No [Godless] Straight Lines - ATC's INT.

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Swap Coordinator:	halfwaythere (contact)
Swap categories:	Art Artist Trading Card (ATC) Newbie
Number of people in swap:	13
Location:	International
Type:	None
Last day to signup/drop:	November 15, 2008
Date items must be sent by:	November 29, 2008
Number of swap partners:	2
Description:
In the spirit of Friedensreich Hundertwasser you will create TWO ATC's, 1 for each of two partners, using NO STRAIGHT LINES! see quote below Any medium. [except infamous sticker/single image on cardstock] If you couldn't draw a straight line to save your life, this swap is for you! A 4.7 or higher rating is required, please PM explanations of any recent 1's. Newbies permitted with completed profile. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE only join this swap if you respect your partners enough to rate them fairly. Examples of his work We are suffocating in our cities from air pollution and lack of oxygen. The vegetation which lets us live and breathe is being systematically destroyed. Our existence is losing its dignity. We walk past grey, sterile house fronts and do not realise that we have been committed to prison cells. If we wish to survive, every one of us must act. You yourself must design your environment. You cannot wait for the authorities and for permission. Your outside walls belong to you just as much as your clothing and the inside of your home. Any kind of individual design is better than sterile death. It is your right to design your windows and, as far as your arm can reach, your outside walls just as it suits you. Regulations which forbid or place restraints on this window right are to be ignored. It is your duty to help vegetation to its right with all the means available to you. Free nature must grow wherever snow and rain fall: what is white in winter must be green in summer. Everything horizontal under the open sky belongs to nature. Roads and roofs should be planted with trees. It must be possible to breathe forest air in the city again. The man-tree relationship must assume religious proportions. Then at last people will understand the sentence: The straight line is godless. Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Dusseldorf, 27 February 1972

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RachelB 11/ 2/2008 #

OK I think I get this, its a very exciting notion for an ATC - cant wait to get going!

HHC 11/ 3/2008 #

I love the quote... what a fun idea for a swap.

halfwaythere 11/15/2008 #

Thanks both. I need to remember to check comments!

Misja 11/16/2008 #

So, to take this to the extreme: should we make ATC's that have no straight edges and rounded corners?

jdb822 11/16/2008 #

Oh, Misja I like that idea! I might have to try it.

mwquilt 11/17/2008 #

Oh...you beat me to it Misja...I was just pondering that issue this morning. What do you think, Halfwaythere?

halfwaythere 11/17/2008 #

I didn't even think of that!

anything goes as long as long one point on one side meausre 2.5 and the other side 3.5 [because they wouldn't be ATC's otherwise]

But, you can make them on normal cards with straight lines if you want :)

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