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posted by [personal profile] sbisson at 11:59am on 07/06/2002
...is to these Escher paving slabs.

Now, I wonder if there is a UK supplier, as they would look really good when we get the roof terrace built.

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posted by [identity profile] tanais.livejournal.com at 04:34am on 07/06/2002
Nice pavers! we'd looked for some unusual ones when it comes to re-glazing and redoing the Greenhouse/Conservatory that is bolted onto the side of the kitchen here and saw some Celtic Knotwork ones in a teracotta which I'd love! This may appeal to [livejournal.com profile] marypcb. If the pavers are all repeats, surely the best thing to do would be to buy one and makle a latex mould and make your own?

Won't the presence of Escher pavers in our dimension twist the fabric of spacetime so that you would end up trapped in an e-space bubble like The Doctor Who episode... Castrovalva (incidentally one of the names of an Escher Print) where space and time all fold in on itself....

Dangerous decor dude!
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posted by [identity profile] marypcb.livejournal.com at 04:56am on 07/06/2002
pavers - want, want!

did you know Castovavla was written by Chris Bidmead?

the latext mold thing would work but casting is messy and plaster wouldn't be as strong as their stone; I could make a sand concrete mold maybe. Or I could sculpt them in clay myself and then do the casting thing, or do terracotta ones at the local art college...

as to twisting the dimensional bubble, if it gives more book space I'm all for it. after all the angles should be enough to protect us from Hast...
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posted by [identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com at 05:09am on 08/06/2002
When we went to the Hague for Cozycon, [livejournal.com profile] tigermoth and I snuck off on the Sunday to visit the Escher Museum (well, we snuck off, but finding the EM was serendipity). Lots of really nice stuff, including a lot of his early stuff before he got into the tesselation business. There were two sequences of images of what seemed to be the same village - one on the Mediterranean coast somewhere, and the other on a mountain (iirc, that was Castrovalva).

Some neat interactive stuff and a cgi movie of a landscape with various of the impossible buildings in it (the viewpoint moved around so you could see the various 'impossible' bits didn't really join up).

Oh, and a wonderfully strange museum shop. Postcards and books, even t-shirts you expect, but beach towels and umbrellas?
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Escher Pavers

posted by [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com at 04:58am on 07/06/2002
If you want them, get them soon, before the Escher estate sends the Cease and Desist. I adore Escher related tat, but anything authorised is hugely expensive (the foam lizard tiles, which we have, work out at about £3 per tile, for example), and they're pretty rigorous about pursuing their copyright. Steven bought a shirt from Sainsbury's last year with the lizards on it; clearly not an authorised product.
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posted by [identity profile] marypcb.livejournal.com at 02:10pm on 07/06/2002
it's right near ConJose ;-)
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