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What would you do with bricks?

A Center for Ants?

I have the oppoturnity to take home free brick samples... (have about 10 types and maybe between 1-4 of each type)

don't know what I would do with them...

what would you do?

 
Jun 3, 05 7:33 pm
Ms Beary

pave the area under the outdoor spigot

Jun 3, 05 7:38 pm  · 
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use it as part of a homemade dog house? but the spigot idea sounds good too.

Jun 3, 05 7:41 pm  · 
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abracadabra

stack them or lay them flat and tell your friends , for fifty bucks donation you will be putting their names on the bricks. think big.
thats what i would do. fuck yeah..

Jun 3, 05 8:08 pm  · 
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ferplexion

you could make bookshelves with the bricks and some planks

Jun 3, 05 8:43 pm  · 
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b3tadine[sutures]

invent a new bond pattern?

Jun 3, 05 9:35 pm  · 
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driftwood

Commit some misdemeanors.

Jun 3, 05 10:26 pm  · 
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lizok

throw them at the Stanford Undergraduate Admission windows!

Since they have no M/Arch program, they've lost me forever! Obviously Berkeley has much better judgement of the two schools!

Jun 3, 05 10:47 pm  · 
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morningbell1101

you can start a small garden, if you have a yard, and line it with bricks

Jun 4, 05 12:30 am  · 
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turbo

ask it what it wants to be!!!!...........bahahahahahahaha!!!

Jun 4, 05 1:01 am  · 
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vado retro

make a brick bikini

Jun 4, 05 1:29 am  · 
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re: turbo's comment. i once read an interesting observation:

at philips exeter, kahn asked a brick what it wanted to be and it must have answered 'veneer'.

Jun 4, 05 9:52 am  · 
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Suture

make a cool firepit

Jun 4, 05 6:48 pm  · 
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FRO

make a mold

cast 1000's of lightweight/hollow fake bricks

barrel vault the ceiling

Jun 4, 05 6:52 pm  · 
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MlleDiane

mini bbq

Jun 4, 05 7:34 pm  · 
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tman

hang them from your nipple rings

Jun 4, 05 9:40 pm  · 
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tman

mini firepit in the back yard

Jun 4, 05 9:41 pm  · 
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TED

ya know in chi town, although i really hate bricks, project should be done with a strong 'thermal mass' enclosure' thats b-r-i-c -k -s.

in la la land ---- i am thinking the same thermal mass thing applies.' its as f'ing hot there as it is f'ing cold here...........

ya know i once got a masonory institute award --- does that make me special???? or just a brick geek [must say it was a granite clad building but as mason union guys put it together...got it]

Jun 4, 05 11:42 pm  · 
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mmm3

sell them to cheap developers. i swear we have some that would use bricks off sample boards if we would let them.

Jun 5, 05 2:06 pm  · 
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Martinsson


good luck

Jun 5, 05 4:39 pm  · 
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liberty bell

I once heard a story about an "artist" who staged a "performance piece" that consisted of inviting a bunch of people to meet at a specific time to view the event. They showed up at what turned out to be a city bank building, and the "performance" was the "artist" pitching a brick through the window and racing off as the alarms rang out, leaving a bewildered group of people standing on the sidewalk wondering what was going on as the police cars drove up.

So you could do that. But I think the spigot paving is a better idea.

Jun 5, 05 9:57 pm  · 
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newstreamlinedmodel

You could try asking the brick what it wants to be but I have a feeling that most bricks just want to get laid (props to French)


Say you love me. Oh, say it with paving stones!

Jun 5, 05 10:46 pm  · 
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imagebytekid

build a u shape build it up...put a steel plate on top.
light a fire underneath
throw on a few steaks

Jun 5, 05 11:44 pm  · 
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rorei

Liberty Bell, I think I know that same Artist, he did it as his thesis or master work for his MFA. What a small world.

Jun 6, 05 1:12 pm  · 
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freq_arch

put them under your monitor to raise it 6 or 7 inches to an ergonomically correct height - your neck must be killing you!

Jun 6, 05 1:39 pm  · 
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The commish

Bricks=Broken Windows

Jun 6, 05 1:50 pm  · 
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ether

think of a name(s). write it on the brick(s). it is now your new pet(s). care and nurture your new pet(s).

Jun 6, 05 1:56 pm  · 
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Doug Johnston
Jun 6, 05 2:48 pm  · 
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abracadabra

did i say think big?

Jun 6, 05 2:52 pm  · 
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liberty bell

Love that image, abra, can't remember where I've seen it lately.

On the other hand, this globe creeps me out:



but a brick globe - solid.

Jun 6, 05 5:25 pm  · 
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Per Corell

"Can it float"

Jun 6, 05 5:36 pm  · 
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abracadabra

its by my friend ali acerol who has been chiseling bricks for a while.
he also got brick shoes, quotations marks, chairs, tables, venus de mialo you name it. bricks like him.

Jun 6, 05 5:39 pm  · 
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larslarson

a one brick wide walkway

Jun 6, 05 5:44 pm  · 
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ether
Jun 6, 05 5:49 pm  · 
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momentum

I am sure Per could figure out some way to violate said bricks.

Jun 6, 05 5:57 pm  · 
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Sylvester

Well, Alvar Aalto did like this in his experimental summerhouse, actually the whole building is made entirely out of material samples... nice way to build a unique and very cheep house!

Jun 6, 05 8:36 pm  · 
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A Center for Ants?

the question is, how long did aalto have to hoard samples before he could do that?

Jun 7, 05 3:25 am  · 
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melivt

hurl them through the car whose alarm kept me up til 3 am. seriously, what kind of alarm goes off for two straight hours? i didn't think that was possible.

Jun 7, 05 9:26 am  · 
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larslarson

meliasonvt

you can actually have that car towed. if you file a noise
complaint with the police they will come and tow the car.
for next time...a friend of mine had it done in the middle
of the day. so i imagine it wouldn't be any different in
the middle of the night.

Jun 7, 05 10:55 am  · 
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larslarson

of course throwing a brick through the window would
insure that the alarm went off for the rest of the night
without turning off.

Jun 7, 05 10:56 am  · 
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vado retro

i would get brad pitt to autograph them and then sell them on ebay

Jun 7, 05 8:33 pm  · 
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galvanize

interesting image liberty bell... do you know who todd william's dad is?
Suffice it to say; "he sells paint."

Jun 18, 05 2:08 am  · 
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galvanize

Maybe we can cover the world with something else

Jun 18, 05 2:09 am  · 
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