#alex cooley

By Rob Meagher

Just before the holidays, Marijuana Business Daily (MBD) published a brief articleabout the resignation of Kayvan Khalatbari from the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) board of directors that could have a major impact on the future of the organization. It came on the heels of the Aaron Smith’s (NCIA’s Executive Director) firing of Genifer Murray (industry veteran and…

By Rob Meagher

Just before the holidays, Marijuana Business Daily (MBD) published a brief articleabout the resignation of Kayvan Khalatbari from the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) board of directors that could have a major impact on the future of the organization. It came on the heels of the Aaron Smith’s (NCIA’s Executive Director) firing of Genifer Murray (industry veteran and…

So, I just finished the Spring semester this Thursday and haven't quite gotten back on top of all my incomplete chores/projects/routines... but I'm getting there.

It was a really awesome semester in which I learned a ton about landscape design (basically, because I took a class which swallowed all my time and forced me to live in the studio), started dating a wonderful woman, acquired a slew of new plants, and discovered that I really love to make sculptures out of bamboo!

Let's start with the bamboo....

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So, one of the design studios I had this past semester required us to build a bamboo sculpture which would be the centerpiece at the JC Raulston Arboretum's annual Gala event. It was an Asian themed gala and our class voted for a design in the form of giant Asian dragon! Awesome.

I volunteered to be on the crew of three guys building the head (because it was to be the most complicated and, therefore, most fun!). The following is a progression of our construction.