Just noticed public Swiss TV SF1 has this older clip from 2007 now online. It´s a 4:01 minutes report on the (successful) attempts of several Swiss cities´ to ban the Monobloc plastic chair from their centers. Statements from city officials – and myself, shot in my Erfurt loft.

“A victim lies outside a hotel after the explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. Police spokesman, Col. Abdilahi Hassan Barise, says three Somali Cabinet ministers are among nine people killed in a bombing that ripped through a university graduation ceremony, and says the ministers for education, higher education and health were among those killed in the blast. ..”

The BBC has a video report about an incident at some regional parliament in Argentina, involving – you guess..

Volker Albus, designer, educator and researcher, has published a piece about the Monobloc plastic chair in Form 228 (September 2009):
Who is Afraid of the Monobloc?

German Zeit Magazin recently started a series with photos and stories by Juergen Teller. In issue #44 (22 October 2009) we see Kurt Cobain backstage in Berlin during Nirvana´s seminal Nevermind tour in 1990. Just one chair wouldn´t do.

It must have been three or so years back when Bryan Ropar emailed me from Pennsylvania, and to my surprise came out as a another monobloc chair collector. Occasionally he ever since emails photos of his collection and new acquisitions, and recently he helped me to sort out a specific mono question. In September 2009 the local Pittsburgh Tribune ran a larger portrait of him, I just tought I should share.

After a while you get used to being referenced to; people refer to the site, to the mono, to me – sometimes they just borrow though -; and that initial thrill of being noticed in some press or blog has long been gone. After all I do this because I am convinced it is relevant in the first place. Pretty weird though, when you see your work and the registered-name-yourself unexpectedly appearing on page one or two in a novel..

A commercial from Bangladesh, directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farook for Bengal Wares Furniture. Kind of cute, even more so with the director´s clip info from YouTube:
“Shahed has not sit on anything till he was born.. He does all his work (eating, attending school & office, going to places) just standing.. That’s why people call him ‘Standing Shahed’.. Won’t Standing Shahed sit ever?? Yaa, he will sit only if he gets a Bengal plastic chair!”