Marc Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 Might as well jump into the fray: Click to Enlarge 56.5 KB Primordial soup? Alien planet? Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Moore Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 Futt Bugly Linoleum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Kienitz Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 Old paint being poured into a mixing/recycling barrel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben H Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 I'm with Nolan, the sheen looks like paint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caryseidner Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 A bowling ball? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted August 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 I'll give it up, two out of 4 responses were right. A charitable organization that I work with had 110 containers of latex paint left over from recovery work done in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina which destroyed most of New Orleans in late August, 05'. At 4 years old, the bottoms were beginning to rust out and it was time to dispose of them. The recycling center wanted $5/per can to do so but said that if I poured the paint out and let it dry, it was legal to dump it at the landfill which would charge maybe $10 for everything. Many of the cans were full. About 20 or so quart cans, half a dozen 5 gals and the remainder were gallon sized, about 80 gallons of paint in all. I selected a low spot in my backyard, covered it with a big sheet of viscreen and over the next couple of months, I poured out 5 or 10 gallons perhaps twice a week. My plan didn't work out very well. It took nearly a year for it to dry out thru and thru. Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtblum Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 Why didn't you mix it all together, give it some trendy GREEN name, and sell it for picnic table or fence paint? There's starving kids in third world countries that would be happy to have had that paint, mister! [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Hockstein Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 I am thinking that you somehow mount it, frame it, and sell it in a trendy Art Gallery. You can stand around and listen to the fancy pants critics discussing the Artist's meaning of the work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted August 10, 2010 Report Share Posted August 10, 2010 I am thinking that you somehow mount it, frame it, and sell it in a trendy Art Gallery. You can stand around and listen to the fancy pants critics discussing the Artist's meaning of the work. Yes, I can see Katrina in that. It's subtle, but the essence is there. []"It's pure genius! They say he spends over a year just to create one canvas! " "All recycled materials, too. Calls it 'Green Art'!" [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted August 11, 2010 Report Share Posted August 11, 2010 Marc, Around here a volunteer group accepted a mix of partial and/or expired paint cans from vendors and used it to apply to rural concrete bridge guards that routinely get spray paint grafitti'd by delinquent kids. The mix I saw yielded kind of a govt green that looked better than the graffiti. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Raymond Posted August 11, 2010 Report Share Posted August 11, 2010 My brother painted his entire apartment with salvaged paint like that. He up-ended every can he could get his hands on into a 5 gallon pail, mixed it up and went to town. The freshest can in the bunch was a deep red. He has the oddest pink walls I've ever seen. Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erby Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 I like John's reviews. They'll see the piece quick. - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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