Thursday, February 18, 2010

Inspiration of the Day: Film Slides Stained Glass


Wow. This is an amazing upcycling project. If you happen to have a ton of film slides laying around from the last decade when film ruled, you could whip this stunning little project up - a stained glass window shade from film slides. Look at the color that streams in through the slides. Beautiful!

Made by Flickr User YarnZombie, the Kodachrome curtain project was quite simple:

The slides date from the 50s and early 60s, and are all from a lot of slides I got in Kansas City last fall. The majority of slides on the right panel are of horses. Go figure. Travis drilled 8 holes in the slides using a Dremel tool in a Dremel drill press thingy, and I connected them all using aluminum chainmail rings.


Wish I had made more slides from my photography when I was younger, but if like me, you don't happen to have any old slides, I'm sure they wouldn't be terribly hard to find online via ebay or scrounging around fleamarkets and thrift stores.

+ YarnZombie
[via Gizmodo via Craftzine via Make]
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  2. This is a great idea!

    Could you post a close-up photo? I am not understanding how you connected the slides to each other.

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    1. Hi Susan,

      This wasn't my project - it was made by Flickr User YarnZombie and you can find the link in the article. I believe this ingenious crafter punched small holes in the slides and attached them on all 4 corners with little metal rings. Not totally sure though.

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    2. She/he said "eight holes" so that would be two on each side for the inside ones and only six would be needed for the edges. A hole in each corner would work also. hmm I wonder if the two on each side is for a particular reason.
      Some camera who process may still produce slides or know who does.

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