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Skip to comments.College transcripts are a terrible measure in politics
Posted on 08/08/2011 6:50:13 AM PDT by tysonbam
The release of Governor and potential presidential candidate Rick Perry's Texas A&M transcript set off a media frenzy this weekend as commentators and columnists feasted on the underwhelming scores.While releases like this make for fun facts and cute analysis it should be asked, "Why should we care?"
College scores can be a great indicator of skill right out of college. They're helpful for getting into graduate school and ascending the ivory tower, and they indicate a student's proficiency in each subject. When evaluating a 61-year-old potential presidential candidate low grades are both meaningless and not uncommon.
George W. Bush joked about being a C student at Yale with a four-year average of 77. The "complex" John Kerry had a four-year average of 76 also at Yale. While Rick Perry, the face of the Texas economy, received a D in principles of economics, Al Gore, the face of global warming, received a D in Natural Sciences his sophomore year and a C-plus in natural sciences his senior year at Harvard. The Washington Post said in 2000, "[Gore's] generally middling college grades at Harvard in fact bear a close resemblance to the corresponding Yale marks of his presidential opponent, George W. Bush."
The point isn't to deride Bush, Kerry, Gore or Perry, but that college transcripts are only a snapshot of a person's life. Transcripts may give you a glimpse of Perry the student but they tell little about Governor Perry.
Drawing conclusions from information almost four decades old is a fool's errand.
It would be just as absurd to assess college students by when they began walking.
It would be nonsensical to observe that Rick Perry earned a D in economics as a democrat while as a Republican governor, Texas has created 37 percent of all-net new jobs in America since the recovery began according to Richard Fisher of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
While we're using old information to draw ridiculous conclusions it should be obvious that Perry is smarter and more driven than the college dropout Bill Gates.
The perversion of Perry's 39-year-old transcript is a manifestation of ivory-tower elitism at its worst.
This pervasive dogma tells us that our measured academic achievement during a four-year period is more important than all our life lessons.
It's absurd considering real world employers rarely care about college grades after a graduate's first job.
In the real world, a college degree quickly becomes nothing more than a checkmark among more important items like work history and special skills.
This dogma would have us believe Rick Perry's D in Shakespeare is more relevant than a record consisting of years as a state legislator, agriculture commissioner, lieutenant governor, and almost a decade as governor.
This dogma implies that Rick Perry's C in gym matters more than issues like Gardasil, the Trans-Texas corridor and the seven solutions for higher education.
This culture of elitism is the reason every administration has a parade of eggheads running back and forth between Washington, D.C. and the ivory tower. These experts and policy wonks are evaluated on academics by academics more often than on unemployment rates and economic growth.
That's not to say we don't need eggheads and policy wonks, every politician has them, but when evaluating a leader, an F in organic chemistry is far less important than the decisions made after graduation.
As the longest-serving current governor of the second-largest state economy, Perry has relevant points of criticism. His college transcript is not one of them.
Translation: Don't ask to see Obama's transcripts.
It would be interesting to compare Perry's transcript with Obama's....oh, we cannot see his? Nevermind.
It would be interesting to compare Perry's transcript with Obama's....oh, we cannot see his? Nevermind.
That is an apt translation. The reason they prefer we not look at the transcript behind the curtain is that it will reveal the a shallow intellect and a lax attitude, and not the disciplined genius depicted in the mythology.
The excerpt posted argues that accomplishments since graduation are a better measure. Since Obama has no real accomplishments yet, his college grades should be an issue still.
it would be interesting but Obama's transcripts are just as irrelevant as Perry's. Obama did graduate magna cum laude putting him in the top ten percent which goes to show, do we really care if the most anti-jobs president in American history did well in the ivory tower?
OK game on
any GOP candidate's transcripts are meaningless unless compared to obama's
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I daresay Obama's transcripts would be very enlightening ... otherwise why would they be so well hidden???
no Obama's grades are not an issue at all. That he has accomplished nothing since college would be the best way to measure the man. To go back to his college record is to go back to the last time he actually did anything.
