Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/07/jimmy-diresta-builds-a-stool-w.html
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I expected to see something like da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man penciled into that fancy sketch book!
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He has great skills, but I can build a stool with corn in it.
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Are those finger joints or tabs?
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But can it be sanded with 400 grit paper? Actually… yes. But you won’t like the results.
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Best part was the hammering, that was some mad skilz.
I’m building a stool right now.
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How do you know I won’t like it?
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It seems like the fingers might… grab… at anything that sits on that.
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I sit at my laptop, corrected.
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I think Martin Luther thought exactly the same thing whilst ginning up Protestantism.
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The corners are well thought out
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As a kid, I totally understood why Martin Luther got in such hot water for nailing 95 feces to the church door. Couldn’t understand why, much less how. But it made sense that would cause a problem.
It was much later I found out it was actually 95 thesis, not feces.
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You were finally made privy to that information.
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Next he’ll build a stool with steel opposable thumbs, and so will begin the end of man’s dominance on Earth.
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Yeah, it’s more of a proof of concept than anything else.
A stool sample, if you like.
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Can you imagine the first time it grabs some leg hairs… or worse?
Definitely a long pants sort of furniture.
It was a new idea to him, but it was invented by other people too, long ago. I had metal toys that were held together like this when I was a child .
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