Day 273 – Beads – Bits and Baubles

Glass and plastic beads for making jewellery. One wooden one amongst the bunch.

This is another bit of debris that doesn’t have its ambition as art, but rather a fun crafty project – a necklace, a mosaic, something like that.
I once inherited a glass jar full of blue bits of glass that I always intended to make into a table top mosaic, but somehow never quite gathered steam. My only regret is not photographing them before they went off the Sally Ann. I hope someone else made something with them, and doesn’t just have the jar sitting there, ever full of promise.

Status: The day after Hallowe’en the Christmas season towers above, shouting with glee. Make some decorations.

Kill-ratio: 16:3 / ~5:1

Alt-title: Untitled Objects No. 273 For Warding Off Zealous Saints.

New to this blog? More about this alt-title poppycock here.

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Deanne in Jewellery

Day 272 – Magazine – Iron Man

I left this magazine at the studio and am posting this from home, so I didn’t have the exact date of publication.

Thanks to this muscle memory site, I found it. It is Vol 32, Num 6 published in September 1973 and features Mike Besikof, who was Mr. California in the same year.

“Despite coming off a recent bout with the flu, Mike presented a fine physique with deep muscularity. His legs could use more cuts, however.”

This was another garage sale find. There’s something about the fonts and the colours that are so appealing.

More forays into rephotographing.

Obsolescence Factor: Do We Have Your Correct Mailing Address?

Status: Recover original impulse that led to purchase and fulfill idea.

Kill-ratio: 28:4 / 7:1

Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 272 For Building A Repertoire of Cuts.

Alt-titles demystified here>

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Deanne in Books

Day 271 – Garden Hose Spray Nozzle

Spray Nozzle for Garden Hose.

The thing is, we don’t have a garden. So no hose. Thus, this part that has no use, yet I found it in the kitchen drawer. The one filled with junk (aka Obso treasures).
We are part of a community garden, but there is a fairly sophisticated water system in place that has no need of a rusty nozzle.

Jan Van Der Heiden

Can it be true? — A few sites credit a 12 year old boy from Amsterdam, Jan Van Der Heiden with inventing the garden hose after he watches the local town hall burn down in 1652.

Status: Recycle.

Kill-ratio: 18:3

Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 271 For Spraying Out Laziness

Read more about the whys and whatnots of Alt-titles here.

My thoughts are with our friends in New York and on the east coast facing down Sandy. Be Safe.

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Deanne in Objects

Day 270 – Solar Powered Pocket Calculator

Solar powered pocket or wallet sized calculator. One of those corporate promotional thingamabobs.

There isn’t much sun around here to test, but I’m fairly certain its’ solariness has solared out.

Ad for the first solar powered calculator > http://www.epocalc.net/pages/mes_calcs_17.htm

The first solar powered calculators were introduced in 1978, according to vintage calculators. At the International Vintage Electronics Museum the date is cited as 1977. This one is probably from the late 90s. Are the 90s vintage now, or perhaps is everything from the last century vintage?

Day 204, Day 73 and Day 137 all featured calculators, but none were solar powered.

Status: Open up and see if the sea monster can reuse parts.

Kill-ratio: 8:2 / 4:1

Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 270 For Calculating Clutter Ratios.

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Deanne in Objects, Technology

Day 269: Book – How To Make Objects of Wood

Book: The Museum of Modern Art >How to Make Objects of Wood.
Art for Beginners Series by Kendall T. Bassett, Arthur B. Thurman, in collaboration with Victor D’Amico,
1951.

Purchased at a garage sale by Mr. OP. Previously owned by an N. Laing, neatly penned in the front cover.