Please chime in at The Batts site for the HUGE OMISSION of
comparing Obama transcripts to the other candidates.
How do you he graduate magna cum laude?
Obamaâs transcripts are hidden because he attend college as a foreign student âBerry Sotoreo from Indonesiaâ?
That being said, the news is all clucking about his released transcripts and he hasn't even joined the race yet.
The same media elected ObaMao and still hasn't even dare ask to see his transcripts.
The reason that Obama's transcripts are of a significantly greater import than other politicians is simply the fact that the media-created meme (enhanced by lib pols at every possible turn) is that this man is the most brilliant, erudite, intellectual, MENSA-personified individual ever to occupy the hallowed grounds of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. I agree with all the posts here that are postulating that The One's transcripts (if we ever saw them) would be in complete concordance with his job performance - ie, failing grades pumped up only by the strong current of Ivy league racial preferences/politics. With our Narcissist/Megalomaniac-in-Chief surrounded by the sycophantic liberal media (Pyongyang's 4th estate members are probably embarrassed by the ass-kissing of our modern media!), one can be absolutely certain that, had The One's grades been stellar, they would have been publicized daily throughout the country, held up as a paragon of achievement to our youth, and utilized to bludgeon the arguments and ambitions of political opponents. Nope, this bum likely was a failure in school as he is showing himself a failure in his first "real" job. The only sad thing is that our great nation is going to have to pay the price for generations (a la Jimmy Carter) for this poseur's incompetence.
I know because while Harvard may not release his transcript, access to the names of those graduating with honors are openly available. Just google Obama and magna cum laude.
In my humble opinion, a college transcript is baseless information; there are too many variables to take into consideration as to whether this is a viable means to measure anything. Consider, there is no way to input whether the student was working full time, paying his way through college, or was on a full ride scholarship. Was the student married and raising a family while working? Did Mommy and Daddy buy the kid a home, cars and provide an 'allowance'?
Then we have the gauntlet of grading policies in various universities; Consider Brown University in Texas - the AVERAGE GPA for engineers there is 3.5. Yeah, their AVERAGE is honor role at other universities. My university syllabus provided a mathematical formula ensuring that the AVERAGE grade was a C (2.0). For reasons unknown, this is not the norm - we are graduating students who AVERAGE B and A grades.
This places no consideration onto other real-life scenarios; for example Sports places pressure on teachers to pass students who have not earned a grade, as well as other political pressure. Try flunking a black student; let me know how it goes.
Grades are practically meaningless; because what is 'C' work under one professor, may be 'A' work under a different professor, for the same work, for the same class, at the same university.
Really? If true, I think he would be proud to release his transcripts. It might even boost his dismal ratings considering how little positive he has accomplished since graduation.
If and when he ever does so, I suspect they will be some doctored version and not the real thing. I think so because, so far, there is almost nothing about this man which is real-- at least nothing which comes from his own press office.
The guy is an image, a player, an actor, an icon and anything and everything else but real. He can't even be compared to Tiger Woods in this regard because Tiger, at least, had a genuine and demonstrated talent for playing golf.
I'm 53 and running for city council. Does the grade I got in PASCAL programming on a Main Frame computer really matter anymore?
I'm 53 and running for city council. Does the grade I got in PASCAL programming on a Main Frame computer really matter anymore?
I don't doubt that Obama is smart. One does not get out of any Harvard grad program without facing some very stiff competition.
Just like GWB graduated from the Harvard B school. Another tough egg. And he flew jets—something idiots cannot do.
I simply wish the media could be fair and balanced about this stuff. There is no shame in having someone "smart" be the leader of the country.
My goodness, you have to be pretty smart just to get to the point where you are on the the ticket.
I does to me. I got a B.....(just kidding. I got a C, and was thankful for it.)
1. A student who completes the requirements for the J.D. degree with distinction will receive the degree cum laude, magna cum laude, or summa cum laude.
Where does it say magna cum laude is only awarded to the top 10% of the class for a JD degree?
