this bonsai stand was collaborated by bach using repurposed material including metal bookends, commercial grade
signage post, and a uc berkeley campus sign. these materials were all left behind some place for someone to use for something purposeful ... no bach did not steal the sign from uc berkeley campus.
i got a kick out of the sign because of the word 'plant' ... its a word with a list of meanings from being used as a noun
or verb, my favorite definition is when it is used as a slang, see #7 & #8: plant[plant, plahnt]
noun
1.
any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce
their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigidcell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: someclassification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celledeukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
2.
an herb or other small vegetable growth, in contrast with a tree or a shrub.
3.
a seedling or a growing slip, especially one ready for transplanting.
4.
the equipment, including the fixtures, machinery, tools, etc., and often the buildings,
necessary tocarry on any industrial business: a manufacturing plant.
5.
the complete equipment or apparatus for a particular mechanical process or operation: the
heatingplant for a home.
6.
the buildings, equipment, etc., of an institution: the sprawling plant of the university.
7.
Slang. something intended to trap, decoy, or lure, as criminals.
8.
Slang. a scheme to trap, trick, swindle, or defraud.
9.
a person, placed in an audience, whose rehearsed or prepared reactions,
comments, etc., appearspontaneous to the rest of the audience.
10.
a person placed secretly in a group or organization, as by a foreign government, to obtain
internal orsecret information, stir up discontent, etc.
verb (used with object)
13.
to furnish or stock (land) with plants: to plant a section with corn.
14.
15.
to introduce (a breed of animals) into a country.
16.
to deposit (young fish, or spawn) in a river, lake, etc.
17.
to bed (oysters).
18.
to insert or set firmly in or on the ground or some other body or surface: to plant posts along
a road.
19.
Theater . to insert or place (an idea, person, or thing) in a play.
20.
to place; put.
21.
to place with great force, firmness, or determination: He planted himself in the doorway as if
daring us totry to enter. He planted a big kiss on his son's cheek.
22.
to station; post: to plant a police officer on every corner.
23.
to locate; situate: Branch stores are planted all over.
25.
to settle (persons), as in a colony.
26.
to say or place (something) in order to obtain a desired result, especially one that will
seemspontaneous: The police planted the story in the newspaper in order to trap the thief.
27.
Carpentry. to nail, glue, or otherwise attach (a molding or the like) to a surface.
28.
to place (a person) secretly in a group to function as a spy or to promote discord.
29.
Slang. to hide or conceal, as stolen goods.
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UC Berkeley physical plant sign |
Sunday, April 28, 2013
UC Berkeley "Plant" Sign
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