I love the re-used scrap wood idea - maybe for the floor too. Only thing is as cushions they don't look too comfortable or inviting. Could they be combined somehow with upholstering of any artistic,sculptural,more playful colorful sort. Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 12:00 anyone and everybody is invited to meet with Stephanie Miner, new faculty at COMART to talk with us about upholstering. I know Sam, Roslyn and I are going.

Also, this weekend I was in NYC and took great shots of lighting possibilities on the Bowery, and, got a great idea about floor and wall treatment at PS 1 Contemporary Arts Center (which is a huge old urban school re-furbished into a contemporary arts space). I think we should use buffed sanded cheap or reused wood on the floor and then just stain it off white and buff it again. The galleries were a really beautiful use of re-cycled materials and different shades of white. Yun you would have loved it. They also used thick sheets of masonite painted with black chalkboard paint propped on a really thin shelf to announce the shows and draw a map of the galleries in the lobby. I took a foto.

Also took fotos of the new New Museum going up on the Bowery - very few windows but beautiful surface.
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The rest of the stripping and the stairs

I just wanted to let you all know that I spent about 3 hours Sunday morning stripping the carpet from the passenger side out of the RV and cleaning it up a bit. Marco hasn't yet gotten back to me on when he can remove the driver's side chair... but I could probably work on the steps in the meantime too. I'm planning on talking to Steve Ginsburg in the woodshop regarding the steps and if I can use any scraps he has it may help us out with not needing to buy the materials for those. Brian McLane has not yet responded to my last email but on a positive note I did get a good chunk of my stack of postcards of the bus filled out so I'll bring those Thursday.

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... and thanks everyone for getting the dimensions of the equipment into that spread sheet.

IDEA~ inspired by Scrapile

SCRAPILE is the collaborative work of designers Bart Bettencourt and Carlos Salgado. Seeking to create a possitive environmental impact with their work, these two have developed a unique method of collecting and repurposing discarded scraps of wood from New York's woodworking industry. Since it's conception in Fall 2003, this project has continued to yield an ever-evolving line of furniture and product which by its very nature insists each piece be one of a kind

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Vincent, Zach, and I came up thith this idea that was inspired by Scrapile's work. Useing the scraps wood to creat our funiture for the bus. Since this bus is made for the society, we think it's a great idea that we took scraps wood from Syracuse's constraction site. use city's scrap to build this M-lab and give it back to the city has offered a lof of meanings. We can even hang a photo of where we took the wood from in the bus, just for people to remember and to give a little history for the bus itself.

The next set of drawings are coming...

Yun, Zach and I started working Saturday on the next set of drawings. We still have a good deal to do before Thursday. Here are some sketches of our progress.