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From the email:
Hi I made this office flower at work using pencil shaving, pin with a rounded blue end, cellophane tape highlighted in green, and the work is held with blue tack stuck onto a Stabilo Boss highlighter cap. Took 15 mins or so. Hope you like it.
Author: Daniel, Malaysia
AWftWP: I was reading an email from a kind reader that pointed out some problem with the blog feeds (thanks again, Amy) that is now sorted. She said about the works on display here: “They provide inspiration & hope.” Those were the two words that started to come up recurringly in my mind when we started to receive submissions (never enough of those, so please help us! awftwp@gmail.com), and those are definitely the best words to describe today’s masterpiece. Thank you.
By the way, Daniel, why did you name the pictures in Spanish? Why not flowers?
In a more festive note, today they made us read the “Dressing Code” at the bank, which includes a detailed list of do’s and dont’s, leaving out a big grey area with for example ponchos. Are they acceptable? I am still undecided about what to wear tomorrow: should I wear a kilt or go directly to the point with a speedo? Decisions, decisions, decisions…
From the email:
Medium: red pen/ink, steno book, and freeze-dried cranberry for effect.
Technique: sketch with fruit additive
Context: created during a very boring “Change Management Meeting”. Enjoy
Author: MT / Saint Paul, MN (USA)
AWftWP: Change Managemet meeting; wow, that sounds pretty boring. Let me guess: “You have to embrace change with a positive approach.” And there is always the request for a “proactive attitude.”
What companies need is less authority and more common sense, but I’m afraid this is a too radical idea for anyone to consider. Too bad…
From the email:
My name’s Dan. I’m a standup comic, student, and often bouncer at dive bars and comedy clubs.
I don’t know if it’s my workplace, per se, but I drew these throughout godawfully boring lectures at Northeastern University.
I’m studying Philosophy. It’s exhaustingly boring. I haven’t a website or anything, unfortunately. Nor’ve I any formal training. I just draw shapes and connect them. Like a homeless person might were he given pens and lined paper. Thanks for everything, I love the site and appreciate the time and everything.
I had this Mountain Goats song stuck in my head during something about Descartes. I’m pretty fond of it.
Author: Dan, USA
AWftWP: Descartes boring? At least the guy did have a point sometimes. He was French, granted, but I would personally class him as one of the scarce good French. Wait until you get to Kant or Spinoza…
And for the record, this is not an exception: universities are the workplaces of students. I have tried them and they are not very different from a boring job: one of the measures of performance is that you have to “be there”…
In our constant pursue of continual improvement we are now targetting the logo. “But it’s really nice!”, you may say. And indeed it is. As explained before, it was a collaboration from one of our most talented artists. But we now want an even nicer logo, put together by even more artists.
We have had the vision to come up with a new type font: The Workplace, where the letters are put together by yourselves using materials from your workplaces.
Here are some examples of the kind of thing we have in mind:
And now the prize. For every letter we will make a selection of the picture we like the best until we complete a full alphabet. Those of you who sent in the selected works will be invited to a wonderful trip: a wonderful hike* to Valdediós, where the monks there will gladly host and feed you for as long as you like, as one of their bows is “to receive all the hosts coming to the monastery like they were Jesus Christ in person”.
Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Send us some pictures to awftwp@gmail.com
*May need to swim depending on your location. En route meals and accomodation not included.
From the email:
Hi! I like your idea for this blog, especially as I work on the weekends as a receptionist in a nursing home (I live there too), it can get rather boring between calls and so I draw my fellow residents that are sitting in the lobby to pass the time, we have a good time talking as I sketch, it makes the job much more fun! here are a few to share
I’m happy to join the gang of bored office workers on your site, I’ve been looking in and I must say, what a very inventive creative bunch! I love the dragon filtered with color through the plastic bottle, how clever was that! and also the eraser sculpture, those are my favorites so far, looking forward to more!
Danny, Eugene on the elevator in the background and the security guard beside me talking on his cell phone, they are all bored, I would be too if not for drawing!
Billy keeps the job interesting, he now requests to get drawn, he is keeping a tally, there are about 40 portraits now
Annie made things interesting when she started to come down dressed for the holiday or season, there were rabbit ears for easter, pina colata sun glasses for the summer, a few others I can’t remember, here of course she’s ready for x-mas.
ps and I have a website where I post a drawing a day if you’d like a link to me,
http://learndaily.blogspot.com
Author: Cindy, USA.
AWftWP: I love the perspective you give to the works with that section of the reception desk up front, with your log books, calendars, and so on. It gives the pictures a whole new atmosphere, and I guess that is what it’s all about, since this is ArtWork from the WorkPlace… And I love the portraits. Say hello to Danny, Eugene, Billy, Annie, and the guard from me. I hope to help to make today, at least, a bit less boring.
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Send us your examples to artworkfromtheworkplace@gmail.com
