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08/02/2006 04:25:57 PM · #26 |
@ GeneralIE:
"Question Authority! (Go ahead, ask me anything!)ΓΆ„ΒΆ"
What kind of work do you do? |
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08/02/2006 04:26:34 PM · #27 |
hey where's my post?
edit: oh there it is! ^^
Message edited by author 2006-08-02 16:26:53. |
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08/02/2006 04:44:24 PM · #28 |
I did buy a sacrificial stuffed animal once:
The legs are still in use as kitty toys. |
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08/02/2006 04:49:45 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by debitipton:
 
I found a 4 ft martini glass at TJ Max -- there are days when I think filling the darn thing with a martini and a loooooong straw would be a good idea! I keep it in my office "just in case." |
I love this!!! hehehe, That is a great prop.
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08/02/2006 04:55:35 PM · #30 |
The only "weird" thing I have is Achatina Fulica sp. aka the Giant East African Land Snail. But not for photo purposes, I just like cool pets :-)
The strangest photo thing I have kept I guess is a box full of old broken electronics. I know I will need it one day.
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08/02/2006 04:59:16 PM · #31 |
i have two dead butterflies sitting on a shelf in my room that my wife found while cleaning out my son's outside toy box...
one of them is in two pieces...
gonna make a _great_ photo when the right challenge comes along... hehehe..
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08/02/2006 05:08:01 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by aliqui:
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
 I aquired this laptop to use speciically as a prop.
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Funny.. I was actually wondering about that laptop when I first saw the photo in the challenge. Keyboard + sand... ahh! |
Don't worry, I would never harm a piece of working technology :-)
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08/02/2006 05:12:16 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by biteme:
@ GeneralIE:
"Question Authority! (Go ahead, ask me anything!)ΓΆ„ΒΆ"
What kind of work do you do? |
I have two part-time jobs:
-in the medical department of an outpatient drug-treatment program
-in the pre-press department of a small/medium-sized commercial offset print shop |
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08/02/2006 05:13:32 PM · #34 |
I visited a glass blowing place for the heat challenge.
They were very nice to me, and even drizzled some glass onto a stainless steel table, just so I could take a photo of the flow.
Then she took the drizzled mess of glass and finished the process in the annealing oven so I could keep it.
I wasn't sure why or when I'd want to take a photo of it, but sure enough, not long after that we had a glass challenge :-)
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08/02/2006 05:20:16 PM · #35 |
A woody.
He's been in a few pics for noise of focus tests, but not much else.
he sits on my desk - my friends play with him when they come over.
yes, i have lame friends.
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08/02/2006 05:35:18 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by Elvis_L:
[...] I saw a photo in a recent challenge that was a burning $10 bill. that person wasted less money than I did on that chalenge. |
You don't know how many times they had to try to get it right... |
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08/02/2006 05:42:06 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by nicoledb:
Originally posted by Elvis_L:
[...] I saw a photo in a recent challenge that was a burning $10 bill. that person wasted less money than I did on that chalenge. |
You don't know how many times they had to try to get it right... |
As long as you retain more than half the bill unburnt you can turn it in at any US bank in exchange for a new one. |
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08/02/2006 05:44:58 PM · #38 |
| I just use stuff I have around the house. I did buy a woody but have never used it in a challenge. |
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08/02/2006 05:51:24 PM · #39 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by nicoledb:
Originally posted by Elvis_L:
[...] I saw a photo in a recent challenge that was a burning $10 bill. that person wasted less money than I did on that chalenge. |
You don't know how many times they had to try to get it right... |
As long as you retain more than half the bill unburnt you can turn it in at any US bank in exchange for a new one. |
Hey if you are talking about me, it was fake and way bigger than normal size so the print shop wouldn't look at me funny...
Though, I got the most funny looks for this picture:
It was about 2am in Chico (big college party town) when I dragged Dave to walmart to buy a pregnancy test, lol... got some funny looks from the old ladies who worked there...
Then, I spent an entire day going all over town looking for a fake butterfly and when I went to get gold paint, the girl kept trying to talk me into a tiny $8 bottle of paint, I didn't want to tell her what I was doing or that I AM A PAINTER, I know what kind of paint I want, then I went to the same print shop again to print out this moon
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08/02/2006 06:01:03 PM · #40 |
Woodies...only three of which have made it into challenges - there are 6, but other than that, i got two rooms full of nothing but camera fodder. All kinds of stuff from the plant to use as backgrounds if needed (molten blobs of zinc, aluminum, etc., plastics of all kinds - metallized and un-metallized, props of numerous local/regional plantlife dried (none yet used), dolls (at least 12 all used), many bags of various resin and plastic chips/shavings some used...matchbox cars and trucks none yet used...what ever I can get cheap at garage sales...
