What a Sod of a Day.
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ltmurnauJust limbering up here. Crick, crack. Oh yeah...
Weekend was OK: I did some casting, including making up two new molds of the Laibach symbol (http://www.laibach.nsk.si/anthemss.jpg) that will be kind of heavy but will do as badges. I think I will try to go and see them in Seattle. Saturday I spent cooking: lentil dal and poppyseed cake. Went to Gray's place and watched the new version of Grand Theft Auto, which Anton had brought over - I've never been any good at video games, and the way they are today it's almost better watching it like a movie.
Sunday I had breakfast with Gary at Ferris', and he gave me a big piece of gray linoleum left over from his floor renos. Will make some good prints. I went shopping around for cheap stuff and found some old crappy SF films:
Quatermass, a four-hour conclusion to all those films made over the years, haven't seen it yet, and
Village of the Giants, a really pathetically bad and campy 1965 movie about this goop invented by an 8 year old genius (Ron Howard, when he was Opie!) that turns these eight hooligan teenagers (who begin the movie climbing out of a wrecked station wagon and dancing the Swim, Frug, and Monkey in the mud) into 50 foot badly behaved hooligan giant teenagers wearing costumes made out of drapes. Movie proceeds in abrupt fits and starts, worse than the bus driver who took me to work today, broken up by bad musical numbers by the Beau Brummels. Oh, speaking of beaus, Beau Bridges is the pouty head Bad Giant Teenager and Toni Basil appears as a red-headed go-go dancer (guess she's a belle, though). And there are some hot rods.
When it got dark we got Aki fixed up in his Halloween costume: Mad Scientist. He used a black wig, goofy black-framed eye-distorting goggles that made him look like Percy Dovetonsils, my old white lab coat from first year Chemistry class, and a plastic test tube full of glowing liquid I drained from a glow stick. He did pretty well and we seemed to get more kids than last year.
Toast Water.
Toast a slice of bread very brown, break it into pieces, and pour over it a cup of boiling water. When cold it makes a nourishing drink.
Lard Compound.
Cotton oil 60 pounds, deodorized hog grease 20 pounds, tallow 10 pounds, oleostearine 10 pounds, for 100 pounds lard compound.
Molds of Glue and Molasses.
These flexible molds are such as Rogers uses for making his statuettes, and are prepared as follows: Glue 8 pounds, molasses (New Orleans) 7 pounds; soak the glue over night in a small quantity of cold water, then melt it by heat over a salt water bath, stir it until froth begins to rise, then add and stir in briskly the molasses previously heated. Continue to heat and stir the mixture for about half an hour and then pour.
Notes:
John Rogers was an American sculptor who made a tremendous number of plaster statuettes for people's homes on a wide variety of sentimental and "genre" subjects. Printing presses used to use inking rollers cast of a similar mixture of hide glue, molasses, and glycerine.
No, I have no idea how you would go about deodorizing hog grease.
Weekend was OK: I did some casting, including making up two new molds of the Laibach symbol (http://www.laibach.nsk.si/anthemss.jpg) that will be kind of heavy but will do as badges. I think I will try to go and see them in Seattle. Saturday I spent cooking: lentil dal and poppyseed cake. Went to Gray's place and watched the new version of Grand Theft Auto, which Anton had brought over - I've never been any good at video games, and the way they are today it's almost better watching it like a movie.
Sunday I had breakfast with Gary at Ferris', and he gave me a big piece of gray linoleum left over from his floor renos. Will make some good prints. I went shopping around for cheap stuff and found some old crappy SF films:
Quatermass, a four-hour conclusion to all those films made over the years, haven't seen it yet, and
Village of the Giants, a really pathetically bad and campy 1965 movie about this goop invented by an 8 year old genius (Ron Howard, when he was Opie!) that turns these eight hooligan teenagers (who begin the movie climbing out of a wrecked station wagon and dancing the Swim, Frug, and Monkey in the mud) into 50 foot badly behaved hooligan giant teenagers wearing costumes made out of drapes. Movie proceeds in abrupt fits and starts, worse than the bus driver who took me to work today, broken up by bad musical numbers by the Beau Brummels. Oh, speaking of beaus, Beau Bridges is the pouty head Bad Giant Teenager and Toni Basil appears as a red-headed go-go dancer (guess she's a belle, though). And there are some hot rods.
When it got dark we got Aki fixed up in his Halloween costume: Mad Scientist. He used a black wig, goofy black-framed eye-distorting goggles that made him look like Percy Dovetonsils, my old white lab coat from first year Chemistry class, and a plastic test tube full of glowing liquid I drained from a glow stick. He did pretty well and we seemed to get more kids than last year.
Toast Water.
Toast a slice of bread very brown, break it into pieces, and pour over it a cup of boiling water. When cold it makes a nourishing drink.
Lard Compound.
Cotton oil 60 pounds, deodorized hog grease 20 pounds, tallow 10 pounds, oleostearine 10 pounds, for 100 pounds lard compound.
Molds of Glue and Molasses.
These flexible molds are such as Rogers uses for making his statuettes, and are prepared as follows: Glue 8 pounds, molasses (New Orleans) 7 pounds; soak the glue over night in a small quantity of cold water, then melt it by heat over a salt water bath, stir it until froth begins to rise, then add and stir in briskly the molasses previously heated. Continue to heat and stir the mixture for about half an hour and then pour.
Notes:
John Rogers was an American sculptor who made a tremendous number of plaster statuettes for people's homes on a wide variety of sentimental and "genre" subjects. Printing presses used to use inking rollers cast of a similar mixture of hide glue, molasses, and glycerine.
No, I have no idea how you would go about deodorizing hog grease.
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Date: 2004-11-01 01:32 pm (UTC)I always wondered if you could use scraps of kitchen linoleum for printmaking. Sounds like I need to hang around more dumpsters at remodeling site.
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Date: 2004-11-01 01:46 pm (UTC)Any kind of linoleum will cut much better if you just heat it a little bit. Light bulb, warm oven, even strong sunlight will improve it.
Hanging around dumpsters will get you far! They just have to be the right dumpsters.