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I have to make a dress out of recycled materials for my kid's preschool 'Project Runway'-like assignment. I'm currently fusing plastic bags.
With thimble and thread And wax and hammer, and buckles and screws, And all such things as geniuses use; - Two bats for patterns, curious fellows! A charcoal-pot and a pair of bellows.
I want to build some thing permanent.
Boxes
We built walls of cardboard
thinking they would keep us safe.
And they did.
Until the flames
came.
All you need is a [insert plant], some [insert stick / rock / animal feces], and a good multitool.
I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.
Demolition derby
Duck tape works wonders
A community of smashed up things and somehow everyone was willing to share the superglue
The materials shape your idea.
Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.
We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it.
What is your type? No wait. Let me guess. Hard, plastic coated and jammed full of big D batteries.
A blanket could be used like cloud cover
What's in that pipe that he's smoking?
Flesh on the outside, metal on the inside.
Made out a shape at the other end of the greenhouse,
Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.
In America, they make such things of wire and of sponge-rubber, such as you use in the sets of tanks. You never know there, whether there is any truth in the matter, unless you are a bad boy as I am.
Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best.
Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
Toys to deftly pluck up like animal crackers and deposit safely into a crate decorated with friezes of bright circus trains carrying aardvarks, dodos, swift dromedaries, baby elephants, and plastic dinosaurs. A box of mixed metaphors.
On Earth, we'd just use glue, but here the only fluid was helium, which has lots of interesting properties, but is definitely not sticky.
The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes
geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.
I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.
Uh huh. Swag...Scientific Wild-Ass Guess
rashers of bacon.
I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
Be transparent like glass, be flexible like water, and be attractive like a magnet.
As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.
I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials.
Ensure it feels like it's made by humans, for humans.
ballpoint pens guaranteed right on them to write a lifetime on butter under water,
The only thing that held it together the previous summer was baling wire, cheap used parts, and cussin' that would fry the hair out of a frog's nostrils.
And a whimsical ceramic sugar bowl shaped like an octopus.
Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.
A brick could be used like a giraffe could be used as a neck warmer. You could also use my foreskin.
My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped.
The other package has pieces of dried stag stick. The pups like chewing on those."
"What's a stag stick?" Meg asked, taking the packages.
He stared at her for a moment. Then he put a fist below his belt and popped out a thumb.
"Oh," Meg said. "Oh.
The chemicals might be S-T-U-F-F ... like ... um ... seretonial-tryskelion-uberwobble-flexing-fluxamine, or whatever. Who cares.
Twine from trees and plants can make good floss!
Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.
The metallic silver coating found on fast-food game cards.
I tried to think outside the box but couldn't open the lid.
Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.
My house is made out of balsa wood, so when I want to scare the neighborhood kids I lift it over my head and tell them to get out of my yard or I'll throw it at them.
Metal. It was the key to everything.
You might be a redneck if you think that the styrofoam cooler is the greatest invention of all time.
What are you creating?
Blood, sweat and fingers.
The toughest metal melts when the maker has an issue ...
Sometimes I wonder about glue.
No one ever stops to ask glue how it's holding up. If it's tired of sticking things together or worried about falling apart or wondering how it will pay its bills next week.
Canvas tarpaulin, and a piece of old carpet. I'm not sure that they didn't lay an old wardrobe on top of that, just to
Better to be a one trick pony...than all-purpose glue.
My mom made the trays out of kits she bought at Michaels. She's crackled the shit out of them so they look like they're covered in diseased rhino skins.
A FEATHER.
A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
Craftwork--it is neither as easy as faith, nor as sure as science.
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
I have a lot of experience with making fake helmets out of foil.
That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
We all think we're snowflakes, but we're Tinker Toys, held together by our interchangeable parts. (39)
Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?
In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.
Obviously plastics have served very important purposes and been incredibly convenient but as we begin to witness the long-term consequences of the chemical components leaching into our water and our bodies, we're going to be forced to look for alternatives to how we package goods and food.
It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it.
My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.
a fistful of crayons or a few pots of
Muscles. (Not that I could see them under the knight's armor, but I had a very vivid imagination and I was not ashamed to use it.)
Gingerbread houses
with gumdrops and peppermint
and marshmallow snow.
Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.
It must be the body. It's chiseled out of marshmallows.
Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me.
Use crazy glue and nails to turn a rocking chair into just a chair that looks like a rocking chair.
Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.
I had a quack in the floor. So, I had to use ductile.
Burned over water.
You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.
Compressed into boxes, packed in sawdust, ... trussed up in sacks, roped up like hams ...
I have witnessed the takeover of my world by plastic.
laid out the quill, ink, sand, and paper.
Fire.
I see it everywhere.
One of the criticisms we get is, 'Does the world need more plastic crap?' But you have to look beyond the plastic crap, to the design, to the experience, to the empowering nature of the MakerBot and the community.
Christ on a Popsicle stick.
the sleeves of my chocolate-scented T-shirt.
It was a two-gallon Styrofoam cooler - one of the cheap ones that you can pick up at any service station in the summer season and then listen to it squeak to the point of homicidal dementia.
Crafting, as the title suggests,
strange, spiky pieces of
Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.
I used a geological sample container (also known as "a box").
[Non-flammable? Challenge accepted.]
[Alan], I texted, [arson is bad.]
[It's in the spirit of academic inquiry! It's SCIENCE!]
['Science' is not a legal defense.]
[Damn them.]
What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail.
cubes to blow torches.
You've got a good idea, how do you make it stick?
Rubbish is immortal, it pervades the air, swells up in water, dissolves, rots, disintegrates, changes into gas, into smoke, into soot, it travels across the world and gradually engulfs it. (...) Rubbish is like death. What else is there that is so indestructible?
I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.
Sugar flake that, yo. Snap, crackle, pop.
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?"
"Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.
My boots use recycled electronics and recycled plastics from the ocean.