It wouldn't matter a whit if your electoral resume was based on real accomplishments, whether in business, lower electoral office or elsewhere.
He may very well be and he may have even earned his honors from Harvard the old fashioned way.
I'm just saying that so much in the guy's past has been handed to him or created for him that I wouldn't be surprised if it included his Harvard honors graduation as well.
I also agree that there is no shame in having someone smart lead the country. Every signer of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution was smarter than the average bear. But, with the single arguable exception of Alexander Hamilton, I cannot name a single one who went to anywhere near the effort to hide their past that BO has done. Can you?
And Obama received no grades, but was merely "passed", due to his commitment to activism.
Don't get me wrong, there is a vast difference between being smart and using those smarts for good.
I think Obama must be very sharp. But the way he uses the smarts is misguided.
And I don't disagree that it is unusual the way he hides it.
Anyone that has been a supervisor or manager of a department knows the feeling of finding themselves in a little bit over their heads. The "intelligent" ones tend to read a book and try to come up with the answer, so they are not found to be lacking.
The really smart ones ask for help, determine the best course and fix the problem, thus gaining experience and confidence.
We are dealing with the first type. He is so scared that someone will see his record for what it probably is—filled with Gentleman, Post Racial A's in the form of passing grades.
I don't disagree with the later part of your assessment, but I disagree with your assessment that he is an "intelligent" type who will read a book and try to fix it on his own.
If he were, I'd suggest a great book like Basic Economics by Dr. Thomas Sowell which could turn the country around if the principles were applied.
The trouble with ObaMao is that he is so ideologically brainwashed that even a great author and a great economist like Dr. Sowell could not straighten out his thinking.
Still, he may very well be intelligent in the same way that Karl Marx was intelligently deceptive. Or he may just be a tool who is giving his owners what they want in return for the fun and perks of being president.
I think we both agree that one could make a reasonable argument for either case.
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The Return of the King
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Character Role Analysis
The whole series is geared towards bringing down Sauron, so he's clearly everyone's antagonist. We still never see him directly, and we don't have a strong image of his physical form. But we do get some indications of his sense of humor: as Aragorn marches with his 6,000 troops to the Black Gate of Mordor, Sauron toys with him for a bit by delaying before opening the gate and exposing his massive, massive armies to overwhelm Aragorn's people. Sauron's sadistic humor turns out to be a bad move on his part, though. In focusing so much on taunting Aragorn, he never spots the two hobbits carrying the Ring of Power right into the heart of his own land.
Saruman was a big antagonist in The Two Towers, when he controlled an army of ten thousand orcs. But by The Return of the King, he mostly seems like an embarrassment and a shadow of his former self. When Gandalf and Co. come across Saruman as they travel from Gondor to the Shire, they see him looking tattered and dirty, accompanied by his hanger-on Gríma Wormtongue. He looks absolutely pathetic.
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Frodo is the protagonist of the narrative of The Return of the King, but he is also his own antagonist. The reason we focus on Frodo throughout this whole series is because he's trying to destroy the Ring. But in The Return of the Ring, he can't do his job. He gets very, very close, but he ultimately claims the Ring for himself. If Frodo had beens allowed to hang onto the Ring, he might have been able to become the next Sauron (hard to imagine, but the power would have been there). He's only saved from becoming the novel's major antagonist by Gollum's sudden attack.


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Complaint Review: Westgate Resorts
Westgate Resorts915 Garden Rd Gattlinburgh, Tennessee U.S.A.
Westgate Resorts TimeShare Free Tickets and the Pressure Cooker ripoff Gattlinburgh Tennessee
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When I told our "Representative " that life insurance sales people turnover at 98 percent a year he admitted that most of the people there last about 6 months. The hot room or pitch room is filled with coffee and donuts not as comfortable as one would expect. The pitch was long and lasted over the 90 minute period. I reminded the representative that he was on a clock. He claimed that he closed 1 out 4 pitches, that is extremely high closing ratio for this type of sale.
