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Cold, contrived and uncomfortable

True enough.  Now if I can find some of the “36+hour” soap

Stainless roll cage!? Can you do that? I mean, isn’t stainless heavy and brittle? If you could, that would be rad and would probably look very cool with that mat/satin color for the body. 
Sweet for a truck, not so sweet for a bench…

scrap metal from a fab shop that makes roll cages?

1. if you had a couple of blankets and pillows, it looks like the middle section would fit a torso just fine with the low railing conveniently located as a headrest and your knees up over the next railing down.
2. forms+surfaces just called and they want their paper clip art project back
3. is it weirdly out of scale or is that just me?
4. oh,…[Read more]

Note: Interview performance is nothing until or unless you get an interview.

Yeah, I tend to judge urban landscapes based on how much fun they would be to skateboard. Not very much fun equals not enough grade changes (banks, hips, stairs, ramps, etc) or hardscape (rails, benches, ledges, curbs, etc). I grew up looking for “skate spots” everywhere I went. In retrospect, what I was really doing was analyzing the built…[Read more]

Correct, but what about if you use precast pavers?

escher-esque
designed for the undesirable potential (homeless sleeping, skateboarder-proof)
pipes?

I second Jason’s choice of mondo grass–it is tough and drought tolerant..  Also best to have things that don’t attract bees—creeping thyme will definately get a crowd of them when in bloom.
You also need to pay attention to PH.   Alkalines like new concrete and limestone gravels will raise it significantly

I appreciate the help, I was under the impression that mondo grass was basically a strict shade grass specially down here in south carolina? is that false?

thats a bench?

Thomas,
 
I would have to agree, deadlines trump all!!!

Sound Advice!!!!! loved it and will keep it mind, thank you

i concur

Sometimes it can be hard to smell good when you haven’t left your desk in 36+ hours (true story)… doesn’t pushing for deadlines trump smelling good…?
“Well, the CDs were a few days late and construction ground to a halt but boy did that CAD monkey smell good…”

same thing here. I wish I would have saved that one for last – I would’ve had 3 hours to do it which would be plenty of time…It gives me a lot of confidence for section E, though!

I drew mine from scratch. It’s all original.

You could also try Mondo Grass (not a grass at all) Ophiopogon japonicus. I think this was look you are going for…
 

 
Or you can try a new franken-grass called Bella Bluegrass. It only growns 2-3″ high, is rhizomatic, and doesn’t need as much water. I cannot get to the website today, I think all the people stuck homein the Midwest are taxing t…[Read more]