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Friday, 16 November 2012
Eye See You!
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George recently shared this magnificent photo on our Facebook channel, where it was voted (by vast majority of our fans) as next featured illusion for our beloved website :D I wasn’t keen on it at first, but it seems that the eyeball in this guy’s sink is one of the best optical illusions our audience has seen in ages. The best things sometimes happen upon us unintentionally, and this is exactly what happened to Liammm when he decided that water circling the drain of his sink would make for a nice photographic subject. Some of our fans even suggested that the illusion is more pronounced when you’re looking at it’s thumbnail, via one of our widgets. Effect in place is called Pareidolia , just FYI.
Out of boredom, I tried to take a photo of my sink draining. I got a photo of an eye shaped whirlpool instead.” – Liammm
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Tightweave Cutting Board for a Silent Auction
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One of the ways that our scout group (pack/troop/team/crew) raises money is to have an annual auction of services and goods. The scouts typically donate services like yard work and try to convince their parents or adult friends to donate good and crafts. My son asked me to help him make a cutting board. I wanted to try another tightweave, so I was all game. It was fun to work together and he was amazed at how it all went together. The board is 16 inches by 12 inches (~40cm x 30cm) and consists of maple, cherry, and walnut.
The thin strip of walnut was done by cutting off a thin veneer of walnut off of a larger piece that has been surfaced. The surfaced side was then glued to the thicker piece of maple and after the glue set was run through the planer until I achieved the flat and thin detail I was going for. This allowed me to avoid working with a real thin piece of wood.
My only regret was that I didn’t get a better picture of it before it was hauled off by a lucky bidder. I took this shot with my phone. Everything went for cheap that night (the winning bidder knew that she got the board for a steal), but the boys raised over $3,000 that night so I guess it was a success.
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