We toured at 100 mniutes into the pitch and the tour was 10 minutes. The units are nice, small and all one bedroom,you get a two bedroom or three bedroom by adding together units. The close was poor with him hitting us with the high rate for a 2 bedroom unit (no one bedroom units available) at $ 25,000 with $ 5,000 down and the rest at 17.9 % interest over five years at 550.00 per month.
When we told him we could not afford that he brought over the Boss for a check out on nis performance. We answered the 2 or 3 questions about the pitch and no high pressure tactics and then he moved in for the bump down closes. The first bump down was fifty percent or the magicial we may a 1 bedroom for $ 12,000 and only $ 1200.00 down with a payment of $225.00 per month.At this point I stood up, shook both guy's hands thanked them for the opportunty and started to walk out. The "Boss" yells where are you going? I said " Gattlinburg " and explained that I promised 90 minutes of my time and at this point it had been over 2 hours. He was shaking his head in disbelief as I went out the door.
Remember this,THERE AIN"T NOTHING FOR NOTHING,I have been around high pressure tatics for years, for me this adventure was fun but for the unknowing getting wrapped up in one of these deals can be devasting. They did nothing wrong and like some peole have expressed on this site pay attention to what is going on READ the paper in front of you.
Dayton, Ohio
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Complaint Review: QVC
QVC100 QVC Blvd West Chester, Pennsylvania U.S.A.
QVC Tactics West Chester Pennsylvania
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Doesn't matter if they send you complete total junk - such as the shoe trees that fit Chinese shoes, but not American shoes. Doesn't matter that the stuff comes in broken or rusty. Doesn't matter if it doesn't work as advertised.
If you return more than 40% of your orders, you will be shut off. Completely, totally, you will be blackballed.
They don't care if you were profitable. They care if you exceeded a number.
They also cancel ANY and all accounts for that same address. So, if the wife and husband both have accounts, they will cancel them both. Even if one NEVER had a return.
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I never understood why Zokora went - I know he was a midfielder first but he did OK at RB. I liked Chimbonda but when he came back he wasn't played so what was the point?Would 'Arry really play Bale on the right considering he's a natural left-footer - how many times has he scuffed shots at goal because the ball fell to his unfavoured right foot? We'd all better get on our knees and pray that Charlie stays 100% fit until the end of the season unless we have the option to recall Naughton or Hutton. NBR - Dervitte has a squad number (30) but I thought he was more of a CB than RB.


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#22873 closed Cleanup/optimization (fixed)
Rename BaseDatabaseWrapper.use_debug_cursor to force_debug_cursor
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In Django 1.6, the logic for using the CursorDebugWrapper was:
- If db.connection.use_debug_cursor is True, use it
- If db.connection.use_debug_cursor is None, defer to settings.DEBUG
- if db.connection.use_debug_cursor is False, don't use it.
This was changed in the fix for #20420. Commit [127218b92bb8] changed the logic to:
- If db.connection.use_debug_cursor is True, use it
- If db.connection.use_debug_cursor is False or None, defer to settings.DEBUG
I am using a management command to load lots of data into the database, and I was setting use_debug_cursor to False to disable query logging before my lengthy import. I'd rather not have to remember to set DEBUG=False every time I run a management command on my dev box. I'd like the 1.6 trinary behavior, as well as the better queries_logged property introduced in [40bfd8561d016]
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Changed 2 years ago by john@…
Proposed patch for django/db/backends/init.py
comment:1 Changed 2 years ago by aaugustin
- Needs documentation unset
- Needs tests unset
- Patch needs improvement unset
Indeed, use_debug_cursor was a tri-valued boolean. That ranks quite high on my scale of programming anti-patterns. Furthermore, one of the three values was never used by Django.
So I changed it to a regular boolean. The new logic is:
- If db.connection.use_debug_cursor is a true-ish value, use a debug cursor;
- If db.connection.use_debug_cursor is a false-ish value, defer to settings.DEBUG.
None is just a false-ish value among others.
I should have changed the name to something like force_debug_cursor but I didn't find a short and explicit name so I left it as is. Suggestions?
