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eligius1427 - Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 9:42pm
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Oh yes, a bord de la

Gene Olson - Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 11:15pm

Nice fab, Jake.

but
Oh yes, a bord de la mer
Chinese water torture,

Balance,
I can live with that.

Feng Shui (sp) ? ? ?
They needed a water element right ? ? ?

I never got past the 10th or 12th page I read. I bought a book that was written by an ascribed authority (at least by the publisher) She started explaining the deeper meaning of all the truisms of the "way"

White she declared was "hard" (Ok, I can see that) and Red was "soft" and the masters had taught her that White was hard BECAUSE granite was white and granite was hard and red was soft because sandstone was red and sandstone was soft and ahhhhhh . . .

I got the impression that she had never carved either granite or sandstone.

I gnu this was this was another transfiguration.
The word made flesh but without life, it rots.

Here in Minnesota, Sandstone is kind of white, yellow, beige . . . granite is red or black, dark grey, though there are some pink. If I go to the rim of the skandinavian divide, granite is of all things, blue.

I was hoping for Faith, but I think she ran off with Bill Clinton.

Mind you there is a lot of good design sense in that system.
and a lot of practical sense.
I was talking to a Chinese shopkeeper across from an art gallery where they had commissioned a friend of mine to make tables and storage units for them. (he didn't know the latter).

He told me pointing at her units, bad design. The shapes are very unharmonious. By feng shue they should curve back to themselves. and form a self respecting contained unit.

Okay . . .
The effervescence was miss placed I guess. All those exploding shapes were offensive . . or was that what he said.

I think he was more concerned that they were, "Dangerous"
Osha would have had a fence around some of them.

The gallery wanted them because they were unbalanced and active sending focus off to their other pieces (which were for sale)
feng shui, makes a nice balanced lozenges .
and without the osha frowned pointies, it may be kid safe.

Babbling on,
brooks,
no
know,
gnostica the answer here.

Balanced?
but with many many millions of adherents, it makes it's own floating fantasy, and I suppose with millions closely packed, if it avoids people pushing their loves OUT into others realities and seeding discontent.

Gene Olson
Sculptor
Elk River, MN


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Thanks Gene, I'm not quite

eligius1427 - Monday, March 24, 2008 - 10:43am

Thanks Gene, I'm not quite sure why they wanted this giant fountain in their very small entry, but I'm glad I was able to be involved. Never learned anything about Feng Shui except that I should have written a book about it. You and I might be the only people on earth to not have written a book on arranging a living room to create a zone of zen. :)

Jake


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Love this fountain. What did

kevincaron - Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 11:30pm

Love this fountain. What did you use for a pump to have that much lift? What dia. is the plumbing? It looks about 12 ft tall? How about filtering for the water?


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Thanks Kevin, although I

eligius1427 - Monday, March 24, 2008 - 10:52am

Thanks Kevin, although I think it is a pretty slick looking fountain, I don't think it has much character aside from it's size(It is about 15' tall). The pump was put in by a pool company and sits in the pool at the bottom. I think it has a 1-1/2" pipe going up which splits into a manifold filling a decent sized tank at the top. Water runs over the lip of the tank and flows down. This was the pool companies suggestion, and I will never follow it again. So much care and effort had to be put in to seal the tank, get the water up there evenly, and leveling the lip of the tank. It was very time consuming. I later found out(about a week after I finished) that we could have used a smaller manifold system(1/2" pipe) that sprayed water onto the face of the plane. No tank at all and a smaller pump. It would have been much easier to install and maintain. Live and learn.

Jake


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