You can shape, mold, and make casts of items such as coins with the plastic before it sets.
Light, shadows (particularly those cast by items outside of the picture) and disparate objects were juxtaposed in dreamy arrangements that often had an erotic component.
Upcycling – or remaking cast-off items into something different and better – is something of a Firth speciality.
Later, I screwed ceiling hooks into the wall, to hang the pots and pans, using heavier hooks for the cast-iron items.
The company's owner, Greg Lundgren, and his partner, Jim Nelsen, who are both stained-glass artists, started their business in the spring of 2002 after years of casting glass items for high-end residential projects.
When casting ceramic items in potteries, liquid 'slip' is passed from a settling tank, through overhead pipelines, before being pumped manually into the moulds.
As general manager of Marden's Surplus & Salvage, he made a bundle selling cast-off items, from snow shovels to stiletto heels.
A total of 89 bids have been cast for item number 6541417312, billed as "the ultimate power lunch"–although bidding now seems to be a two horse race as hopeful pothunters fall away.
Tile is hoping to get around that by leveraging a community of uses to create a distributed network effect, so that the proximity of your lost Tile to another passing Tile user can be used to cast its item-finding net wider.
Although some of the photos appear to have been staged, the cast-aside items help us imagine what the lives of the people that once filled these spaces were like.