I don't think the tri-valued boolean behaviour was introduced on purpose because it wasn't documented. It was a private API with no guarantee that its behaviour will be preserved across versions.
Accepting to fix this ticket would mean turning use_debug_cursor into a public API with its previous three-valued behaviour. I'm very close to -1 on this, but I'll let someone else confirm in case that behaviour was there for a good reason. If it was, it must be documented.
comment:2 Changed 2 years ago by john@…
This was added way back in 2010 in [5506653] by Alex Gaynor to support tests for assertNumQueries, fixing #5416. Previously, the code directly looked at settings.DEBUG. It may have been the intention to allow more control over the new debug cursor, but the most direct reason was to support the new assertion without forcing the test to run with DEBUG=True. assertNumQueries might now be broken when queries pass 9000, but that's probably rare and silly.
If use_debug_cursor it could initialized to settings.DEBUG in the __init__ method, then it could be set or cleared by code as needed. I'm not familiar with early settings loading, so it is possible that settings isn't initialized at this point.
If the current behavior is retained, force_debug_cursor is a better name, making it clearer that this is a private hook for testing.
If this undocumented API goes away, I could instead fail the management command when DEBUG=True.
comment:3 Changed 2 years ago by jwhitlock
It appears no one has anything to say about this bug. I'd support closing it w/o changes. For my own use case, I can detect and monkey patch queries_logged, and get the same desired behavior.
comment:4 Changed 2 years ago by timo
If the backwards compatibility concerns are minimal, renaming the attribute to force_debug_cursor seems like it could be a useful change to clarify the expected behavior.
comment:5 Changed 2 years ago by anonymous
- Owner changed from nobody to anonymous
- Status changed from new to assigned
comment:6 Changed 2 years ago by areski
I'm also in favor to rename to force_debug_cursor for clarity.
Here a pull request for this: https://github.com/django/django/pull/2968
comment:7 Changed 2 years ago by timo
- Summary changed from Allow disabling debug cursor when DEBUG=True to Rename BaseDatabaseWrapper.use_debug_cursor to force_debug_cursor
- Triage Stage changed from Unreviewed to Ready for checkin
- Type changed from Bug to Cleanup/optimization
comment:8 Changed 2 years ago by Tim Graham <timograham@…>
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from assigned to closed


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I have a nikon D3s, thinking of trading in the d3s for the d800.
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#1. "RE: D800" | In response to Reply # 0
What will you be shooting or do you like to shoot?
The D800 is different from the D3s: more pixels but more susceptible to camera movement especially at slower shutter speeds; greater dynamic range but noisier at at higher ISO; lower burst rate if you shoot action.
Those are a few points of comparison, but without knowing what you want to do, it's hard to make a recommendation.
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#2. "RE: D800" | In response to Reply # 0
Before i bought my D800, i did consider D3S used. The price is about the same. The reasons I choose D800 are it is lighter, more MP, new technology. I use it for landscape, people and travel. Some people prefer D3S as it has higher FPS and ISO.
#3. "RE: D800" | In response to Reply # 0
I feel like my D800E has elbowed aside my D4 in many shooting situations. But I've had the D4 for 7 months and D800E only about 6 weeks, so I'm still in testing mode and the D800 is getting more work as a result.
Certainly I think the full-sized bodies are more specialized a tool and the D800-sized bodies are more generalized a tool. But yes the smaller bodies are not better in every way, for example such as extreme speed, AF, FPS, ruggedness and low light ability, so need more thoughts from you...
The D3S and D800 would complement each other in this regard but an either/or choice is rendered more difficult depending on what you need.
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#5. "RE: D800" | In response to Reply # 4
I love my D3s, if love is the propper word for a tool.
What got me started on the issue of the D800 was my dealer offered me an even swap for my D3s.
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On ebay the D3s are selling between $3300 and $3500. So it looked like a good trade.
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When asked why Design Matters by Computer Arts magazine, our answer was simple - we believe as designers, we are lucky enough to create the future through our eyes. To visualise this we projected the powerful message on to Kyle Wilkinson's eyeball and photographed the results, giving a naturally distorted treatment to the type as it hits the retina.
