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2007 Fall

Diana Puntar: Top Five Shopping Spots

Diana Puntar

Diana Puntar

All Day I Dream About Sex

2007

Plywood, aluminum and plastic laminate, 78x46x114"

Courtesy the artist

1. Plywood: I start by ordering large quantities of furniture-grade or shop-grade plywood, that way I can get free delivery. I do shop around but my favorite place is Rosenzweig Lumber. It’s a totally old school New York lumberyard located in an industrial area of the South Bronx. It consists of several multi-storied build­ings packed with every kind of plywood and lumber on the planet, and you can get free pencils and “I love wood” bum­per stickers.

2. Laminates: My next stop is Manhat­tan Laminates in Midtown. I think its one of the biggest laminate stores in the world. If you’re obsessed with things like Formica, they pretty much have ev­erything you’d ever want. Most people have no idea how extensive the world of laminates really is.

3. Carvable foam: A couple of times a year I drive about 100 miles to an undis­closed location in Pennsylvania to buy some “carvable foam.” The material is really expensive and the cost of shipping would make the price outrageous so I go to pick it up myself. The last time I made the trip, I made an illegal right turn and got a ticket, which sort of defeated the purpose.

4. Glow-in-the-dark paint: I do a lot of shopping online, usually for hardware and tools. My favorite online store is Lab Safe­ty Supply. They have cool looking safety goggles and the best glow-in-the-dark paint around.

5. Screws, nails, wood glue, epoxy, contact cement, acetone, denatured alcohol, wood filler, picturewire, sand­paper, saw blades, drill bits, router bits, pneumatic staples, foam brushes, poly­urethane, etc. Everyday I inevitably run out of something so I walk up to the local family-owned hardware store. It’s called Goldshole and Garfinkel but I call it “The Golden Hole.” They usually have exactly what I need so I don’t have to go to the big bad box stores like the Home Depot.