Penny sent me this picture yesterday – she said it reminded her of me the instant she saw it. I absolutely love it. She found it on this site, but there’s no information about how to buy it.
I MUST HAVE THIS CHAIR! I WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO MAKE IT MY OWN!
In other news, we’ve got a crazy busy weekend coming up. There’s the New Art Festival (formerly known as Art in the Park), the Christie Lake Kids Canoe Race fundraiser, Open Doors Ottawa, a volunteer gig at the Shepherds of Good Hope, the Fletcher Wildlife Garden Plant Sale, and my brother Graham, a long-distance trucker from BC, is passing through Ottawa in his 18-wheeler on Sunday, so we’re going to try to get together – I haven’t seen him in years.
It’s kind of ironic that Graham ended up being a trucker. He and I hitchhiked from Vancouver to Ottawa together when I was 18 and he was 19. At one point we caught a ride with a trucker in an 18 wheeler who said he needed to sleep a couple of hours outside a Husky truck stop in Brandon, Manitoba. While I was in the washroom the trucker locked Graham in the back of the truck and then, when I got back, he attempted to rape me in the cab. I was screaming and fighting and Graham was hollering and kicking the back door. Several other truckers got out of their trucks and came over to find out what was going on. The trucker let us go and threw our stuff out in the parking lot, while acting like we were nothing but trouble and shouting “I’m never picking up any goddam hitchhikers ever again!”
I hope he didn’t, but he probably did.
Anyway, have a wonderful weekend everybody, and if you know where I can get that sheep chair, please tell me!
OMG that chair is AMAZING!!!!
You MUST have this chair, Zoom!!
Y’know, that chair lacks something: mint sauce!
This isn’t merely a “chair”: it is an ovine Cerberus throne. (I never thought I’d see those three words in the same sentence.)
Don’t forget the Free Stuff thing this weekend, too. The sheep chair is not for sale. It was a prop for a production of ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ in Sydney Australia. (It isn’t actually made from sheep!) It can be found in the library at National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney (www.nida.edu.au)
That is one Baaaaaaad chair.
Oh Zoom- the chair is great and your plans wonderful but I have to say I am so sorry that bastard tried to rape you and I am so proud of you for kicking and screaming. I am also very glad you got away.
Say hi to Graham for me…we are away this weekend but if he is passing the GTA from Monday on, tell him to call me.
I always knew you would stop at nothing.
You often do, and then comment on it.
tOM
I dunno – that chair kinda creeps me out
Yeah, Valerie, I am kinda creeped out by it too.
You could make a chair like that, you know. Three stuffed toys and a sheepskin, applied to a suitable chair.
I admit I’m ambivalent about that chair – love the concept, but would feel odd about a chair staring at me…
Found this with a little searching:
“..the sheep chair was a prop for a production of ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ and isn’t made from Sheep! It can be found in the library at NIDA in Sydney”
Evidentelly it was a one of a kind.
I was looking at another site that had the sheep head chair on it, and saw these. Fade out chairs:
http://www.designswan.com/archives/unique-chair-design-design-out-of-box.html
Aren’t those cool?