Word: woodenness
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...that they did not dress in low-riding denim and tummy-baring T shirts to take part in a unicorn-drawing contest. Too bad for them. At the behest of guitarist Mike Einziger's unicorn-obsessed girlfriend, a competition to draw the mythical creature was under way. Using a wooden food-service table as his canvas, lead singer Brandon Boyd has laid down a medieval unicorn with wings in thick black marker. Einziger draws something destined for a rainbow-colored sticker. The would-be groupies wait for their turns with the pen and ask for hugs and autographs when they...
...discreetly refers to the Currier family. The term “currier” in French describes people who used a curved knife with the sharp edge on the inside to scrape the hair off animal hides to prepare leather for tanning. At either ends of the blade were wooden handles; such knives are suggested by the scallop patterns in the horizontal black bar. The symbolism of the hide scraping is multi-layered, for it can also suggest that education is “a sort of scraping and tanning of the students to make them more supple and useful...
...During production months Miyazaki occupies a corner desk at Studio Ghibli, a vine-covered cluster of buildings he designed in a Tokyo suburb for himself and a full-time staff of 150. The light-filled floors buzz quietly with jeans-clad artists in their 20s, hunched over tilted wooden desks. They far outnumber the computer-graphics specialists on a lower floor, employed only to speed up the production process...
...structure is imposing and impressive. Constructed using nary a power or even hand tool, the bed has been lofted on a frame made entirely of wooden poles and rope. Three of the poles actually came all the way from Matchett’s home state of Wisconsin in the neighboring town of Norskedalen. “I needed some longer poles, and we had these sitting around at my house, so my dad brought them up,” he explains...
...ropes keeps anything from slipping. I tell people, ‘Friction keeps me sleeping soundly at night’,” he explains. And the ropes do not budge. When in the “down” position the bed frame itself rests on the wooden structure. But when up, the frame and mattress are counter weighted by four two-pound cement blocks. It’s incredibly sturdy. “I’m confident that it could hold four to five people, but it’s only been tested with...