Edwina Rogers, the wife of Washington lobbyist Ed Rogers, is a master of the form and has developed her own signature specialty. She wraps her thank-yous in sheets of real dollar bills, purchased from the Bureau of Engraving.
She unfurls a roll of dollar bills and starts slicing them up to make the appropriate wrapping sheets. No matter that she slices several dollar bills in half–it is all about lining up the George Washingtons on the front.
“The effect is fabulous, especially for foreigners,” she says. “They love it.”
note that Ed Rodgers is a lobbyist (Vice Chairman of Barbour Griffith & Rogers, who has strong Republican ties), and was a one time assistant deputy to none other than George W. Bush. Edwina herself is former associate director of the White House’s National Economic Council. Makes perfect fiscal sense to me. Check out the video. Grosses me out, but hey maybe you’re into that kind of thing.
I’m finding lots of wooden replicas of common items. It’s a reversal of sorts where normally you’d be making a plastic or other cheap material and creating a replica of a high-end product, but here you have a higher end material used to replicate low-end product.
You could outfit a redneck’s patio in serious style with this little movement.
I was a little worried over the first post with any content, but then I figured, hey let’s just get this thing rolling. The purpose of this blog is to aggregate all the interesting stuff we find all over the web into one place to share and to have as an archive. So here’s the first interesting thing I’ve come across today:
It’s finally here. The co-op blog is up and running, although it’s official launch will coincide with the launch of the full site a little later down the road. But we’ve got this section all set up. The posts will range across topics from work here in the studio to other design/media related things found around the world and blogosphere, to architecture, green living, fine art, lifestyle, pop culture, but really we aren’t trying to limit ourselves.
So hello to anybody who stumbles across this before the official launch and hold on to your seats because we’re expected to take off soon and you can’t always count on a smooth flight.
