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	o,k., heathen	1 Relevance	8 years ago	waffle	General discussion
	o,k., heathen I had this very conversation with my mother. I bought this because I really liked it, before I realized it was a THING thing. I have many items around my house that you could offer me crazy money for and I would not even consider it. I am not sure this falls into that category PLUS - I have always wanted to list something in an auction with a catalog and everything...I THINK this might fit the bill. And it's small enough to mail easily! It's also a very uncommon variant. Will that help? Maybe? It certainly is less weird looking than his usual virus looking examples I haven't made any final decisions yet by any means
	Glad to hear it, keewee.	1 Relevance	12 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	Glad to hear it, keewee. I read a post back in the late 90s on an ebay board---someone said that he or she always took photos that were as close to possible as the experience of handling the object and turning it over and around to see all angles of it. I always did that with my photos. But I don't think that poor or inadequate photos are always a sign that the seller is trying to hide something. After looking at a billion or so listings on ebay and other sites since 1998, I'm quite sure that most people who take crummy photos simply don't have any objectivity about what their photos look like. They stand in front of the thing and snap a pic and look at it and say, "yup, that's the thing I just took a photo of" and boom. Uploaded. They know what it looks like up close, they just lack the ability to look at their photos of it with the eyes of someone who has never seen the thing in person. Of course, plenty of people do try to hide stuff. Not saying that doesn't happen. But most just don't know how to take photos objectively. And yeah, it's worth asking for more photos.
	technology myopia....not enough creativity	1 Relevance	23 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	technology myopia....not enough creativity I think that you are lamenting the loss of creativity, because we have become so enamoured with technology. And yes, I can see this as some designers are using technology as the central point. Technology is merely a tool. As for having too many options....I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing. It presents itself with the notion of diversity. The question may be is it really a bona fide option or same thing different name.
	lucifersum is right on this one	1 Relevance	19 years ago	LRF	General discussion
	lucifersum is right on this one Although i do not always agree with every thing luifersum saya i do agree By refinishing the chair you are basically erasing its history - in which case, why not buy a new chair? Unless they are all crapped out and we can not see on the pictures i would leave the chair a lone, it has been pretty much established that you have one of the early day originals so be proud and don't do a thing buy a new one in a color if you want to be different i have one in yellow and love it...
	your Marc Creates sculpture	1 Relevance	11 years ago	waffle	General discussion
	your Marc Creates sculpture still looks great (place and condition). Thought it might get more crusty being outdoors. Got a huge collection of Polish crystal glass glasses (tumblers and pint size). Really lovely and great in the hand. Probably a wedding present (still labeled). Mark has a thing for planters I have a thing for glasses.
	That rock...	1 Relevance	18 years ago	koen	General discussion
	That rock... ...is probably the only thing that makes me look at the pictures from time to time. It would be a nice thing to do outdoors. just slice off the top of a large rock and polish it. I think it would be a nice didactical experience, lke floating around in a boat with a glass bottom....a kind of window into the fascinating structure of rocks.
	It doesn't really look like a	1 Relevance	11 years ago	objectworship	General discussion
	It doesn't really look like a mass-produced thing, but the legs might be stock parts? I would like to pick it up and feel how heavy it is. What a goopy heart. It's a nice reminder that "childlike" things are important at all ages and unabashed cutesy-ness isn't necessarily obnoxious. Also, "bad" taste is sort of the same thing as "good" taste. I would like to spend some time looking at the books on those shelves.
	Betty has touched a nerve,I...	1 Relevance	23 years ago	david-48	General discussion
	Betty has touched a nerve,I... Betty has touched a nerve,I myself have thought the same thing,about myself and others who have this "thing" about the visual.Perhaps its a puritan hang over,looks should not matter,its not proper,we should rise above it?
	the tip-off	1 Relevance	18 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	the tip-off The quickest and easiest way to tell a vintage knockoff from the real thing is to look for exposed bolts under the armrests. Eames chairs do not have any exposed bolts. Plycraft and Selig do, and a lot of them also have small screw heads showing in a few places on the wood. There are new knockoffs too but I don't know how to tell them from the real thing because I haven't ever really looked at any.