Message edited by author 2006-08-03 11:20:34. |
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08/02/2006 06:09:37 PM · #41 |
Come on, people. Since when is Woody WEIRD???
The only thing I can think of right now which I would rate as weird is something I'd rather not mention as I haven't had an opportunity to use it in a challenge yet, and I don't want anybody to know it's mine. But I've bought lots of dumb things in my time that I hope to photograph some day, and most of them are still sitting around unused.
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08/02/2006 07:14:11 PM · #42 |
I thought I was the only one... |
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08/02/2006 07:21:42 PM · #43 |
this doll is really from my childhood :) never ever gonna throw that away!
shoes from a friend, purse from Elvi, stockings bought for the photo
sand & shells bought in a gift-package |
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08/02/2006 07:36:02 PM · #44 |
I bought 200 lb of yellow onions at the supermarket once for an ad that I shot.
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08/02/2006 07:37:08 PM · #45 |
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
I bought 200 lb of yellow onions at the supermarket once for an ad that I shot. |
How'd your breath smell later?
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08/02/2006 07:37:13 PM · #46 |
Let us plumb the depths of weirdness, shall we?
I have ...
The World's Largest Cheese Wax Ball
Beginning in about 1997, I started to collect the wax wrappers from little Baby Bell cheeses. I would roll the wrapper(s) around in my hand until they got soft and then add them to a growing cheese wax ball.
The ball, today, weighs 12 lbs, 2 1/2 oz (5 kilos?) and is a foot in diameter.
"Why in the name of all that is holy in Wisconsin?!?" you ask? Like so many things in life, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
I submitted it to the Guiness Book of World Records. They confirmed it was a world record. but then refused to publish it asking "who would care?" Sort of hurt my feelings ...
Probably correct.
edit: I'm not making this up!
Message edited by author 2006-08-02 19:39:47. |
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08/02/2006 07:48:44 PM · #47 |
Originally posted by Dr.Confuser:
...refused to publish it asking "who would care?". |
Was that their exact wording? Looking at their list of "records" the same could be said for the vast majority of them. |
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08/02/2006 07:51:53 PM · #48 |
Originally posted by TechnoShroom:
Originally posted by Dr.Confuser:
...refused to publish it asking "who would care?". |
Was that their exact wording? Looking at their list of "records" the same could be said for the vast majority of them. |
They used several sentences full of 15 cent (or at least 15 letter) words, but it boiled down to "Who would care?" |
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08/03/2006 10:58:40 AM · #49 |
Originally posted by Dr.Confuser:
Let us plumb the depths of weirdness, shall we?
I have ...
The World's Largest Cheese Wax Ball
Beginning in about 1997, I started to collect the wax wrappers from little Baby Bell cheeses. I would roll the wrapper(s) around in my hand until they got soft and then add them to a growing cheese wax ball.
The ball, today, weighs 12 lbs, 2 1/2 oz (5 kilos?) and is a foot in diameter.
"Why in the name of all that is holy in Wisconsin?!?" you ask? Like so many things in life, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
I submitted it to the Guiness Book of World Records. They confirmed it was a world record. but then refused to publish it asking "who would care?" Sort of hurt my feelings ...
Probably correct.
edit: I'm not making this up! |
I am not sure it counts as something saved for a photo someday, but it certainly counts as weird :-)
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08/03/2006 11:00:43 AM · #50 |
Originally posted by Alienyst:
Woodies...only three of which have made it into challenges - there are 6, but other than that, i got two rooms full of nothing but camera fodder. All kinds of stuff from the plant to use as backgrounds if needed (molten blobs of zinc, aluminum, etc., plastics of all kinds - metallized and un-metallized, props of numerous local/regional plantlife dried (none yet used), dolls (at least 12 all used), many bags of various resin and plastic chips/shavings some used...matchbox cars and trucks none yet used...what ever I can cheap at garage sales... |
My so far it looks like alienyst you are the winner! Care to show a picture of your collection?
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