Word: blob
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...most ambitious counterfeiters in history. Their victims didn't know that the U.S. government has never printed a bond larger in value than $10 million; nor did it matter that the fake dollar bills copied onto the bonds were sloppy blurs in which Benjamin Franklin looks like a blob from Mars. They were taken in by the tantalizingly credible story. All the fake bonds were dated 1934 and marked to "mature" 30 years later. Each of the hustlers told his victims the bonds were being demonetarized by the U.S. government, pulled from circulation in a matter of weeks, and that...
...Butterly's toy-sized ceramics successfully translate similar ideas into three-dimensional space. Each of her pieces is based around a roughly cylindrical blob of clay frozen in a state of writhing, blooming and collapsing-intricate and really quite elegant. In both cases, however, the "Asian" influence is a touch heavy-handed: Burckhardt seems to like cherry blossoms and dragons, while his wife incorporates those little bearded toothy-smiley dogs into a few of her pieces. The press release calls them Chinese Fu dogs, but, with Butterly's vivid glazes, flea market chintz is a more accurate description...
RUPERT ("MADONNA LOVES ME") EVERETT AGE: 41 OCCUPATION: actor/fashion fixture BEST PUNCH: Referred to ex-chum as "that big blob," and regretted "there's not a closet big enough for him to hide...
There are architects who love the Parthenon. Greg Lynn has a thing for the blob. This would not only be the '50s sci-fi thriller about a belligerent wad of jelly. The blobs that beguile him are any "isomorphic polysurfaces," meaning shapes that are, well, blobs. Architecture is a profession in which the cube and sphere are still the literal building blocks. What Lynn prefers reminds you of amoebas and bundled foam. In the most pliant forms of nature, in very irregular geometry, he sees the future...
...Technische Hochschule in Zurich, Switzerland, where he is nothing less than professor of spatial conception and exploration. At FORM, his Los Angeles-based architecture firm, he practices what he preaches. When an online home-furnishing company, Prettygoodlife.com chose him to design its showrooms, it asked, he says, for "a blob that can mutate but maintain its basic identity." (Think of Liz Taylor in the '80s.) Lynn gave them swelling wall systems that can be easily manufactured in differing configurations. And in the New York City Presbyterian church that Lynn designed with Douglas Garofalo and Michael McInturf, metal stairway enclosures course...