Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Old kit, new ideas
I dropped into City Works this morning for a meeting (which wasn't at City Works at all, but that's a different story!) In the foyer was this great assemblage of materials and an OHP (overhead projector) together with a heap of interesting components to play with. So much potential here to explore shape, transparency, pattern, texture, with a piece of kit that many would argue has had its day.
It set me thinking about what other bits and pieces of equipment lie unloved in a cupboard somewhere, overtaken by more modern machines? What creative uses could they be used for? We have such a creative bunch of readers of this blog, how about giving us a challenge? Tell us a machine/resource you no longer use and we'll try to think up a new/different/exciting application for it!
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2 comments:
I saw this as well - when I was running a felt making course at the Gloucestershire Resource Centre last week. I thought it was a great idea and saw folk creating 'a new design for the day' as they arrived for work.
I still use my OHP a lot.. I think it is a wonderful piece of technology...... how else can you easily enlarge designs from paper to fabric as in my case. Did anyone else have a SIMON? For displaying slides. I loved mine, but had to leave it in the establishment when I left teaching. Bet that is sitting in a cupboard as well, with the electronic computerised knitting machine. Life moves on.....
Best wishes
Maggie
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