Purchasing polyester resin while wearing pink paisley

[squirmelia]

Friday:

Just as I felt my finger being bitten by the hamster belonging to my next door neighbours (who seem to be in the band Dilutral), I imagined the frittered sounds of someone walking up the staircase in my house and it was then that I became less concerned about what I hear.

Saturday:

Polyester resin is mentioned in the Reader's Digest Family Book of Things to Make and Do in the section on Acrylics. A few paragraphs describe how to make castings, as well as recommending that flowers should be treated with preservative before being embedded. Teasels are one of their preferred objects, where as other people prefer pancakes, or making casts of door knobs or leaf shapes. One way of making casts is to make a model from plasticine or similar, then a mould of that using liquid latex, and then to mix the hardener and resin and pour it into the latex mould. Some instructions that are vaguely similar to the Reader's Digest ones can be found on the Resin-supplies website.

Anyway, I finally bought some, after looking at pictures in that Reader's Digest book for many years. The hardener may cause burns. I am unsure what I am going to make a model of yet. I could embed pink paisley or one of my eyes, or make models of ginger ale or nuclear bunkers.

After meeting some Barbelith people in a pub that seemed near the BT tower, and after going to slimelight, and after climbing into an unsuitable taxi, and after getting a ride in a police car, it became just after dawn again and the sky was streaked with pink, so I ended up taking many photos of cranes.

Comments

[gentio.livejournal.com]

I'd quite like to embed a finger in some of that resin... if i ever had one disconnected from my hand that is definately what i'd do.... the bluetak thingy on my desk would work quite well, it's got my fingerprints all over it..

hrm, is it expensive stuff? i'd quite like to experiement with that, although not sure what i'd put in it just yet... you're probably gonna need your eye for a while so i'd maybe hold back on that idea :P

make sure you post pictures of what you do with it!

[bearo.livejournal.com]

Nice meeting you on Saturday even though it was briefly (and a little hazy in my memory)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I wrote "embed the the end of my finger" in the description to start with, and then replaced it with "eye". :) The instructions say that you can embed something that is up 5cm thick, so a part of a finger could work well.

A small bottle tends to be about £10 - the art supplies shop on East Street seemed to sell some, but I couldn't work out if the catalyst was included or not, so ended up buying some in London instead.

I shall definitely post pictures when I make something with it.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

You too!

[praest76.livejournal.com]

I always wondered if I could encase this old hard drive I have in Resin. Or my old modem. Probably too thick. I encased some Dice in Resin about ten years ago to make a paperweight, but my brother lost it.

I've never been to Slimelight. I wanted to go but some 'friends' told me I wouldn't like the people there. Or maybe they meant they wouldn't like me.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Hard drives and modems might be too thick, unless you get the expensive industrial strength resin, I would imagine. Maybe you could chop them into little bits first, which might defeat the point of embedding them.

Slimelight is okay - I went with flange, who you probably remember from Fidonet.

[gentio.livejournal.com]

heh, great minds huh ;)

will have to have a look around for some... once i can think of something suitable to put in it.

the word "foetus" keeps flashing in my mind.. but that is not only in-accessible, (probably)illegal.. but also quite gross.

:)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I think the problem with the foetus is that you'd probably need to use some kind of preservative? I'd have to check in the Reader's Digest book for more details.

[gentio.livejournal.com]

hrm

i watched a program last night about monks that manged to mumify themselves, the ones they found were naturally preserved for over 500 years... just by eating the right stuff and meditating in a box untill they died...

perhaps if you could induce meditation to a foetus then it wouldn't need to be preserved.. it wouldn't need a box either as a womb would surfice..

hrmm....

is this getting a bit weird now? i've got pictures of a tiny little baby thing meditating

:|

[gentio.livejournal.com]

er in meant to say i've got pictures in my head of a tiny little baby thing meditating

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Something like that could work, or if a cockroach could be persuaded to donate a cockroach fetus that could be taught to meditate. It could then be embedded in a nuclear bunker, just in case, and would have supreme nuclear protection.

[praest76.livejournal.com]

All of the above would also work for Keef Richards. Who will also have built in preservative. The cockroaches will go on pilgrimage to visit him like Lenin and receive some spiritual enrichment.

[praest76.livejournal.com]

Just about. Fidonet seems so long ago now.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Will seemed to think he saw you a few months ago, or did he imagine it?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Is he more than 5cm thick though?

[praest76.livejournal.com]

Possibly he imagined it, or is thinking of someone else. I don't get out that much.