transform your clothes/shoes

[billvaxman]

My wife came back from Costco the other day with these "Bleach Pens"... Apparently to be used to apply bleach to stains when doing laundry.

Being a Burning I naturally transformed this into something else. Grabbed a red tee-shirt I had and used the pens to "write" flame patterns on them. Drop it in the wash. And a pretty cool tee-shirt with a flame pattern comes out the other end.

Then I got yelled at because I'd used up 2 of the 3 she bought, and none of it on laundry ( )... I'm still eyeing that third one and thinking about what else I could do with it.

This was a natural outgrowth of another idea I had - Get blank stencil material from the craft store. Cut out a burning man pattern in it. Hold it up to a black tee-shirt and use my air brush to spray a fine mist of bleach onto the shirt. Wash. Enjoy. Where the bleach hits the black disappears, and the man lives.

[Licentious Queen]

This was a natural outgrowth of another idea I had - Get blank stencil material from the craft store. Cut out a burning man pattern in it. Hold it up to a black tee-shirt and use my air brush to spray a fine mist of bleach onto the shirt. Wash. Enjoy. Where the bleach hits the black disappears, and the man lives.

Really cool idea!!! I don't have an airbrush(er?) but one could just cut out a stencil and use the forementioned bleach markers. Man...you people are brilliant.

[robotland]

For textural effects you can affix small objects to most fabrics with SHOE GOO, aka GOOP- It's an incredible clear adhesive that dries quickly unless you really bloop it on, and cures but remains flexible within a day or so....I made a favorite hat from a fake-fur lined hood decorated with little Jell-o moulds and cake decorator tips GOOPed on and painted flouro green! GOOP was designed origionally for shoe repair, and you can make new treads for your worn-out sneaks or bald boots with it, but its uses are limitless. (try tacking EL-wire to your bike, helmet, etc. with it- it'll peel cleanly off of nonporous surfaces!) A tube'll run you between 3 and 4 bucks, although they market it in different-colored tubes as "marine GOOP", "automotive GOOP" and so on, it's all the same damn thing.....(I just recently discovered "penguin GOOP", which is BLACK for mending black bootsoles and such. Squeeze right from the tube onto your clothes and let dry!) Just about every piece of artwork that I produce has this stuff in it somewhere. Fantastic.

[BroadcastBurner]

The shoe goop idea just made my life sooooo much easier. I was debating on what patterns I was going to sew all this el-wire to my dickies jumpsuit (and try to make it as simple as possible). This changes all the possbilities.

By the by - el wire is so much fun to use, and not that hard to work with. Soldering the connections is pretty basic and not that time consuming. The most time consuming aspect is deciding how you are going to actually use it. The possibilities are endless.

Just goes to show that fellow burners can help cure refridgerator blindness (when something is obviously in front of you, but you can't see it)

-Paco