Abstract water type treatment for the WIRED masthead.
Wired, UK
Marc Wilmot, acclaimed architectural photographer wanted to mark his 10th year in business with a special image. We created this modern take on the Roman Numeral by layering up pieces of acrylic and refracting light through them.
Illustration inspired by long walks in the Summer.
Trophy design for 2015 The Brand Impact Awards from Computer Arts magazine.
47 trophies were made from Stainless Steel, Brass and Copper. Each awarded consists of 13 pieces, with one coloured fin to signify 'Highly Commended', 'Winner' and 'Best in Show'. The recipient was then laser engraved into each fin.
Limited Edition art print, part of my Metamorphic art show series.
A series of fruit illustrations for the front covers of notepads.
Cover illustration and full page for Fortune magazine.
The cover story explores the 21st Century Corporation, and how it's changed in the digital age.
AD: Mike Solita.
Meadowhall Centre welcomes over 26 Million visitors a year and is one of the UK's largest shopping malls.
To celebrate their 25th Birthday, they came to Hacksaw™ for a bold and fun campaign that injected a splash of colour throughout the Mall. Our solution was a Carnival style celebration with a hand made, paper cut illustration that was used alongside a variety of Carnival themed live acts.
Explosive ink typography for the 2015 HEY Studio exhibition in Plymouth for the Design Society.
Chicago based Avondale Type Co asked me to illustrate 2 letters and a symbol for the their 2016 Artist Series.
5 different type treatments of famous quotes on creativity for The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
Invitations for the preview night of the 2014 Enlightened Exhibition. The whole design was laser engraved onto 4 different colours of 10mm colour changing perspex. Light reacts with the edges to give a vibrant colour, whilst the face of the invite remains almost colourless and transparent.
Limited Edition art print of an Emperor Penguin, part of my Metamorphic art show series.
After spending a month there, i created this piece to celebrate the spectacular craziness that is NYC.
Laser cut acrylic E sculpture, created to be used across the promo material for the 2014 Enlightened laser exhibition – an exhibition exploring lasers in design.
After challenging myself to design and manufacture a lamp in less than 4 weeks i created Ris, a 31 piece Aluminium table lamp.
The Art Directors Club approached us to design an identity and invitation for their Creative Directors' Dinner series – where the ADC invites the worlds top Creative Directors from the very best agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi to the special evenings in their corresponding city.
We finished our lettering and illustrations in copper foil on Neenah black linen stock and sent on their way around the world to top designers in New York, Paris, Barcelona, Sao Paulo, London, San Francisco and Chicago.
For the Star Wars edition of WIRED UK, we were commissioned to create a full page image that included hidden numbers - the issue date 01.02.16. As it was to open the JJ Abrams interview, we wanted to create an image that felt like we were exploring a new surface of a land far, far away. To create the image we sculpted the scene out of Hydrophobic Sand, submerged it fully underwater and shot it in studio conditions.
Abstract Ampersand that was created whilst developing a process with water.
Latarus is an award nominated outdoor rocking chair made from CorTen – a weathering steel specifically designed to rust whilst retaining its strength, resulting in a beautiful warm tone that sits perfectly in a natural setting.
Shortlisted for 2014 Best Furniture Design at the NDA's.
WIRED Germany commissioned us to create a full page, nature themed image that included hidden numbers - the issue date 11.15 (November 2015)
Nominated for 2013 Best Furniture Design Award
Chair design for Enlightened - an exhibition exploring lasers in design. The entire chair is made of clear, 12mm Perspex and is made up of 77 individual pieces.
Briefed to create something that was beautifully elegant and graphic from one angle, whilst detailed & intricate from another. From the front and back, the chair barely looks like a chair, more a rigid interlocking group of vertical and horizontal lines, where as from the side it is highly flourished and fluid.
The chair was well received at Enlightened, with Perspex ® themselves featuring it as an inspirational piece.