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	<title>Comments on: Mermaid Furniture Rant?</title>
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	<description>The Chronicles of a Second Life Mermaid</description>
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		<title>By: Azaiya</title>
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		<dc:creator>Azaiya</dc:creator>
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		<description>Will do! My vision is still a bit vague, but I&#039;ll do my best.

I&#039;d expect mermaid furniture would all be very organic, perhaps grown? I think a lot of the design concepts we see in traditional human furniture (like legs, drawers, symmetry, basic geometry) wouldn&#039;t be present in their creations. No parallels to anything human. They&#039;ve never seen a human home! Since transportation of large items is difficult in the water, I would think that each mermaid home would actually have it&#039;s own furnishings growing inside it, as a natural part of the dwelling. Perhaps even just existing vegetation or features that they&#039;ve put to use for storage and sitting? It would be both functional and decorative.

For larger items, materials would probably be a cross between items already available in the aquatic environment and the whatever human remnants float down there, I guess. I bend towards the side of fantasy, but also fantasy grounded a bit more in reality. The ocean is not a bright and shiny place full of large shells and pearls, it is deep, dark place.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Will do! My vision is still a bit vague, but I&#8217;ll do my best.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d expect mermaid furniture would all be very organic, perhaps grown? I think a lot of the design concepts we see in traditional human furniture (like legs, drawers, symmetry, basic geometry) wouldn&#8217;t be present in their creations. No parallels to anything human. They&#8217;ve never seen a human home! Since transportation of large items is difficult in the water, I would think that each mermaid home would actually have it&#8217;s own furnishings growing inside it, as a natural part of the dwelling. Perhaps even just existing vegetation or features that they&#8217;ve put to use for storage and sitting? It would be both functional and decorative.</p>
<p>For larger items, materials would probably be a cross between items already available in the aquatic environment and the whatever human remnants float down there, I guess. I bend towards the side of fantasy, but also fantasy grounded a bit more in reality. The ocean is not a bright and shiny place full of large shells and pearls, it is deep, dark place.</p>
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		<title>By: thaumata strangelove</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m bored with normal building lately.  Describe what you&#039;re looking for and maybe I will have a go.  I like a challenge!</description>
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