budget - what?

Today was an interesting day of accepting: accepting to getting lost in industrial / factory areas and freeways and accepting that salesmen love quoting the highest price with a fat smiles on they faces, knowing that you have no choice but to accept.

for two weeks up to now, I have been phoning around, shopping for the best prices, going to factories, seeing production, meeting with specialists, all to ensure i fully understand how to design and what to spec. Today was a confirmation day, so that all materials can be handled over to my dearly trusted furniture maker. NO.

I was fooled by one shop that I needed to purchase their highly specialized industrial spray paint, which was half the price of the shop that i was recommended to go to. Confusing?? So my mind thought that there had to be a difference between the two specifications and seeing that shop a (the cheaper supplier) was a bit confused by the finish and couldn't show me a sample, my gut told me to go with shop b (the recommended specialists). So i phoned in and placed my order with the lady that i dealt with that morning. 5 minutes later, i was told that i needed a primer. "OK, I said, include the primmer and what is the total price, VAT inclusive?", the long pause said it all!!! double than expected price! shop A quoted me 1/4 the price that shop B quoted. I felt so sick. I agreed. hung up the phone. and sat down. WOW.

Budget BLOWN.

then i also decided to go with the stainless steel supports for aesthetic reasons for the same design. three times the price than what was quoted with mild steel. I agreed. hung up the phone and sat down.

Budget BLOWN.

well at least i will be having a high spec chair for a once off high end chair... so that makes me a designer i guess. blowing the budget for beauty.

component designs

after 32 hours of staying awake and Corel draw freaking out and crashing and spending nearly 6 hours wrapping cassette ribbon - i have component designs.... now just to confirm with joiner and manufacture the chair. wola!... here are some layouts of what i presented today. Had good response to the light and the wrapping of the cassette ribbon and had a good idea to spray the final light with "art glue" to keep the ribbon in place - as its SLIPPERY!!!

im going deeper underground

Hi all... so had a theory breakthrough on how i can "get deeper". Im now researching Graffiti, African pop art and retro and street style... and believe it or not - they all share the same theory... EXPRESSION!! so watch the library shelves for the book to hit the shelf in 2011! ha ha.. im also throwing in " drum and bass" YES believe it! im focusing on what the sub-culture and youth are doing now, 2010.. HOW WHERE and WHAT and the bottom line is they are EXPRESSING themselves. <<<>>>
so off to another drum and bass party this Friday, going to be brave enough to take a camera along and show you the world of music and dance thumping through your veins. .. as they say on the dance floor - "it feeds your soul"

I am going to give this thesis a dose of bass... who says that we cant?!