Jun 28
These magnets contain some of my niftier findings. I took apart a watch to get the gears in the upper right. They aren’t as fun as all-metal gears, but plastic watch gears aren’t radioactive, unlike some of the radium dusted (it glows! In the dark!) ones from last century. I like the transistors too, and …
Jun 25
Here’s the second set of magnets I made for the Clarion Foundation’s Write-a-thon this year. Some lucky person will get these. Keys donated by Kim Stanley Robinson. I hope they’re going to a good fridge.
Jun 21
I experimented with different things to set in the resin, and some were more successful than others. The gold leaf didn’t have that lovely suspended quality I had hoped for. The small metal button in the bottom one is nice, though the glare of the light (which was even filtered!) makes it hard to see. …
Jun 14
We got a new refrigerator, so to make it feel welcome, I made a set of magnets. Here are some of them, photographed in their natural habitat. To do a project like this, you have to have lots and lots of little pieces and different types of paper, otherwise they aren’t terribly creative.
