The Assemblers

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"Witching Time" Page 22

Survival Artist

on Aug. 10, 2009

My mom used to antique-ify furniture with the method described above, in addition to various corrosive solutions.

Ripped jeans were very hip during the Grunge era, among others.

I currently live in China, where shopping districts made to look like Tang Dynasty villages are sprouting up like fungi. When I first got here they fooled me completely. I was dispirited when friends began to tell me these quaint, seemingly ancient neighborhoods were only several years old.