Arnold Schalks, 1998, Communicating Vessels (communication, publications, services), exhibition and publication, Communicating Vessels (communicatie, publicaties, diensten), tentoonstelling en publicatie, Communicating Vessels (Kommunikation, Publikationen, Dienstleistungen), Ausstellung und Publikation, artist-in-residence project, Ron Rocco, Horace Twiford, Pepe Fernando, Harrison Maycroft, Eddie Squire, Jay Ottinger, Patrick Ausband, Francis Bowker, newsstand, St. George terminal, Staten Island Ferry, Sailor's Snug Harbor, Sea Level, North Carolina, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam, Consulate General for the Netherlands for North America

LET'S GET METRIC

an introduction to the decimal system

Arnold Schalks, 1998, Communicating Vessels (communication, publications, services), exhibition and publication, Communicating Vessels (communicatie, publicaties, diensten), tentoonstelling en publicatie, Communicating Vessels (Kommunikation, Publikationen, Dienstleistungen), Ausstellung und Publikation, artist-in-residence project, Ron Rocco, Horace Twiford, Pepe Fernando, Harrison Maycroft, Eddie Squire, Jay Ottinger, Patrick Ausband, Francis Bowker, newsstand, St. George terminal, Staten Island Ferry, Sailor's Snug Harbor, Sea Level, North Carolina, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam, Consulate General for the Netherlands for North America, Let's get metric

the multiple includes:

59.055"/150 cm tape measure

exercise book with fold-out conversion table

golf pencil with cap eraser

edition: 24

Understanding natural things involves describing them. The more accurate the description, the better the understanding. An accurate description is quantitative: a scientific measurement consists of a number and a unit. Every measurement is, in the final analysis, an approximation.

(from: the 'Let's get metric' exercise book)

Communicating Vessels editions © 1998, Staten Island

Click here to download the 'Let's get metric' exercise book in pdf format / File size: 452 KB / BOOKLET: page 1-6 (double-sided) / page 7-8: cover / © 1998, Rotterdam, Arnold Schalks.