	Hello Kitty!!!	1 Relevance	22 years ago	Olive	General discussion
	Hello Kitty!!! Oh gods AzC you're a Hello Kitty fan??? Me too, although I'm not obsessive about it. Target was carrying some house-y thing a while back so I've got hand towels, floormats; that sort of thing. I got introduced to H.Kitty ages ago when we had a Japanese exchange student when I was in high school. It wasn't even sold over here yet. There was this diary and notbook that had all these completely wacky bad english 'wisdom of the day' quotes in it. I wish I still had it, it was hilarious.
	.	1 Relevance	19 years ago	HP	General discussion
	. Thanks guys, there are some aspects of it which I'm happy with, mostly the comfort. It is quite stable, there are four pieces of aluminium for the feet, I might change it to a rocking chair one day. THe original idea was to have them come in colourful wedge shaped sections and straights to form something like the Herman Miller foyer system, but I got bored with the entire thing. The thing I dislike the most is the heavyness, perhaps over the holidays I will use the template for something similar though with an open frame construction.
	Butterfly chair	1 Relevance	19 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	Butterfly chair The original butterfly chair (not the folding one) is the most comfortable thing that I own or have sat in a lot. I sit in them sideways with one leg up. SO perfect....for me, that is. I think it's a very subjective thing. The other one I love is the lowly Poang from IKEA. The lumbar support is perfect and much needed by me. Seat depth is perfect, too.
	While I've never seen this	1 Relevance	9 years ago	Kyle Barrett	General discussion
	While I've never seen this before, Parker Knoll is a famous British brand; famous in Britain at least for wingchairs. It's a fairly old company, this may have been made in the early part of the 20th century. It's not a particularly high end brand and I doubt you'll find collectors of this type of thing based on brand. But it's a fun looking thing regardless. It wasn't a particularly design-savvy brand either, so I can't say it's going to be well known here.
	I don't disqualify him on...	1 Relevance	18 years ago	whitespike	General discussion
	I don't disqualify him on... The thing in question was this specific quote, not the man himself. Honestly, I don't know enough about him to qualify or disqualify him as a person. Apparently, you know a thing or two about him, and I believe you to be a smart guy. I will trust that he is a very intelligent and influential man. I would like to ask again: Did Ruskin ever expound on this quote? I would love to give this quote a chance, but if it is only as deep as this one vague sentence I think I've heard enough to form my opinion (of this quote).
	candlesticks are rigid things	1 Relevance	19 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	candlesticks are rigid things From my experience, I find candlesticks are rigid things, both in form and in function. Here's some thoughts. Most candlesticks assume a fixed number of candles that are burnt simultaneously, or they look unconvincing. I remember having a little argument about our 5 arm candelabra. My girl once lit two candles in the thing, 3 were left untouched. Uneven candle lenghts don't work for me, so I protested. She however approached the thing functionally: she simply wants less light at that moment. Can a candlestick burn any number of candles (up to the maximum it can hold) and still look good in any of its configurations? Another thing is storage. One can argue that a candlestick stores candles, especially when they aren't lit. I usually have more candles then the thing can hold. If I went to Ikea and bought the 50 candles shown, 45 would go into a drawer, the other 5 in the candelabra. But if the thing is a full time container anyway, why doesn't it hold my 45 "spare" ones? I'd like to see a flexible device that can burn 1 candle at a time, 3, 5, maybe all 50... something that illustrates the process of burning a whole bunch of the things. It could highlight the notion of time inherent in candles, showing the burnt ones, the burning ones and the ones to be burned. Don't want to jump to conclusions just now, but could it incorporate a dispenser? Maybe the whole thing is mechanic. Or hydraulic. If the loss of weight of a burning candle can be used to correct its loss in length, its arm lifting it up as fast as it burns down, so the tips of all candles keep the same level regardless of their length, that'd be lovely. It would save me from having another argument.