qubit's Photos

What's better than recycling? Reusing! After I put a bin out to collect egg cartons, I've collected over 50 egg cartons to take back to local egg farmers for reuse.

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This wood clamp keeps part of the patio ceiling from falling down and knocking one of the sprinkler heads off. It's a little hard to see, but if you zoom in on him you'll see that he has a face drawn on him.

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Some hard drive wind chimes I made a while ago. The one on the left also uses some copper pipe that was left over from a job.

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Alex has dethroned the King. Better luck next time, buddy!

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Now he's the King of Nutcases.

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He's just been crowned Mayor of the Brunch. Still creepy.

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Here he is at the Shriner's Brunch with a ketchup body.

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The crazy Apple with a sausage nose. He's kind of unholy.

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Here's the Pirate Bay T-shirt I made using a black T-shirt, my paper pattern, and the 50% bleach solution. Tip: Paper is thick enough to serve as a pattern, but it will curl up, so corrugated cardboard is better.

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The chemicals: Royal Blue RIT dye plus water (I used maybe 1/3 of a pack) for the dying. 50% bleach solution for the bleaching.

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Assorted patterns. There's the PIRAT, and the glove, the HACK hat, the Pirate Bay logo, and some other pieces.

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I made this apron by cutting a pattern out of corrugated cardboard and placing it on top, then spraying with a dye solution. I also used a branch and a block of wood to hold things down.

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Table of bleaching and dying! I covered the table with a sheet of plastic, then did my bleaching and dying on top. On the right is the apron I'm pattern-dying. At the top are some of my patterns for bleaching/dying.

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This is the bucket I used to dilute and stop the bleach when I used spray-on bleach to make T-shirts. My hand/glove pattern fell into the bucket and looks kind of eerie at the bottom.

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On to dying! This is one of the tests. I'm trying a technique I found online where you use white glue, painted on heavily and allowed to completely dry, to serve as a dye-stopper. Basically, this is a Batik process.

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Here's my PIRAT stencil. Actually, these are the parts I cut out when making the reverse stencil. The paper has some doodles for other stencil ideas -- "W", "Phi Tau", "FATOR", etc...

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I'm ready to mop, cook, or you know, be generally badass.

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