Re: pieces of Kabul on your coffee table?

yes, that was the couch. it's sitting here in chelsea storage space 313.


>
> From: lauf-s <lauf-s@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2002/01/27 Sun AM 10:54:22 EST
> To: DESIGN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: pieces of Kabul on your coffee table?
>
> Rather than returning to the growing and exporting of opium, perhaps
> Afghanistan should begin globally marketing the millions of pieces of
> building debris that presently litter its cities and remote terrorist
> training sites. Of course, cave rocks would be the most expensive, er, I
> mean sought after. But, if rubble rocks are not appealing to worldwide
> consumers, maybe there are piles of pieces of Taliban destroyed Buddhist
> artworks throughout Afghanistan which could be tapped for sale in the global
> marketplace.
>
> And, (in metabolic dreams only?) perhaps a whole new flowering of Chinese
> Art and Indian Art will arise with the forthcoming use of WTC steel as
> medium.
>
> Last night I watched the movie AFTER HOURS, and I think I recognized the
> couch in the Soho artist's loft. In fact, I'm pretty sure I sat in that very
> couch a number of times. Ron, wasn't that the couch that Jim D. gave you?
> [Jim D. and I sat next to each other in fourth grade at St. Ambrose Catholic
> School (c.1966). We used to draw 'Batcaves' to entertain each other. Those
> long nonexistant drawings were probably the first building sections I ever
> drew. Anyone interested in buying some 'Batcave' drawing reenactments?
> Available exclusively@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx this summer(?)]
>

RONALD EVITTS ARCHITECT
1201 Broadway, Room 503
New York, NY 10001
212-679-7050 tel
212-679-7058 fax
Partial thread listing: