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Two Chicago-Area Companies Go Green with Recycled Glass

Nov 18th, 2011

By Editor
Category: Industry News

"Two Chicago firms have embraced eco-friendly design tactics by using recycled glass products in their interiors. Both the Dana Hotel and Spa and Thomas Interior Systems have recently installed flooring and countertop materials from Plano, Texas-based Glass Recycled, which creates environmentally-friendly floor and countertop materials from recycled glass and porcelain products."

"The Dana Hotel and Spa is a new boutique establishment, featuring 216 rooms. Glass Recycled’s flooring material was installed in the spa and lobby area. Thomas Interior Systems, noted as the original dealer for Herman Miller office furniture, features a custom-designed, curved reception desk made with a combination of red, grey, black and mirrored materials."


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Cleaning Lady Damages $1.1 Million Artwork

I have read about past similar incidents in other museums (which usually involved someone mistaking an installation work for trash and throwing it away) but this one was a little different. Apparently the cleaning lady attempted to clean some tan residue out of a rubber looking trough and......

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You Can Now Google Search for Your Images

Google finally has a useful way you can search for your images online.  As artists, we are all concerned with potential misuse of images of our copyrighted artwork.

So, to do a google search for a specific image:

1.) Just click on the link below

http://www.google.com/imghp  

2.) Next, click on the camera icon and then click on upload an image (from your computer).

I tried this with a few of my images and although the search pulled up several images, none were my images.  Google image search analyzes patterns of pixels and colors in other photos so I found photos with similar colors only.

Art Scam of the Week

Here is a recent email that I received below.  This guy did not even bother trying to ascertain my name (which is in large letters across the webpage and in the webpage domain address as well).  He saw my quote about Isamu Noguchi and stopped reading there. I have highlighted in red some of the tip offs that this is a scam.

Avoid people who do business this way.

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From: Eric Toczko eric@custommade.com
To: Isamu _ cacglass@aol.com.

Hi Isamu,

My name is Eric Toczko, and I work for CustomMade.com. I was just searching through Google for "custom glass" in VA and noticed that you've been making some really cool stuff.

We are a marketplace for North American design professionals. Every year we connect 3 million+ customers with talented specialists capable of creating their projects. It's been part of my job to find the best custom companies from VA and get them on board. Due to recent openings in your state, I'm offering the first 20 companies a $1 introductory offer to give us a test run.

The offer is open to anyone from VA that's interested, but after catching a glimpse of your work I think we would definitely like you to be in that first 20 ;).

Either way, I would love to hear from you. Keep up the great work!

Best, Eric

Eric Toczko

Business Development

CustomMade.com

p: 800.501.3121

First Annual Arlington Adult Education Juried Show

I served as one of the jurors for the first annual Arlington Adult Education juried show. A $100 prize will be awarded to the best in show art work at the reception on October 27, 2011. The reception will be held from 6 pm to 9:00 pm at the Arlington Adult Education Center, Clarendon Education Center, 2801 Clarendon Blvd,Suite 306, Arlington, Virginia.

All selected artwork will also be featured on the Arlington Adult Education website during the exhibition period.
Click here to see the call for submissions.

The Offical Press Release for my Upcoming Book.