>>> We wanted to put it up ourselves (it had to be *exactly* level) and it > was tough doing it, though we enjoyed it too-
indeed. the pleasures of workmanship (yes, its a gendered word, but you get my point) thanks for sharing the details - i am always fascinated by workplace details, particularly the accretion of traces of use - small alcoves with well thumbed paperbacks, or the softboard that becomes a palimpsest of markings, jottings and random visual ephemera. what is also interesting is how this description uses the question of the "color and texture of the desk surface" to shift the register of the description - from a bulleted list to a more narrative mode. and though "gaps" remain in this narrative mode too, as a reader you don't sense it immediately - rather you are left with a sense of rich detail. (a 72 dpi photo that looks more like a 300 dpi one) i guess the interesting thing about a narrativised description is precisely this tension between the real and perceived "resolution" of the description. and also here the fascinating thing is the 'biography of objects' and how an apparently simple structure like a workbench can reveal such a wealth of meaningful detail. -abhishek On Feb 7, 2008 4:14 PM, Hassath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :-) I think the list introduced itself to me as well. > > On Feb 7, 2008 12:41 PM, Abhishek Hazra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > this bulleted list, with its conspicuous gaps of information - what is > > the color and texture of the desk surface, for example - is in an a > > way more revealing than a photograph of the desk. > > The desk is covered with brown teak veneer. We did it ourselves, and > had good fun doing it. When we moved into this house and decided where > the desk should be, we went looking around for the right kind and > thickness of plywood. (We finally settled on the best 19mm we could > find.) Then hunted for some shop which would do the comparatively > simple job of cutting it to the size we wanted, and polishing > it.(Almost all of them wanted to do something fancy to it.) That's > when we settled for this veneer. > > We didn't want legs, which meant we had to mount it on the wall. We > calculated the size of the angle brackets, and found that none of that > size were readily available. Which meant another look around to see > who could weld it for us, with the holes where we wanted them to be. > Three trips to the welder, no less, and we finally had four 4mm iron > brackets. > > We wanted to put it up ourselves (it had to be *exactly* level) and it > was tough doing it, though we enjoyed it too- armed with drilling > machine, spirit level, a long ruler and the long bolts we had managed > to get. > > And yes, in spite of the disarray it is in currently, good work does > get done at it. :-) > -- > - Hassath > > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - does the frog know it has a latin name? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
