A couple of samples from a recent product shoot, of a different shiny reflective product...
I mean, it wasn't that many years ago that if you wanted to cook up a batch of meth, you had to pretty much resign yourself to ruining a perfectly seedy motel room. Or a run down suburban rental property.
Mobile Meth Lab Found on Moped
The Journal Gazette, November 11, 2009
An Auburn man was arrested Monday after police found a mobile meth lab on his moped, police said.
The man was pulled over about 7 p.m. Monday at 15th Street and Touring Drive for not having an operating headlight on his moped after dark, police said. The moped rider, James Hunter, 31, was cited, and his moped was being searched when drugs were found, police said.
He was taken to the DeKalb County Jail on charges of dealing methamphetamine, possession of meth-making materials, resisting law enforcement and marijuana possession. Hunter was being held without bail.
Article from Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette
Before long there'll be an app you can download and cook-up a batch on your iPhone.
So maybe I need to take a different approach here.
Shorter posts on a more frequent basis? Hmmm. Sounds interesting. Plus I've got an overstock of oddball photos from the Monday night estate auction. I don't need to be buying this junk but I can take the pictures for FREE!
Like this little jewel. Ummm, it's a camera, if that wasn't obvious. Actually I could have probably justified buying this. If I'd bothered to actually register as a bidder. It probably went cheap cuz it was a little beat up and most likely didn't work anyway. Just the kind of funky old camera I would deserve. And treasure.
It's a Yashica 16EE, roughly the size of an old Kodak 110 Pocket Instamatic. But more of a "high-roller" model. And by comparison to the Kodak, this thing weighed a ton! I've got 35mm stuff that weighs less, but they've got less metal (and glass) in them than this thing does.
But there seems to have been a fairly limited market for such cameras. Probably kind of expensive for a camera that I'm guessing might have produced only a so-so image.
At least the Pocket Instamatic had a drop-in 110 film cartridge. This thing seems to have used a 16mm film cassette. I don't remember ever seeing the film available anywhere, at least not where I was shopping for 35mm stuff. Good luck trying to find any now. Now if you could just hack this thing, gut it, and implant the innards from an old Pocket Instamatic...
But I'm not even sure you can get your hands on 110 film cartridges anymore! Or find someone who still processes the stuff.
A couple old shots that were never processed, dug out of the archives:
Are you shocked to see me here? Are you expecting another whiny/venting post? I don't blame you one bit, but I'm actually posting about a band I saw perform last night. :D
I took a friend's daughter to see Paramore at the Tabernacle last night, and you know what? It was a freaking kick-ass show. I caught a lot of grief for 1) taking a 15 year old to a concert and 2) for going to see Paramore in the first place, but I love teen angst music. So you haters can just suck it. LOL And that girl has some pipes and is just a phenomenal performer. So the show was so worth the crappy drive down there in rainy rush hour traffic. :D
Paramore had two opening bands, and I immediately fell in love with one of them...a little punk band from Michigan called The Swellers. Check 'em out:
http://www.myspace.com/theswellers
They have a new album out and I've had it on repeat all day long. Love the music, love their voices, just love everything about them...especially the fact that they're cute as hell. :D
So give them a listen. I'm sure they won't be to everyone's tastes, but I was totally impressed by their live performance. Especially since the lead singer had strep and still killed the show anyway. The guys were all really approachable after the show too, so I want to help spread the word. :)
Enjoy!
Everyone, meet Grindelia... Grindelia, meet everyone ^_^
It's been ages since I posted some Blythe-news, h*ck, any news TBH. But I finally finished her! With the duck-eyes and everything... She's the resurrection of Mika. I never bonded with that sweetie and when I was able to buy a green rerooted scalp I knew it was time that Mika should become the butterfly that was hiding all this time in her...
When I had opened her I've put in 2 little rubber ducks instead of her eyes for some photos, just for fun ^_^
But the great comments on that picture made me take that next step in customising: painting her eyelids!
So now she goes through life with closed eyes, ok, not really because I love her new eyechips too so it's a fifty-twentyfive-twentyfive deal (yeah, 2 sets of fav eyechips :-P )
The 2 fav sets of eyechips are the pink milky ones I bought and the ones I made from her orange stockchips.
I matted them, scraped off the black center backing and painted only the top of the radient-spines of her iris black and foiled the cented with red holographic paper. I love them!!! It really was just an experiment so I didn't know that it would give this result. The two others are her stock green ones but foiled and dark pine green ones.
I understand she's not everybody's taste but finally she has found her place in my Plastic Fabtastic Family and that's all that counts ^___^
Look what my hubbie brought back from London for me: my first Moofias and Dunnies!
I'm really thrilled with them, they're so cute! He's so sweet to get them from me, he made sure he had a little free time to go to the store and pick up some for me...
Strawberry and Rice Milk Moofias (on adventure in my kitchen)
This is Bonkers, a crazy wild Dunny (UK-series
I just love his British attire but his transparent head with raindrops is so Margrit-ish! Just a wonderful combination <3
I love my sweetie so much! He's really my world <3
