| Tuba Loons |
12-27-2006 02:55 AM |
Hello Cellar! Merry Xmas and thank you for the generous welcome on the dolphin thread. This is another one that I need to comment on. I started collecting bottlecaps many years ago when an artist acquaintance decided to make a collage. I lost track of him and he never harvested mine but he went on to make a bottlecap Jesus and Mary. It's a Flash site so he is dumb but click "more art" and "mosaics."
I, on the other hand, have ended up with a lawn/leaf bag full of bottlecaps (I likes my beer) and don't know what to do with them. Once I tried making t-shirt chainmail by wedging a modern pop-top behind the bottlecap (another old technique: cap, shirt, pop-top, finger crimp [usually done just once to wear as an emblem]) but it takes months to make progress. I got through a line of three across the front and gave up.
Do you want a jillion bottlecaps? Do you know any better ideas? Am I sick for owning this many bottle caps or just alcoholic? The bag is unliftable. Do me up the math on a 1x2x3' bag of caps by weight. Include all close-packing crystal approximations. How many is that? Hint: I can't lift it, it is in the 150+ lb. range. It is the size of a burly midget curled up in a steamer trunk or a baby manatee after eating buttered cabbage for three months. |
