Re: Light sensitive compounds for alternative daguerreotypie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryuji Suzuki" <rs@silvergrain.org>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: Light sensitive compounds for alternative
daguerreotypie

>>
> From: Richard Knoppow <dickburk@ix.netcom.com>
> Subject: Re: Light sensitive compounds for alternative
> daguerreotypie
> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:17:31 -0700
>>
>> As far as light sensitive materials, your skin reacts
>> to
>> light in a complex and rather slow way by releasing
>> melanins
>> cause tanning. If you tape a negative to your skin and
>> lay
>> in the sun you will get a print on your very own body!
>> Bathing suit marks are an example of this process, no
>> silver
>> involved. Again, this takes a lot of energy where a
>> silver
>> halide emulsion takes very little.
>
> Speaking of alt-process and bikini, check this out:
>
> http://www.solestrom.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=73&products_id=288
>
> You can get perfect exposure to print out your body!
>

   Where do you find this stuff? :-) Perhaps one could
design a bikini that would itself slowly tan as you did. The
other idea (you have my permission to exploit this) would be
meter to installed in navels that would pop-up, like a
turkey. Considering the shrapnel people walk around with
these days it should be quite popular.

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@ix.netcom.com