Regards, David.

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 12.14pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Overdue account

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From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 10 Oct 2008 09.22am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Whose spider is that?

Dear Jane, Are you sure this drawing of a spider is the one I sent you? This spider only has seven legs and I do not feel I would have made such an elementary mistake when I drew it.

Regards, David.

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Friday 10 Oct 2008 11.03am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Whose spider is that?

Dear David, Yes it is the same drawing. I copied and pasted it from the email you sent me on the 8th. David your account is still overdue by the amount of $233.95. Please make this payment as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles

From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 10 Oct 2008 11.05am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Automated Out of Office Response

Thankyou for contacting me. I am currently away on leave, traveling through time and will be returning last week.

Regards, David.

From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 10 Oct 2008 11.08am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

Hello, I am back and have read through your emails and accept that despite missing a leg, that drawing of a spider may indeed be the one I sent you. I realise with hindsight that it is possible you rejected the drawing of a spider due to this obvious limb ommission but did not point it out in an effort to avoid hurting my feelings. As such, I am sending you a revised drawing with the correct number of legs as full payment for any amount outstanding. I trust this will bring the matter to a conclusion.

Regards, David.

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Monday 13 Oct 2008 2.51pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

Dear David, As I have stated, we do not accept drawings in lei of money for accounts outstanding. We accept cheque, bank cheque, money order or cash. Please make a payment this week to avoid incurring any additional fees.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles

From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 13 Oct 2008 3.17pm
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

I understand and will definately make a payment this week if I remember. As you have not accepted my second drawing as payment, please return the drawing to me as soon as possible. It was silly of me to assume I could provide you with something of completely no value whatsoever, waste your time and then attach such a large amount to it.

Regards, David.

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Tuesday 14 Oct 2008 11.18am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

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Attention Art Students: Free Photoshop Brushes

These Fractals Like Nebula Photoshop Brushes are made by Ali Sutter (Female-USA). These are Fractals and Nebula's that looks like fractals. The folder contains 15 PhotoShop brushes and 15 PNG images for 7.0 user to convert into brushes if these don't work for 7.0. Ali Sutter has done some good works and you can see them at her gallery.

And if you go to the link, u can download the set for free, their awesome.
http://photoshop-freebies.blogspot.com/2007/09/fractals-like-nebula-brushes.html

DIY Cardboard Furniture

We're now looking at all the large cardboard boxes in a new light after seeing these impressive DIY furniture creations made by the Parisian artist collective known as the Cartonnistes. Founder Eric Guiomar began creating cardboard furniture after looking for affordable and lightweight seating, and now offers classes in the construction technique he developed...

The materials used are readily available and easy to find. Add a few dollars worth of glue, paints, pigments and water-based varnishes, buy another $50 worth of tools and you are ready to start production as an art, a hobby or a business.

You can check out a real life project following the Cartonnistes' technique here; looks like a lot of trial and error but a fun project if you have the time and space. Order your own instructional DVD here.

And it looks like New Yorkers will have the opportunity to participate in cardboard furniture workshops from September 20th-28th. We can only hope the La Compagnie Bleuzen decide to make a west coast trip in the near future.

Cardboard Artwork

Chris Gilmour is an Italian artist that creates life-size sculptures out of cardboard and glue.
He uses no supporting structure, and no wooden or metal frames. He

uses cardboard to show that extravagant artwork can be created from everyday household materials.

In an article written by Guido Bartorelli, he says that Chris Gilmour “compares his sculptures to drawing, a way of seeing objects by observing and measuring them. There is a process of deconstruction, followed by the actual construction process. It is in this process of making, in an almost instantaneous and immediate construction, as if Gilmour was using a pencil on a piece of paper, that the subtlety of diversity is embodied.”

Back to Tesselations Artwork

I stumbled upon this artist, the other day. Yehrin Tong is an illustrator/ graphic designer and creates a lot of album and advertisement work all around images that repeat and rotate around itself. Much of the work becomes fashion fabrics, something I personally would buy because of its uniqueness and originality. The website to see more is

Andy Goldsworthy

As artists, most of us know of Andy Goldsworthy's work.  He is a very respected artist for making installations using nature's materials in the landscape.  After creating these beautiful pieces, he then allows nature to take over.   The installations often fall apart almost immediately, and some over a longer period of time.  It amazes me how he is able to make this work.  Here are a few images.  

