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Vandal Glass - Yelp.com (Maiden) |
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
Check out the review that Vandal Glass received from a very satasfied customer. This was posted on Yelp.com :
As a hard-core art aficionado, I've been to almost every major gallery
or museum in the world and countless smaller venues. I can't think of
a higher calling for humankind than artistic expression beyond the
basic life needs of water, shelter & food. Art, music, poetry,
landscape, architecture, sculpture, I love it all. Yet there is nothing
I appreciate more, on a personal level, than functional art. Functional
art will be pleasing to the eye, ear or other sensory receptor and
doubles in some useful, functional way. For instance, I think the F-16
Fighting Falcon is the sexiest, foxiest jet fighter in the skies and it
has many functional uses as well. It can just sit out on the tarmac
looking good and function as a deterrent. San Francisco's cable cars
are both functional as well as artistic. The Dyson vacuum cleaner is
another example. You can stand it in a corner and it looks as good as
it sucks. But I digress.
I went with a girlfriend to my first LA
Erotica 2008 show where I expressed my virginal persona by gawking and
staring at everything like a kid in a candy store. There was so much to
see, touch, smell, rub all over my body...at times, it was difficult to
get me off to another booth. My gf should've brought her leash. Then we
got to Vandal Glass and the draw was inexorable. I saw art. I saw
purpose. Beautiful design, beautiful function...a marriage consummated
of the talent from a knowledgeable designer and a glassblower's hands.
It's times like these my eyes will narrow on a target to the exclusion
of all else. I become oblivious to everything around me but the target.
I reached down and retrieved the "Maiden". I didn't know her name at
the time but she was a gorgeous thing in deep green, gemlike in vision
and touch. Made of near-indestructible Pyrex glass, she had the curves
and feel I was looking for. After asking the usual practical questions
"Will it break?" ("No"), "Can I try it?" ("No"), I laid down my cash
and I owned her.
It wasn't long after getting home before I
gave her a shake-down cruise and I was so impressed, I wrote the
company and told them if I had my way, they'd be on exhibit at the
Smithsonian. Of course, after you click the link and see what I'm
talking about, you know that'll never happen. They don't exhibit this
kind of art no matter how pretty or functional it is. This is America
after all, not Amsterdam*. So now I look about my room and wonder where
she can be mounted. Perhaps next to the Georgia O'Keefe? Since she's
so small, she can be mounted almost anywhere.
Le link...http://vandalglass.com...
*I love Amsterdam very much
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