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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on August 1, 2007, 8:18 am

> Don wrote:
>> "Seņor Popcorn-Coconut"> wrote
>>> Interesting... I'll have to check out the links. I also like the odd
>>> piece made with stuff like rattan and similar (which can really warm up,
>>> and humanize a place), and have recently become suddenly interested in
>>> baskets and basket-weaves (for 3D modelling, too).
>>
>> I hate that stuff.
>> Hate it, hate it, HATE IT!
>> Makes way too much noise.
>> Everytime you move or shift your ass the stuff tells the whole world
>> about it.
>> Try nappin' on a rattan or wicker couch sometime and see what I mean.
>> I like the way it looks though.
>
> These days you can get some really great-looking high-end exotic stuff
> that would look simply fabulous in an upscale designer Manhattan warehouse
> loft-condo (notice the cliches), say a single item or 3 to spice up the
> place, but, ya, the stuff can be crackly, and if used a fair bit, and with
> a fair bit of roughness, start to come apart too.

"Exotic" is place and time dependant.



Posted by Warm Worm on August 1, 2007, 6:21 pm
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Don wrote:
> >> "Se=F1or Popcorn-Coconut"> wrote
> >>> Interesting... I'll have to check out the links. I also like the odd
> >>> piece made with stuff like rattan and similar (which can really warm =
up,
> >>> and humanize a place), and have recently become suddenly interested in
> >>> baskets and basket-weaves (for 3D modelling, too).
>
> >> I hate that stuff.
> >> Hate it, hate it, HATE IT!
> >> Makes way too much noise.
> >> Everytime you move or shift your ass the stuff tells the whole world
> >> about it.
> >> Try nappin' on a rattan or wicker couch sometime and see what I mean.
> >> I like the way it looks though.
>
> > These days you can get some really great-looking high-end exotic stuff
> > that would look simply fabulous in an upscale designer Manhattan wareho=
use
> > loft-condo (notice the cliches), say a single item or 3 to spice up the
> > place, but, ya, the stuff can be crackly, and if used a fair bit, and w=
ith
> > a fair bit of roughness, start to come apart too.
>
> "Exotic" is place and time dependant.

'Relative', right?


Posted by Michael Bulatovich on August 1, 2007, 7:05 pm

>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Don wrote:
> >> "Seņor Popcorn-Coconut"> wrote
> >>> Interesting... I'll have to check out the links. I also like the odd
> >>> piece made with stuff like rattan and similar (which can really warm
> >>> up,
> >>> and humanize a place), and have recently become suddenly interested in
> >>> baskets and basket-weaves (for 3D modelling, too).
>
> >> I hate that stuff.
> >> Hate it, hate it, HATE IT!
> >> Makes way too much noise.
> >> Everytime you move or shift your ass the stuff tells the whole world
> >> about it.
> >> Try nappin' on a rattan or wicker couch sometime and see what I mean.
> >> I like the way it looks though.
>
> > These days you can get some really great-looking high-end exotic stuff
> > that would look simply fabulous in an upscale designer Manhattan
> > warehouse
> > loft-condo (notice the cliches), say a single item or 3 to spice up the
> > place, but, ya, the stuff can be crackly, and if used a fair bit, and
> > with
> > a fair bit of roughness, start to come apart too.
>
> "Exotic" is place and time dependant.

'Relative', right?

Absolutely ; )



Posted by Kris Krieger on July 30, 2007, 4:27 pm

>
>> ++ wrote:
>>> Construction manual (inSpanish) :
>>> http://www.bamboonursery.com/pdf_newsetup/h_11.pdf
>>>
>>> Eiffel Tower in bamboo, Indonesia, 1890:
>>> http://www.bamboonursery.com/construction.htm#
>>
>> I'm a fan of bamboo, such as for flooring for example.
>> It also grows fast.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Well that part is good.
> If you have alot of people over and they wear it out you can just go
> out in the backyard and chop down some more and replace the worn out
> stuff.
>

It has a tensile strength similar to that of steel, IIRC...

Expensive as bleep, tho', if you want to plant it in your yard =>:-p Which
I can't figrue out, since it's a grass (member of the family Poaceae) and
can be propagated by dividing up clunps and planting them...


Posted by =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Se=F1or_Popcorn on July 31, 2007, 3:12 pm
Don wrote:
>>
>>>> ++ wrote:
>>>>> Construction manual (inSpanish) :
>>>>> http://www.bamboonursery.com/pdf_newsetup/h_11.pdf
>>>>>
>>>>> Eiffel Tower in bamboo, Indonesia, 1890:
>>>>> http://www.bamboonursery.com/construction.htm#
>>>> I'm a fan of bamboo, such as for flooring for example.
>>>> It also grows fast.
>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> Well that part is good.
>>> If you have alot of people over and they wear it out you can just go
>>> out in the backyard and chop down some more and replace the worn out
>>> stuff.
>>>
>> It has a tensile strength similar to that of steel, IIRC...
>>
>> Expensive as bleep, tho', if you want to plant it in your yard =>:-p
>> Which
>> I can't figrue out, since it's a grass (member of the family Poaceae) and
>> can be propagated by dividing up clunps and planting them...
>
> Well then, just find some growing wild and go grab a couple shocks and
> transplant it.

On the way to our university in China, part of the highway was closed
for repairs and so we had to detour, and then the driver got lost.
We took all these weird side "roads" and saw all kinds of funky sights
to make me feel like I was cast within a frame right out of National
Geographic... At one point, I turned to one of my American colleagues in
the van and said almost exactly that...

Anyway, we passed an entire forest of Bamboo.

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