Scale in Google SketchUp

I don't know if I am the only one, but I still find Google SketchUp to be kind of confusing.  I stumbled upon this video about the scale tool in the SketchUp program.  I hope ya'll find it as useful as I did!

Look Around You

My friend told me about these funny, joke math videos making fun of those videos we had to watch in high school that were seriously out of date and lame. It's pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drE5cHe6c3s

Senior Thesis Show and Book

My senior thesis show has been scheduled and I have published a book to go with it! I hope to see you all there!










Exhibition Dates:
December 15 - 20th, 2008
Reception:
Friday, December 19th 6 - 8 pm
Location:
601 Newbury Street Boston, MA

also showing: Ariele Hertzoff and Chris Villano

PUNCH OUT STYLE CHAIRS

What better time than now to show this? This 'Cardboard punch-out' design stool comes complete with its own hang sell. Easier than a three year old's jigsaw puzzle, the pieces pop out of the frame to create a simple yet stylish stool.

see you guys in class!

a landscape with dreams

i know this chair isn't cardboard, but i was looking into cardboard chairs researching kind of for this project, and i stumbled on this blog all about chairs. they had all kinds of chairs, for airplanes, for lounging, and even one that could be twisted into a lounge chair, a study chair, or an everyday chair. but i thought the one below was the best, it said it was a lounge landscape. and it definatly is in my opinion. it creates this air around the lady making her seem as though she is larger than any human being. i love the way it cuts into the space so deliberatly and yet you just flow through it. it plays on depth and comfort which is so odd but extremly appealing. it's exciting what you could do with ideas.

M.C. Escher inspired tattoo

triangles vs. I's

I was thinking about corrugation and kind of realizing that it is just like a set of triangles put next to each other and also lie on top of each other. the distribution of weight for a triangle is what makes it so efficient and so if you put a bunch of triangles together they would be even more strong since you are setting up three points in which weight can be distributed. cardboard is strong because of corrugation which is strong because of the triangular form it has inside and triangles are strong because they have three solid walls that place weight on two opposite ends of the bottom wall. however i was wondering why most construction companies use the I form beams to build building since they seem to be the least efficient beams, and i realized space plays a part in buildings. I beams you don't need many to sustain a lot of weight since we realized they hold the most weight. you just need a few distributed correctly and the space saved and the weight managed makes it somewhat more efficient to the building itself.

tesselating leaves

every time i walk down a street with an oak tree i think about tessellations. I keep feeling like these leaves could tessellate, or maybe a few different types of leaves could fit together and continue endlessly... there's just all this really great positive and negative space in these leaves...

Check out these crazy cardboard pieces of furniture. Can you believe people pay this much for them?

CURVY CORREGATED CARDBOARD CHAIR

by Jill Fehrenbacher

Frank Gehry made design history in 1972 when he designed a whole set of curvy modern furniture out of cardboard. You’ve more than likely seen Gehry’s classic Wiggle Chair hanging out around stylish offices and design spaces - showing off the strength, durability, and organic comfort that is possible with layered corrugated cardboard…

You can buy the classic Gehry wiggle chair from many mid-century modern design shops (like Moss) for 850 bucks, which isn’t too bad for a classic design icon. However, we’ve just discovered that there is now a cheaper and more eco-friendly knock-off of the same thing at cardboardchair.com.

We are not exactly sure what is going on with the intellectual property here, but we do know that the business looks perfectly legit and Cardboardchair’s version of the Wiggle chair is about half the price of the original ($430) - AND is made with 30% recycled cardboard:

$850 - Gehry Wiggle Chair at Moss

$430 - Curvy Side chair at Cardboardchair.com

In addition, the Cardboard chair company seems to have surpassed their original point of inspiration, because they’ve come up with a whole new set of designs for tables, stools and even shelves that are really clever and beautiful - designs that would probably make papa Gehry proud (if he isn’t mad about his classic chair getting ripped off…)

4-Petal Table - $430

Cadence Shelves - $490

Uderwater exploration.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/graham_hawkes_flies_through_the_ocean.html

Flying underwater machine

Amazing cardboard work!!!........check it out

Columns and Beams

my house on cape cod was an old barn but was restored by my father, but as you can see it still has the old barn style beams and columns, they haven't buckled on us or collapsed in any way so from my experience the octagon shaped column and the square shaped beams work great...