15 July 2010

Preserving childhood memories

At the risk of getting inappropriately technical on what is undoubtedly an "art" project... IF I wanted to do this for real, would I need to use alcohol or formalin?  I'm just guessing that water would cause some problems.

Found at Obvious Winner, via Geekologie.

3 comments:

  1. The likely suspect would be alcohol. Formulin would chance dye staining and water would just encourage algae and other unwanted growth.

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  2. I don't know, but it's oddly fascinating.

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  3. I saw this several weeks ago, and also found it fascinating. And delightful! I, too, wondered about what to use if I chose to copy the concept.

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