Fixing the web

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5-1-2008 11:29 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/036080e9-a314-4f3d-a291-f9c0a87cad53/DF4346F6-BC9C-46F7-9595-3F296E074BDF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/uninvitedcollaborations/spiderwebs.php" href="http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/uninvitedcollaborations/spiderwebs.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ninakatchadourian.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/uninvitedcollaborations/spiderwebs.php">The Mended Spiderweb series came about during a six-week period in June and July in 1998 which I spent on Pörtö. In the forest and around the house where I was living, I searched for broken spiderwebs which I repaired using red sewing thread.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/uninvitedcollaborations/spiderwebs.php">The morning after the first patch job, I discovered a pile of red threads lying on the ground below the web. At first I assumed the wind had blown them out; on closer inspection it became clear that the spider had repaired the web to perfect condition using its own methods, throwing the threads out in the process. My repairs were always rejected by the spider and discarded, usually during the course of the night, even in webs which looked abandoned.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/uninvitedcollaborations/spiderwebs.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ninakatchadourian.com/img/1EBB5E38-1CC3-47E6-A30D-AB04F6FA6510" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/uninvitedcollaborations/spiderwebs.php"><DIV id="title">Mended Spiderweb #19 (Laundry Line)
<SPAN class="dimensions">Cibachrome, 30 x 20 inches, 1998</SPAN>
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<SPAN class="dimensions">Cibachrome, 20 x 30 inches, 1998</SPAN>
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<SPAN class="dimensions">Cibachrome, 20 x 20 inches, 1998</SPAN>
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5-2-2008 5:23 AM

merrie

LOL Those spiders don't need no human patches on their houses! If scientists could engineer a synthetic type
material that's similar to spider-webs, it could prove a
revolutionary advance.

5-2-2008 1:34 PM

n2sooners

I really couldn't decide if this was really innovative or really stupid. It made for some cool and fun designs, but I couldn't believe this person was surprised that the spiders ditched the makeshift repairs. Either way I thought it was interesting.

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