December 23, 2006: Cap shed - Page 2

Karenv · 12-23-2006, 11:25 PM

Did you check out the bottle cap furniture and TV altar?
http://motley-focus.com/laddbottlecaps.html

xoxoxoBruce · 12-24-2006, 01:21 PM

Wow, that's bizarre, Karen....thanks.

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.

Q baby · 12-27-2006, 05:16 PM

what, they couldn't do the floor on the shed?

bluecuracao · 12-27-2006, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

It's just an ordinary shed.

It's a shed within a shed...

http://www.interestingideas.com/out/...d/target0.html

I wonder if it was built for the bottlecaps, or if it was pre-existing? Either way, it seems to make less sense to me than the actual caps nailed on.

12-24-2006, 01:21 PM	#17
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Wow, that's bizarre, Karen....thanks. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-27-2006, 02:55 AM	#18
Tuba Loons 3 baboons Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 38	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. Last edited by Tuba Loons; 12-27-2006 at 03:16 AM.

12-23-2006, 11:25 PM	#16
Karenv Slacker Join Date: May 2004 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 144	Did you check out the bottle cap furniture and TV altar? http://motley-focus.com/laddbottlecaps.html

12-27-2006, 05:16 PM	#19
Q baby I'll just put the tip in Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: NC Posts: 39	what, they couldn't do the floor on the shed?

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