Word: styrofoam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coming off except for the signer-in, who was establishing order person by person. Since each person wanted the whole business explained, it was nine-thirty before he got to my area. Meanwhile the working-class sector of the production crew had brought out four large coffee machines, styrofoam cups, plastic spoons, and so forth, along with a huge box of packaged coffee-cakes. Each package had one yellow roll with sugar frosting smeared against the Saran wrap that held it and a pat of margarine on a blue paper napkin. I ate the frosting off mine with...
...forms came from nature, and much of his work was anthropomorphic, often totem-like. But he could be whimsical and visually witty too, because, he said. "sometimes you play." Much of his work is east bronze, with a good deal of surface texture. He worked with anything from styrofoam to wooden beams from razed houses...
Caring for Egos. While most free universities are serious and constructive, the movement already has a silly, far-out fringe. Heliotrope, an independent free university in San Francisco, offers courses in body surfing, howling at the moon and "bofing," which is Heliotropese for fencing with Styrofoam foils. Santa Cruz Free University has a class entitled "Of Course We'll Like It," a forum that guarantees the uncritical acceptance of unpublished poems, unpurchased paintings and unaired songs. "Let's get together and take loving care of one another's ego," urges the course prospectus. It is hard...
...within tradition Mirko is very alive and open to new ways and ideas. When he came here from Italy he discovered styrofoam. He sketches in it--styrofoam is well-suited to sketching because it is easy to cut, join, and texture with just a fingernail or scrap of wood. And he modified the lost-wax casting technique to cast directly from styrofoam, and even egg cartons, to bronze. (In lost-wax casting, one puts a refracting material like plaster around a wax shape one wants to reproduce, melts out the wax once the plaster hardens and then pours in molten...
...advantage of the styrofoam-bronze technique is that it is very easy to texture the surface of the model and transfer this to the bronze...