Whenever I have to carry a cardboard box, I find myself using it as a percussion instrument – drumming rhythms on its several surfaces. And whenever I have to open a cardboard box, I find myself impressed by the ingenuity of its construction. To my friend Jeff Smeltzer, who did computer-assisted drawing for the Sirrine company, or Mohib Pirbay, whose factory manufactured cardboard boxes for use all over Madagascar, the programs that print the templates for turning out these things are familiar, and there are artefacts of far greater complexity that the brain or the algorithm can devise, but to me it remains a wonder that each tab added somewhere can fit into a gap subtracted somewhere else.
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\phot\boxflat\boxflat2.jpg
\phot\boxflat\boxForCircuitBoard-flat.jpg
\phot\boxflat\boxForCircuitBoard-folded.jpg
\phot\boxflat\boxHeadsetFlat.jpg
\phot\boxflat\boxHeadsetFolded.jpg
\phot\boxflat\boxMobilePhoneFlat.jpg
\phot\boxflat\boxMobilePhoneFolded.jpg
\phot\boxflat\boxSandwichFlat.jpg
\phot\boxflat\boxSandwichFolded.jpg
\phot\boxflat\Chocolate-cdntflatnwouttearing.jpg
\phot\boxflat\coffee.jpg
\phot\boxflat\coffeeFlattened.jpg
\phot\boxflat\filler-1.jpg
\phot\boxflat\filler-2.jpg
\phot\boxflat\filler-3.jpg
\phot\boxflat\labeldispenser.jpg
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\phot\boxflat\stuffingForKettleFlat.jpg
\phot\boxflat\stuffingForKettleFolded.jpg
\phot\boxflat\Viking-flat.jpg
\phot\boxflat\Wineglasses.jpg
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Christmas cracker.
I’m easily reminded of some young kids having more fun playing with the boxes and forgetting all about the toys, or worse yet, clothes they received on Xmas day, lol
Let’s hear the box in rhythmic action on Boxing Day!
It’s sad how a box shrinks after you empty it and then have to put everything back into it in order to return a purchased item.