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Black and white magnets on a magnetic chalk board holding Indiana University basketball schedules and an unused ticket for the 2019-2020 season. IU won one post-season game when the NCAA halted play due to Covid-19. Optimistically hoping that we can resume play for the 2020-2021 season. We are loaded with new and returning talent. Go IU!
Macro Mondays: Magnetic
The little hockey puck-looking magnet is 0.5" in diameter. The miniature screw is 0.25" long.
Having no colorful magnets of my own, I enlisted my 4 yr old Granddaugher to help build a "Magna-Tile" mansion.
With social distancing in place, we needed to skype her creation.
Each shape, triangle, rectangle, square, is magnetized and different structures can be built.
Smile on Saturday
Magnets
For years Reading and Northern Pacific #425 has been a magnet for people, meaning people coming out in herds every time to see the ol' girl run. The color of the engine might be the eye catcher but for a pacific she is loud!
The Mountain Top Rotary Club excursion is seen in Mountain Top, PA about to cross over Kirby Ave while a family watches on.
SETUP:
Safety first with safety glasses and gloves. This is messy stuff and you don't want to get it on anything but glass or plastic. It will stain most stuff. Use paper towels to absorb any excess stuff.
Ferrofluid (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrofluid)
I tried previously to make my own ferrofluid from toner etc and had no success. Even talking to the toner distributor about what I was after didn't help so I bit the bullet and bought some proper ferrofluid on Amazon. Not cheap (~AUD100) but worked perfectly from the outset.
You need a strong, small magnet. A local magnet supplier has a Neodymium magnet in Cylinder shape (20mm x 25mm N45) that looked to be the best price/strength @ AUD32
Plastic petrie dish and syringe to transfer the fluid
Ferrofluid is very reflective. Taken in almost darkness with a single yellowish lamp from above left. A reddish backdrop and voila!
Pack of playing cards to adjust distance from magnet to petrie dish. Shorter distance to the fluid results in smaller/tighter spikes and further away has taller, broader/rounder spikes. Underexpose by a stop to avoid any clipping reflections.
Stacked in photoshop. Probably about 20 shots all up using the Canon R5's focus stack feature.
Other fun times with ferrofluid can be found at:
Different configurations of collected steel sculptural forms. Two being magnetic allowing for reconfiguration at the whim of the owner/curator. The diameter of the round base is about 200mm.
Saturday Self Challenge
The topic for next challenge is magnets. You can show the magnet itself or the effects of a magnet on another item. Light processing is fine, just make sure the magnet or its effects are visible.
When the challenge was posted I had a wander around the house looking for inspiration. I walked into my husbands work shop and spotted that he’d placed some magnets of various sizes, and in various conditions, on the front of a couple of the old metal drawers which contain all sorts of stuff. I rearranged them a little and added some combination spanners for effect, I know it all seems a bit messy but it wouldn’t have looked like a workshop if everything was sparkling clean.
Thank you for your visit and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.
Fridge Magnet for Macro Monday's RED what a wonderfully colourful site it is this week, HMM everyone.
I recycle used eyeglass cases, many of which have magnetic fasteners. I set the magnets aside hoping to find some future use for them. Today, I have put them to use for the MM theme.
The question was how to display them since as a group they all want to stick together and it was an uninteresting assembly. Then my eyes landed on my glass tumbler full of paper clips and so what you see is a few of these tiny magnets clinging to the side of the glass container.
My husband and I taught an art class at a local school. These are the felt magnet samples. We wanted something easy-all the kids needed were scissors and glue.
i got the nicest email from luckyduckdesignson etsy asking if she could feature my magnets on her blog! i LOVE etsy and all the fabulous people i have met there!!! :-)
here is the link to her blog.
Macro Monday theme of the week is "wire" This photo is of some magnet wire the was warped to make a spiral on the end of pencil.
Presented for:
Macro Mondays
Theme: Intended Contact
November 5, 2018 (GMT - or whatever time it is)
The magnet is used to contact the surface of the refrigerator and hold notes or photos in place. Our time zone "changed times" last night; I thought every thing in our home that was not going to auto change had been set. The note was written this afternoon when I was working on the image for this week's theme. It was like, "oh, wow - you have not set the time in the cameras."
If this image disappears from the Macro Mondays group it is because my time and the group time won't fit. I had fun doing it and at least I now have my camera's time fixed. Happy Macro Mondays.
Three old magnets, parts of a huge magnet crane for the transport of big steel plates for ship walls in the former welding hall of shipyard NDSM in Amsterdam-Noord, 2016.
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Traded to drewzel. Vintage image from online and vintage text make up this collage magnet. If you haven't joined the Swap and Trade Crafty Goodness group, why don't you do that now? We're going to be trading some fun stuff, so get on board now! :D
I had some crafty time today and made more magnets using the vintage buttons from grandma's button jar.
The next theme, on Saturday May 23, is "MAGNETS".
DEFINITION: a magnet is a piece of metal with a strong attraction to another metal object.
There are different types of magnets: horse shoe magnet, bar magnet, disc magnet, ring magnet, magnetic needles,...
Looking close on Friday theme: “Magnets” 😊
Fridge magnets from Yubu Island, Japan.
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Cross stitch to original design: metallic golden thread on antique cream linen.
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